The Netherlands

The Emu War

Genre
theemuwar

Only the dead have seen the end of war

Based on the infamous Great Emu War of 1932, THE EMU WAR follows a rag tag platoon of soldiers who are driven into a brutal and bloody battle against Australia’s deadliest flightless beasts. Haunted by the kidnapping of his son at the hands of the Emus, Major Meredith leads the platoon behind enemy lines in order to kill the emus Leader the Queen Emu.

Production year
2023
Film duration
82minutes

Solvent

Genre
solvent

Johannes Grenzfurthner’s reliably radical(ly humorous) fathoming of the Austrian psyche in stream-of-consciousness style is a witty and sometimes hilariously low-brow POV-horror grotesque. While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a hidden secret buried in its bowels. American expatriate Gunner S. Holbrook becomes obsessed with solving the mystery, and as his sanity wanes, he must confront an insatiable evil. Can he find redemption before it drains the life out of him?

Production year
2024
Film duration
94minutes

Pater Noster And The Mission Of Light

Genre
paternoster

Max, a young record store clerk stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into the world of a 1970s hippie commune. An invitation to the remnants of the cult and its unholy spawn leads to grave circumstances for Max and her friends.

Production year
2024
Film duration
97minutes

Heaven Is Only in Hell

Genre
heavenisonlyinhell

As long as humanity exists, there’s a desire for eternal life. Many religions promise to give that, but all they offer are only empty promises. Only “The Dark Forces” really offer the opportunity to get eternal life. “The Dark Forces” will help you. Go and find the old well with the witch-mark. Find a victim. The victim must die an extremely violent death in the house the well is in. Bring a blood-sacrifice to the well, blood, lots of blood. Descend into the well and on the other side of it you will become, with the help from “The Dark Forces” an eternal heavenly life.

Production year
1994
Film duration
88minutes

Mushroom Cut

mushroomcut

It's unisex.

Production year
2023
Film duration
8minutes

Next Please

Genre
nextplease

This will only hurt a little bit...

Production year
2024
Film duration
7minutes

Defect

defect

Always deliver more than expected.

Production year
2024
Film duration
8minutes

In corpus

Genre
In Corpus

A man is surprised by the arrival of a meteorite in his room.

Production year
2023
Film duration
3minutes

Mijn Ode Aan Jou

Genre
Poster Mijn Ode aan Jou

In “Mijn Ode Aan Jou,” an unnamed woman struggles with mental health issues. A stranger offers love and support, helping her find hope in her battle against inner demons.

Production year
2024
Film duration
4minutes

The Responsible Hero

Genre
responsiblehero

The Responsible Hero is a tragicomic tale inspired by old Superman films, blending cheerful nostalgia with a grim, unexpected twist in a straightforward rescue mission story.

Production year
2021
Film duration
4minutes

The Sketch

Genre
thesketch

Arriving in Paris, I start learning two languages, French and drawing. I meet Linda Demorrir, a live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant.

Production year
2022
Film duration
9minutes

Piss on Patriarchy

Genre
pissen aufs patriarchat

Marie is driving on the highway and needs to pee. But the toilet at the rest stop is broken. And an increasingly absurd odyssey through this toxic male biotope begins.

Production year
2023
Film duration
10minutes

Mosquito Lady

Genre
mosquito lady

Terrified of telling her parents that she's pregnant as restrictions to abortion access worsen, a desperate teenager seeks the help of a reclusive neighbor who her parents warned her about.

Production year
2023
Film duration
13minutes

Tomato Sandwich

Genre
tomatosandwich

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

Production year
2023
Film duration
3minutes

The Monster Inside my Head

Genre
Still The Monster inside My Head

A woman is tormented by a menacing creature who tries to take control of her body.

Production year
2023
Film duration
7minutes

Unspeakable: Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Genre
unspeakablebeyond

Renowned oneirologist Ambrose London [Edward Furlong] is requested to Arkham Asylum by newly appointed Dr. Barnard [Susan Priver] to study the strange case of James Fhelleps [Robert Miano]. He’s a patient seemingly inhabited by the personality of Joe Slater, a denizen of the Catskill Mountains region–a primitive colonial peasant of barbaric degeneracy, who had mysteriously vanished 122 years ago. Ambrose and Barnard’s investigation takes an unexpected turn when Fhelleps/Slater is attached to London’s ‘Dream Machine,’ which releases an alien life form bent on world annihilation.

Production year
2024
Film duration
90minutes

Beaten To Death

Genre
beatentodeath

A desperate choice leads Jack down a path that leaves him beaten and bruised as he struggles against man, nature and his own insanity. Stranded in the middle of nowhere after barely surviving a horrific assault, Jack encounters one local after another and quickly learns that a sick game of cat and mouse is about to begin. Battling the deranged country psychos and the harsh landscape, Jack must go to extreme lengths to survive.

Production year
2022
Film duration
93minutes

H.P. Lovecraft's The Old Ones

Genre
poster_The old ones

In 1930, sea captain Russel Marsh saw the light, and for 93 years his body was not his own. Inhabited by a Great Old One, he committed unspeakable acts in the name of the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Now free, he is in search of a way to go back in time to reverse the horrors wrought upon the world. But the cult has other plans and will stop at nothing to destroy him. With introduction by Lovecraft connoisseur and writer Vanessa Morgan.

 

 

Production year
2024
Film duration
84minutes

Of Youth

Genre
poster_of youth

After a strange dream, a young woman is abducted by aliens who try to take away her youth.

Production year
2023
Film duration
4minutes

Aquarel The Movie

Aquarel the Movie poster

In a future where no one is allowed to leave their home anymore, Wilco decides to explore the outside world in search of the mysterious hero Aquarel.

One-of-a-kind comedy by a Rotterdam-based collective. Our festival is over-exited to present the screening in their presence. Saturday night the band featuring in the film will perform live.

Production year
2023
Film duration
83minutes

Kim's Video

Genre
poster_KIM'S VIDEO

Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles have had access to a vast treasure trove of rare films thanks to Kim’s Video, a small empire run by Yongman Kim, an enigmatic character who amassed more than fifty thousand VHS tapes.

Production year
2023
Film duration
76minutes

Enter Mycel

enter mycel

A parasitic fungus infects a family and creates visions and a higher state of consciousness but also confusion and disbelief.
Debut film by a young Austrian director who has an unique take on filmmaking and comes with an original folk horror story.

Daniel Limmer will be present to discuss his extraordinary view on filmmaking.

Production year
2022
Film duration
74minutes

Psychotrauma

Genre
poster_psychotrauma

The horror of human nature in the historical chronicle of years

Production year
2023
Film duration
2minutes

Hif

Genre
poster_hif

Mike, a hypochondriac criminal who fears HIV is assigned by his boss to torture a criminal and find what he is withholding.

Production year
2023
Film duration
29minutes

Time Lifter

Time Lifter poster

Lifty Tunnelmann is a quantum mechanic and with his latest invention, he mixes up space and time. A science fiction movie that nobody needs, unless somebody needs it. But why?

Production year
2022
Film duration
66minutes

Gnomes

Genre
poster_gnomes

Unknowingly, a girl enters the habitat of a tribe of killer gnomes during her daily run. Lured by mysterious glowing mushrooms, she'll soon wish she'd stayed on her usual tracks.

Production year
2022
Film duration
6minutes

2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned

Genre
2551.02 movie

There are no taboos in Pfaffenbichler’s 2551 movies. Reviving the original punk spirit of true independent filmmaking, Pfaffenbichler and his ingenious collaborators have concocted another marvel of no-budget ingenuity. BUT FF is glad to show the follow-up of the 2022 winner 2551.01

Production year
2023
Film duration
82minutes

Astrogolem

Genre
poster_astrogolem

Love triangle set in a fantastical world where science and the supernatural collide. The story follows inventor, Nikola Tesla, as he and Alan Turing accidentally release demons into our dimension.

Production year
2023
Film duration
6minutes

The Everlasting Club

Genre
The Everlasting Club

A diverse group of female students resurrect an ancient men’s club to help them change the world, but the original members have other plans.

Production year
2021
Film duration
8minutes

Pasaia

Genre
Pasaia poster

A thin line separates life from death. Gotzon, between shots of whiskey and surrounded by the particular fauna of his usual bar, travels through the sinister passages that connect them.

Production year
2021
Film duration
8minutes

Meat

Genre
Meat

Mother wakes up in the middle of the night due to the noises coming from her daughter's room. When she gets there, her daughter is not behaving normally.

Production year
2021
Film duration
7minutes

Red Cap F 30.2

Red Cap F 30.2

This mysterious film unconventionally explores what it’s like to be a hostage of your own mind and losing the ability to resist circumstances.

Production year
2020
Film duration
13minutes

Mengsels

Genre
Mengsels

We take a look in the life of an Aromatherapist, who treats his patients to truly transforming healings.

Production year
2021
Film duration
8minutes

Vampire Nymphets

Genre
va

In a city ruled by the underworld, a religious fanatic teenager is kidnapped by a gang of vampires and taken to a cursed land.

Production year
2021
Film duration
60minutes

Lullaby Story

Genre
lulla

Two young girls meet for a pleasant weekend unaware they are being taken to an old isolated house that holds a dark past and is surrounded by death and tragedy.

Production year
2020
Film duration
68minutes

After Blue (Dirty Paradise)

after blue poster

A chimeric future on After Blue, a planet from another galaxy, a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna.

Production year
2021
Film duration
127minutes

Knife + Heart

Genre
knife+heart

Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back....

Production year
2018
Film duration
102minutes

Shiny New World

Genre
Shiny New World

What happens after the movie is over?

Production year
2022
Film duration
9minutes

Flesh Eater X

Genre
a baroque house dvd

A serial killer is in San Francisco, looking for new victims.

A BAROQUE HOUSE has been on our festival radar for years, we are glad to finally present their latest release, although new stuff might already on the way from the ever productive SAM HEL.

Production year
2021
Film duration
75minutes

HOME

Genre
poster Home

Een man komt thuis en wordt gechanteerd door zijn smarthome systeem.

Production year
2020
Film duration
14minutes

Ascetic

Genre
poster ascetic

A monk’s dedication is put to the ultimate test in this psychotically psychedelic animated nightmare. Will he succeed? Or will he fall victim to the ultimate enemy his own Self?

Production year
2021
Film duration
18minutes

Galatea

Genre
poster galatea

Ellen finds a mysterious box in the attic, which fulfills her deepest desires.

Production year
2019
Film duration
10minutes

Intolerance

Genre
poster intolerance

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.

Production year
2020
Film duration
15minutes

De Overkammer

Genre
poster Overkammer

A balding student discovers a "hair mouth" among his hair, trying to convince him NOT to shave his head bald!

Production year
2021
Film duration
7minutes

Amateurs

Genre
Amateurs (short)

Paco tries to convince Mari to shoot homemade porn videos to solve their economic problems.

Production year
2021
Film duration
10minutes