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Harvest Moon

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Micah Ranum

Director
Synopsis
Sometimes, love sucks! Walter and Cleo have been married for ages, but their relationship has recently soured. Walter has lost his taste for life, while his beautiful wife, Cleo just wants to paint the town red like they used to. One night, while the couple argues over dinner, a group of burglars break into their palatial mansion expecting a huge score. This just might be the marital counseling Walter and Cleo have been waiting for.
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Citizen

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James Darling

Director
Synopsis
In an eerie not-too-distant future, a young man tries to escape from his homeland in the dead of winter. As this teenage boy is chased by hunters through the harsh wilderness approaching the border, he recalls the perilous steps of his journey and the fateful doctor's visit that motivated his departure.
Boy or Man? Hero or Traitor? Refugee or Fugitive? Citizen.
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Sinkhole

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Eric Scherbath

Director
Synopsis
After discovering that the Chinese have found a way to extinguish coal mine fires, a broker for a coal company sets out to a remote region of Pennsylvania to offer a deal to a mysterious landowner named Schuttmann. He finds the land ravaged by smoking sinkholes, formed by the collapse of the burning coal seams. In the end, however, Schuttmann will reveal to the broker something far worse than the coal fires.
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Seance

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Robin Kasparik

Director
Synopsis
Narrates the story of three people, who are trying to find the fortune of a deceased baroness through a spiritualistic séance. But things will go a bit differently than they planned.
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The Long Night

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Richard Williamson

Director
Synopsis
An indifferent, self-absorbed vampire sits in a cafe before dawn - sipping his coffee, browsing a crossword, and waiting for the sun to end his weary existence. But his plan is interrupted by an excitable young boy, and a vicious psychopath.
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First Kill

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Micah Ranum

Director
Synopsis
Rayburn has family obligations: a young wife, a son...and the violent crime family that employs him. Devoted to both families, Rayburn is reluctant when he is sent on his first contract kill with his brutal mentor, James. Isolated in an unforgiving wilderness, the men find their identities jeopardized after the messy hit is photographed by a motion detection hunter's camera. Vulnerable, Rayburn anxiously waits near the camera with a simple objective: kill the owner and collect the incriminating evidence. But things take a surprising turn when Rayburn learns the owner of the camera is a completely different kind of killer.
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Das Zimmer (The Room)

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Nik Sentenza

Director
Synopsis
The famous actor, Thomas van Boys, checks into a hotel...
He orders a call girl, opens his mail, showers, and shaves...
Then he turns on the TV.
The screen shows his room. There must be a camera somewhere in the room...
The "Eye" begins an evil cat and mouse game. It presents van Boys with a mirror,
which lets him look into the uttermost depths of his soul...
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Clemency

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Joseph Albanese

Director
Synopsis
In 1993, a sadistic killer, Arthur Poe was captured and convicted. He was sentenced to death by the state of Virginia for several gruesome murders. Days before his execution the governor granted Poe clemency based on the testimony of a psychologist from Poe's murder trial. A reporter (Maury Morgan) takes on Poe in an interview seeking to shed light on the emotionally charged topic.
What she learns can never be forgotten or forgiven.
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Aqua ad lavandum - in brevi

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Helge Balzer Florian Metzner

Director
Synopsis
aQua ad lavandum - in brevi tells of a man named Debitus who tries to free himself from his guilt following an unintentional murder but becomes more and more trapped in the situation until there seems to be no way out.
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Abraham's Boys

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Dorothy Street

Director
Synopsis
After the turn of the century, legendary and revered vampire hunter, Abraham Van Helsing, settles into his new American home with sons Maximilian and Rudolph. However, everything changes when Max and Rudy uncover the shocking truth about their father's favorite past time.
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Excision

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Richard Bates Jr.

Director
Synopsis
Pauline has a sister, Grace, who suffers from cystic fibrosis and occupies most of her parent's attention. Aware that Grace will one day need a lung transplant because of her condition, Pauline is convinced she can perform the operation herself. Excision explores a strained relationship between a mother and daughter. It is a story of neglect, obsession, jealousy and loneliness told through a blurring of suburbia and terror.
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Y VOLVERÃ

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Edgar Nito

Director
Synopsis
Aurora´s husband has ordered her to be killed for bringing a deformed and dead first child into the world. But the people in charge of killing her haven'´t done it right, she manages to survive and finds an old man that helps her recover.

Aurora decides to come back and use the revenge as an act of redemption, to be able to continue her life in absolute peace.