fresh blood – deutschlandpremiere

hunters on a white field

Alex is excited: His boss has invited him on a hunting trip! After a while he feels Greger and his old friend Henrik act weirdly. The atmosphere becomes increasingly tense in this survival trip. What is fun and what serious? It's not just Alex who finds the profound experiences upsetting, the audience will feel so too. And then there are also the gory hunting scenes in this directorial debut by Sarah Gyllenstierna …

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handling the undead

After LET THE RIGHT ONE IN a new Scandinavian horror bestseller by John Ajvide Lindqvist finds its way to the big screen. HANDLING THE UNDEAD by Thea Hvistendahl is no less disturbing, unsettling and a dark drama revisiting the zombie formula, which becomes all the more frightening the closer the horror gets to us. Disturbingly visionary genre cinema from our Nordic neighbours.

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azrael

Director of CHEAP THRILLS, E.L. Katz, teams up with the amazing Samara Weaving (READY OR NOT) in the lead role to create courageous adrenaline cinema without answers: What exactly does the cult believe in? Who (or what!) are the creatures burned beyond recognition who massacre everything in their path? There is no time for explanations: the breathless action rolls over us. AZRAEL leaves us speechless.

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wake up

Armed with buckets full of animal innards, a group of activists plans to secretly demolish a huge department store. But they didn’t think of the night guard … After their genre comedies TURBO KID and WE ARE ZOMBIES, the directing trio RKSS switch to hard slasher – and with a lot of verve! It does for sure not spare anyone and entertains with creative killing methods and thrills right up to the consequent finale.

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things will be different

Michael Felker has already made a name for himself as the long-time editor of the brainfuck films by indie icons Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Now, with THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT, he delivers a directorial debut whose mysteriousness is entirely in line with his original employers. A wild, fascinatingly visionary sci-fi trip that shoots straight into the brain – and bites right into it.

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the substance

Why are the French female filmmakers of today so passionately devoted to radical body horror? Coralie Fargeat's new film after REVENGE knows no taboos. That is thrilling! Fargeat gradually leads us closer to the abyss of absurdity, and to a constantly more extreme monstrosity. Demi Moore is brillant in this exceptional role of a faded star who finds a substance with which she can overcome her age.

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skunk

In 2007 EX DRUMMER traumatised us – so much that the audience celebrated the fucked-up assi-punk hunk with the FRESH BLOOD AWARD! Belgian director Koen Mortier comes back with SKUNK and dives again deep into the human abyss – and never sees the surface again. Thibaud Dooms' acting per- formance as an outsider and redemption seeker Liam is deeply disturbing. For sure, SKUNK will get you.

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strange darling

A young woman staggers out of the neighbouring forest and runs for her life. Behind her is a man with a rifle. STRANGE DARLING by JT Mollner is a homage to the grindhouse films of the 1970s. It redefines the cinema of cool with playful ease and mercilessly thrashes its audience through a painful parkour of suffering. Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner surprise the audience in an uncompromising feat of acting.

german premiere

project silence

Dense fog sets on Seoul's gigantic Incheon Bridge and causes a pile-up and explosion. The survivors have to get off the bridge quickly, danger lures from all sides, especially inside a military van …. A spectacular disaster scenario meets creature spectacle as an increasingly desperate fight for survival rages 70 metres above the sea. In one of the main roles stars recently deceased PARASITE actor Lee Sun-kyun.

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plastic guns

The crème de la crème of criminology is looking for murderer Paul Bernardin. A breathless chase through Europe begins. After BLOODY ORANGES, director Jean-Christophe Meurisse continues to explore the boundaries of taste and genre with relish in PLASTIC GUNS. The subversive satire turns everything upside down. A marvellously mean caricature of the serial killer thriller – or as they say in France: a homage.