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Fréwaka and The Wailing
The Balconettes
(Year: 2024; Director: Noémie Merlant; Writer: Noémie Merlant; Stars: Souheila Yacoub, Noémie Merlant, Sanda Codreanu)
Three women get stuck in a Marseille apartment during a heatwave.
Bury Your Dead
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Marco Dutra; Writer: Marco Dutra, Ana Paula Maia; Stars: Selton Mello, Marjorie Estiano, Danilo Grangheia, Betty Faria, Maria Manoella, Chao Chen, Vittória Seixas, Magali Biff, Carlos Francisco, Gustavo Coelho, Everson Anderson, Ricardo Gelli, Gilda Nomacce, Majeca Angelucci, Clarissa Kiste)
A man embarks on an odyssey to save his girlfriend from a religious cult.
Chain Reactions
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alexandre O Philippe; Writer: Alexandre O Philippe; Stars: Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, Karyn Kusama)
Exploration of the impact of Texas Chain Saw Massacre 50 years after it was made.
Fréwaka
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2024; Director: Aislinn Clarke; Writer: Aislinn Clarke; Stars: Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya)
A troubled home carer finds her grip on reality starts to slip after she goes to help an elderly agoraphobic.
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.
The Surfer
(Country: Australia, US; Year: 2024; Director: Lorcan Finnegan; Writer: Thomas Martin; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Nicholas Cassim, Alexander Bertrand, Justin Rosniak, Rahel Romahn, Finn Little, Charlotte Maggi, Nina Young, James Bingham, Rory O'Keeffe, Talon Hopper, Miranda Tapsell, Radek Jonak, Austen Wilmot, Jake Fryer-Hornsby)
Humiliated in front of his son by surf gang, a man gets drawn into an escalating conflict.
The Wailing (El Llanto)
(Country: Spain, France, Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Pedro Martín-Calero; Writer: Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabel Peña; Stars: Ester Expósito, Mathilde Ollivier, Àlex Monner, Tomás del Estal, Sonia Almarcha, José Luis Ferrer, Malena Villa, Claudia Roset, Lautaro Bettoni, Pierre Marquille, Miguel Belaustegui, Lía Lois)
Something’s stalking Andrea, but nobody, not even herself, can actually see it. Twenty years ago, 10,000 kilometres away, the same presence terrorised Marie. Camila was the only person capable of understanding what was happening to her, but nobody believed them. On taking a stand against that oppressive threat, all three women hear the same horrific sound. Wailing.
The Weekend
(Country: Nigeria; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Emeke Oriahi; Writer: Egbemawei Dimiyei Sammy, Vanessa Kanu, Freddie O Anyaegbunam Jr; Stars: Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Bucci Franklin, Meg Otanwa, Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey, Gloria Anozie-Young, Damilola Ogunsi)
Meeting her fiancé's estranged family, an orphan discovers that having relatives is not always the blessing she imagined.
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