Rat King

Independent Shorts Awards – Award of Excellence (Special Jury Mention), Platinum Award Best Dark Comedy Short, Platinum Award Best Experimental Short, Gold Award Best Original Story, Joonas Jaatinen, 2025 Annual Award Winners – Best Comedy-Horror Short, Best Comedy Short

Selected by 19th British Shorts Film Festival (Lichtspielklub, Berlin)

Selected by London Independent Film Festival (Spring 2025)

Rat King is a magic realism short film exploring themes of survival and identity. In a surreal East London, an eccentric pest controller desperately tries to get away from a predicament of his own creation while unsuccessfully fighting his true animal nature.
GenresShort Film, Comedy
DirectorAndrea Mae Perez
CastChristine Gomes, Bentley Kalu, Joonas Jaatinen, Louis Thresher
SubtitlesEnglish
Runtime13 mins
Available1 Nov 2026
TerritoriesWorldwide

TRAILER

https://andreamaeperez.com/Rat-King-Trailer