Saturday 30 Aug

the moon is our constant companian in life, always there to be stared at, always fascinating and mysterious. is there life on the moon? is it made out of cheese? what is happening on its dark side? - this short film tries to give an answer to all of these questions.

Bela Lugosi returns from beyond to present this documentary that investigates the origins of erotic and pornographic cinema, with uncensored footage from the surviving films.

A poetic and absurd short stop motion film about shame, sorrow, power – and an unexpected kind of comfort.
A woman walks through the city, carrying an unusual physical attribute. It's strange, maybe shameful – but it’s there, unapologetically.
When a man appears with a troublesome dog, an absurd confrontation unfolds. Her body reacts. A tear is shed. Something once a source of discomfort becomes unexpectedly useful.
CITYWALK is a grotesque and tender urban dream sequence – blending stop motion performance, gender politics, and surreal slapstick into a visceral one-minute journey.

When an electrical storm hits during a late-night talk show, a radio DJ receives persistent phone calls from a mysterious caller warning her and telling her stories of electrical appliances having been affected by the storm. Are they true, or just calls for attention.

Cash-strapped, a man accepts a strange, high-paying job where he must measure a hole in the wall to determine whether or not it's growing.

Rebel, outlaw, porn pioneer: FINDING PLANET PORNO is a portrait of Howard Ziehm. Later he made cult sci-fi sex spoof FLESH GORDON

IMMORTAL BELOVED HORROR is a feature-length, deep-dive documentary that charts the electrifying history of horror—from literary origins to VHS-era cult chaos.

It all begins in 1816, the “Year Without a Summer,” when Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and friends—trapped indoors by volcanic ash-cloud weather—entertained themselves by writing ghost stories. What emerged was Frankenstein, the spark that ignited two centuries of macabre imagination.

From there, the film traces the genre’s evolution: Poe and Stoker, Edison and Méliès, German Expressionism and Universal Monsters, Hammer Films and Giallo maestros like Argento and Bava. Horror’s heartbeat pulses through Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, Daughters of Darkness, and the outrageous rise of Troma with The Toxic Avenger.

Told entirely through archival footage, film clips (75+ of them!), and a compelling voice-over (Johan De Paepe in Dutch, Marc Ickx in English), this documentary skips talking heads and dives straight into the guts of the genre—uncut, uncensored, and soaked in atmosphere. With narration-driven storytelling, rich visuals, rare materials, and original music by Yves Elegeert, it’s a blood-soaked love letter to horror cinema, concluding just before the VHS explosion changed the game forever.

Directed, edited, and written by cult icon Johan Vandewoestijne (Rabid Grannies), produced by James Desert, Johan De Paepe, and Erwin Busschaert. International distribution is handled by Zeno Pictures and Chriskepolis under DEFILM, with more language versions in the works.

A must-watch for horror fans, cinephiles, and lovers of cinematic mischief.

A small mechanical owl is brought to life by a mysterious castaway. Following a trail of corals leads the little robot into the magical world of the WITCHES OF EVERLAND. Does love exist in this strange universe?
An epic journey into a fantastic parallel world, from the wilderness to the City of future. A magical & musical road movie about the circle of life, love and death - and the Power of imagination.

This extraordinary artistic film was originally produced as a short film trilogy (see previous film projects and festivals) and presents now the complete audiovisual saga.
No computer generated imagery (CGI) were used in the production of this film. All phantastic imagery & designs are handcrafted.

A murder that happened 30years ago is connected to the future!
Depicting the moment when the past and future! This is time [trouble]splatter!

I made this film with the intention of creating Japan's splatter heroine. I was frustrated that Japan hadn't had a violent splatter heroine until now.
　What I want to portray with this film is destruction (an impulse that even destroys destruction), disintegration, and liberation, for the audience to feel through the film.

Eric is a secret agent currently working as security guard for senator Dilly. The senator is the main advocate for a new kind of police officer: the Tracker, a perfect and nearly invulnerable android. When Eric realizes that senator Dilly is playing dirty games, he does not only have Dilly’s security chief Ross after him, but also those nearly undefeatable Trackers.

A rescue mission to free chickens from a factory farm goes radically wrong, and a group of four activists is forced to escape into the wilderness.

Gory stop motion animation made with clay, in which some scientists experiment with sound waves to make the population docile. The problem is that these frequencies also make the dead rise from their graves.

An animated pop-poetic incantation for weirdo intimacy.

Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Along with his girlfriend Dale Ardor and Professor Flexi-Jerkoff, they set off towards the source of the Sex Ray, unaware of the perils that face them!

When evil, deadly water starts pooling around their feet, the citizens of Medialight must figure out a way stay alive until it evaporates.

A madcap director takes his cast and crew to a location once rumored to be home to a cannibal family, with the plan of shooting an amateur horror film. Scripts and preparation turn out to be completely unnecessary, and chaos soon ensues. But the real madness has yet to begin—because the legend isn’t as far-fetched as they thought. The psychopaths in question are still very much present. In fact, one of them harbors his own ambition to direct horror films and is handed the perfect opportunity on a silver platter.

The film crew will end up wishing they had never gone there, in Arno’s feature debut where Calvaire and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre are clear influences—though here with a microbudget, killings where the FX remain just offscreen for budgetary reasons, and chaos… lots and lots of POV-style chaos. But one thing’s for sure: Arno & co were clearly having a blast!

A shitstorm of bad news sends out of work filmmaker Jimmy spiraling into an out of control bender in which he claims to have been abducted by aliens.

A backyard party goes bonkers when this one weird guy shows up.

A sinister corporation loses control of a house cat infected with a genetically-engineered virus. The death-toll rises during the mutant feline’s rampage, and eventually, it finds its way on board a ship of a criminal king-pin.

Luna sets out on a journey in search of her mother, who disappeared on the last day of Carnival in Guarapari. Her search leads her to an old building that is apparently empty but inhabited by tormented souls.

Dig out your membership cards, as it's time to rejoin the Video Dungeon in this much-anticipated sequel to the retro VHS horror hit Video Shop Tales of Terror.

Two Nevada border officers, Dave Quarry and John, amuse themselves off duty by honing their kick-boxing skills via virtual reality combat. Elsewhere, a computer tycoon prepares to market his company’s latest invention, a combination of DNA and virtual reality that creates beings and creatures who look and feel real.

The atomic-bomb is about to be dropped on a small Texas town inhabited by compulsive gambler Lee Harvey Oswald (no relation), his platonic nymphomaniac roommate Natty the Nympho, teenage sweethearts Babycakes and Junior High, and other equally unhinged residents all the while globally recognized mad scientist Dr. Calypso races against time to save the town from nuclear fallout.

The Shadows of the Unknown is a series of episodes inspired by The Twilight Zone and the films that have shaped our vision. Each tale weaves mystery or horror, immersing you in eerie atmospheres and gripping suspense. The first episode, The Burglar, is about a thief that breaks into the wrong house on the wrong night—only to become the hunted. But when the body vanishes and reality starts to warp, it’s clear this break-in was just the beginning.

During the night, Dimitri has a disturbing experience: unable to move or speak, he is confronted by an indistinct presence that interacts with him in a curious way at first, then violently, causing him to wake up. What seemed like a nightmare turns out to be a never-ending loop in which Dimitri is confronted by an unknown part of himself.

A young woman suffers from violent visions while she is waiting for the subway...

Toto, a twelve-year-old boy who looks like a monstrous humanoid creature, is sitting at the dinner table with his parents. They’ve made him some soup, but he doesn’t want to eat it. He says he’d rather eat “shit”. How far is Toto prepared to go to make his parents bend?