Generation XYZ screenings present all the thriller, horror, sci-fi, action and fantasy films selected into the competition.
Language: Eng Duration: 105 min Age Limit: 16+
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Fri 7.3.
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20:30
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Finnkino Cine Atlas 3
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12,50
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FR58
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Sat 8.3.
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12:00
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Arthouse Cinema Niagara
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12,50
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ST94
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Cuando Volvimos A La Tierra
Director: Pablo Riesgo AlmonacidCountry: United StatesYear: 2023Genre: FictionDuration: 14 minCuando Volvimos A La Tierra tells the story of an astronaut recreating Mars conditions in the US desert who is saved by a couple of passing immigrants. A hostile negotiation ensues over the astronaut’s water, vital for both the astronaut’s humanity-saving mission and the immigrants’ hopes to survive their journey.
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La FIlle
DaughterDirector: Jorge SerminiCountry: BelgiumYear: 2024Genre: FictionDuration: 20 minIn a small town in southern Belgium, Deme and Bernard manage an old hotel for one purpose: the abduction of healthy young people to serve as a food source for their teenager, Marie. Their system is disrupted when free-spirited poet Cyril comes along and catches Bernard's eye.
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Fight or Flight
Director: Cass Kaur VirdeeCountry: United KingdomYear: 2024Genre: FictionDuration: 5 minA mother, killed by her husband, dances her final dance of death as she struggles to return to life. The need to protect her child is the only thing that can pull her through.
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The Eggregores' Theory
Director: Andrea GatopoulosCountry: ItalyYear: 2024Genre: AnimationDuration: 16 minHe does not remember much from that time. Things have faded, like the color of a painting after too much light. The only thing that bothers him is this music. It keeps popping up... He thinks he has forgotten what it means. All he knows, for sure, is that he cannot get it out of his head.
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Dagon
Director: Paolo GaudioCountry: ItalyYear: 2024Genre: AnimationDuration: 7 minA stop-motion animation short film freely inspired by the story of the same name by cult author H.P. Lovecraft. In 1919 San Francisco, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories of the absurd and shocking episode that led him to the brink of suicide: the encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Old One, Dagon.
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Where the Mountain Women Sing
Director: Juefang ZhangCountry: Hong KongYear: 2024Genre: FictionDuration: 15 minAn ambitious filmmaker travels to the mystical Great Xing’an Range of Northeastern China, where a shamanic ritual to select the 'Mountain God's Wife' unfolds, only to discover she is marked as the next sacrifice.
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Richard Palmer Where Are You?
Director: Portia CeleCountry: South AfricaYear: 2023Genre: FictionDuration: 7 minA group of friends are attending a wedding in a small town near Cape Town. The wedding coincides with the opening of a play, Richard Palmer, Where Are You, a thriller based on true events. Fascinated by the poster advertising the play, one of the friends calls out Richard Palmer’s name, awakening his deadly spirit.
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The Bingo Sisters
Director: Andrew PrzybytkowskiCountry: CanadaYear: 2024Genre: FictionDuration: 21 minIn a distant and surreal place, a secret society of ladies called The Bingo Sisters periodically elect their leader by playing bingo. Mrs. Geneva plans to hold on to power by exploiting the photographic memory of an autistic orphan in order to cheat – but things will not go as planned, as other forces intervene.