POSSESSOR From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor is an arresting sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people’s bodies to execute high profile targets. But as she sinks deeper into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to [...]

BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES Kato owns a small café in front of Kyoto's Nijo Station. One night he returns to his small abode above the café and just when he is about to play his guitar, another Kato appears on his TV screen and says: "Hey, I'm you. Two minutes in the [...]

DINNER IN AMERICA An on-the-lam punk rocker (Kyle Gallner) and a young woman (Emily Skeggs) obsessed with his band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest. Adam Rehmeier's Dinner in America is a proper, old-school American indie. It's smart, without being pretentious. Funny, without trying [...]

CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI After a short historical exposition, a 77-minute sequence unfolds in which master martial-arts choreographer, actor and stuntman Tak Sakaguchi in the role of legendary ronin Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) takes on an endless string of opponents – in real time and one single take! Helmed by Kingdom's action director Yûji Shimomura and [...]

#SHAKESPEARESSHITSTORM The Opioid Epidemic is destroying America. Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman celebrates Troma's 45th and his 50th year making movies, by taking on Big Pharma, addiction and the intolerance of social media in #ShakespearesShitstorm. This irreverent musical adaptation of The Tempest is ripe with bawdy couplets, Hieronymus Boschian images of excess and unrefined iambic [...]

SLEEP Marlene (Sandra Hüller) is plagued by horrific dreams that seem to be about a real place. Soon after tracking down the quiet village of Stainbach, she suffers a nervous breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. Her daughter Mona (Gro Swantje Kohlhof) journeys to the village to unravel the mystery of her [...]