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Cloud and A Samurai In Time
Animalia Paradoxa
(Country: Chile; Year: 2024; Director: Niles Atallah; Writer: Niles Atallah; Stars: Andrea Gomez, Daniela Ossa, Javiera Reyes, Hormazábal Rocío, Blanca Schlager, Ignacio Silva)
A strange creature, Animalia, roams an abandoned building. Dressed in rags and gas mask she moves like an alien dancer, crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic waste. She collects and fills empty bottles for a modest bath.
Chainsaws Were Singing
(Country: Estonia; Year: 2024; Director: Sander Maran; Writer: Sander Maran, Karl Ilves; Stars: Karl Ilves, Laura Niils, Martin Ruus, Janno Puusepp, Rita Rätsepp, Ra Ragnar Novod)
Adventures await when new lovers are separated by a chainsaw killer in this absurdist musical.
Cloud (Kuraudo)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi; Writer: Kurosawa Kiyoshi; Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Masataka Kubota)
An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
Dark Match
(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Lowell Dean; Writer: Lowell Dean; Stars: Steven Ogg, Sara Canning, Michael Eklund, Chris Jericho, Jonathan Cherry, Ayisha Issa)
A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.
Dead Mail
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Writer: Kyle McConaghy, Joe DeBoer; Stars: Sterling Macer, Jr, John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Nick Heyman, Tomas Boykin)
An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned 'dead letter' investigator at a 1980's Midwestern post office, leading him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his demented business associate.
Chainsaws Were Singing and Animalia Paradoxa
Dead Talents Society (Gui Cai Zhi Dao)
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2024; Director: John Hsu; Writer: John Hsu, Kun-Lin Tsai; Stars: Chen Bo-lin, Sandrine Pinna, Wang Gingle, Pai Ching-i, Tseng Soso)
Ghosts who want to become the spookiest of urban legends and most successful and famous stars in the underworld compete through their scare tactics and performances amongst the living.
Escape From The 21st Century (Cong 21 Shi Ji An Quan Che Li)
(Country: China; Year: 2024; Director: Li Yang; Writer: Li Yang; Stars: Zhang Ruoyun, Zhong Elane, Song Yang, Wu Xiaoliang, Zhu Yanmanzi, Chen Yichen)
The story follows three friends who discover they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze. However, the future is not as good as they hoped, and they need to take on the responsibility of saving the world.
Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)
(Country: France, Czechoslovakia; Year: 1973; Director: René Laloux; Writer: Roland Topor and René Laloux, based on the book by Stefan Wul; Stars: (voices, French) Jennifer Drake, Sylvie Lenoir, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont; (voices, English) Barry Bostwick, Hubert de Lapparent, Mark Gruner, Nora Heflin, Marvin Millier, Monika Ramirez, Hal Smith, Olan Soule, Janet Waldo(voices, French) Jennifer Drake, )
Trippy, Seventies animated version of the biblical story of Exodus.
The Killers
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2024; Director: Kim Jong-kwan, Roh Deok, Chang Hang-jun, Lee Myung-Se)
Four films about hitmen.
A Samurai In Time
(Country: Japan; Year: 2023; Director: Jun'ichi Yasuda; Writer: Jun'ichi Yasuda; Stars: Norimasa Fuke, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Hajime Inoue, Ichiko Kurenai, Rantaro Mine)
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
Fantastic Planet and Dead Mail
She Loved Blossoms More
(Country: Greece, France, New Zealand; Year: 2024; Director: Yannis Veslemes; Writer: Dimitris Emmanouilidis, Yannis Veslemes; Stars: Dominique Pinon, Julio Katsis, Sandra Abuelghanam, Panos Papadopoulos, Aris Balis)
Hoping to bring their dead mother back to life, three brothers build a time machine.
Sister Midnight
(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Karan Kandhari; Writer: Karan Kandhari; Stars: Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Dev Raaz)
Black comedy about a woman trying to navigate a newly arranged marriage.
Vulcanizadora
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Joel Potrykus; Writer: Joel Potrykus; Stars: Joel Potrykus, Joshua Burge, Sherryl Despres, Bill Vincent, Michael Saunders, Melissa Blanchard, Solo Potrykus, G. Foster II, Scott Ayotte, Dennis Grantz, Jaz Edwards)
Two friends embark on a disturbing mission in the Michigan woods. When their plan unravels, one must face the surreal and unsettling consequences back home.
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