Rotterdämmerung
Overview of films
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Ab-Normal Beauty
Oxide Pang | 97' | Hong Kong | European premiere
A beautiful young woman gets a kick out of photographing the dead. That has to attrach the wrong kind. Stylish and bloodcurdling psychological horror -
Calvaire
Fabrice Du Welz | 94' | Belgium | -
Itinerant singer takes a wrong turn in the dark Ardennes. This is the start of his Calvary. With an innkeeper who recognises his long-lost wife… -
Casshern
Kiriya Kazuaki | 142' | Japan | -
Wild eclectic amalgamation of styles, in this apocalyptic science-fiction film that pulls out all the stops in animation and live action. In a post-nu -
Izo
Miike Takashi | 128' | Japan | -
Izo is the incarnation of denial, the opposite of perfect Japan, in the form of a reincarnated samurai who murders his way to his mother,… -
The Neighbor No. 13
Inoue Yasuo | 115' | Japan | World premiere
Psycho-suspense based on a legendary manga by Santa Inoue about Juzo and his violent alter ego Number 13, who does take his revenge on the… -
Survive Style 5+
Sekiguchi Gen | 120' | Japan | -
If there was a contest for the fastest, strangest and most excessive film of the festival, the winner would be obvious. Over-the-top is putting it… -
Three… Extremes
Miike Takashi, Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook | 125' | Hong Kong | -
Nail biting about human shortcomings comes surrealistically yet terrifyingly to the surface in three segments. Japanese Miike Takashi (of Audition and -
Vital
Tsukamoto Shinya | 83' | Japan | -
Philosophical horror. Dark and subdued, with a surprisingly serious undertone. Medical student with amnesia becomes fascinated by the anatomy of a dea