Est. 2006, Abertoir is Wales' international horror festival.

WOW 2025: The Balconettes
Nia delves into the world of The Balconettes, presented by Abertoir Horror Festival at this year’s Wales One World Film Festival.
Nia delves into the world of The Balconettes, presented by Abertoir Horror Festival at this year’s Wales One World Film Festival.
The following interview, with The Island Between Tides writer-director-producer duo Austin Andrews & Andrew Holmes, was conducted for the Abertoir 2024 festival brochure. You can keep up with news about the film on Instagram.
Written by Steven Sloss - the following article was commissioned by Abertoir for the 2024 festival brochure, to coincide with the festival screening of Godzilla vs. Hedorah, and in celebration of the franchise's 70th anniversary.
The following interview was written for the Abertoir 2023 festival brochure. Psychosis is available to watch, for free, on Tubi.
Abertoir co-director Nia reflects on programming for an edition of the festival full of animals on the rampage – while maintaining her values as a vegan.
As any annual event organiser will tell you, the ideas for a given year might already have started developing before the previous event has gone by. Such was very much the case for Abertoir 2024, with the broad idea of a ‘nature horror’ theme being touted in the team group chat back in the summer of 2023.
Abertoir 2024's feature film programme.
The Abertoir 2023 feature film programme.
Abertoir co-director Nia contributed an article to issue 251 (Aug 2023) of Planet, the Welsh Internationalist, titled 'From the Old…
The Abertoir 2022 feature film programme. The 2022 edition of the festival was hybrid, in person and online.
The Abertoir 2021 feature film programme. This edition of the festival was hybrid - partly in-person, partly virtual.
The Abertoir 2020 feature film programme. This edition of the festival took place virtually.