Germany

Amor Killt!

Genre
Amor Killt!

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.

Production year
2016
Film duration
22minutes

Phantasmagoria

Genre
Phantasmagoria

A film by the enigmatic director working under the pseudonym Cosmotropia de Xam. Reminiscent of some David Lynch films, psychedelic seventies horror and nunsploitation, it follows the bizarre odyssey of a young woman possessed by dark thoughts.

Production year
2017
Film duration
71minutes

Discreet

Genre
Discreet

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.

Production year
2017
Film duration
81minutes

Root of Darkness

Genre
Root of Darkness

Erland is about to celebrate his 50th birthday. His wife Greta has invited some friends over to their newly bought cabin for a party. Erland is not happy about the upcoming party especially when some of the guests are relatives to Greta which he doesn't like. The day before the party hell falls down a dried well and finds a box containing some old artifacts. Artifacts of evilness which are going to change his life forever.

Production year
2016
Film duration
65minutes

Revisiting Melancholie der Engel

Genre
Revisiting Melancholie der Engel

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?

Production year
2017
Film duration
60minutes