Rotterdämmerung

Scatological sci-fi from Korea. Animation for (im)mature people. Aachi and Ssipak are ‘independent entrepreneurs’ in a future where the government wants a monopoly on the only source of energy, human shit. To achieve this, the population is kept addicted and shit production is checked by special sensors. With plenty of Korean hardcore music. And armies with diapers.

In the near future, in a violent and chaotic Japan, victims are allowed by law to take revenge with the aid of a special hit man. That’s how our traumatised, erratic hero Hiroshi earns his living. But basically he’s looking for his lost feeling. Film based on the strange and worrying cult mangas by Matsumoto.

After careless imperialist trials by the Americans, one beautiful summer day there is suddenly a gruesome monster hanging under one of the bridges over the River Han. And it doesn’t just go away. Bong’s third film has everything: global political matters, Korean self mockery, beautiful computer graphics, spectacular action and moving family love. In short: the Korean monster hit of the year.

Eco-ghost story or bio-horror? In the isolated north of Alaska, the team from an oil company is busy with an investigation. But even though it is early February, the temperature just won’t drop. Does that sound familiar? And then strange things happen. With Ron Perlman.

Female detective (the Japanese pop star Hitomi) investigates a series of suspicious ‘suicides’. For that she needs the help of the ‘Nightmare Detective’ - himself suicidal - who can penetrate dreams. Accessible Tsukamoto, but that doesn’t make it any less scary. He himself plays the ‘murderer from within’.

Appealing and continually surprising combination of hit-man extravaganza, melodrama and family film. Park Chul-Hee, former assistant to Jang Sun-Woo, directs the star of Save the Green Planet! as a killer with a speech impediment and an American dream. And he only wants to kill off the louts and baddies. There are plenty of those around.

Young Danish director makes an animation film with Japanese appeal about the porn industry. A priest and a toddler are the unlikely protagonists in the world of paid sex, drugs and violence. Very original and not for all ages.

You don’t often see them like this. Anna Biller is the star, the director, producer and the clothing and set designer of what must be the most colourful and relaxed film of the festival. Both stylish and relativistic as well as comic and consistent paying homage to the sex films from the time when they were still moralist self-fulfilling dramas. On 35mm!