Thursday 31 Aug

What is under the rose, stays secret. Unless you are prepared to cross any limit to get to the truth. Oliver and Julia’s daughter Sara suddenly disappears. Days pass by without any news about the girl. But one morning, the family receives a letter from someone who claims to have retained Sara and wants to talk with them that night

Roberta is a teenager with a strange malformation on her face that prevents her from fending for herself. Or at least that’s what her father, a retired, rather conservative surgeon who takes care of her, has made her believe. He creates a world within his home, making the girl believe that there are no normal people, only people with the same problem. He goes to extreme, bloody, lengths to ‘make’ some ‘friends’ for his daughter.

Welcome to the year 1984. Violent gangs of murderers dressed as savage punks control the World. To restore order, scientists create a nuclear weapon of precision to send it to the past but something goes wrong. It lands in the year 1988: the future.

Dead clerk rises back to the position were he first glances at the thief who killed him.

I lived in terror for a long time. But I have finally understood everything. I know who they are and I know where they come from.

Clay dogs having fun!

The reunion of a woman and her estranged daughter is interrupted by a man with an unusual request.

Dark humor animation. About hard work and how it becomes useless. Working is like a meat grinder and by the end no one will remember what you work on

"It's a lovely morning in Wandsworth common.."
This is the very short story of Pegasino, a little and cute winged horse who lives in a London park.

The story unfolds in Almeria in the year 3000, a place and a time where human life is worth nothing. The men show their power by hanging their amputated hands from their enemies. Bands fight and die meaningless. One only fears: Peace. Western post-apocalyptic ultraviolent.

An 8mm blood-soaked nightmare or a crazed dark visual comedy. A freakish, brick wielding figure runs out of nowhere and tears open a hapless, blood soaked victim lying helplessly on the ground.

A scavenger looking for valuables in a crashed freight spaceship, finds a small creature. The mother of the creature tries to get his child back in a thrilling chase but fails. The scavenger leaves the planet successfully, not knowing the small creature grew in the back of his plane.

A description of capacity, as it exists in general and un/limited nature for man and his environment.

Eddy Table, known from the comics of Dave Cooper, makes his screen debut in this animated short. One day, Eddy gets lost in a dark forest. There he meets an alluring girl infected by a mysterious parasite. Love and violence ensues.

A little boy lying in the grass gazes at the stars. A cosmonaut's helmet falls from the sky like a falling star. From this day on, the boy will only have one dream: to travel into space.

Greetings from Tromaville! "Dolphinman Battles the Sex Lobsters" will blowhole you out the back wall of the theater! Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD contracts a deadly new STD, The Sex Lobsters, and unknowingly spreads it around Tromaville while visiting the town's best orgy spots. Only Dolphinman can find the cure and save the day! FUN FACT: The character of Dolphinman was created by James Gunn (Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy") and Alex Duda (Producer "Talk Soup") at the Cannes Film Festival in the mid-90s! Thanks for your time and consideration!

The third feature by Dain I. Said, who directed
the cult movie Bunohan some years ago.
Interchange is a Malaysian detective thriller
with supernatural elements, an exquisite mix
of traditional superstitions about photography
and shamanism.

When her addiction to clothes leads her into debt a young woman is willing to risk her relationship and safety to get back on track, in this grim, surrealistic psycho-sexual thriller, in the vein of Nicolas Roeg or late Cronenberg. From the director of Red, White and Blue.

Jane and Simon are two young police officers leading a routine investigation following the discovery of hidden video equipment in an abandoned house by a night watchman. Hard to believe, but this found-footage horror is made by a 17 year old director!

In first-time director Shanker Raman’s Gurgaon, a family reunion between an adopted daughter who studied abroad, and her siblings and parents who stayed in India, turns violent when dark secrets of the past come to the forefront. Greed gives way to blood in this dark crime thriller from India.

A mockumentary about the real band ‘The Experimental Tropic Blues Band’ and their surrealistic adventures on the road. How do you survive as a band constantly on the verge of making it (a bit) bigger? The band has composed the entire soundtrack of the film.

Do you like crazy Japanese movies, the New Wave of French horror, werewolves, shadow hunters, Tokyo, Giallo & Time travel…? TOKYO GRAND GUIGNOL is unleashed, produced by the brave Hiroei Ishihara, and supported by acclaimed French directors XAVIER GENS (acclaimed for his movies THE DIVIDE, FRONTIER(S) and HITMAN), Jean Frederic Chaleyat (multi-award winner for his short fi lm ENGRENAGES), and Frederic Grousset, famous for his innovative features AQUARIUM and CLIMAX.

A scavenger brings a robot-head from the post-apocalyptic wasteland outside into the house of a sculptress. She is stalked by her neighbour and soon also has to fend of her new artwork, a cyborg killer annex angel of death. Richard Stanley’s dystopian debut feature features a roster of classic rock musicians (Lemmy, Iggy Pop) and has a literal killer robot at the center.

Judy Lee is out to avenge the massacre of her family by the Emperor’s men and is assisted by another young woman, played by Lung Chun Erh. The two infi ltrate the Emperor’s court by posing as maids. Carter Wong plays a kung fu fi ghter sent to help Judy by the monastery where she was raised.

The wildest ride of this BUT Film Festival is this second selection of Midnight Madness. A drug called purple neon when people abuse it become susceptible to a demon queens demands. A trash horror masterpiece of epic proportions!