US Premieres at Screamfest
The first public screening of the film in the United States.
Film Category
Dead Cool
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Synopsis
A dinner party with a difference: meet loner Maurice as he struggles to entertain his new friends. His party is in full swing when a routine search brings the police to his front door. Unfazed by this interruption the party continues, but it isn't long before Maurice is keen to say goodbye to all his guests except Sally. Romance is in the air but it soon becomes clear that all is not as it seems.
Film Category
The Boogeys
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Synopsis
On a future Earth transformed into a planetary ghetto by alien overlords, Dawkins, a cop-turned-pickpocket, tracks down a missing child about to be sold to the ‘Boogeys.' The encounter will determine the child's fate and his redemption.
Film Category
Birthday
Director(s)
Synopsis
Night. An abusive nurse wanders through the halls of a nursing home. She integrates her salary by secretly selling prescription drugs to junkies and stealing from the most vulnerable patients. The only thing she hates more than her job is old people. Upon entering room 12, occupied by three sisters, she discovers that one of them has just turned one-hundred years old: there must be a birthday present somewhere… that will change their lives forever.
Film Category
Alone
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Synopsis
Leïlais 16. She wakes up late, like any other morning. Except that today, no one is here to tell her to get moving. Where are her parents? She gets on her bike and rides through the neighborhood: it's all empty. Everybody has disappeared. Thinking she's the sole survivor of an unexplained disaster, she eventually crosses ways with four other teenagers: Dodji, Yvan, Camille and Terry. Together they will try to understand what has happened and to learn to survive in a world that has become hostile... But are they really alone?
Film Category
Out of the Darkness
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Synopsis
A mysterious old man is moving into the abandoned apartment next to Sara.
Someone is now in trouble. Destiny is no matter of chance.
Someone is now in trouble. Destiny is no matter of chance.
Film Category
Fears
Director(s)
Synopsis
The most terrifying fears creep into a little girl in her room when the lights turn off, just before she goes to sleep. Her father tries patiently to calm her; however, the darkness and the unknown are much more powerful and voracious. There's something even worse there, that hides a frightening reality.
Film Category
EVA
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Synopsis
Though being a swimmer, Eva was unable to save her brother from nearly drowning at sea. He now lies in a coma and the cold relationship with her mother is not helping Eva's conscience either. She stumbles upon a mysterious puddle in her bathroom, which takes her to the depths of the sea. As her mother looks for Eva, she only finds a puddle of water that she starts to wipe away.