Belinda

Relax and enjoy your stay
2025 /
Horror-Comedy, Thriller
A Film By
Isaac Kasende

Belinda

Relax and enjoy your stay
2025 /
Horror-Comedy, Thriller
A Film By
Isaac Kasende
Synopsis
Horror-Comedy, Thriller

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2025

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A Film By
3 hotel workers find a magical machine in a room that spews out cash, but on one condition: they feed it dead bodies within an hour.
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Ophelia, Gary, and Mandla are employees at Hotel Afreeca and have various financial needs. One evening, they get access to a room that has been inaccessible for years. Inside, they find a supernatural machine that can magically spit out money. There’s just one catch: it requires being fed fresh corpses. Initially hesitant, they succumb to their greed and start murdering to feed the machine; even more enticed by discovering that victims’ nationality, age, and status determine the amount. As they deal with eccentric guests, the situation spirals into chaos and madness when the machine throws one last curve ball…
Ophelia, Gary, and Mandla are employees at Hotel Afreeca and have various financial needs. One evening, they get access to a room that has been inaccessible for years. Inside, they find a supernatural machine that can magically spit out money. There’s just one catch: it requires being fed fresh corpses. Initially hesitant, they succumb to their greed and start murdering to feed the machine; even more enticed by discovering that victims’ nationality, age, and status determine the amount. As they deal with eccentric guests, the situation spirals into chaos and madness when the machine throws one last curve ball…
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Director(s)
Cast
Maudi Ilung, Mandla Gaduka, Daniel Janks, Neel Clasen, Annie Robinson, Isabella Jane More

PRESS

Fame Shorts Film Festival

Belinda

Ophelia, Gary, and Mandla work at the rundown Hotel Afreeca, each burdened by pressing financial struggles. One night, they gain access to a room sealed off for years and stumble upon a supernatural money-spewing machine. But their newfound fortune comes at a horrifying cost: to keep the cash flowing, the machine must be fed freshly dead bodies—on the hour, every hour. As desperation collides with greed, the trio faces a chilling moral spiral with no easy escape
League Of Film Makers

Isaac Kasende Explores Power and Class in “Belinda”

Premiering at HollyShorts, Isaac Kasende’s “Belinda” blends magic and realism to explore greed, inequality, and class through the eyes of hotel workers who discover a mysterious cash-spewing machine.
Director Isaac Kasende with the Belinda “Living Flesh” arcade prop

BELINDA by Isaac Kasende Selected for Oscar-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival

Belinda, the award-winning short film by Isaac Kasende, has been officially selected for the prestigious Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, marking another major milestone in its outstanding international festival run.
SH Films Team

ISAAC KASENDE WINS BIG AT HACC FESTIVAL 2025 WITH “Belinda”

The echoes of applause still linger in the halls of Cape Town’s District Six Homecoming Centre, where the HACC Festival 2025 recently concluded. Among the festival’s shining stars, onename resonated with quiet force and undeniable impact—Isaac Kasende, who won Top Short Film for his riveting entry, Belinda.

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