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A schoolteacher arrives at a hotel in the Alps in the middle of the night. But instead of a good sleep, hours of uncanny occurrences await. An eerie and beautifully controlled adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s ghost story.

Amsterdam’s Imagine Film Festival runs Oct 31-Nov 9, 2025, where The Occupant of the Room will have its Dutch Premiere as part of the “Unholy Places” short film program.

Unholy places take many shapes. Take a narrow-minded village in 19th Century Eastern Europe, for example. A taxi in Mexico City, in the backseat with a wholly unpredictable driver. Or even worse, alone in a room with a dodgy music teacher. Perhaps it’s safer up in a tree, with a likeminded bird. Higher up, in an airplane, things get messy when three religions need to join forces. And in the Swiss Alps, a mundane and peaceful place turns out to be bloody unholy indeed.