USA, 2014 // 87 MINUTES // THRILLER

DIRECTED BY : Matthew Berkowitz

CAST : Frank Cermak Jr., Daveigh Chase, Karen Black, Charlotte Ellen Price, Steve Railsback, Marcos Mateo Ochoa

SYNOPSIS :A story about a madman with a movie camera, that thinks he’s smarter than you. He’s a narcissist. He’s a nihilist, a sexual sadist and killer of innocent women. His name is Charlie, and this is his world: a place of evil, violence and perversion, where only his camera tells the truth. He has set out to make an honest film – no lies whatsoever – and he is doing it all for you. Unable to escape a nasty memory of childhood abuse, Charlie lusts blindly for power and control until one day he happens upon a beautiful young woman, a potential victim named Ashley. Ashley is like nothing Charlie has ever seen before. He follows her. He stalks her to the beach and breaks into her apartment at night. His infatuation quickly devolves into obsession, then madness, before something stronger, a feeling he hasn’t felt since he was thirteen years old boy. Love.

PRODUCED BY : Leef Entertainment Group

FRANCE, 2014 // 87 MINUTES // HORROR

DIRECTED BY : Romain Basset

CAST : Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Catriona MacColl, Murray Head, Emmanuel Bonami

SYNOPSIS : Since her youth Jessica has nightmares. This leads her to study psychophisiolgy of dreams. When her grandmother dies, Jessica must return to the family house. Upon her arrival, she discovers that the body of grandmother will be placed in the adjoining room during the wake. Stuck in bed with a high fever and nightmares, Jessica decides to use her lethargic state to experience lucid dreams and thus try to take control of those nightmares. She will begin to evolve in a nightmarish and dreamish world in order to investigate and to discover the evil that haunts her and the family house.

PRODUCED BY : Horsead Pictures & Starflix Productions

THE NETHERLANDS, 2014 // 90 MINUTES // DRAMA

DIRECTED BY : Maartje Seyferth & Victor Nieuwenhuijs (Meat, Lulu, Crepuscule, Venus in Furs)

CAST : Carlijn van Zijtsveld, Dirk Roofthooft, Gonny Gaakeer, Hendriktje Ruiter, Hilt de Vos, Je´re´my Segard, Joy Ckili, Michael Helmerhorst

SYNOPSIS : “Cat & Mouse” is a surreal film-noir that takes place in an unidentified European landscape. The film questions if we can trust our memories or will our memories more and more deceive us when time passes? It is the story of an adolescent girl and how past and present tangle together in a inextricable world, for her and for the people that surrounds her.

PRODUCED BY : Moskito Films

CANADA, 2014 // 85 MINUTES // COMEDY - FANTASY

DIRECTED BY : Craig Goodwill

CAST : Rob Ramsay, Zoie Palmer, Julian Richings, Suresh John, Scott Thompson, Ken Hall

SYNOPSIS : Jon is just another mindless laborer on an assembly line, but at no ordinary factory. Day after day he and his fellow drones harvest kids from cabbages – kids that will go on to become the beloved toys of little boys and girls in the land outside this dreadful factory. But when Jon discovers the awful secret that he and all the indentured workers are actually grown-up and discarded toys, he’ll have to take on a villainous corporation to reunite with his long-lost mother, protect his newfound family, and finally find freedom.

PRODUCED BY : PopCorn Pictures

GERMANY, 2014 // 94 MINUTES // COMEDY - FANTASY

DIRECTED BY : René Marik

CAST : Christoph Maria Herbst, Dorka Gryllus, Lars Frank, René Marik, Rike Schubert, Ulli Voland

SYNOPSIS : Nobody comes to the "Theater of Joy" anymore and is on the brink of ruin and the ensemble: Puppets are up to their neck in hot water. But their impresario has a plan: He wants to kidnap the star and extort the ransom money, so he can pay off his bills. But then Kalle the star turns out to be a most difficult kidnapping victim: perfect chaos ensues. Kalle disappears and his friends are determined to rescue him from the hands of his kidnappers.

PRODUCED BY : Dreamer Joint Venture

GERMANY, 2014 // TBC // HORROR

DIRECTED BY : Jörg Buttgereit | Michal Kosakowski | Andreas Marschall

CAST : Milton Welsh, Daniel Faust, Denis Lyons, Annika Strauss, Matthan Harris, Andreas Pape, Desiree Giorgetti

SYNOPSIS : The first episode, Final Girl, tells the story of a young girl who lives alone with her guinea pig in a rundown apartment in Berlin. But is she really alone? In the bedroom lies a man, bound and gagged…
In the episode Alraune a young man stumbles upon a secret sex club in Berlin’s nightlife that promises the ultimate sexual frontier experience by using a drug made from the roots of the legendary Mandragora plant. But the ecstatic experiences have horrific side effects…
Make a Wish depicts a powerful “if-only” scenario in which a young deaf-mute couple living in Berlin is attracted by a group of hooligans. However, they are in possession of a mysterious talisman that may have changed the course of history and could help them now.

PRODUCED BY : Kosakowski Films

USA, 2014 // 89 MINUTES // DRAMA

DIRECTED BY : Chris Mason Johnson

CAST : Scott Marlowe, Matthew Risch, Kristoffer Cusick, Katherine Wells, Damon Sperber, Kevin Clarke, Evan Boomer

SYNOPSIS : Frankie is the newest member of San Francisco’s most exciting contemporary dance company. The year is 1985. As six muscular male dancers tumble their way through athletic choreography, Frankie stands on the sidelines, mirroring the movement and looking a little weak. For Frankie, the city offers no relief from the bullying at work: a newspaper headline asks “Should Gays Be Quarantined?” while fresh graffiti screams “AIDS Faggot Die!” Frankie turns away and, with his bright yellow Walkman clipped on his belt, retreats into a music-filled trance. The newly-named disease is spreading fast and no one seems to know anything about it, except who it targets. Together the friends navigate a world full of risk that is also, now and then, full of promise.

PRODUCED BY : Serious Productions

IRELAND, 2013 // 94 MINUTES // FANTASY - ROMANCE

DIRECTED BY : Brendan Muldowney

CAST : Robert de Hoog, Pollyanna McIntosh, Amanda Ryan, Xenia Katina

SYNOPSIS : Based on the Japanese Novel “Loving the Dead” from acclaimed author Kei Oishi, LOVE ETERNAL stars an introverted young man who tries to make sense out of the world, and his existence. Driven by dark obsessions, an unexpected encounter with a fascinating woman, transforms him for good...

FESTIVALS: Winner "Best Irish Feature" @ Jameson Dublin IFF // Official Selection Busan IFFF // Official Competition Fantasticfest // Official Competition Fantasia IFF // Official Selection Fantasy Filmfest // Official Competition Galway Film Fleadh // Official Competition Strasbourg EFFF // Official Competition Films by The Sea // Official Competition Athens IFF // Official Competition Helsinki Love & Anarchy // Official Competition Atlantic FF // Official Selection Strasbourg EFF // Official Selection FanCine Malaga IFF // In Competition Kaunas IFF

PRODUCED BY : Fastnet Films,  Red Lion , Rinkel Film