- Involuntary is a dazzling and highly original black comedy from one of the most exciting new talents in Scandinavian cinema, Ruben Östlund. It’s summer in Sweden… A primary school teacher decides to teach her colleagues a lesson they’ll never forget. Teenage girls are indulging in a webcam tease and seducing strangers. University students are taking [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A lyrical and redemptive tale of southern gothic sensibilities, Ed Gass-Donnelly’s Small Town Murder Songs boasts evocative cinematography, a haunting soundtrack and a soulful central performance by Peter Stormare. Walter is police chief in an Ontario Mennonite community, struggling to keep a lid on simmering local tensions and a violent past that returns to haunt [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A chilling and disturbing psychological horror, following one man’s guilt after the death of his estranged wife brings him nightmares and drives him to the edge of sanity. Slowly, his disturbing experiences worsen, and he struggles to cope as his terrifying experiences become more and more real. Like last year’s Méliès d’Argent winner The Last [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Given the plethora of zombie films that exist it’s hard to find one that has a new take on the undead apocalypse, so this year we were delighted to find not one, but two films that breathe new life into this genre. Alongside Juan of the Dead, Cuba’s first zombie film, we have Exit Humanity, [...]Click to read more about this film »
- For Juan and his rag-tag bunch of Cuban slackers, a new revolution is about shake up their laid-back Havanan lifestyle. Juan of the Dead has a bit of everything for fans of the genre: zombie splatter, belly laughs, great characters, social and political comedy, and laconic Cuban style. A crowd-pleasing zombie comedy with intelligence, shedding [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Director Andreas Marschall disturbed LIFF audiences in 2004 with his previous film Tears of Kali. Now he’s back with a giallo-esque bloody thriller in a homage to Suspiria. Stella, an ambitious but unfocused acting student, is offered a place at the mysterious Mateusz Gdula school, which was infamous for a strange method which killed a [...]Click to read more about this film »
