LUBLIN 2019

BLOOD QUANTUM horror / Canada / 2019 / 1h 36min # fear and terror / zombies / apocalypse / survival / Native Americans / chainsaw / samurai sword / Polish premiere   Until the last drop of blood   1981. Red Crown Indian Reservation. Whilst fishing a man notices an...

BODY AT BRIGHTON ROCK thriller, horror / USA / 2019 / 1h 27min # fear and terror / National Parkcorpses / fear / Wildlife / threat / bear / Polish premiere   It's not another story about a strong and independent heroine.   Wendy works part-time at a mountain national...

THE FATHER'S SHADOW drama, fantasy, horror / Brazil/ 2018 / 1h 32min # fear and terror / drama / black magic / ghosts / children / death / adolescence / Polish premiere   Mom would know how to fix dad...   After the unexpected death of his wife, Jorge slowly...

HANNA'S HOMECOMING horror, drama / Germany/ 2018 / 1h 36min # fear and terror / adolescence / mystery / wench / possession / small town / witch / friendship / Polish premiere   Sometimes true evil does not roam the swamps at all, it lives in each of us.  ...

In the Quarry thriller, drama / Uruguay / 2018 / 1h 22min # fear and terror / love / lake trip / jealousy / tension / crime / violence / Polish premiere   Nothing hurts like unhappy love and fishing hooks   A group of friends decide to spend a...

RABID horror / USA / 2019 / 1h 45min # fear and terror / zombie / tentacles / blood / violence / fashion / experimentation / mad scientist / Polish premiere   Tentacles, zombies and transhumanism at a fashion show   After a quarrel with a friend, Rose leaves the...

BACURAU drama / Brazil, France / 2019 / 2 h 11min # fear and terror / community / violence / black humour / intrigue / murders / secret   Don’t you dare mess with Bacurau!   In an indefinite future, Teresa goes to Bacurau, a small village in Brazil’s blank...

MONSTER PARTY   thriller, horror / USA / 2018 / 1h 29min # fear and terror / violence / blood / psychopaths / murderers / Polish premiere   A party you will never forget   Casper, Iris and Dodge are a group of young thieves. They mainly target houses in...

THE BLACK STRING   horror, thriller / USA / 2018 / 1h 33 # fear and terror / sex / demons / magic / the forces of evil / mysterious cults / Polish premiere   Malcolm in the Middle   The life of young Jonathan hasn’t been easy. He didn’t...

THE NIGHT SHIFTER thriller, horror / Brazil / 2018 / 1h 50min # fear and terror / morgue / corpses / death / Revenge from the grave / haunting / family relationships / Polish premiere   The secrets of the dead are killing secrets.   Although his job is unpleasant,...

WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS   horror, thriller / USA / 2019 / 1h 23min # horror and terror / violence / metal / satanists / devil / girl power / blood / alcohol / Polish premiere   If you're listening to metal, know that the devil is already interested in...

Come to Daddy psychological thriller, black comedy / Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, USA / 2019 / 1 h 33min # horribly funny / violence / blood / family drama / secrets / dead man / fucked-up plot twists   Playing with dad is always better but never safer   Norval’s...

MADNESS IN THE METHOD   detective story, comedy / USA / 2019 / 1h 39min # horribly funny / Hollywood / film / parody / Jay and Silent Bob / Polish premiere   Once upon a time in Hollywood   After the success of the movie in which he plays...

YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER   black comedy / USA / 2018 / 1 h 32 min # horribly funny / summer camp / masked murderer / blood / violence / slasher / Polish premiere   Maybe you should call your friend?   It is good to have a nerdy...

THE DEATH OF DICK LONG drama, black comedy / USA / 2019 / 1h 40 min # horribly funny / drama / losers / death / town / criminal case / Polish premiere   No one’s cocky when Dick Long dies   Dick, Zake and Earl are your typical absent-minded,...

THE ART OF SELF-DEFENCE   black comedy / USA / 2019 / 1h 40 min # horribly funny / drama / self-defense / mystery / toxic masculinity   The first principle of the art of self-defence: forget everything you know about self-defence   Casey is a quiet, calm and rather...

MOPE black comedy, drama / USA / 2019 / 1h 45min # WTF / porn / film industry / sex / humour / samurai swords / blood / Violence / fact-based / Polish premiere   “The Disaster Artist” of porn industry   Tom and Steve got to know each other...

DEERSKIN psychological drama / dark comedy / France / 2019 / 1h 17min # WTF / leather jacket / fringes / murders / insanity / movies   And the story of this jacket is something you would not understand   Georges is an unhappy and tired guy. For some reason...

THE TRUEADVENTURES OF WOLFBOY   teen drama, adventure film / USA / 2019 / 1h 28min # fantastic / being different / transsexualism / adolescence / friendship / adventure / unusual children / Polish premiere   About a boy who’s looking for acceptance   The life of thirteen year old...

THE WAVE   science fiction / USA / 2019 / 1h 30min # fantastic / drugs / time travel / hallucinations / Polish premiere   Psychedelic travel in time and space   Frank is about thirty years old and works in a corporation. He has a wife, a house, money...

DARK ENCOUNTER   science-fiction, drama / USA / 2019 / 1h 37 min   # fantastic / family drama / aliens / abduction / small town / mystery / Polish premiere   A close encounter that will hurt like no other   It’s 1982. A peaceful, loving and completely ordinary...

MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN   dokumentary movie / USA / 2019 / 1h 35min # docs / Aliens / SF horror / Lovecraft   The birth of the xenomorph   Ridley Scott's "Alien" easily became a classic movie. This status is due to many elements: the slimy xenomorph, which...

DEODATO HOLOCAUST   documentary / Brazil / 2019 / 1h 11 min # docs / Italian cinematography / Cannibal Holocaust / Polish premiere   Some directors are demanding, some are disturbed, but only one of them has been accused of killing his actors.   “Cannibal Holocaust” was imprinted on our...

WRINKLES THE CLOWN   documentary / USA / 2019 / 1h 15min # docs / clown / urban legend / fear / viral   While Pennywise spends his days in the sewers, Wrinkles is out scaring kids   Kids can be terrifying. The only worse type than those possessed by...

HORROR NOIRE: A HISTORY OF BLACK HORROR   documentary / USA / 2019 / 1h 23 min # docs / horror / black horror / history / Polish premiere   A lesson about the history of black horror   “Horror noire” is a splendidly made and executed documentary about the...

RETCH horror / United Kingdom / 2018 / 4 min / Polish premiere   A visceral horror rollercoaster in which a young woman's illness takes a disturbing turn. A young woman desperately tries to help her friend, Sonia, who is having an unusual seizure. Eventually she finds the medicine she...

TOGETHER   dark comedy, horror / USA / 2019 / 19:16 min / Polish premiere   A biohazard remediation cleaner finds the integrity of her business threatened after hiring a technician with an insatiable appetite for his work. WORLD PREMIERE: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) 2019   Age restrictions:...

PREFIGURED   sci-fi, horror / United States / 2019 / 10:30 / Polish premiere   If "Prefigured" was a house instead of a short film, its building materials would be fatalism, dread, and the acceptance of humanity’s cosmic insignificance. Its basement would be The Mariana Trench; teaming with unknown lifeforms that...

JABBARA   horror, psychological, thriller / Lebanon / 2019 / 13 min / Polish premiere     The monsters don’t live under your bed, but they rot inside your head. This story revolves around a teenage girl, Lina, whose envious mother, Salma, seeks revenge on her. Lina struggles to withstand...

DIBBUK   horror, drama / France / 2019 / 30 min   Dan, a pious man who lives on the fringe of his community (the Jewish community of the nineteenth district of Paris) is summoned by Sarah to check on her husband Eli, who is obviously not in his normal...

THE ORIGINAL science-fiction, drama / United Kingdom / 2018 / 13 min / Polish premiere   Alana is a woman struggling to keep her relationship alive as her partner suffers with a debilitating illness. A new medical procedure offers the answer to their prayers, but not without forcing her to...

FIVE COURSE MEAL   horror / Canada / 2018 / 7 min/ Polish premiere   Mark and Jenny agree to take part in a mysterious experiment for money. Things get exceptionally messy. Based on the short story by Josh Saltzman.   PREMIERE: Edmonton Short Film Festival in Edmonton, Canada 2018...

LIMBO   drama, horror / Spain / 2019 / 15 min / Polish premiere   A small family in an isolated farm. A terrible crime and then, the echoes that remain. Nothing is over nothing will ever end. It is a disturbing story of domestic violence mixing physical and psychological...

STRAY   psychological horror / Australia / 2018 / 14 min / Polish premiere   After three long years away, Thomas Elliot, a crippled war-hero, returns home expecting a heartfelt reunion with his beloved wife, Bonnie. However, their reunion takes an unexpected turn when Bonnie fails to recognise him, treating...

LA PERSISTENTE   dramat, horror / France / 2018 / 22 min   A ski resort, somewhere in the French Pyrenees. Ivan only lives for his motorcycle - the sentient, loving, breathing La Persistente. When a local rival tears her away from him, Ivan's obsession becomes to win her back....

TALK: This is no game for little girls? Women in the beginnings of cinematography. Women aren’t suited to be directors, because they don’t have a “system thinking”, a necessity for being a filmmaker. Many selection boards from International Film Festivals still seem to hold this opinion expressed by Antoni Bohdziewicz...