Italy

Tirana 1997. The chaos left by the fall of communism has opened the doors to a bloody civil war. Matia, just a teenager, is harassed by his playmates. In an attempt to escape, he hides inside an abandoned bunker. In that spooky building, Matia will be the first to discover something scary and unthinkable that will change his whole life… Screening in presence of Italian director Alex Visani.

Alex, a guy who lives in a desolate country place. He’s surrounded by rough and violent people and every day they don’t miss an opportunity to torment him. But inside Alex there is something wrong, something that pushes to get out. Something that is bloodthirsty.

Luna is a young embalmer with a strange passion for everything concerning death. One day, during a trip in the woods, she finds two bodies. The first one is a dead woman, the other one is a man who is still barely breathing. Screening in presence of Italian director Alex Visani.

By using a mass-control radio-wave emission, a cannibal dictator brings Taeter City's crime rates next to zero, recycling the criminals' bodies as food. Then, the ultimate mutation emerged. Can the elite police squad clear the mess up?

Festival favorites NECROSTORM are back with a contribution to the food program - awaiting the sequel Taeter Burger.

Following a tragic incident where a doctor murders his mistress before taking his own life, his colleague Dr. Norman Boyle continues their research. Relocating his family from New York City to the enigmatic Boston mansion, strange occurrences unfold. Boyle's young son, Bob, becomes tormented by visions of a mysterious girl, forewarning him of the peril lurking within the house. A chilling journey into a haunting tale of darkness and the supernatural. This 16mm print is brought to you by our friend Hexagore (on Letterboxd).

Within an anonymous European city, a determined local reporter and his doctor wife strive to evade hordes of ravenous zombies — the walking dead, victims of nuclear radioactivity. As military leaders wage a futile battle against these relentless atomic zombies, the couple fights for survival amidst the chaos that engulfs their city. A relentless battle against the forces of the undead in this gripping tale of horror. This 16mm print is brought to you by our friend Hexagore (on Letterboxd).

In the near future, due to a new powerful drug named Doom, violence and madness rule the city. In one long single night, Doom changes the lives of four people forever.

Part of the two film retrospective by festival guest DAVIDE PESCA.

In a Dystopian Future, A mysterious nurse tries to repair the neural system of a sick android by transferring five repair files. Each file corresponds to a terrifying story where technology dominates humanity in different ways. Screened with director Davide Pesca present.

Art can be stimulating.

Roma Illegale is a DIY documentary about the party scene in Rome, from the first semi-legal 90's parties, to the heavily politicized Illegal Rave movement that lasted only a few years. Later it was replaced by the free party movement and exported by the 'tribes' to the UK after being banned by Criminal Justice Act.

An audiovisual cut from the underground scene, with a screening of ROMA ILLEGALE, an Italian DIY documentary about illegal raves during the 90’s, followed by an After Party exploring the subversive genres of hard electronics.

The restoration of works of art requires great expertise, the right materials and a lot of work, but at the same time makes us enjoy, intense emotions...

"Half Neon, Half Demon, All Horror"

Il cittadino si ribella - Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side. The Italian title sounds like vigilante poetry: IL CITTADINO SE RIBBELLA. From Enzo G. Castellari, who was so kind to pay us a visit as the main guest of the 2017 edition.

In 2023 unidentifiable radiation left 99.5% of the world's female population sterile. Slowly human descended in to an abyss where chaos, violence and madness were the only rules left governing survival. Man's fate is now divided in to two paths: extinction or the beginning of a new dawn.

A deaf homeless man saves a girl from an attempted rape. Shocked and moved, the girl asks if there is any way she can make it up to him.

BLUE SUNSET is the first Italian Cyberpunk film of the new millennium, a colorful cyberpunk story that evokes the glorious sci-fi visuals of the 80s, without neglecting the nihilism typical of the genre.
In a near future, a company called NOVA wants to hide sophisticated mind control systems behind its video games.
To do this, the company relies on Silver02, their best programmer, who will in turn be intercepted by rebel Hackers who want to thwart NOVA's plan.

SWEET 16mm

SWEET SICK TEENS

A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.
Classic Bava also known as OPERAZIONE PAURA.

A woman dabbles in the occult at Christmas, and her family is not pleased!

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.

This avant-garde sex film is a tribute to the films of Alberto Cavallone, directed by Morgana Mayer, whose Sexual Labyrinth was shown at BUT last year. Just like that film, Female Touch is a blasphemous, dreamlike movie that offers a queer and kinky vision of womanhood.

A Chinese immigrant arrives in a small Texas town inhabited by hard-nosed cowboys who don’t take kindly to outsiders. He quickly gains a reputation for his unbeatable fi ghting skills. When word of Chin’s skills spread to Stanley Spencer, the owner of the state’s largest cattle ranch, Chin lands a job as a fellow cowboy. Friend soon becomes foe when Chin realizes he is working for a cattle smuggler bent on brutalizing Mexican farmers and anyone else who stands in his way. Shown in 16mm.

Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust) is back with this nasty morality tale about three backpackers trying to solve the murder of their roommate, while also trying to get rid of the body. Expert genre-thrills from the master of the gory horror movie.

We at BUT like it kinky, and there is nothing more kinky on our program than Sexual Labyrinth, a dark, surrealistic exploration of beautifully perverse sexuality. Pleasure and pain are interchangable in this ode to the poetic sex films of seventies auteurs like Joe D’Amato and Jess Franco.