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Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, showcases horror cinema directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. Final Girls Berlin are committed to creating space for female voices and visions — whether monstrous, heroic or some messy combination of the two — to platform women as subjects and storytellers in horror. The “Grim Visions” program offers six sinister shorts involving capitalist nightmares, political predators, and of course, vengeful women.
The Bioscope is proud to bring this unique and important film festival to South Africa this October thanks to independent film curator & programmer Deniz Sertkol. This is something we hope to make this an annual event here at The Bioscope!
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PROGRAMME:
Bail Bail (Lease Me Alone) (12:43)
Directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers, Canada, 2024
As they are signing their new lease, two longtime roommates realize that their new landlord is going to evict them illegally. They decide to fight to keep their apartment. Humor, violence, western, kung fu… in the middle of the holy season.
A Fermenting Woman (23:58)
Directed by Priscilla Galvez, Canada, 2024
On the brink of getting fired from her restaurant by new owners, visionary chef and master fermenter Marielle Lau develops an incendiary new dish with a bewitching ingredient she’s convinced will save her career.
Long Pork (13:13)
Directed by Iris Dukatt, USA, 2024
In a Post-Roe America where theocracy reigns, a renowned butcher meets the political predator responsible for the killing of her daughter and exacts bloody revenge, setting the stage for a revolution.
Berta (16:58)
Directed by Lucia Forner Segarra, Spain, 2024
Berta wants Alex to understand the harm he caused her years ago and will do whatever it takes to explain it to him.
Open Your Eyes (13:59)
Directed by Samantha Scaffidi, USA, 2024
Haunted by recurring dreams of a sinister hallway and a young girl, Lily does everything she can to stay awake. But the harder she tries, the more her paranoia increases.
SHE (15:30)
Directed by Renee Zhan, UK, 2023
When pressures mount on a tightly wound violinist in a London youth orchestra, her internal monsters take external form.
Gaslighter (7:53)
Directed by Gina Hendry, USA, 2024
A woman arrives home from work to find her power out and her front door left unlocked. As she walks through the house with her boyfriend on the phone, he tells her she is safe. Is he right? Or is this a dangerous Gaslight?