Saturday 2 Sept

Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived. Debut feature of musician Flying Lotus, with a huge roster of counter-culture comedians from America. Deliberately off-putting, hilariously offensive and crazily off-the-wall.

Three ordinary guys are thrust into a parallel world of an old sci-fi movie. Trapped in a low budget universe they must somehow fight their way home before it is too late. Sci-fi lovers and fellow filmmakers will enjoy this beautiful parody of every space flick since the 50s up until Star Wars and beyond the outer limits!

An in-depth documentary about the mysterious German director Marian Dora (BUT guest 2010, and winner of the GROUNDREAKER award) and his masterpiece MELANCHOLIE DER ENGEL, steadily in the top lists of ‘most disturbing fi lms’. Who is this director, and what drives him (or her?) to make these extreme and sickening yet beautiful films?

The feature-length documentary “Forgotten Scares” goes back to the birth of Flemish horror in the 70s and shines a bright light on the future of horror in Belgium. A lot of interviews with the people involved, and some choice anecdotes about the likes of Rabid Grannies and Daughters of Darkness.

Mr. Choade, the director of The House of Choade, a Grand Guignol theatre, has made an evil bargain with the Medicine Man, who has promised to help him make an artistic leap. A young girl, Linda, who has just been released from a mental hospital, gets a job performing at the House of Choade and becomes embroiled in these machinations. Linda's ex-girlfriend Roxy re-connects with her and attempts to save her. This film, a dark comedy by first time director James Habacker, was shot in Manhattan and features many luminaries from the downtown performance art scene centered around the Slipper Room.

What begins as a dark horror movie about a murderer for hire gets an unexpected twist. The murderer, not a very nice person, gets in over his head when one hit for hire has hints of the supernatural. Will he escape with his life and soul intact? Clever and twisted genre-mash up from Brazil.

Cat lovers beware - best stay away. When Ted’s beloved cat dies, the trauma triggers a mental breakdown. His broken brain prompts him to bring his feline friend back - all he needs is nine human lives. Preceded by another cat-killer film: VIOLENT FLORENCE by Jaime Snyder. You will never look at your cat-loving friend the same way again.

Amor (Patrick Santy) is angry. Love is no longer what it once was. It is buyable and banal. You can not rely on anything, except perhaps on ninjas. They are still deadly.

'Ensueño' centers around Ester Bolaños. Curious and intelligent, restless and slightly reckless, she is a teenager stuck in an isolated West Texas border town. Part of a larger narrative of Ester's life and her family, 'Ensueño' captures the ways in which even the most mundane of activities can be overrun by Ester's vivid imagination.

Sol only listens to one voice. His voice.

Rambabe gest arrested - Justice OR not?

During a dark night, Aetna's activists are on their way for a risky mission : killing a shady well-known figure. The target ? The unreliable politician Hein Stavros. But when they reach his opulent-looking villa, they end up in a real "pleasure party"... Oh, boy, things are going to degenerate...

Daniel, a parent goes to the Tenant population, is the year 81 in the American Southwest, the sun is beating down and passes the old familiar chevi bill. Daniel gets thrown roadside of a sea shore. In this place there are very few cars, it is not advisable to travel alone if those ditches talk...

A man wakes up in a seedy hotel bathtub full of ice with an incision going down his torso. Think you know this story already? Oh no, this short film takes the set-up in a whole new twisted direction.

A movie about Marius, a young man who lost his way and falls into an identity crisis. An imagined companion drags him down, but also makes him experience surreal highlights. Will they reconcile themselves and take back a place in society? A fresh new film from Belgium by young fi lmmakers who dare approach issues like depression and psychosis without getting moralistic or dramatic.

In a desolate, future world, after civilization has collapsed, a wanderer fights to save a virgin mother from a powerful magician and, with her, searches for a mythical city containing the world's last survivors.

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.

Directed by Richard Stanley, this documentary explores the role of Voudoun in Haitian society.

After being brutally murdered, the troubled girl Juliet White ends up in a limbo, where a spiritual guide forces her soul to re-live repressed memories. From festival favorite Kasper Juhl.

In a remote fortress, a sinister sorority of surgically skilled sisters lie in wait of their next victim. They control a bevy of caged women who have been brain-washed and sponge-bathed to become the world’s most anatomically awesome surgeons. This is the gut-wrenching story of one innocent girl, Sabrina, who finds herself trapped in a living nightmare. Captive to a slavery ring that is training an army of men-hating, feminist fiends, Sabrina learns that she will play a pivotal role in the crucial plot of Lisa the dominatrix.

A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.

Filmmakers from all over the world are inspired by the genre of fake snuff, and try to make their own version of it. Sick, twisted, dark and extremely realistic. Again, we ask our audience the question: how tough are you?

Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horrifying and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked to pieces. The only survivor is the young and beautiful housekeeper, Ella. When she steps out of the house one day, she has no idea that she is about to be snatched by failed bank-robber Jason Goodis. Goodis, however, could not have imagined that the innocent hostage he is dragging back inside, has an unquenchable thirst for blood!

This deconstruction of the revenge thriller, about a gay hustler trying to get back at his abuser, is audio-visually off the beaten track. A character-based thriller in which the characters make some left-fi eld and devastating choices. Poetic and grim in equal measure.

In this horror-comedy, at a New Year’s Eve party, Nico, a naive twenty year old, sets out ready to lose his virginity at all costs that same night. In the middle of the party, his gaze crosses Medea, a cunning and attractive mature woman.

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.