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Aberrance
(Country: Mongolia; Year: 2022; Director: Baatar Batsukh; Writer: Baatar Batsukh, Byambasuren Ganbat; Stars: Erkhembayar Ganbat, Selenge Chadraabal, Yalalt Namsrai, Oyundary Jamsranjav, Sukhee Ariunbyamba, Bayarsanaa Batchuluun, Badamtsetseg Batmunkh)
When city dwellers Erkhmee and Selenge arrive at an old cabin deep in the Mongolian wilds, a foreboding settles over the couple. Erkhmee's seemingly keen desire to provide a safe and nurturing space for his artistic wife is at odds with the violent actions and mannerisms their quizzical neighbour observes.
Abruptio
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Evan Marlowe; Writer: Evan Marlowe; Stars: James Marsters, Christopher McDonald, Hana Mae Lee, Jordan Peele, Robert Englund, Sid Haig)
A man who is down on his luck wakes up one day to find that an explosive device has been implanted in his neck.
All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Alex Phillips; Writer: Alex Phillips; Stars: Betsey Brown, Phillip Andre Botello, Noah Lepawsky, Trevor Dawkins, Mike Lopez)
A wriggling, drug-induced creature feature.
Amazing Elisa (Asombrosa Elisa)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Sadrac González-Perellón; Writer: Sadrac González-Perellón; Stars: Asier Etxeandia, Ivan Massagué, Silvia Abascal, Milo Taboada)
Elisa, a girl of 12 who thinks she's a superhero, lives with her father after her mother's death.
Ana's Farewell
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2021; Director: Luciana Mazeto, Vinícius Lopes)
To resolve an old family squabble, an 11-year-old girl, must reclaim her mother`s long-forgotten imaginary world, abandoned in the forest where she buried her childhood.
Convenience Story and A Life On The Farm
The Antares Paradox (La Paradoja De Antares)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Luis Tinoco; Writer: Luis Tinoco; Stars: Andrea Trepat, Aleida Torrent, Jaume de Sans, David Ramírez, Ferra Vilajosana)
In a race against the clock, Alexandra will be forced to choose how to spend the next hours: facing a critical family drama or trying to bring an answer to one of humanity's most important questions.
The Artifice Girl
(Year: 2022; Director: Franklin Ritch; Writer: Franklin Ritch; Stars: Tatum Mathews, Sinda Nichols, David Girard, Lance Henriksen, Franklin Ritch)
When an internet vigilante develops a revolutionary new computer program to combat online predators, its rapid advancement leads to serious questions about autonomy, oppression, and what it really means to be human.
Bad City
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Kensuke Sonomura; Writer: Kensuke Sonomura; Stars: Mitsu Dan, Hitoshi Ozawa)
A recently disgraced detective leads a special unit in an effort to stop a crime boss from becoming mayor.
Ballad Of Piargy
(Country: Slovakia, Macedonia, Czech Republic; Year: 2022; Director: Ivo Trajkov; Writer: Jana Skorepová, Frantisek Svantner, Ivo Trajkov; Stars: Judit Bárdos, Lucia Siposová, Jana Kvantiková)
It's spring 1939. The bishop in Banska Bystrica finds out that in the village of Piargy, that was buried by an avalanche a few days ago, the Antichrist was born. The bishop sends a priest to investigate statements made by the only survivor of the catastrophe.
The Basement Of Scream Street
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Sabrina Greve; Writer: Michelle Ferreira, Sabrina Greve; Stars: Chris Couto, Carol Marques da Costa, Giovanni de Lorenzi)
Siblings Jonas and Rebeca, who, haunted by guilt over their parents' death, have developed an obsessive dependency on each other as they care for their grandmother and a child trapped in the basement.
The Elderly and Good Boy
The Beasts
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2022; Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Writer: Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Stars: Denis Ménochet, Marina Foïs, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido, Marie Colomb, Luisa Merelas, José Manuel Fernández y Blanco, Federico Pérez Rey, Javier Varela, David Menéndez, Xavier Estévez, Gonzalo García, Pepo Suevos, Machi Salgado, Emile Duthu)
French couple Antoine and Olga moved to a little village in the Galician countryside some time ago. There they live a quiet life, although their relations with the locals are not as idyllic as they would like them to be. A conflict with their neighbours, the Anta brothers, will see tension rise in the village to the point of no return.
The Black Spider (Die Schwarze Spinne)
(Country: Switzerland, Hungary; Year: 2022; Director: Markus Fischer; Writer: Plinio Bachmann, Barbara Sommer; Stars: Marin Blülle, Philipp Droste, Mária Dér, Marina Gera, Nurit Hirschfeld)
A courageous young midwife makes a pact with the Devil to save her village from the brutal terror of the Teutonic Knights. Punished by a spider plague, she goes from saviour to a hunted woman.
Bloody Bridget
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Richard Elfman; Writer: Richard Elfman; Stars: Anastasia Elfman, Marcos Mateo Ochoa, Jean Charles, Danise Milfort, Rick Howland)
When an exploited waitress is assaulted and threatened with prison for defending herself, Baron Samedi transforms her into a burlesque dancing vampire who must feed on the still-beating hearts of evildoers.
The Breach
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Rodrigo Gudiño; Writer: Ian Weir, based on the book by Nick Cutter; Stars: Natalie Brown, Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Eva Weiss, Wesley French)
John Hawkins, who is set to retire as police chief is tucked away in deep wood. Following the discovery of a gruesome body with uncanny injuries, he's pulled into an investigation to solve the horrifying mystery, which evades explanation.
Brooklyn 45
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Ted Geoghegan; Writer: Ted Geoghegan; Stars: Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden, Ezra Buzzington, Kristina Klebe)
Friday, December 27, 1945. Five military veterans gather in the ornate parlour of a Brooklyn brownstone. Best friends since childhood, they’ve reunited to support their troubled host – but when his invitation for cocktails turns into an impromptu séance, the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.
Hundreds Of Beavers and Vesper
The Bystanders
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Gabriel Foster Prior; Writer: Gabriel Foster Prior, Jack Hughes; Stars: Seann Walsh, Andi Jashy, Georgia Mabel Clarke, Scott Haran, Lucy Pinder, Frank Harper, Emily Wyatt, David Schaal)
Invisible immortals watch over their human subjects and intervene in (or interfere with) their lives.
The Coffee Table (La mesita del comedor)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Caye Casas; Writer: Cristina Borobia, Caye Casas; Stars: Eduardo Antuña, Paco Benjumea, Itziar Castro, Estefanía de los Santos, Cristina Dilla, Clàudia Font, Emilio Gavira, David Pareja, Claudia Riera, Josep Riera, Josep Maria Riera)
Black comedy about a young couple facing a tricky moment in their relationship.
Convenience Story
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Satoshi Miki; Writer: Satoshi Miki)
One day, when a struggling screenwriter steps out to buy dog food, he stumbles into a mysterious convenience store where he discovers he can find anything his heart desires.
Cult Hero
(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Jesse Thomas Cook; Writer: Tony Burgess, Liv Collins, Jesse Thomas Cook; Stars: Liv Collins, Ry Barrett, Justin Bott, Tony Burgess, Jessica Vano)
Manager-summoning control freak Kallie Jones attempts to rescue her husband from a 'wellness center' with the help of a washed-up expert cult buster.
The Elderly (Viejos)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Raúl Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez; Writer: Raúl Cerezo, Rubén Sánchez Trigos, Javier Trigales; Stars: Irene Anula, Zorion Eguileor, Josele Román, Gustavo Salmerón, Paula Gallego)
An octogenarian, who enters into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his wife, sparks a series of paranormal events that will put his family's lives at risk.
Moon Garden and Minore
Enter Mycel
(Country: Austria; Year: 2022; Director: Daniel Christian Limmer)
Following the death of her mother, 13-year-old Lena struggles to keep the family life together, between her newborn baby sister and her depressed father, who seeks relief from his loss through the manic belief of a timeless and worldwide emotion-based communication system enabled by a natural fungal parasite called the Mycel.
Exhibit #8
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2022; Director: Ruben Broekhuis; Writer: Ruben Broekhuis, Sarah Offringa, Monique van Kessel; Stars: Nastaran Razawi Khorasani, Claudio Magaña Torres, Mike Reus, Coen van Vlijmen, Guido Gerard)
When Bosnian-born Aisha and cameraman Elias team up to shoot a documentary on the mysterious disappearance of Aisha's brother, they cross paths with another film crew, who are creating an even more sinister narrative.
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Park Syeyoung; Writer: Park Sye-young)
After a couple splits up, mould left behind on a mattress slowly grows into a creature that steals the vertebrae of humans who inhabit the bed.
Fist Of The Condor (El Puño Del Cóndor)
(Country: Chile; Year: 2023; Director: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza; Writer: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza; Stars: Marko Zaror, Eyal Meyer, Gina Aguad, Fernanda Urrejola, Man Soo Yoon)
A group of martial artists from around the world search for a book that contains the ancient secrets of how to overcome the limits of the human body.
Fixation
(Country: Germany, Canada, US; Year: 2022; Director: Mercedes Bryce Morgan; Writer: William Day Frank, Katrina Kudlick, Mercedes Bryce Morgan; Stars: Genesis Rodriguez, Maddie Hasson, Jordan Hayes, Atticus Mitchell)
A young woman undergoes a psychiatric evaluation before her sentencing in an unusual murder trial. But as the tests become more personal and frightening, she begins to question the true motives of her doctors.
Cult Hero and We Are Still Here
Forbidden World (Mundo Proibido)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2021; Director: Alê Camargo, Camila Carrossine)
The animated story of two space adventurers traversing the galaxy in search of a legendary treasure.
Give Me An A
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Natasha Halevi, Meg Swertlow, Bonnie Discepolo, Danin Jacquay, Erica Mary Wright, Monica Moore-Suriyage, Sarah Kopkin, Caitlin Hargraves, Megan Rosati, Hannah Alline, Avital Ash, Mary C. Russell, Valerie Finkel, Kelly Nygaard, Loren Escandón, Francesca Maldonado; Writer: Each segment is written by the corresponding director; Stars: Alyssa Milano, Virginia Madsen, Gina Torres, Milana Vayntrub, Jennifer Holland, Sean Gunn, Molly C. Quinn, Jason George, Jackie Tohn)
16 women filmmakers make their voices heard with this anthology of genre-themed short films, all made in direct response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Good Boy (Me, You & Frank)
(Country: Norway; Year: 2022; Director: Viljar Bøe; Writer: Viljar Bøe; Stars: Gard Løkke, Katrine Lovise Øpstad Fredriksen, Amalie Willoch Njaastad, Nicolai Narvesen Lied)
A young woman meets a handsome young millionaire and romance blossoms between them - but he lives with a man who pretends to be a dog.
Halfway Home
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2022; Director: Isti Madarász; Stars: Péter Bárnai, Vivien Rujder, János Kulka)
When a young woman is killed in a bus crash, the morgue night watchman who has loved her from afar for years will do anything to bring her back to life.
Hideout
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2022; Director: Chen Yen Kuang; Writer: Chen Yen Kuang; Stars: Chen Eddie, Chiu Alex, Ho Jean)
Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make big money by an unknown cocaine deal so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind, but nothing is that simple.
New Religion and Brooklyn 45
Home Owners (Para Entrar A Vivir)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Pablo Aragüés, Marta Cabrera; Writer: Pablo Aragüés; Stars: Bárbara Goenaga, Gorka Otxoa, Luisa Gavasa, Irene Ferrándiz)
A couple in their thirties who have just found the house of their dreams. Everything is perfect until they realise that it is even better: the house gives them everything they ask for. But what will happen if their loyalty falters?
Hundreds Of Beavers
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Mike Cheslik; Writer: Mike Cheslik, Ryland Brickson Cole Tews; Stars: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves, Wes Tank, Doug Mancheski, Luis Rico, Jay Brown, Stephen Cervantes)
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Immersion
(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Takashi Shimizu)
Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.
Irati
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Paul Urkijo Alijo; Writer: Paul Urkijo Alijo, Jon Muñoz Otaegui, Juan Luis Landa; Stars: Edurne Azkarate, Eneko Sagardoy, Itziar Ituño)
Christian nobleman Eneko must fulfil the promise he made to his late father, to protect and lead his people into the new era. To do so, he must recover his father’s body, buried next to Charlemagne's treasure. However, despite his faith, he needs the help of his childhood friend, the pagan Irati.
It Came From The Water (Apokawixa)
(Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Xawery Żuławski; Writer: Krzysztof Bernas, Maciej Kazula, Xawery Zulawski; Stars: Mikolaj Kubacki, Waleria Gorobets, Monika Mikolajczak, Mariusz Urbaniec)
A group of Warsaw high school graduates, sick and tired of lockdowns and online schooling, decide to head to the seaside for a party to remember.
Satanic Hispanics and The Breach
Ivan
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Dani Manzini; Stars: Carlos Ramírez, Gilda Nomacce, Giovanni de Lorenzi)
In Brazil in 1976, a Latin American immigrant and his partner live a relationship on the verge of chaos. She plunges into a spiral of insanity, eager to understand the pregnancy processes of her son Ivan. He tries to survive the dysfunctional fractures that surround him.
Kick Me
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Gary Huggins; Writer: Betsy Gran, Gary Huggins; Stars: Santiago Vasquez, Ramone Armstrong, Matthew Stathas, Eric Logan, Patti Myers, Elisa James)
A nightmare comedy about a school counsellor whose compassion, generosity and dedication destroy the lives of everyone around him.
The Killer Lasagna (A Lasanha Assassina)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2002; Director: Ale McHaddo; Writer: Ale McHaddo; Stars: Arianne Brogini, Sofia Kreutz, José Mojica Marins, Franco Rattichiere)
A lasagna is left in a defective fridge, and the toxic gases together with the low temperature causes a mutation, turning it into a furious monster, whose only objective is to kill the people who had made it.
A Life On The Farm
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Oscar Harding; Stars: Derrick Beckles, Lehr Beidelschies, Charles Carson, Oscar Herding, Karen Kilgariff)
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
Linoleum
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Colin West; Writer: Colin West; Stars: Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, Katelyn Nacon, Gabriel Rush, Amy Hargreaves, West Duchovny, Michael Ian Black, Tony Shalhoub, Elisabeth Henry, Roger Hendricks Simon)
When a satellite falls from orbit and crashes into the suburban home of a dysfunctional family in Ohio, the father seizes the opportunity to fulfil his dream of becoming an astronaut by re-building it into his own rocket ship. While his wife and daughter believe he's experiencing a midlife crisis, surreal events begin to unfold around him.
Mother Superior and Abruptio
Logger
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Steffen Geypens; Writer: Steffen Geypens; Stars: Jurgen Delnaet, Pieter Piron, Mona Lahousse, Maya Sannen, Mil Sinaeve)
When a logger discovers a brutally mutilated body in the forest, he goes into a catatonic state and gets the unexpected help of Death herself.
Mad Cats
(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Reiki Tsuno; Writer: Reiki Tsuno; Stars: Hikari Aiko, Asachill, Amanda B, Maari Iwata, Chiyuki Kanazawa)
Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners.
Megalomaniac
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Karim Ouelhaj; Writer: Karim Ouelhaj; Stars: Eline Schumacher, Wim Willaert, Benjamin Ramon, Pierre Nisse, Raphaëlle Lubansu, Olivier Picard)
A film about the weight of patriarchy and the illusion of Manichaeism.
Meltdown: A Nuclear Family's Ascension Into Madness
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Colton Van Til; Writer: Colton Van Til, Ashley Tropea, Sophia Hoefle; Stars: Hannah Beck, Finn Roberts, William Elsman, Maleah Goldberg, Ernest Emmanuel Peeples, Eric Hanson)
A picture-perfect 1950s family throw an important dinner party only for an LSD spiking to upend their plans and expose their festering secrets.
Minore
(Country: Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Konstantinos Koutsoliotas; Writer: Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, Elizabeth E Schuch; Stars: Davide Tucci, Daphne Alexander, Apollon Bollas, Eleftheria Komi)
When mysterious creatures invade a Greek seaside port, a misfit band of musicians, tourists, bodybuilders and grandmothers unite to save the city.
Mad Cats and Virus-32
Molli And Max In The Future
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Michael Lukk Litwak; Writer: Michael Lukk Litwak; Stars: Zosia Mamet, Aristotle Athari, Danny Burstein, Arturo Castro, Okieriete Onaodowan, Erin Darke, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Michael Chernus, Aparna Nancherla, Matteo Lane)
The story of a man and woman whose orbits repeatedly collide over the course of 12 years, four planets, three dimensions and one space cult.
Moon Garden
(Year: 2022; Director: Ryan Stevens Harris; Writer: Ryan Stevens Harris)
A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother’s voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness.
Mother Superior
(Country: Austria; Year: 2022; Director: Marie Alice Wolfszahn; Writer: Marie Alice Wolfszahn; Stars: Isabella Händler, Inge Maux, Jochen Nickel)
1975, Rosenkreuz Manor. Sigrun Fink, desperate for information about her biological family, starts a new position as nurse to the aging, ill and eccentric Baroness Heidenreich. For a shared longing binds them together: the old lady’s memory contains the secret to Sigrun's true identity; the nurse’s lifeforce holds the key to the future for the Baroness.
My Grandfather's Demons
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Nuno Beato; Stars: Victoria Guerra, Nuno Lopes, Ana Sofia Martins, Celso Bugallo)
Rosa is a successful designer living in a generic big city. After the unexpected death of her grandfather, she realises she's not been in a place where she felt connected or loved since she left her homeland.
New Religion
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Keishi Kondo; Writer: Keishi Kondo; Stars: Daiki Nunami, Satoshi Oka, Saionji Ryuseigun, Kaho Seto)
Miyabi lost her only daughter in an accident. After her daughter's death, she got a divorce. She now works as a call girl and is living with her new boyfriend. One day, she meets a weird customer who asks her to let him take a picture of her spine.
Stone Turtle and Next Exit
Next Exit
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Mali Elfman; Writer: Mali Elfman; Stars: Gavin Powers, Joe Powers, Katie Parker, Karen Gillan, Ty Molbak, Michael May, Rahul Kohli, Tessa Hersh, Jim Ortlieb, Angel Murphy, Eric Hoff, Nerea Duhart, Sally Levi, Drew Brandon Jones, Tongayi Chirisa)
In a world where ghosts are real and front-page news, a controversial new medical procedure allows people to peacefully kill themselves. In the midst of this breakthrough, two strangers travel cross country together to end their lives, only to unexpectedly find what they’ve been missing along the way.
Once Upon A Time In The Future: 2121 (Bir Zamanlar Gelecek: 2121)
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2020; Director: Serpil Altın; Writer: Korhan Ugur, Srpil Altin; Stars: Selen Ozturk, Çagdas Onur Ozturk, Aysenil Samlioglu)
In the future, the earth becomes uninhabitable due to climate crisis and famine. The few survivors from colonies and start to live in underground blocks. According to the Scarcity Laws of the Young Administration which controls the system, old generations must be destroyed in exchange for new lives.
The Ones You Didn't Burn
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Elise Finnerty; Writer: Elise Finnerty; Stars: Elise Finnerty, Samuel Dunning, Estelle Girard Parks, Jenna Rose Sander)
Nathan and Mirra are in no way close siblings, but their father’s passing means they must return to their old family farm to sell off the land. There, Nathan starts having vivid nightmares of a woman rising from the sea, feeling the same dread his father felt before his death.
One Percenter
(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Yûdai Yamaguchi; Stars: Tak Sakaguchi)
When an action film star finds his craft replaced by wires, CGI and quick edits, he and his trusty apprentice decide to make their dream film by themselves - incorporating the Yakuza gangsters who invade their set.
The Open Body (O Corpo Aberto)
(Country: Spain, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Angeles Huerto; Writer: Daniel D García, Angeles Huerta, Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín; Stars: Tamar Novas, Victoria Guerra, María Vázquez, Nicolás Otero, Elena Seijo)
Miguel, a teacher assigned to a creepy village, feels a fascination for Dorinda, whose lover was recently found dead, hanging from a cherry tree. Miguel begins to suspect that the dead man's soul is still roaming the village.
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra and Molli And Max In The Future
Orphea In Love
(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Axel Ranisch; Writer: Axel Ranisch; Stars: Guido Badalamenti, Christina Große, Ursina Lardi, Mirjam Mesak, Ursula Werner)
Nele is a talented young opera singer from Estonia, who works at a call centre. When she meets Kolya, a young, Deaf criminal from the streets, the two instantly fall in love. But when tragic strikes, she has to face the demons from her past to balance her life.
Razzennest
(Country: Austria; Year: 2022; Director: Johannes Grenzfurthner; Writer: Johannes Grenzfurthner; Stars: Sophie Kathleen Kozeluh, Michael Smulik, Anne Weiner)
A South African enfant terrible filmmaker and artiste-cineaste meets a film critic in an Echo Park sound studio. With key members of the former's crew joining them, they record an audio commentary track for his new elegiac feature documentary Razzennest, but the session goes down a different path.
Rotten Flowers (Ukrudt)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2022; Director: Kasper Juhl; Writer: Mie Gren, Kasper Juhl; Stars: Mie Gren, Josefine Lindegaard, Paw Terndrup, Rudi Køhnke, Kalle Perlmutter)
When Nora decides to send her sister, Rose, a suicide video, her sister quickly invites her on a healing trip to a remote forest. But what Rose doesn't know is that Nora has another, far more disturbing, agenda with the trip.
Safe Space
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Stefan Kubicki; Writer: Stefan Kubicki; Stars: Annie Monroe, Annie Hamilton, Konstantin Lavysh, Nardeep Khurmi, David Henry Gerson, François Guétary, Phillip Clark Davis, Félixe De Becker)
Three couples and a lonely friend converge on a weekend retreat in the desert, unaware that their evening is about to devolve into a hallucinatory nightmare involving drugs, aliens, and an armed Ukrainian performance artist.
Satanic Hispanics
(Country: USA, Mexico, Argentina; Year: 2022; Director: Mike Mendez, Demian Rugna, Eduardo Sanchez, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Alejandro Brugues; Writer: Pete Barnstrom, Alejandro Mendez, Lino K. Villa; Stars: Efren Ramirez, Jonah Ray, Hemky Madera, Patricia Velasquez, Greg Grunberg)
An anthology of short horror films.
Give Me An A and Linoleum
Siren
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Ahn Jun-yong; Stars: Choi Jin-hyuk, Park Sung-yeon, Jo Dal-hwan, Koo Ja-sung, Song Yeong-jae)
A new employee at a noise pollution treatment centre comes to suspect that his predecessor may have been murdered.
Soft & Quiet
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Beth de Araújo; Writer: Beth de Araújo; Stars: Stefanie Estes, Olivia Luccardi, Eleanore Pienta, Dana Millican, Melissa Paulo, Jon Beavers, Cissy Ly)
An afternoon in the life of Emily, a female white supremacist and elementary school teacher.
Stone Turtle
(Country: Malaysia, Indonesia; Year: 2022; Director: Ming Jin Woo; Writer: Neesa Jamal, Ming Jin Woo; Stars: Asmara Abigail, Bront Palarae, Amerul Affendi)
A time-traveling tale of a woman living in the Peninsular Malaysian east coast who gets entangled with a man in a dangerous dance of duplicity and deception.
Stéphane
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Timothée Hochet, Lucas Pastor; Writer: Timothée Hochet, Lucas Pastor; Stars: Lucas Pastor, Bastien Garcia, Eva Gregorieff)
Timothée meets an almost unbelievable character while shooting a short film. As time goes on their jovial and eccentric talks become something far more sinister.
Swallowed
(Year: 2022; Director: Carter Smith; Stars: Jena Malone, Mark Patton)
A creepy-crawly-fable of survival and heartwarming friendship.
The Artifice Girl and Fixation
Tobacco Barns (Secaderos, Tobacco Farms)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Rocio Mesa; Writer: Rocio Mesa; Stars: Rocio Mesa)
A tiny rural village is a paradise for a city girl and a prison for a local teenager. Two parallel stories take place among tobacco drying rooms of a single summer.
The Uncle (Stric)
(Country: Croatia, Serbia; Year: 2022; Director: David Kapac, Andrija Mardešić)
Yugoslavia, late 1980s. Parents and son are hastily making the final preparations for Christmas Eve dinner. Their beloved uncle will be turning up from Germany any minute now. But, hang on, are things really as they seem?
Vesper
(Country: Lithuania, France, Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper; Writer: Kristina Buozyte, Brian Clark, Bruno Samper; Stars: Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen, Richard Brake, Melanie Gaydos, Edmund Dehn, Titas Rukas, Markas Eimontas, Markas Sagaitis, Marijus Demiskis, Matvej Buravkov)
At some point in the future the Earth’s ecosystem collapses. A tough 13-year-old called Vesper, whose father is paralysed, tries to get food for them wherever she can. When she finds a mysterious woman in the forest one day she starts to hope that things will change.
Virus-32
(Country: Argentina, Uruguay; Year: 2022; Director: Gustavo Hernández; Writer: Juma Fodde, Gustavo Hernández; Stars: Paula Silva, Rasjid César, Sofía González, Daniel Hendler)
A troubled young woman strives to protect her daughter during a zombie apocalypse with one strange detail: after each attack, the infected pause for 32 seconds before becoming active again.
We Are Still Here
(Country: Australia, New Zealand; Year: 2022; Director: Beck Cole, Dena Curtis, Tracey Rigney, Danielle MacLean, Tim Worrall, Renae Maihi, Miki Magasiva, Mario Gaoa, Richard Curtis, Chantelle Burgoyne; Writer: Dena Curtis, Richard Curtis, Mario Gaoa; Stars: Elijah-Jade Bowen, Deborah Brown, Evander Brown, Lisa Flanagan, Natassia Gorey Furber, Oriini Kaipara)
Eight stories by and about First Nations people.
The Beasts and Stéphane
Witch Game (Juego De Brujas)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2023; Director: Fabián Forte; Writer: Fabián Forte; Stars: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Lourdes Mansilla, Virginia Lombardo, Denise Bárbara, Natalia Grinberg)
On her birthday, a teenager receives a virtual game which leads her into a dangerous, magical world.
World War III
(Country: Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Houman Seyyedi; Writer: Houman Seyyedi, Arian Vazirdaftari, Azad Jafarian; Stars: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Neda Jebraeili, Mahsa Hejazi, Navid Nosrati)
A labourer who finds himself a job on a movie set. The film being shot is meant to be in condemnation of dictatorships, but the filmmakers themselves turn into dictators.
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