When graphic designer Margot discovers the start-up "Dream Theatre," which enables the recording of dreams, she decides to use this technology to uncover the cause of her recurring nightmares.
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Eric is a secret agent currently working as security guard for senator Dilly. The senator is the main advocate for a new kind of police officer: the Tracker, a perfect and nearly invulnerable android. When Eric realizes that senator Dilly is playing dirty games, he does not only have Dilly’s security chief Ross after him, but also those nearly undefeatable Trackers.
Two Nevada border officers, Dave Quarry and John, amuse themselves off duty by honing their kick-boxing skills via virtual reality combat. Elsewhere, a computer tycoon prepares to market his company’s latest invention, a combination of DNA and virtual reality that creates beings and creatures who look and feel real.
In the far-flung future of 2025, where man is a victim of his own technology and corporations deal to a black market that trades in human body parts, a cyborg bounty hunter is hired by a wealthy woman to find out who murdered her husband.
In a near-future Houston, street junkie cybercriminal Dij scrapes together survival by pulling underground hacks with his custom mobile rig - but now, he’s gotten a hold of something huge, deadly and valuable - and everyone wants him dead.
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
Federal Service Agent Justin Vanier has been assigned to infiltrate the mysterious Virtual Arts Academy in search of Eric, a fellow agent. In this high-tech facility, the maniacal leader Warbeck is training assassins to become even more efficient killing machines using virtual reality. Penetrating the organization as a new recruit, Justin finds Eric, and together with the idealistic Vicki must bring down Warbeck before he succeeds with his deadly plans.
Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Along with his girlfriend Dale Ardor and Professor Flexi-Jerkoff, they set off towards the source of the Sex Ray, unaware of the perils that face them!
There are no taboos in the grotesque underground realm of Pfaffenbichler’s 2551 movies, which cross all borders, especially those of good taste. Reviving the original punk spirit of true independent filmmaking, Pfaffenbichler and his ingenious collaborators have concocted another marvel of no-budget ingenuity.
Two best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
Following the aftermath of a horrific accident, a woman is voluntarily subjected to artificial intelligence for rehabilitation.
The peaceful life of a soon-to-be father is disrupted by bizarre events and strange apparitions. What is happening? What is real, and what is a product of his imagination?
THE BEST WESTERN/SCI-FI/KUNG-FU/GRINDHOUSE/PSYCHEDELIC STONER COMEDY IN THE HISTORY OF EVER!!!
SYNOPSIS:
Sometime before yesterday... or after tomorrow, a man called Drifter, goes on an existential journey through a maze of outrageous scenarios with his trusted Sidekick, to save the day. The girl. And maybe even the Universe!
An ill-tempered middle-management mafioso is set on delivering a suitcase full of money. Little does he know that taking an ontologically challenged self-driving taxi puts them on a collision course with fate-and a badly dressed pirate.
When an electrical storm hits during a late-night talk show, a radio DJ receives persistent phone calls from a mysterious caller warning her and telling her stories of electrical appliances having been affected by the storm. Are they true, or just calls for attention.
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a dystopia in which the issues of many progressive groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are ostensibly dealt with by the government, and yet there are still problems with jobs, with gender issues, with governmental preference and violence.
Shot entirely in Digital Infrared, FABRIK follows a lone humanoid creature, fighting for survival in a forsaken world – living off oil-spills from self-operating factories.
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.
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.
Fantasy, sci-fi, and horror collide in this unique dreamlike cinematic experience. Shot with vintage lenses and on 35 mm.
The film begins when a little girl has a terrible accident and slips into a coma where she finds herself thrust into a darkly surreal industrial dreamworld. Haunted by a nightmarish spectre that feeds off her tears, she must follow her mother’s radio-static voice to find her way back to consciousness.
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?
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator’s wife.
‘Doctor Holiday’ imagines the rise and fall of the Flemish neurosurgeon Achille Ladrac. Narrated by one of his clones: a so-called 'Virgo Lactans' who stands up for her human rights
This mysterious film unconventionally explores what it’s like to be a hostage of your own mind and losing the ability to resist circumstances.
Fanatastic Space Opera, full fun and adventure. Includes eternal battle against good and evil!
A father-son-AI relationship triangle goes from weird to murderous.
Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. The new Cronenberg is a must for our festival, we screened many of his older body-horror as well as the film that the new one is inspired on by name. The reactions and reviews have been rather mixed - as with all of his films. A walk out in Cannes might be full house at BUTFF.
In 2030, memory transplant technology is maturing and the immortality seems to become possible for humans. A man, however, destroys this brand new technology in the process of looking for his lost memories. Stunning cinematography and hints of Cronenbergian science experiments in this surprise entry from China.
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.
The movie that never got made is a story about a man who are willing to risk anything for the next rush. Even his testicles.
Avant Première
A robotics company teams up with a corrupt CIA agent undergoing an illegal, unsanctioned military operation. Dropping four prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden triangle that no one will miss. The mission is to prove the robotics company is worthy of winning a lucrative military contract. Six doctors on a good cause witness the brutal slaughter of an innocent village and are forced into a deadly game of cat and mouse as they become the new targets.
Picture over two hours of galore B-action and robot rumble in the jungle!
As the world faces a deadly plague, a front-lines parasitologist is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber. To escape she must destroy the last of her kind.
Slow-burning, captivating, and totally outrageous. With a fantastic soundtrack that will keep you in your seats till after the end credits.
Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years. Titane : A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys. Winner of 'Golden Palm' in Cannes 2021
From acclaimed director Julie Ducournau, who brought us the genius coming-of-age cannibal girl film RAW (GRAVE).
A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family.
Prime was assigned to return to 1989 to close a portal in the pond that Cyborgs had entered which would disturb the harmony of the local people.
Screened before AFRICAN KUNG FU NAZIS.
When the slightly naïve Ronnie gives up a tad too much personal information during verification questions on his computer, he receives a fully customized invitation from his OS in return.
In a future where Earth has been turned into a planetary ghetto, Dawkins, a former-cop-turned-pickpocket, tracks down a mssing child about to be sold to an alien overlord.
The detective directs his steps toward the final resolution, peppered with encounters with colorful characters.
FP2 is sequel to The FP (2018): In a post apocalyptic future, two rival gangs fight for control of Frazier Park by playing "Beat Beat Revelation", a deadly version of Dance, Dance, Revolution.
Despite hanging up his boots following the events of 'The FP,' JTRO must return to the blood sport of Beat-Beat Revelation one last time. JTRO and KCDC - his mystical hype man - will quest deep into The Wastes, a land destroyed by the Beat Wars, to compete in the ancient Beat-Beat tournament, "Beats of Rage," face AK-47 - and, hopefully, save the world.
An astronaut finds herself in the ruins of a spacestation after a horrific battle. Her only way to safety is the Escape Pod, but will she make it?
She just wanted to relax, but something coming from far away destroyed her plans.
A scientist, trapped all alone on an outpost near Jupiter after the death of her companion, begins to imagine, or realise, that she is not alone after all.
Wellicht de eerste film die reputatie verdiende van ‘slechtste film allertijden’ en een van de leukste instap cultfilms om kennis te maken met het genre ‘so-bad-it’s-good’.
De visionaire afstudeerfilm van David Lynch wordt beschouwd als ijkpunt voor al zijn werk, waarin hij zich uitsluitend door dromen laat leiden, en als ijkpunt voor de avant-gardecinema in de VS.
De bezorgde ouders uit de film krijgen te maken met een vogelachtige alien als kind, terwijl zwarte wormpjes uit de lucht vallen. Conventionele vertelstructuren en logica maken plaats voor vervreemding en Unheimlichkeit. De verwarde haardos van hoofdrolspeler Jack Nance nestelt zich in het geheugen.
zwart-wit | 35mm
De wereld is totaal overbevolkt en vervuild (in 2022 – we gaan het meemaken). De mensheid kan alleen nog gevoed worden met Soylent Green, een industrieel uit algen gefabriceerde drab. Door het broeikaseffect wil niks anders meer groeien en de wereldbevolking is aangewezen op Soylent Industries. De politie onderzoekt de moord onder verdachte omstandigheden van de CEO van Soylent Industries. SOYLENT GREEN is een typische jaren zeventig environmental rampenfilm met een flinke uithaal naar multinationals en met Charlton Heston in de hoofdrol. Crypto-klassieker of cultfilm?
Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid struggling to maintain his reality and understand his true identity. Elliot is thrust into a disconcerting downward spiral of despair in which he is forced to recognise the perils of his own cognition and constructed ideals in a crumbling universe where the lines between fantasy, simulation, and reality are blurred, and the fibers of Elliot’s fragile existence are ruptured.
Short film: TERATOMORPH
FLESH CITY is a hostile place but it has great clubs... where not only beats are pulsating. In one of these dance temples, located at an abandoned industrial site, Vyren hooks up with Loquette. They explore the underbelly of the venue and fall into the trap of Prof. Yagov, the resident mad scientist who preys on lost and drugged out fashion victims. As he introduces them to mutation and mayhem the whole city gets infected. Soon everybody in FLESH CITY will be connected... via flesh link.
This film is a combined program with RAZOR REEL film festival in Bruges.