Friday 1 Sep

Program

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Cult Hero

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Cult Hero

cult hero film

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.

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Genre
Director
Jesse Thomas Cook
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
94minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
none

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Taeter City + VF HIMO

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Taeter City

taeter city

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.

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Director
Giulio de Santi
Production country
Production year
2012
Film duration
72minutes
Language spoken
English
Trailer
Trailer

HIMO

poster_himo

HIMO is a fleshlicious story about lust and the need to fulfill the appetite. To keep control you must be able to see the raw side of yourself.

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Director
Azh Boyzz
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
18minutes
Language spoken
Finnish
Language subtitles
English

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Stand By for Failure

Stand By for Failure

standby for failure negativland

In this new documentary about Negativland, the footage is almost entirely made by the people who are in it. Plunderphonics is the name given to the genre by the band that named itself after the song by CAN. Media attention rose after the band made an unauthorized cover of a U2 song. Over The Edge live radio broadcasts, and news footage, and occasional interviews from the era. The format follows the footage: a continuous loop of time backward and forward, sometimes repeating.

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Genre
Director
Ryan Worsley
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
99minutes
Language spoken
english
Trailer
Trailer

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Family Dinner

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Family Dinner

family dinner 2022 film

Overweight teenager Simi spends the Easter holidays at the farm of her aunt Claudia and her family. She wants her aunt, a professional nutrition coach, to help her lose weight, but has to realize more and more that things on the farm are not above board. Who can Simi really trust on this farm?

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Genre
Director
Peter Hengl
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
97minutes
Language spoken
german
Language subtitles
English
Trailer
Trailer

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Dick Dynamite:1944 (1)

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Dick Dynamite:1944

dick dynamite 1944

The mad WWII movie made for the price of a second hand Skoda full of Rockstar cameos. It's rude, crude, loud, violent and gory! And very, very funny.

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Genre
Director
Robbie 'Steed' Davidson
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
89minutes
Language spoken
English
Language subtitles
For Scottish character only.
Trailer
Trailer

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'ROCKO LIVE (1)'

MIKEMike Anna

The curator and organizer of Friday, Sept. 1 BUTFF performance program is visual artist Mike Anna. Because even the slickest choreography cannot bite reality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BERDEN

Berendine Venemans

 

Berendine Venemans (1991) used to be a professional game designer, now performance artist, poet and videographer. As an artist she deals with the unnameable and uncontrollable in life.In doing so, she explores the role of intuition
 and believes in the power of uniting intuition and embodiment with the mind, the cognition. The path she takes in this process and the experiences she gains she shares in her
work. Sometimes absurdist, but always subconsciously palpable. Her work invites to be experienced be experienced from the feeling, with the desire to speak from her underbelly to that of the other and thus to make the unnameable experienceable.

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The Sound Of Summer + VF For What The Doorbell Tolls

The Sound Of Summer

sound of summer guy

 

In the relentless heat of the gruelling summer, temperatures soar to blistering levels as cicadas emerge to sing their ear-shattering song. Months of continued exposure is enough to make anyone start to feel a little off.
Anyone, that is, except that oddity the locals call ‘the Cicada Man’.
Who is that strange man and why is he always walking around with boxes full of live cicadas? More important, what does he do with them?
As the heat starts to get to our heroine, and her sanity depletes, real life and delusion begin to mix. Her darkest nightmares seep into our world and she fears the Cicada Man has planted his swarm of insects inside her. She must get them out – at all costs.
Thus begins her downward spiral into extreme paranoia and self-mutilation. She just needs to make it through the summer.

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Genre
Director
Guy
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
75minutes
Language spoken
Japanese
Language subtitles
English
Trailer
Trailer

For what the doorbell tolls

poster_for what the door bell tolls

A doorbell is ringing repeatedly early morning, a mysterious paper bag is delivered. By whom? For what?

 

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Director
Nori Uchida
Production country
Production year
2023
Film duration
10minutes
Language spoken
Japanese
Language subtitles
English

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Tiny Cinema

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Tiny Cinema

tiny cinema

A mysterious stranger tells the twisted tale of seemingly unconnected strangers caught in a series of otherworldly events whose lives will change in incredible ways forever.

The follow-up to BUTT BOY (BUTTFF 2020) is an anthology of six stories of the weird and wicked that can be a challenge even to those that say they have a strange sense of humor.

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Director
Tyler Cornack
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
84minutes
Language spoken
English
Trailer
Trailer

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Klappe + VF HIF

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Pink Flamingoo: Klappe

klappe foto-geen-poster

Porn actors singing in a public toilet is the starting point of  'Klappe' directed by Jürgen Brüning. From this place, the viewer is taken through various fragments and clips, packaged as a video essay, about gender and identity. Everything that is anti-something is shown. Long live the revolution, all strict rules will be broken.

Jürgen Brüning is a regular guest on BUT, invisible but still present because he’s the producer of Bruce LaBruce (The Rasberry Reich) and Shu Lea Chang (Fluido), all screened on BUT. This time he is present himself for the film 'Klappe'.

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Genre
Director
Jürgen Brüning
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
64minutes
Language spoken
German, English, Spanish
Language subtitles
English

Hif

poster_hif

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

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Genre
Director
Daan Swinkels
Production country
Production year
2023
Film duration
29minutes
Language spoken
Nederlands
Language subtitles
Engels

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'ROCKO LIVE (2)'

GETROUWDGETROUWD

Gay Duo Versalis is a short performance by the performance duo GETROUWD (Rosa Vermeijden and Geert Sweep). In these 15 minutes of performing arts they interpret musically, theatrically and performatively the story of a couple who, quite literally, have been attached to stuck together. They take you into the bickering, into bitchy yet dirty in which they ultimately get a lot done together after all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENZOEnzo van der Sterren

My work can easily be described as a messy, uncoordinated shitshow, but I think its also very human in that way. It really wants to stop global space travel, yet it also just wants to be loved for what it is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RAMONRamon de Gier

Visual artist and uses humor as a tactical tool to disrupt and disarm. With a great fondness for the poetic and absurd gestures of Wim T. Schippers or Bas Jan Ader, he makes performances, installations, props and digital collages. He lovingly pastes, cares for and copies the dysfunctional and discarded into composite sculptures of lived-in objects. For the student and young performer programs, he crawls into the role of Rocko, a highly flammable stone who cares about the fate of us humans. From the depths of the volcano, he prepared for ROCKO live, where nothing or no one would stand in his way....

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HOTSAUCE COMPETITION

HOTSAUCE COMPETITION

BUTFF HOTSAUCE COMPETITION

Do you have an iron stomach and a tongue of steel? Can you keep a cool head in any situation? Then this competition is for you… if you dare! In 5 rounds, you will try the hottest sauces we could find, followed by a surprise round. Survive all rounds without drinking the cup of soothing cream in front of you, and you are the winner of a sweet price! Only true fire-eaters should apply!
The competition will take place at BUT Film Festival, on Friday the 1st of September, at 18:45 O’clock. If you want to participate, send an email to post@butff.nl

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The Human Centipede 2

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The Human Centipede 2

human centipede 2

From Dutch director Tom Six came this trilogy of sadism and digust of which we are showing the sequel in the presence of our main festival guest, Laurence R. Harvey. For the occassion we will screen a rare color version to add to the abovementioned disgust.

Our main guest Laurence R. Harvey will join the feast.

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Director
Tom Six
Production country
Production year
2011
Film duration
90minutes
Language spoken
English
Trailer
Trailer

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Voor Niemand Wat Wils

Voor Niemand Wat Wils

voor niemand wat wils

Voor het eerst waagt Voor Niemand Wat Wils zich buiten de inmiddels gebaande paden van het Leiden International Film Festival!

Crapmeisters Nils en Hans zijn (uiteraard met mondkapjes en handschoenen) in hun rariteitenschatkist gedoken om de meest knullige, onsmakelijke, verbluffende, aanstootgevende en ja, hilarische cinematische curiositeiten op te diepen.

LET OP: dit is hetzelfde programma dat vorig jaar op het LIFF te zien is geweest. Geen reden om niet (nog een keer) te komen natuurlijk, maar een gewaarschuwd mens telt voor twee! En wees gerust, het is er niet beter op geworden...

 

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Director
Nils en Hans
Production year
2023
Film duration
90minutes
Trailer
Trailer

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Shorts Block 2: Pepper (1)

La Nueva

poster_la nueva

Maria is the new teacher who arrives at an old religious school. Her first class will turn in a real hell.

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Director
Ivan Villamel
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
15minutes
Language spoken
Spanish
Language subtitles
English

The Voice in Isabel Fleiss's Office

poster_the voice in Isabel Fleiss's office

Let's have another look at those cobwebs.

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Director
Jim Haverkamp
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
6minutes
Language spoken
English

Jenglotman dan Keinginan Mertua Jahanam

poster_jenglotman dan keinginan mertua jahanam

Sisworo the Jenglotman, married Anggun, the daughter of Mbah Kusumo, a shaman. During five months of the marriage, Sisworo and Anggun were terrorized.

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Director
Beny Kristia, Rakha Magelhaens
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
15minutes
Language spoken
Indonesian
Language subtitles
English

Somnio Ergo Sum

poster_somnio ergo sum

Won't you tell me a story, AI?

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Director
Michal Špitálský
Production country
Production year
2023
Film duration
2minutes

Bad Dog

plaatje_bad dog

A motorcycle riding dog must compete with the Grim Reaper to save his soul.

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Director
Erin Malfi
Production country
Production year
2023
Film duration
3minutes

The Hunter

poster_the hunter

The sensual art of cooking breakfast.

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Director
Donavan Richard
Production country
Film duration
8minutes

Byrrus

poster_byrrus

I can't get your body out of my mind!

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Genre
Director
Sanne Loredana Ruhé
Production country
Production year
2023
Film duration
3minutes
Language spoken
non
Language subtitles
non

Gnomes

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.

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Director
Ruwan Suresh Heggelman
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
6minutes
Language spoken
None
Language subtitles
None

Fake Nude

poster_fake nude

Art can be stimulating.

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Director
Victory Storari, Werther Germondari
Production country
Production year
2023
Film duration
8minutes

Astrogolem

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.

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Genre
Director
Thorsten Fleisch
Production country
Production year
2023
Film duration
6minutes
Language spoken
no dialogue
Language subtitles
none

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The Barn 2

The Barn 2

the barn part II

The (stand-alone) sequel to the 2016 film takes place three years later and follows our final girl Michelle who is now in college. However, she is still plagued with the question of what truly happened after a night of terror that left her friends missing. This years annual haunted house thrown by the sorority girls of Gamma Tau Psi is forced off campus, but thankfully the ban on Halloween has been lifted by the town mayor. Unfortunately for Michelle, some uninvited trick-or-treaters from her past come knocking... 

Doug Bradley & Lloyd Kaufman in small roles.

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Genre
Director
Justin M. Seaman
Production country
Production year
2023
Film duration
85minutes
Language spoken
English
Trailer
Trailer

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Black Friday Metal Night

blackTERZIJ DE HORDE

have always tried to not limit themselves by genres per se. Over the years, there have always been elements of black metal, progressive doom, chaotic screamo and extreme hardcore, but they have never felt as clear, singular elements. Rather, they are combined in a visceral, raw, honest emotional torrent; a combination which mimics the live shows as well.

After the release of ‘Self’ in 2015, it is now time for ‘In One of These, I am your Enemy’. The band’s sound used to be described as a mixture of bands such as Wolves in the Throne Room, Kickback, Khanate and Neil Perry. Seemingly similar in approach to bands as Bosse de Nage, Laster and Woe, the last five years have however seen the band being named more and more as a unique stalwart of Dutch black metal, with a sound and a live show that are incomparable. The band has received widespread international attention and many highly positive reviews both of their recorded music and of their explosive live performances
terzijGGU:LL

is the vessel of the lost. A means of staring into the empty sockets of suffering. Enduring the lack of meaning and ground. Enduring defeat and loss. Riffs are very basic yet eloquent and add plots and nuances to the great narratives the drums and bass dictate.
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Terzij de horde

Terzij de horde have always tried to not limit themselves by genres per se. Over the years, there have always been elements of black metal, progressive doom, chaotic screamo and extreme hardcore, but they have never felt as clear, singular elements. Rather, they are combined in a visceral, raw, honest emotional torrent; a combination which mimics the live shows as well.

Details
Duration
120minutes

GGU:LL

GGU:LL is the vessel of the lost. A means of staring into the empty sockets of suffering. Enduring the lack of meaning and ground. Enduring defeat and loss. Riffs are very basic yet eloquent and add plots and nuances to the great narratives the drums and bass dictate.

 

Details
Duration
60minutes

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CCCP (1)

CInematig Crack CInema Program

CCCP-23

CCCP

Oh no... They are back!! The CCCP or Cinematig Crack Cinema Program! They will terrorise you once again with video compilations full of plain weird stuff. Forget eye aids, this will be a visual plague in a new variant. Television typhus on the big white screen. Call your mother off for your weekly session because you will spend two evenings staring at pixelpus on the BUTsquare.

Details
Duration
45minutes

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The Editor

Program category

The Editor

the editor 2014

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!

 

Details
Director
Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy
Production country
Production year
2014
Film duration
95minutes
Language spoken
English
Trailer
Trailer

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2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned

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2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned

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

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Genre
Director
Norbert Pfaffenbichler
Production country
Production year
2023
Film duration
82minutes
Language spoken
No language
Language subtitles
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Trailer
Trailer

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Enter Mycel + VF Das Geheimnis der Teufelspilze

Program category

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.

Details
Director
Daniel Limmer
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
74minutes
Language spoken
German (Austria)
Language subtitles
English
Trailer
Trailer

Das Geheimnis Der Teufelspilze

poster_geheimnis der teurfelspilze

What the hell happened after a night of magic mushrooms?

Details
Director
Mater W, Sebastian Zeglarski
Production country
Production year
2022
Film duration
20minutes
Language spoken
German
Language subtitles
English