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This transgressive portrait of desire shot on 16mm, examines trans-lesbian love and longing with humour, heat, puppetry and a subversive twist.

In a world dominated by cheesy chips, a Game Show tyrant will meet his fate.

A dancer's shift in a dive bar takes an unexpected turn.

You'll never slice a tomato the same way again.

In 1996, two brothers go over the top to reach satisfaction from their interactive television. Worst nightmare or dream come true?

Satan Wants You tells the untold story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by "Michelle Remembers", a lurid memoir by psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith. Supported by the Catholic Church, the bestselling book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle’s childhood abduction by baby-stealing Satanists. Amplified by law enforcement and America’s Daytime TV boom, satanic rumors spread through panic-stricken communities across the world, leaving a wave of destruction and wrongful convictions in their wake.

Rey Ciso was once the greatest editor. Since a horrific accident left him with four wooden fingers on his right hand, he's had to resort to cutting pulp films and trash pictures. When the lead actors from the film he's been editing turn up murdered at the studio, Rey is fingered as the number one suspect. The bodies continue to pile up in this absurdist giallo-thriller.

Great film-about-film that seems tailor-made for our festival and will be presented in the presence of our special guest: actor par excellence Laurence R. Harvey!

The sensual art of cooking breakfast.

Make sure to not lose your head when dealing with this much money.

Two brothers and a fistful of friends have to face the Chinese mafia. Counting on The Smoke Master and his unique Cannabis fighting style, they stand a chance. A stoner comedy from Brazil that brings sillyness to a well crafted film and also contains well-executed, realistic Kung-Fu. Stick this in your pipe!

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.

When society breaks down due to a violent outbreak that turns victims into undead monsters, a former elite soldier breaks out of jail to find his family.

Audra's graduation gift is her dream house, but it soon becomes a living nightmare when some uninvited guests come to her homecoming party who aren't very subtle.

Blood-on-the-boobs film with many playboy girls, as if Hugh Heffner and Russ Meyer teamed up.

The Northern Lights shine down on a prairie city with a notorious history of anti-Indigenous racism. Seeing the lights, Stephanie, a 2 Spirit nêhiyaw, sadly remembers her missing mother. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to go see her girlfriend, Jackie. She gets into a cab with a seemingly harmless, but nosey male settler cab driver. As Stephanie tries to evade increasingly invasive questions from the driver, the ride takes a dangerous turn when he locks her in the vehicle and speeds out of the city. In a deserted lot she is faced with this predator.

In rural Canada, six brothers drinking and joyriding in a pickup truck cause an accident that kills Joey Rosso's mother and sisters. As it turns out, the brothers are the sons of an influential entrepreneur named Tiny Doyle, and they all get off scot-free. When Joey's father is murdered as well, there's only one thing left for Joey to do: build a massive truck to mow the entire Doyle family down.

A young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.

After the death of their father, two brothers decide to embark on a hunting trip to help bring them closer together. They become the prey of a deadly creature.

Get ready for shellshock! It’s the ZOMBEAVERS meets GODZILLA hybrid you always craved in the creature feature comedy horror of the year

A man invokes and meets three different woman-like incarnations of the lustful demon.

Probably the greatest story ever told, after FORGOTTEN SILVER by Peter Jackson. Suddenly, everything makes sense in history. But you will not be able to tell what you just saw. During World War II, the Allied Secret Service recruited a Mexican masked wrestler named the Golden Angel. Recently discovered secret files reveal that this agent thwarted several plans that could have changed the course of the conflict in favor of the Nazis. This documentary chronicles the perilous missions of the Golden Angel and how he came to face Hitler in person.

As the world faces a deadly plague, a front-lines parasitologist is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber. To escape she must destroy the last of her kind.
Slow-burning, captivating, and totally outrageous. With a fantastic soundtrack that will keep you in your seats till after the end credits.

Fear Goes Viral

When a debilitating sickness spreads across a long hotel hallway, a few scattered victims fight for survival, and try to escape from the dark narrow stretch of isolated carnage.

'Is Your Teen A Homosexual?' is a short allegorical comedy that satirizes Trump's America by using the style of “teen hygiene” educational films of the 1950s. Johnny comes out to his family, who is helped by an off-screen Narrator, but stereotypes and prejudices prove to be stronger than family ties.

High school student Sarah is at her lowest point when she runs away from home and finds herself with no one to rely on and struggling with recurring nightmares. She chances upon a university sleep study that offers the promise of safety and money, and which also brings her an unexpected friend and confidant in the overseeing scientist Jeremy. But there's something curious about proceedings, and being under observation seems to make Sarah's disturbing dreams even worse.

SWEET SICK TEENS

Following his mother's death, Mark is sent to Maine to visit his aunt and uncle while his father goes on a business trip to Tokyo. Mark meets his cousin Henry, and the two quickly form a friendship. However, Henry shows signs of violent behavior that worry Mark.
With a young Macaulay Culkin and a young Elijah Wood, now how creepy is that?

SWEET SICK TEENS

Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord who was entombed on Earth millions of years ago after a failed attempt to destroy the universe. They nickname the evil creature Psycho Goreman (or PG for short) and use the magical amulet they discovered to force him to obey their childish whims. It isn’t long before PG’s reappearance draws the attention of intergalactic friends and foes from across the cosmos, and a rogues’ gallery of alien combatants converges in small-town suburbia to battle for the fate of the galaxy.

When a possessed pair of jeans begins to kill the staff of a trendy clothing store, it is up to Libby, an idealistic young sales clerk, to stop its bloody rampage. Canadian horror-comedy from the team behind TURBO KID (BUT 2019), that manages to slip in some social comments between the tight possessed jeans.

When a perfect day in the park descends into horror, the only witness is completely useless.

Pink Flamingoos Day

In a godforsaken bar in the middle of nowhere – an all-girl punk band, Ms. 45, rip the stage apart with their punk spirit. Their performance impresses an enthusiastic fan who lures the girls into a trap, sedates them, and starts… customizing them. The four wake up with an axe, drill or chainsaw attached to one arm and are forced to fight gladiator-style, in an arena-style auto-wrecking yard for the amusement of the Emperor and his sadistic townsfolk. The women must now truly band together and use all of their talents if they're going to get out alive.

To celebrate their graduation, the teenagers from Valley Hills High School have organized an '80s-themed party in an old water park. Things grow gruesome when it turns out that a mysterious maniac has inserted giant razor blades into the water slides. The Wet Valley water park thus becomes the backdrop for a bloodbath (literally), and everyone is a suspect.

To celebrate their graduation, the teenagers from Valley Hills High School have organized an '80s-themed party in an old water park. Things grow gruesome when it turns out that a mysterious maniac has inserted giant razor blades into the water slides. The Wet Valley water park thus becomes the backdrop for a bloodbath (literally), and everyone is a suspect.

The Legend of Rasputin presents the amazing last days of Russia's Mad Monk, Gregori Rasputin, infamous for his debaucherous lifestyle and his talents as a prophet and a healer.

A young girl takes vengeance on creeps.

DEAD DICKS follows Becca (Jillan Harris) as she attempts to pry her way out of a trap, only to be dragged into a world that defies nature and reason — the dilapidated apartment of her brother Richie (Heston Horwin). Answering an all too familiar barrage of calls from her down-and-out, suicidal brother, Becca rushes to his rescue only to find him… and an apartment full of corpses that look just like him. She scrambles to make sense of the heap of dead copies and the strange orifice that is producing them.

An American folktale

A couple of cowboys learn the true meaning of Christmas.

Mécanix tells the story of the last human beings who are forced to be the slaves of the strange creatures that rule this strange world. There is only one thing these beasts fear - the embryo of the universe : the origin of everything. The only hope that the humans have is to free themselves from this mecanic environment before they all die.
Surrealistic and beautiful take on the exploitation genre, one of the most original and dark takes on a post-apocalyptic world in this fantastic stop-motion animation movie from Canada.

A serial killer continues his macabre hobby during a zombie outbreak.

William has a simple job, he makes dead bodies disappear. His little farm house in the country has become a dumping ground for the casualties of the gang related murders in the nearby city. His daughter Gloria is used to rough looking men dropping off corpses and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house. After a woman’s body is dumped at the house, William begins his meticulous process when he realises she’s not actually dead.

Quirky Canadian horror film that somehow has all the thrilling fun, delightful perversion and uniqueness.
Paul, a troubled veteran, is given a special prescription that opens a door to a world of sex, murder, and revenge. Full of black comedy and violent twists, Rondo follows the young vet as he descends into bizarre criminal enterprises in the high-rises of Denver, Colorado.
There’s only one rule in Rondo: “stay on the plastic” and Paul’s about to break it.

SPACE BETWEEN STARS is a science fiction fable following a group of ethereal creatures exploring a derelict space station.

A murderous shapeshifter sets out on a blood-soaked mission to make things right with the woman he loves. The latest horror thriller by Canadian director Justin McConnell (Skull World) is lovingly made, with incredible practical effects.