Fri, Aug 30

A young woman is locked inside a mental institution. She receives tender care and has nice friends - everything is fine, except she doesn't want to eat, since cyborgs don't need food. Along comes ping-pong playing Il-sun, who falls for the cute robot girl.
Park (OLD BOY) delivers the same inventiveness and intensity as in his previous films, but adds a romantic, fairy-tale like dimension.
The world is totally crazy, but as long as everyone plays along, we are all fine.

On the highways of Mississippi, a psychotic priest and his brother are on a murdering crusade to absolve and forgive with their own brand of murder. Driving around in a rundown van they spread the word of religious insanity and redeem sinners with even greater sins.

Sarah is fired by her sexist boss and ends up in a different kind of employment: cleaning up the mess after suicides and murders. Trying to make a living for her son, she hangs in there, collecting body parts and mopping up blood and guts. Until her company gets offered a big operation in an empty warehouse where a serial killer puts his bodies. Once locked inside the team keeps finding more and more body parts, and they keep getting warmer.
Feature debut by a very talented Antonio Pantoja, who knows how to push the right buttons when shooting gory horror comedy with 80s slasher elements.
NOMINATED!

Hamming and Liv, a couple living in the future, when Earth has been sent out of control, affected by a cruel and inhuman mechanism that turns back Darwin’s theory of Evolution. Every person gradually starts to feel animal instincts: uncontrolled aggression, protection of offspring. All this creates chaos on the planet and leads directly to the extinction of mankind. And it seems that nothing can stand in the way of their relationship. However, quite soon, Liv disappears, and Hamming has to make an important step to face the world endangering his very own life in order to find her.

Three alien 'space babes' crash on earth and need the power of love and erections to escape. They are hunted by their enemies, de-evolved males called the Scrotes, but learn to 'embrace' the male species again in this funny, sexy, sci-fi romp that is an ode to both sexploitation and sci-fi serials from the late fifties and early sixties.
Co-producer, DOP and 2019 festival guest Scott Schirmer will be present to introduce the screening!

He is a serial killer who likes to beat woman to a pulp with his bare hands. She likes to stab men - a perfect couple, and the beginning of a very, very sick love story, one might think, but turns and twists lie ahead.
Brutal is a surprising Japanese Grindhouse film and contains an amount of in-your-face violence that makes the screen shrivel.
A true Midnight Extreme, and nominated for the BUT award!

2021: The year when we have learned that we are not alone in this universe. That creatures from other worlds are ravaging for a long time, while other people don't even know.
It must be seen to believed: This Russian film is completely self-financed (100 euro, so no need for a second mortgage), and completely self-produced, yet the film seems to have much higher production levels. Full of creativity and ambition, edited like a blockbuster movie - Dmitry Chmelyov is the name to remember!
Short film: Savage Death Valley (DIY animation)

A brief history of cinema: first there was JAWS (Spielberg, 1975), then there was IT (Tommy Lee Wallace) in 1990, followed by TWISTER (Jan de Bont, 1996) and the mockbusters of The Asylum, like SHARKNADO (2013). Somehow, in the turbo-blender mind of Todd Sheets, this all got mixed up, and out came CLOWNADO. Cursed demonic circus clowns set out on a vengeful massacre using tornadoes. A stripper, an Elvis impersonator, a truck driver, a teen runaway, and a dude, get caught up in the supernatural battle between femme fatale and the boss clown from hell.

As an introduction to the friday metal festival BAD TASTE we present THE DOOM DOC, about the stoner- and doom metal scene in England, including Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) and band members of Conan, Crowbar and Primitive Man. The scene is completely underground and auto-financed by Holy Spider Promotions, and operates independently opposing modern music trends and gentrification in the portrayed city of Sheffield.
Director Connor Matheson will be present to introduce the screening and join the metal fest!

Four friends visit a village in Chile. They are brutally attacked by a man and his son. After not finding help in town, they decide to confront the men with the help of the police. But in this way, they will discover that their attackers have in their blood the direct legacy of the darkest period of Chilean history and will have to face the most brutal enemy.
Political pamflet or exploitation? TRAUMA may just be the most violent film you see this year, maybe a Latin-American Serbian Film? German authorities decided to remove 12 minutes, but we challenge you to endure the full uncut version.

I AM TOXIC is a comic book post-apocalyptic zombie film where Latin America is turned into a giant scrapheap. The only trace of humanity are...zombies! With a grungy seventies look this lowbudget production reminds of Romero and Dante, to name a few.
Mexico has a great tradition of filmmaking, but horror films are rare. Thanks to the perseverance of the director's brother Diego, his graphic novel did see the light of day eventually.
Short film: ATOMIC ED

In the near future civil war rages in The United Kingdom. A woman wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell. Using its sophisticated functionality, her captor tortures her for information; information she claims not to have - or does she?
Skilfully playing with the spectators expectations Paul Rachid's third film somehow reminds of a Vincenzo Natali movie (Cube, Nothing), but with a more relevant and contemporary approach, raising questions about the perception of truth and reality, and the use of interrogation methods.
Claustrofobia short: CONTROL

Retromaniacs - a Gang, a Lifestyle, a Collective

Anyone who mentions the word 'videotape' in Germany, also says ’Retromaniacs’. A bunch of hardcore video experts from all over Germany gathered in the biggest and last real 80’s video store of the country. In a small village that no one would expect to be the VHS capital of Germany, they grew from creative nerds into friends and formed an outstanding collective of pro-guys who know their shit!

This documentary travels with them on their mission to find the holy grail: 60.000 VHS tapes (the biggest amount anyone has ever seen in one place) hidden in a monstrous hall where the tapes are stacked up to the roof. And they can get them for free, as long as they are able to get them all out of there...

A funny fetish road movie about a once-in-a-lifetime trip and dream come true for every VHS lover. This strange package comes in the guise of an 80’s videotape programme surrounded by trailers, shorts and weird announcements from the days when VHS was the hottest shit in Home Entertainment...

Retromaniacs - The Warriors of Video… Recommended for the mentally retarded, 18+.

Op Venus zijn geen mannen en dus gaan de vrouwen op zoek naar sperma op aarde. Op hun speurtocht naar zaad landen ze in...Tirol.
Daar aangekomen worden de space babes door hun outfit verward met het verwachte Olympische ski team. Zelfs deze verwarring voorkomt niet dat de zoektocht naar donoren geen enkel probleem oplevert. Een ieder die opgegroeid is in de jaren 70 weet dat Tirolerfilms een populair filmgenre waren. Daar kwam zoveel volk op af dat vele buurtbioscopen daar nog jaren op konden voortbestaan. Tiroler films werden overigens gewoon in Beieren gemaakt en hadden een vleugje erotiek, mooi behang, flauwe grappen maar vooral het speelse en volksvermaak (iedereen deelt in de seks en uiterlijk deed er niet toe) gingen erin als zoete koek.
Das gab’s nur einmal!
Lederhose aan en jodelen maar.

Ach Jodel Mir Noch Einen - Stosstrupp Venus Bläst zum Angriff (1974)
2069: A Sex Odyssey | Stoßtrupp Venus - 5 Mädchen Blasen zum Angriff | Space Girls
It doesn't get any better, does it? yes it does: on 35 mm!

An Italian feature by a woman director with a clever reflection about the immigrants following up on a tradition of 'politically motivated' zombie horror and a hot topic in Europe. “In the course of a demonstration in Rome against the opening of a refugee center, an apocalypse of zombies breaks out. Enrico, an ultra-rightist young man lying on his identity, finds refuge in the center. The only safe place for him is this refugee camp that he did not want, while the dead are walking outside…
Nominated for the BUT award, and director present.