LE FRANC When his formidable landlady confiscates his beloved musical instrument, the kongoma, as ransom for unpaid rent, the penniless musician Marigo gets hold of a lottery ticket and dreams of a better future. To keep the ticket safe, he glues it to the back of his door. On the day of the draw, [...]
TOMORROW I WILL BE DIRT An authorised, surrealistic animation sequel to Jörg Buttgereit’s 1993 film Schramm. Taking its cue, from the original film's opening quote by 1920’s American serial killer Carl Panzram ("Today, I am dirty, but tomorrow I’ll just be dirt"), the film ventures beyond the death of Lothar Schramm into uncharted [...]
SCHRAMM As "Lipstick Killer" Lothar Schramm lies dying in a pool of his own blood, the fragmented memories of his life flash before his eyes. With his last feature film to date cult filmmaker, trash poet, punk surrealist and underground icon Jörg Buttgereit (Nekromantik, Der Todesking) transports us into the nightmarish world of a [...]
THE MAFU CAGE Sisters Ellen and Cissy (Carol Kane) live together in their childhood home in Southern California, a sprawling villa filled with African artefacts, collected by their late anthropologist father. Ellen is an accomplished astronomer and loving caretaker. Cissy, the wild child, can barely take care of herself. In the centre of their [...]
THUNDERCRACK! "ECSTASY SO GREAT THAT ALL HEAVEN AND HELL BECAME BUT ONE SHANGRI-LA!" On a dark and stormy night, a party of strangers seeks shelter at an old, dilapidated mansion belonging to Mrs. Gert Hammond (Marion Eaton). To pass the time they will share tragic tales and carnal pleasures. They will encounter Mrs. Hammond's [...]
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK Australia at the turn of the twentieth century. On a beautiful summer's day a group of students from the all-female Appleyard College prepare for an outing to Hanging Rock. It is St. Valentine’s Day and the air is filled with giddy excitement. But some of them will vanish without a [...]
MAIS NE NOUS DÉLIVREZ PAS DU MAL Best friends Anne and Lore (Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wegener) are two adolescent girls from affluent upper-class families. Boarding at a catholic convent school, they spend their time reading salacious books and playing childish pranks on the nuns and their classmates. But when Anne's parents leave her alone [...]
LES YEUX SANS VISAGE After causing a car accident which left his daughter horribly disfigured, an obsessive surgeon with the help of his lover and accomplice (Alida Valli) desperately attempts to recreate her face by kidnapping attractive young women. Georges Franju’s poetically surreal and chillingly visceral psychological nightmare is a bona fide classic [...]
HÄXAN With Häxan Benjamin Christensen, starring in the role of the devil himself, created a highly inventive and pioneering combination of documentary and horror cinema. Structured as a series of hypnotic and hallucinatory vignettes, depicting grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns and a satanic Sabbath, the film proposes to chronicle the history of witchcraft and [...]
Festival Closing Photo: Domen Pal
