One Eyed Films Latest Line Up in Cannes
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The Unraveling / Dir Thomas Jakobsen / 82 min / USA / 2015 / THRILLER HORROR
Nevermore Film Festival - ScreamFest
“tight and tense thriller’’ CULTURE CRYPT
Michael has been trying to shake off his heroin habit. A surprise party at a forest with friends, away from his drugs, sends Michael on edge. Then, the body of one of friends found dead.
The remaining group is thrown in a game of survival as Michael's anxiety escalates in a spiral.
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Tropical Vampire / Dir Marcelo Santiago / 92 min / Brazil / EROTIC GRAPHIC NOVEL
“these vampires roam the streets and expertly operate in a digital world, dress as financiers, and deal in drugs” EXPRESSO SAPO
Set in the underground scene of Rio de Janeiro where vampires deal vampire powder, providing its users with a taste of immortality. The Limbo Corporation, closely supervises this shady business, where Vlak their most prestigious sentinel reigns supreme in the city. But Vlak has a restless spirit and decides to break free, but suffering bouts of memory loss. Will Vlak succeed in fighting his ever omnipresent past employers hot in his pursuit? Only his alliance with the powerfully feline Wang Su, leader of a local Mafia who wants his assistance in defeating the Limbomen for her own purposes…
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Ratpocalypse / Dir Vladimir Uglin / 92 min / USA / COMEDY FANTASY
Do gooder, American Senator John Perryman, delivers a speech to the Moscow Parliament, predicting that “corruption will lead to disaster and that they would all lose the human form and metamorphose into rats! One by one, prominent Russian politicians turn life size rats, causing a major world crisis. |
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Cord / Dir Pablo Gonzales / Colombia / Germany / France / 2015 / 65 min / EROTIC SCIFI
GRAND PRIX DU JURY & PRIX DE LA CRITIQUE / Mauvais Genre - BEST FILM RAVENNA Nightmare - BEST FILM / ZINEMA ZOMBIE - BEST ACTRESS FANTASPORTO - BEST ACTRESS / GENRENALE - BEST ACTRESS PLANET TERROR - MACABRO FILM FESTIVAL - SCI-Fi LONDON EUROPEAN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
On a post-apocalyptic world of never-ending winter, for a cast of survivors for whom physical contact has become a health hazard.
Inventor Czuperski creates and deals on devices to enhance solitary physical experience. One day he meets a new client, the mysterious Tania. |
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Massacre Country / Dir André de Campos Mello, Marcos DeBrito / 115 min / Brazil / 2015 SLASHER
Best Latinamerican Film / Fantaspoa Film Festival - Official Selection Morbido Fest Zinema Zombie - Mostra de Sao Paulo
"Spiralling vortex of blood, laughter, alcohol and horror" MAGAZINE MX "Hybrid of Jason and the Texas Chain Saw Massacre" CINEMA UOL ''Re imagines the genre in same way as Tarantino, Rodriguez, Rob Zombie'' PREVIEW MAGAZINE
A group of friends hire a country house for the weekend unaware of the horrors awaiting. A clown is arrested by the police near the scene of the crime. Roaming the countryside, a local wildboar farmer searches for flesh to feed his animals. Nothing is as it seems however. |
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The Innocents / Dir Mauricio Brunetti / Argentina / 2015 / SUPERNATURAL HORROR
Official Selection BiFFF - ROJO SANGRE
"spooky version of 12 years a slave" BIFFF
Set in 19th century Argentina as the six years old disabled Rodrigo is ripped away from his family home by his brutal, merciless father, a slave landowner. Years later when Rodrigo returns his presence will unleash the dormant spirits of the ill treated, beaten, raped slaves – whose dark ailing curse reverberates total destruction in its wake.
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Controra: House of Shadows / Dir Rosella di Vento / Italy / Ireland / 92 min / 2015 CRIME MYSTERY
Nominated White Narcisse Neuchatel Film Festival - Official Competition Galway - Bari Italian Horror Film Festival / Nominated Best Film
“shadowy and startling” SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY “Intense and sophisticated…. Entertainingly creepy and mysterious’’ FILM IRELAND “Disturbing and exciting’’ IL MATINO
A couple inherit an ancient palazzo in Italy, where, as in the local legend, at the “Controra”, the hottest time of the day, they too, start to suffer horrific hallucinations. These nightmares lead them to revelations of unsolved family mysteries.
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The Forgotten / Dir Oliver Frampton / 89 min / SOCIAL HORROR
FRIGHTFEST - BRUXELLES BiFFF
"Delivers shocks and tension that you could cut with a knife" HORROR CULT FILMS "Genuinely affecting and chilling, this is an impressive mournful debut." SCIFI NOW "Chilly and intelligent ". 24 Frames Per Second "Urban horror at its most intense" Horror Channel
When a father and son are forced to squat in an derelict London council estate scheduled for demolition, 14 year old Tommy starts to hear strange noises coming from the boarded-up flat next door. |
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The Drought / Dir Adrian Fabrissin / Argentina / 82 min / DRAMA
An impoverished farmer’s livelihood is threatened by an endless drought, eviction from his ranch and his hopeless addiction to alchool. In a state of drunken stupor, the prostituion of his teenage daughters becomes his only means of salvation.
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Neckan: Justice Awaits / Director Gonzalo Tapia / Spain / HISTORICAL THRILLER
Montreal Film Festival World Premiere
Morocco late 50’s , Santiago an young lawyer, son of an important Francoist politician, travels to Tétouan, then the Capital of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco after receiving an anonymous letter. As Santiago gradually starts to unveil the dark secrets surrounding his real family’s mysterious disappearance, he uncovers a web of political intrigue surrounding the last years of the demise of the last Spanish colony. |
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Thirst Dir Joe Houlberg 80 min Ecuador 2015 DRAMA
"Impressive piece of work which looks great” BRUTAL AS HELL
Travelling as a foursome with her cousin and their respective boyfriends for a weekend away in her old family country home, makes life feel almost normal for blind 23 years old Sara. Once there, all is not as it as seems, and the eerie abandonment of the Colonial house set in spectacular Ecuadorian tropical forest becomes the backdrop to the unraveling the past and family secrets, and in turns creating an unsettling dynamic between the travellers voyeuristic, perverse and sexually liberating in turns.
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Cannabis in Uruguay Dir Federika Odrizola / Uruguay 2016 HUMAN RIGHTS
Traces the events which led to the historical watershed ruling by the government of Uruguay to regulate of the cultivation and sale of cannabis. Connecting, charting and revealing the unique political,social and cultural circumstances which guided this innovative historical step forward. The key actors in this process include politicians, intellectuals, social activists, doctors, lawyers, scientists and businessmen, all of whom share their own perspective in this democratic process of civil liberty. |
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Beavers: Invaders of the end of the World Dir Pablo C. & Nicolas Iacouzzi / Arg / 52 min ECOLOGY
CINE LATINO RECONTRES DE TOULOUSE 2015 (France) / FICMA 2015 (Spain) MAFF 2015 (Estonia) / KLEFF 2015 (Malaysia) / SHH 2015
Since the misguided introduction of the Canadian beaver to Patagonia in the 50’s in an attempt to emulate the Canadian fur industry, disregarding the fundamental differences in these countries ecosystems, this specie has been expanding to an alarming extent to all surrounding Andean territory, destroying ancient forests and jeopardizing this unique and fragile ecosystem. |
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