Film festival fans out there have another event to look forward to with the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, returning for it’s second year. The festival will take place in Berlin, Germany (duh) from the 9th to the 11th of June.
The program will include three feature films, eight curated short blocks, a talk on the “horror hag” subgenre, a workshop on monstrous representations of the “other” in horror, and an art exhibition with five female artists working in horror.
Whoo, now that we got that mouthful out of the way we can get to the big news; the festivals lineup has been announced, and its got some pretty big names.
The Features
- Women Who Kill
- XX
- In My Skin
The Short Film Blocks
MOMMY ISSUES
- Childer (dir. Aislinn Clarke, UK, 2016)
- Postpartum (dir. Izzy Lee, US, 2015)
- Man in the Moon (dir. Monique Mulcahy, Australia, 2017)
- Goblin Baby (dir. Shoshana Rosenbaum, US, 2015)
- MOMMY (dir. Heidi Moore, US, 2013)
- Leonarda (dir. Luca Brinciotti, Italy, 2016)
- The Kingdom of Doug (dir. Victoria Thaine, Australia, 2012)
PHANTASMAGORIA
- Roger Ballen’s Theatre of Apparitions (dir. Emma Calder & Ged Haney, UK, 2016)
- A Blurred Line (dir. Neela Tayade, India, 2016)
- The Betrayal (dir. Susan Young, UK, 2015)
- Earworm (dir. Tara Price, US, 2016)
- Normalized Woman (dir. Lo-Yi Lee, Taiwan, 2016)
- Yuletide (dir. Marinah Janello US, 2016)
- She is the Dark (dir. Hassan Vahdani, Iran, 2016)
- Abjection (dir. Jiyeon Choi, China, 2017)
- Phyllis (dir. Zina Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria, 2010)
- Disco Inferno (dir. Alice Waddington, Spain, 2015)
IS IT DEAD?
- Thanatopraxia (dir. Victor Palacios, produced by Elena Albert, Spain, 2014)
- What Remains (dir. Denne Sritharan, US, 2017)
- The Awakening of Selma (dir. Andrea Fergo, Brazil, 2016)
- Wakey Wakey (dir. Rebecca Gransbury, UK, 2015)
- Night Shift (dir. Emily DiPrimio, USA, 2015) **
- No Strings Attached ( dir. Courtney Rawitscher, US, 2016) **
- The Perfect Shot (dir. Natasha Leivers, UK, 2016) **
- You are a Lesbian Vampire (dir. Thirza Cuthand, Canada, 2011)
- Strawberries are Nuts (dir. Rui Videira, written by Zuzanna Grajzer, Germany, 2017)
- What Happened to Her (dir. Kristy Guevera-Flanagan, US, 2017)
BODY HORROR
- Paint the Town Red (dir. Arielle Hansen & Christopher Graham, Canada, 2017)
- Das Buffet ist Eröffnet (dir. Daviel Shy, Austria, 2013)
- Rash (dir. Merryl Roche, France, 2014)
- Fish Out of Water (dir. Kirsten Carthew, Canada, 2015)
- Innsmouth (dir. Izzy Lee, US, 2015)
- I Want You Inside Me (dir. Alice Shindelar, US, 2016)
- The Stylist (dir. Jill Gevargizian, US, 2016)
SWEET REVENGE
- Rites of Vengeance (dir. Izzy Lee, US, 2017)
- Willow Garden (dir. Kate MacDonald, US, 2017)
- La Corriente de las Agujas (dir. Lucía Pérez, Uruguay, 2016)
- Last Words (dir. Raeshelle Cooke, US, 2015)
- Stitched (dir. Heather Taylor, US, 2016)
- Watch Me (dir. Briony Kidd, Australia, 2017)
- Consommé (dir. Catherine Fordham, US, 2016)
- Blame (dir. Kellee Terrell, US, 2015)
- Oedipus (dir. Roxanne Bordeaux, UK, 2016
DYING OF LAUGHTER
- Monja Satanica Trailer (dir. Viva Ruiz, US, 2007)
- A Tricky Treat (dir. Patricia Chica, Canada/US, 2015)
- Shortcut (dir. Prano Bailey-Bond, UK, 2016)
- Connie (dir. Cat Davies, UK, 2016)
- Murder Springs: Chapter One (dir. Adam van Dyke, produced by Margarita Hernandez, Natasha Ramos, and Sam van Dyke, US, 2016)
- Munchies (dir. Sinead Stoddart, UK, 2016)
- Tales of Untimely Deaths (dir. Marcie LaCerte, US, 2016)
- Rotten (dir. Rona Cohen, Israel/UK, 2016)
- Beautiful Eyes (dir. Rani Deighe Crowe, US, 2012)
- Potholes (dir. Jaclyn Goldstein, US, 2016)
- You Are A Lesbian Vampire (dir. Thirza Cuthand, Canada, 2011)
- Violent Violet (dirs. Tom Moore, Ambika Thompson & Jane Flett, Germany, 2015)
- Tampoon (dir. Jeanne Jo, US, 2015)
ALL IN THE FAMILY
- Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant (dir. Suraya Raja, UK, 2017)
- Everything is Allowed (dir. Anais Girard-Blanc, France, 2017)
- The Farm (dir. Ellie Tossol-Smith, Australia, 2016)
- Upir (dir. Laura Rembault, France, 2016)
- The Black Line (dir. Ester Llorens, Spain, 2016)
- Scrawls (dir. Pedro Pacheco Arlandi, written and produced by Maria Dopico, Spain, 2016)
- Supper with the Smiths (dir. Rachel Cylie Gross, US, 2016)
- Invasion (dir. Auguste Kuneviciute, Lithuania, 2016)
- Emile von Karneville (dir. Yuliana Barco, Mexico, 2016)
ESCAPE
- Emergency Stop (dir. Diane Jessie Miller, Ireland, 2016)
- Restart (dir. Olga Osorio, Spain, 2015)
- Mirror (dir. Sara Eustaquio, US, 2016)
- Whisper (dir. Jo Lewis, UK, 2015)
- Shah Mat (dir. Razan Takesh and Kirill Kripak, UAE, 2016)
- Drip Drop (dir. Jonna Nilsson, US, 2016)
- Puppet Man (dir. Jacqueline Castel, US, 2016)
- Black Case (dir. Caroline Monnet and Daniel Watchorn, Canada, 2014)
- Murmur (dir. Aurora Fearnley, UK, 2015)
- The Last Roadkill (dir. Xavier Hamel, produced by Tonia Rightley, US, 2016)
So if you have some frequent flyer miles building up head on down to Berlin and enjoy one of this years biggest festivals.
