Shorts Final Girls Berlin (1)

Program
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92min
Film screening

Our Berlin partners present a best of shorts compilation from their amazing festival. 

Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. They are committed to creating space for female voices and visions, whether monstrous, heroic or some messy combination of the two, in the horror genre. We've seen more than enough representations of women as beautified victims and constructions of male fantasies or anxieties, and that is why they are working towards the primacy of women as subjects and storytellers in horror. 

The “final girl” horror trope refers to the last woman standing in a horror film, who manages to escape or defeat the film’s villain/monster. While “final girl” is an ambivalently feminist figure in film criticism, often desexualized and tainted with the male director’s moralization and punishment of other female characters’ behaviour, the festival utilises this figure as a starting point for carving out space for new and undiscovered positions of power for women in horror, not only in front of but also behind the camera.

Films
References

Possibly in Michigan

possiblyinmichigan

A musical murder story about two girls who are followed home by a cannibal. There the victims become the aggressors.

Details
Director
Cecilia Condit
Production country
Production year
1983
Film duration
13minutes

Earworm

earworm

 

A lonely man battles with a tune that he just cannot get out of his head.

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Director
Tara Price
Production country
Production year
2016
Film duration
5minutes

Monsterdyke

monsterdyke

This transgressive portrait of desire shot on 16mm, examines trans-lesbian love and longing with humour, heat, puppetry and a subversive twist.

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Director
Kaye Adelaide & Mariel Scammel
Production country
Production year
2021
Film duration
5minutes

MOUSE

mouse

 

Fueled by coke, a desperate couple attempts to capitalize on an unlikely opportunity.

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Director
Celine Held & Logan George
Production country
Production year
2017
Film duration
11minutes

Allen Anders

allenanders

The fever dream of a 1980s standup comic who is either having a nervous breakdown or having the best set of his life.

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Director
Laura Moss
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
7minutes

Entropia

entropia

Loneliness and an obsession with vanity have pushed one woman to take unconventional measures to find happiness. Symbols of birth, death and rebirth grace the film and asks the audience to ponder the question: How far would you go to turn back time?

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Director
Marinah Janello
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
15minutes

hair wolf

hairwolf

In a black hair salon in gentrifying Brooklyn, the local residents fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

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Director
Mariama Diallo
Production country
Production year
2018
Film duration
12minutes

Creswick

creswick

Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.

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Director
Natalie Erika James
Production country
Production year
2016
Film duration
9minutes

Metamorphosis

metamorphosis

A woman in 1990s Hong Kong accidentally kills her alcoholic husband in self-defense, and finds a unique way to dispose of the evidence.

Details
Director
Elaine Xia
Production country
Production year
2015
Film duration
15minutes