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North American Premieres at Screamfest

The first public screening of the film in North America. 

Film Category

Dead by Dawn

Meet the Filmmaker

Dawid Torrone

Writer / Director
Synopsis
A group of actors invited to rehearse a new play in the mysterious theater of the Heissenhoff family, a well-known artistic dynasty with rumored ties to the occult. Soon, what should have been an ordinary rehearsal spirals into a desperate game of survival as a masked killer begins to stalk them. Unbeknownst to the cast, everything-the theater, the play, and the murders-is part of a dark, elaborate ritual.
Film Category

Glasgow

Meet the Filmmaker

Léo Devienne

Synopsis
Cleo has amnesia. It’s Saturday and she has to balance between preparing her romantic getaway with Gaetan and the endless video calls with her obnoxious boss. When the stress become unbearable, the fragments of a buried trauma will give this day a sense of « déjà-vu ».
Film Category

The Red Mask

Meet the Filmmaker

Ritesh Gupta

Director
Synopsis
When outspoken queer screenwriter Allina Green is chosen to pen the final instalment of the legendary slasher franchise 'The Red Mask', anger, outrage, and online death threats from die-hard fans causes a rift in her relationship with reticent fiancé Deetz. Desperate for a creative breakthrough, the pair escape to a secluded Airbnb, where Allina concocts a dangerous game to play to unlock her writer's block. But when two uninvited houseguests crash the scene, the weekend turns dark and a twisted contest devolves into a duel to the death in a love letter to the stalk and slash genre.
Film Category

The Betta Fish

Meet the Filmmaker

Nelson Lau

Film Director
Synopsis
After a boy goes missing in a peaceful yet superstitious fishing village, a teenager begins to experience haunting visions, forcing him to question his sanity.
Film Category

THE DOLLMAKER

Meet the Filmmaker

Jose Maria Cicala

Director
Synopsis
In a small rural town, a charming dollmaker becomes an unlikely suspect when a new detective investigates the disappearance of several women.
Film Category

DIY

Meet the Filmmaker

Tony Gardiner ACS

Director | DP | Producer
Synopsis
DIY follows Alex, a young woman
grieving the death of a beloved pet, as she decides to hang a new frame on her apartment wall. But
when she drills into the plaster… blood spills from the resulting hole?!
Bewildered, she runs next door, only to discover a strange man dead on the floor beside a bag full of
cash. Their common wall has been torn open, the hiding place for the loot. Then, right as Alex finds
neighbor Jerry ties and gagged in the bedroom, someone else steps through the front door: Gus, a
hitman running late for his first job with a new crew. When Gus mistakes Alex for ‘Sam’, the bagman he’s
meant to meet and is miffed she’s already ‘done his job for him’, Alex realizes her only hope of survival is
to play along…
Film Category

Imago

Meet the Filmmaker

Rafa Dengrá Oliver

Synopsis
Lidia wants to tell a story to her sister Marta, but there is a problem: it's so much scary.
Film Category

Don't Be Afraid

Meet the Filmmaker

Mats Udd

Synopsis
A ghost story about a depressed photographer making a comeback with newly taken photos at the location where his son once disappeared. At the exhibition, visitors discover that someone is actually standing in the background of the photos.
Film Category

CognAitive

Meet the Filmmaker

Tommy Savas

Director
Synopsis
In this Sci-fi thriller/horror commenting on the ever-growing concern of AI taking our jobs, a group of co-workers stay late at the office in preparation for the launch of their smarter, faster, more cognitive version of chat GPT; they quickly come to realize that the AI they've created has its own sinister agenda. In this bloody battle of the smartest, each of these genius' will have to outsmart "COGN-AI-TIVE" in order to survive.
Film Category

La Nueva

Meet the Filmmaker

Ivan Villamel

Director
Synopsis
Maria is the new teacher who arrives at an old religious school. On her first day, she will have to teach a group of rebellious teens who are part of a punishment class. An unexpected event will turn the classroom into a real hell. Not knowing the lesson can cost you your life.
Film Category

Birth of a fire

Meet the Filmmaker

Archibald Martin

Writer/Director
Synopsis
Romane and Marcus, childhood friends, are hiking in the German Palatinate forest. As Romane catches her breath, she spots a shadow in the distance, hidden behind the trees, watching her.
Film Category

Faceless After Dark

Meet the Filmmaker

Raymond Wood

Director
Synopsis
Following her breakout success as the star of a killer clown horror flick, Bowie now finds herself struggling to capitalize on its success. But when she is suddenly held hostage by an unhinged fan posing as that same killer clown, horror becomes her reality as she fights to survive the night and escape before he completes his sinister plan to recreate the film's fatal plot.