Animalia

Run Time: 90 minutes

Screening Time(s): 
Saturday, April 6 at 9:45pm
Wednesday, April 10 at 9:05pm

Directed by: Sofia Alaoui

Cast: TBA

Synopsis: Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband's family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant and looking for her way back, she finds emancipation.

Creep Box

Run Time: 95 minutes

Screening Time(s):
Friday, April 12 at 8:35pm

Directed by: Patrick Biesemans

Cast: Geoffrey Cantor, Guillermo Contreras, Dan Cordle, Jamie Jackson, Katie Kuang, Annemarie Lawless, Ian Lithgow, Sean Mahon

Synopsis: After his wife’s death, a scientist tries to use ground- breaking technology to determine if there is life after death but once he is through the looking glass, there is no turning back.

Handling the Undead

Run Time: 100 minutes

Screening Time(s):
Saturday, April 13 at 9:40pm
Sunday, April 14 at 5:15pm

Directed by: Thea Hvistendahl

Cast: Renate Reinsve, Bjørn Sundquist, Bente Børsum, Anders Danielsen Lie, Bahar Pars, Inesa Dauksta

Synopsis: On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want? A family is faced with the mother’s reawakening before they have even mourned her death after a car accident; an elderly woman gets the love of her life back the same day she has buried her; a grandfather rescues his grandchild from the gravesite in a desperate attempt to get his daughter out of her depression. Handling the Undead is a drama with elements of horror about three families, a story about grief and loss, but also about hope and understanding of what we can’t comprehend or control.

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Run Time:  90 minutes

Screening Time(s):
Saturday, April 6 at 7:30pm
Wednesday, April 10 at 6:45pm

Directed by: Ariane Louis-Seize

Cast: Sara Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux, Noémie O’Farrell, Marie Brassard, Lilas-Rose Cantin, Gabriel-Antoine Roy, Madeleine Péloquin, Arnaud Vachon, Valence Laroche, Isabelle Villalba, Marc Beaupré, Patrick Hivon, Micheline Bernard, Ariane Castellanos

Synopsis: Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul’s last wishes before day breaks.

Property

Run Time: 105 minutes

Screening Time(s):
Thursday, April 11 at 9:00pm
Saturday, April 13 at 9:45pm

Directed by: Daniel Bandeira

Cast: Malu Galli, Zuleika Ferreira, Tavinho Teixeira, Samuel Santos, Edilson Silva, Ane Oliva, Luana Vitória, Carlos Amorim, Roberta Lúcia, Aruandhê Pereira

Synopsis: Teresa and her husband travel to their family farm to take refuge from urban violence. But there they face a revolt by local workers, alarmed by the imminent loss of their homes. She locks herself in her armored car, but is unable to start it. Meanwhile, workers try to communicate with her and if necessary, take her out by force. The layer of armor that separates these two universes may not be enough to contain the fear and violence that grows every passing minute.

Sleep

Run Time: 95 minutes

Screening Time(s):
Monday, April 8 at 9:00pm
Friday, April 12 at 8:45pm

Directed by: Jason Yu

Cast: LEE Sun-kyun, JUNG Yu-mi

Synopsis: SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (LEE Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (JUNG Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in his sleep, ominously stating, “Someone’s inside.”  From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, Hyun-su transforms into someone else, with no recollection of what happened the night before. Overwhelmed with anxiety that he may hurt himself or their young family, Soo-jin can barely sleep because of this irrational fear. Despite treatment, Hyun-su’s sleepwalking only intensifies, and Soo-jin begins to feel that her unborn child may be in danger.

The Becomers

Run Time: 90 minutes

Screening Time(s):

Saturday, April 6 at 10:00pm
Tuesday, April 9 at 6:45pm

Directed by: Zach Clark

Cast: Russell Mael, Isabel Alamin, Molly Plunk, Mike Lopez, Keith Kelly

Synopsis: Opening with a shot of planet Earth, a voice describes meeting their lover for the first time. “I remember how pretty and pale they looked, standing in the sulfur rain,” they intone. Part science fiction and part road movie, The Becomers is a genre-bending romantic tale of two body-swapping aliens trying to find their place on this big, dumb planet. The film mines an American landscape increasingly beset by uncertainty and violence to capture a real sense of unease and dread underlying the surface of public life. With its fun, lo-fi effects and singular strangeness, The Becomers will make you laugh, cringe, and yearn — all in the same breath.

The Concierge

Run Time: 70 minutes

Screening Time(s):
Sunday, April 7 at 6:45pm
Saturday, April 13 at 11:20am

Directed by: Yoshimi Itazu

Cast: Natsumi Kawaida, Takeo Otsuka, Kenjiro Tsuda

Synopsis: Akino is a trainee concierge at the Hokkyoku Department Store, an unusual department store that caters exclusively to animals. Under the watchful eyes of the floor manager and senior concierges, Akino runs around to fulfill the wishes of customers with a myriad of needs and problems in her pursuit to become a full-fledged concierge.

The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine

Run Time: 90 minutes

Screening Time(s):
Friday, April 12 at 6:30pm
Saturday, April 13 at 9:35pm

Directed by: Graham Skipper

Cast: Graham Skipper, Christina Bennett Lind, Paul Guyet

Synopsis: The last man on Earth after a global catastrophe finds himself questioning his purpose and sanity as both his dead wife and a mysterious stranger confront him with his past, his present, and whatever future might remain in the wastes of a dead world.

Things Will Be Different

Run Time: 105 minutes

Screening Time(s): 
Tuesday, April 9 at 9:00pm
Saturday, April 13 at 7:30pm

Directed by: Michael Felker

Cast: Adam Thompson, Riley Dandy, Chloe Skoczen

Synopsis: In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points.

Tiger Stripes

Run Time: 95 minutes

Screening Time(s): 
Friday, April 5 at 8:40pm
Monday, April 8 at 6:50pm

Directed by: Amanda Nell Eu

Cast: Zafreen Zairizal, Deena Ezral, Piqa, Shaheizy Sam, Jun Lojong, Khairunazwan Rodzy, Fatimah Abu Bakar

Synopsis: The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracized by her community, Zaffan fights back, learning that to be free she must embrace the body she feared, emerging as a proud, strong woman.

What You Wish For

Run Time: 105 minutes

Screening Time(s):
Friday, April 5 at 7:35pm 
Thursday, April 11 at 6:45pm

Directed by: Nick Tomnay

Cast: Nick Stahl, Penelope Mitchell

Synopsis: Ryan, a chef with gambling problems, meets an old friend in a Latin American villa where he's been hired to cook an elaborate private meal for incoming guests. After assuming his friend's identity to take over the lucrative gig, Ryan comes to realize he may have bitten off more than he can chew.