BIFFF 2019 (37th)
37th Brussels International Festival of Fantasy, Thriller and Science-Fiction Film http://www.bifff.net/
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- DirectorKevin KölschDennis WidmyerStarsJason ClarkeAmy SeimetzJohn LithgowDr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discover a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home.
- DirectorJohn Andreas AndersenStarsKristoffer JonerAne Dahl TorpEdith Haagenrud-SandeIn 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the "Oslo Graben" which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs that indicate that we can expect a major future earthquake in Oslo.
- DirectorTimo VuorensolaStarsLara RossiVladimir BurlakovKit DaleA follow-up to the film Iron Sky (2012) in which Nazis plan to take over the world after lying dormant in a secret military base on the moon.
- DirectorTony WestStarsChris GeereTina IvlevDavid NewmanAfter a team of reality TV ghost hunters experience true paranormal activity, they must figure out a way to escape with their lives intact.
- DirectorAntonio TublenStarsZoë TapperEd SpeleersAntonia Campbell-HughesA couple try to save their marriage during a zombie apocalypse.
- DirectorClayton JacobsonStarsShane JacobsonClayton JacobsonKim GyngellTwo brothers' murder plans go somewhat sideways in this Australian dark comedy.
- DirectorTalal SelhamiStarsSofiia ManoushaYounes BouabOmar LotfiFour childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend.
- DirectorNeil MarshallStarsDavid HarbourMilla JovovichIan McShaneCaught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, Hellboy battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.
- DirectorPing LumpraploengStarsTheeradej WongpuapanRatnamon RatchirathamIn an abandoned 6-meter deep pool, a couple is stranded there with a deadly predator.
- DirectorBen KentStarsMark HeapSean VereyDanny KirraneWhen a hopeless stag party goes on a mock zombie survival weekend, an unfortunate turn of events leave them fighting for their lives.
- DirectorShin'ichirô UedaStarsTakayuki HamatsuYuzuki AkiyamaHarumi ShuhamaThings go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
- DirectorJavier Ruiz CalderaStarsDani RoviraAlexandra JiménezJulián LópezJuan López, an ordinary and anonymous office worker, decides to expose his superpowers to turn into the first Spanish superhero: Superlópez.
- DirectorSonny LagunaTommy WiklundStarsThomas LennonJenny PellicerNelson FranklinAll hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets up for auction at a convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree that's motivated by an evil as old as time.
- DirectorSøren Juul PetersenStarsAnne BergfeldKarin MichelsenDamon YoungerDuring the night of the biggest sports final of the year, two girls working in a gas station experience strange incidents. Is it just staged pranks or is it something of a more aggressive intent?
- DirectorErwan MarinopoulosStarsEugene SimonDimitri LeonidasAshley ThomasWithin 24 hours, three people have been murdered in London, all by the name of Ben Lyk. Scotland Yard decides to gather together all the other Ben Lyks located in London until they can figure out who's after them and why.
- DirectorPablo ParésStarsEsteban ProlHoracio FontovaSergio PodeleiYear 2101. The southern hemisphere of planet Earth has become the world's garbage dump. In the middle of this enormous cemetery, a man will wake up without remembering anything about his past, his present or why he is there.
- DirectorKim Sung-hoonStarsHyun BinSeo Ji-hyeJang Dong-gunLee Chung is a Prince of Joseon, but he has been taken hostage to the Qing Dynasty.
- DirectorSam LevinsonStarsOdessa YoungAbraSuki WaterhouseAfter a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos descends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
- DirectorYong-hwa KimStarsHa Jung-wooJu Ji-hoonKim Hyang-giIn the afterlife, one guardian helps a man through his trials, while his two colleagues help a former guardian on earth.
- DirectorQuarxxStarsJean-Luc CouchardMelanie GaydosZelie Rixhon30-year-old factory worker Simon lives a solitary existence on a decrepit farm in the remote French countryside. Devoting his time to caring for his sister Estelle, who was left severely disabled when a childhood game went horribly wrong, Simon is plagued by guilt and depression. But he sees a way out, looking to otherworldly forces as a means of liberating both himself and his sister from the corporeal prisons in which they are confined.
- DirectorChristian VolckmanStarsOlga KurylenkoKevin JanssensJoshua WilsonMatt and Kate buy an isolated house. While moving, they discover a strange room that grants them an unlimited number of material wishes. But since Kate has had two miscarriages, what they long for the most is a child.
- DirectorRahi Anil BarveAnand GandhiAdesh PrasadStarsSohum ShahJyoti MalsheAnita Date-KelkarA mythological story about a goddess who created the entire universe. The plot revolves around the consequences when humans build a temple for her first-born.
- DirectorHarmony KorineStarsMatthew McConaugheySnoop DoggIsla FisherA rebellious stoner named Moondog lives life by his own rules.
- DirectorAbe ForsytheStarsLupita Nyong'oAlexander EnglandJosh GadA washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids'-show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
- DirectorVaughn SteinStarsMargot RobbieSimon PeggDexter FletcherA film noir taking place in a train terminal at night. Add two male assassins, a female assassin, a waitress, a teacher, a janitor, and a crime boss. Add revenge. Who says mystery is a lost art?
- DirectorKazuya ShiraishiStarsKoji YakushoJunko AbeYôsuke EguchiHiroshima Police detective Ogami Shogo and his partner Hioka Shuichi are investigating the disappearance of a company's employees amidst an escalating yakuza turf war in 1988. Blood, shooting and death is everywhere. At the same time, there is a suspicion that the former man has his own ties to the thugs. Certainly many of his methods and actions are thuggish, violent and should be illegal.
- DirectorRenny HarlinStarsNick CheungRichie JenZi YangWorking in the morgue, a hardworking forensics expert and his assistant are suddenly accosted by masked intruders who demand access to a body involved in a recent crime.
- DirectorBrett SimmonsStarsFran KranzAlyson HanniganBrittany S. HallA camp counselor suffering from blackouts finds himself surrounded by murder victims. He turns to his horror movie enthusiast friend for advice, and to contend with the idea he may be the killer.
- DirectorPedro C. AlonsoStarsEddie MarsanPaul AndersonIvana BaqueroA radio star experiences the worst night of his life when stalkers assault the radio station where he's working.
- DirectorByung-woo KimStarsHa Jung-wooLee Sun-kyunJennifer EhleA captain and his team of 12 soldiers infiltrate a secret underground bunker to take out a target in the Korean demilitarized zone.
- DirectorOwen EgertonStarsRobbie KayJacob BatalonSeychelle GabrielFans flock to a festival celebrating the most iconic horror movies, only to discover that the charismatic showman behind the event has a diabolical agenda.
- DirectorKwon LeeStarsKong Hyo-jinKim Ye-wonKim Sung-ohA thriller that begins with a murder incident with a trace of a stranger entering the house of Kyung Min who lives alone in the one room.
- DirectorMike AhernEnda LoughmanStarsMaeve HigginsBarry WardWill ForteRose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.
- DirectorS. Craig ZahlerStarsMel GibsonVince VaughnTory KittlesOnce two overzealous cops get suspended from the force, they must delve into the criminal underworld to get their proper compensation.
- DirectorChristian AlvartStarsMoritz BleibtreuJasna Fritzi BauerLars EidingerThriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
- DirectorZach LipovskyAdam B. SteinStarsEmile HirschBruce DernGrace ParkA bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father's protective and paranoid control.
- DirectorPark Hoon-jungStarsKim Da-miJo Min-sooChoi Woo-sikA high school student with amnesia tries to uncover what has happened to her. All leading her into deeper troubles ultimately revealing a darkness she could not have imagined.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsIsabelle HuppertChloë Grace MoretzMaika MonroeA young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.
- DirectorBart LaytonStarsSpencer ReinhardWarren LipkaEric BorsukFour young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
- DirectorGracia QuerejetaStarsMaribel VerdúJuana AcostaPaula EchevarríaA desperate housewife tries to cover up her son after he kills his father.
- DirectorBilly SeneseStarsShane CarruthPoorna JagannathanJeremy ChildsA hospital psychiatrist's own sanity is pushed to the edge when a frightened amnesiac patient insists that he has died and brought something terrible back from the other side.
- DirectorCameron MacgowanStarsDawn Van de SchootHailey FossKaeleb Zain GartnerWhile adjusting to a new life in a quiet suburban community, a recently divorced mother and her two teens receive mysterious red letters instructing them each to kill or be killed.
- DirectorKim Min-HoStarsMa Dong-seokSong Ji-hyoKim Sung-ohDong-Chul (Don Lee) and Ji-Soo (Song Ji-Hyo) are a happily married couple. One day, Dong-Chul comes home to find his house in disarray and his wife is missing.
- DirectorNicolás PuenzoStarsGermán PalaciosPeter LanzaniJuana BurgaIn a post-apocalyptic era, somewhere in the desert highlands, the protagonists, a young couple played by Peter Lanzani and Juana Burga, live in a refugee camp during the Water War. Upon learning of the young woman's pregnancy, they decide to escape to the sea in search of a better future for their son. For this they begin a journey through kilometers of desert terrain and devastated by industrial exploitation, meeting a war correspondent in the middle of the trip.
- DirectorDoron PazYoav PazStarsHani FurstenbergIshai GolanKirill CernyakovDuring an outbreak of a deadly plague in Lithuania, a mystical woman must save her tight-knit Jewish community from a gang of ruffians led by a local landowner, but the entity she conjures to protect them is a far greater evil.
- DirectorWi Ding HoStarsJack KaoHong-Chi LeeLouise GrinbergThis is a story about a common man who has extraordinary events in his mundane life. The film depicts the protagonist's turns of events in three eras, three seasons, three nights, in the same city, as told with reverse chronology.
- DirectorJacopo RondinelliStarsLorenzo RichelmyLudovic HughesSimone LabargaKyle and Max are two extreme sports athletes, two riders in continuous challenge and search for money. When they find out of the enigmatic proposal for a mysterious contest by an unknown organization, Black Babylon, they can't turn down the $ 150,000 prize. But the "contest" will turn out to be much darker and deadlier than expected.
- DirectorYûichi SatôStarsTao TsuchiyaKyôko YoshineTadanobu AsanoAn ugly but talented actress gains the power to copy the bodies of beautiful actresses temporarily. But how long can she maintain the facade?
- DirectorJosh LoboStarsScott PoythressAJ BowenSusan BurkeA man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.
- DirectorMathieu MortelmansStarsSpencer BogaertTine ReymerBjarne DevolderTeenage Daan struggles after his brother's death, with his home bound mother and detached father. Meeting a homeless man offers his mother a chance to heal.
- DirectorJulian RichardsStarsJemma DallenderCostas MandylorBritt McKillipA young woman held captive by her stepfather becomes the focus of a female vigilante.
- DirectorTony D'AquinoStarsAirlie DoddsLinda NgoTaylor FergusonA woman is kidnapped and finds herself an unwilling participant in a deadly game where women are hunted by masked men.
- DirectorJason KwanJing WongAman ChangStarsDonnie YenAndy LauPhilip KeungAn illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord.
- DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsStephen McHattieHenry RollinsJuliette LewisOn the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stone cold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.
- DirectorAndrew DesmondStarsFreya TingleySimon AbkarianJames FaulknerA gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances. She discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret.
- DirectorTrevor StevensStarsRiley GeisLogan HuffmanHeston HorwinRock Steady Row centers around a young college freshman who, after his bike is stolen, lands on a college campus and is compelled to take action against the reigning fraternities and ultimately the dean.
- DirectorJeremy KastenStarsSarah HarperBrandon Thane WilsonKatie FosterWhile serving detention for a horrific incident, four students are locked in a school and hunted by a gang dressed as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While fighting to survive, each student must confront past traumas.
- DirectorMitzi PeironeStarsMadeline BrewerKurt AffairImogen WaterhouseTwo wanted women decide to rob their wealthy psychotic friend who lives in the fantasy world they created as children; to take the money they have to take part in a deadly perverse game of make believe.
- DirectorGerard QuintoEsteve SolerDavid TorrasStarsFrancesc OrellaRosa CadafalchPol LópezThe family, the tenant, the wedding, the businessman, the neighbors, the poor child and the run over. 7 black comedy stories of a dysfunctional society.
- DirectorPella KagermanHugo LiljaStarsEmelie GarbersBianca CruzeiroArvin KananianA spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe.
- DirectorYûichi FukudaStarsShun OguriMasaki SudaKanna HashimotoThe Yorozuya gang returns to protect the country's shogun when the Shinsengumi police force finds itself in a crisis.
- DirectorKároly Ujj MészárosStarsAbigél SzõkeMónika BalsaiJános KulkaWould you believe in a policewoman who suffers from such serious panic disorders that she is afraid to get close to any crime scene and has been on permanent office duty for more than a decade? Would you believe a lone mother who is unfit to pay her mortgage and also raise her rebellious teenage daughter? Indeed, no one believes that the troubled ex-detective has discovered a serial murder case. Personal dramas and a murder mystery unfold in present-day Budapest, where demonstrations are part of the pre-election life of a city still trying to cope with the shadows of its historical and recent past. It is a city where nothing seems honest and true, except through the eyes of an emotionally unstable policewoman and her misfit daughter who wants to know who her father truly was.
- DirectorPavel SidorovStarsAleksandra DrozdovaAleksandr MolochnikovAnna SlyuSvetlana begins to have realistic nightmares following her brother's death, so she goes to an institute of Somnology for help. Placed into a collective lucid dream, she and other patients wake up in a different, more terrifying reality.
- DirectorHernán FindlingStarsFederico BalSofía Del TuffoCarla QuevedoAn experienced detective investigates a series of implausible murders. Things get a turn when a young nun, Caterina, confesses that she believes herself to be the killer.
- DirectorKyeong-Taek LimStarsLee Si-youngPark Se-wanLee Jun-hyukA woman seeks to take revenge when her young sister disappears and she finds out that her sister suffered violence and sexual abuse from school bullies.
- DirectorRasmus Kloster BroStarsChristine SønderrisKresimir MikicSamson SemereRie visits a tunnel-boring machine being used to construct the Copenhagen Metro. When an accident occurs, she must survive the claustrophobic conditions of an airlock with Ivo and Bharan whilst reconsidering their lives.
- DirectorLuna GualanoStarsAntonio BannòSidy DiopShiek DaudaIn the course of a demonstration in Rome against the opening of a refugee camp, an apocalypse of zombies breaks out.
- DirectorHae-Young LeeStarsRyu Jun-yeolKim Sung-ryungHalley KimA police detective determined to catch the unseen boss of Asia's biggest drug cartel joins hands with a revenge-thirsty member of the gang.
- DirectorYam LaranasStarsAnne CurtisPhoebe VillamorMercedes CabralThe passenger ship Aurora mysteriously collides into the rocky sea threatening an entire island. A young woman and her sister must both survive by finding the missing dead for a bounty.
- DirectorAndrew LauStarsLouis KooCheney ChenBea Hayden KuoSet in the final years of the Ming Dynasty, when the nation is gifted a rare creature by the Bruneian Empire. A member of the Imperial Secret Police is tasked to tame the beast but realising that it is a kind creature by nature, he releases it from the palace and then elopes with the daughter of a man executed on false charges. His action prompts the palace to put a hefty bounty on the creature and now martial arts masters are hunting for it, hoping to earn the bounty.
- DirectorDanishka EsterhazyStarsKatie DouglasCelina MartinSara CanningIn a highly regimented boarding school, a pair of students discover that things are not as they seem.
- DirectorGustavo HernándezStarsBelén RuedaEva De DominiciNatalia de MolinaA young theatre actress agrees to participate in a new stage play of a famous dramatist, without thought for the consequences.
- DirectorIlya MaksimovStarsAleksandra BortichEvgeniy TsyganovVladimir YaglychA psychological film exploring the fine line between reality and imagination.
- DirectorLuciano OnettiNicolás OnettiStarsGermán BaudinoMaria Eugenia RigonGustavo DalessanroIn the tradition of giallos of the early 70s a magician finds himself the target of a sadistic serial killer.
- DirectorSiu-Hung ChungJing WongStarsRyan ZhengYuqi ZhangYi-Lin SieIn the Temple of Xuanguang lived a Buddhist monk with supernatural powers named Butong. One day, his mentor, Kong, was struck by lightning and realized that he was the reincarnation of Crouching Tiger Arhat, who came to the human world to provide guidance to him.
- DirectorJacques KlugerStarsCharley Palmer RothwellRoxane MesquidaMarie ZabukovecWelcome to Paranoia, the ultimate escape game. Rule #1: Nothing is real. Rule #2: One of you will die. Lucas and Chloe, two passionate gamers, decide to participate to Paranoia, a very exclusive escape game. After solving a first riddle, they make it to the location of the finale in an abandoned mental hospital, lost in a frightening forest. There, four other participants are waiting on them. They soon realize that only one of them will get out of there alive. Based on the best selling novel "Puzzle" by Franck Thilliez, with more than 330'000 copies sold: "Hellish settings, characters manipulated like puppets, all the key ingredients to great suspense. All the pieces of the puzzle fit perfectly".
- DirectorOlga GorodetskayaStarsElena LyadovaVladimir VdovichenkovSevastian BugaevIgor is ready for anything for the sake of Polina's happiness and, in order to make up for the loss of her son, the spouses decide to adopt. But instead of an ordinary boy from the shelter, their family gets not just a "difficult" child .
- DirectorDavid AmitoMichael LaiciniStarsNicole TompkinsRowan SmythDan IstrateA young boy and girl enter the forest to dig a hole to Hell. Said to be a cursed film from the late 1970s, "Antrum" examines the horrifying power of storytelling.
- DirectorD.C. HamiltonStarsGino Anthony PesiBrinna KellyJason StuartA taxi driver finds himself trapped in a time loop. He picks up a pretty woman in a rural area at night. Later she disappears. The loop starts over, when he switches the meter back to vacant.
- DirectorBorys LankoszStarsMagdalena CieleckaRafal MackowiakModest RucinskiReporter Alicja Tabor returns to Walbrzych, the city of her childhood. There she will go back to all her hardcore family secret dramas, and start investigating a sinister case related to the disappearance of children.
- DirectorKar Lok ChinStarsEkin ChengJordan ChanMichael TseA group of mercenaries come together to pull of an epic heist.
- DirectorAdrian PanekStarsKamil PolnisiakNicolas PrzygodaSonia MietielicaChildren liberated from a Nazi concentration camp have to overcome hunger, thirst and vicious dogs in an abandoned mansion surrounded by the forest.
- DirectorLuca MinieroStarsMassimo PopolizioFrank MatanoStefania RoccaMussolini reappears in Rome 72 years after his death, finding a Country still full of problems like racism and hate for politicians. Misguised for an actor, he sides with a young filmmaker and starts traveling along Italy to reconquer it.
- DirectorPaul YoungStarsMizuki ItagakiTakahiro MiuraRiko NarumiA discriminated assistant director decides to remake a bran-new love movie. But the contingently-rewritten script awakens real ghost which possesses the actor and and causes death of field personnel.
- DirectorLee CroninStarsSeána KerslakeJames Quinn MarkeyKati OutinenA single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
- DirectorVictor DanellStarsChristoffer NordenrotLisa HenniJesper BarkseliusSweden faces a mysterious attack while Alex tries to reunite with his youth love, Anna.
- DirectorJelle StrooStarsGert De la MarcheAnne-Sophie DelhommeAlix VegaJean Barreau leads a spiritual commune on the countryside with the promise of a second life. When their doubles arrive at the house, his followers learn that Jean meant this promise quite literally. However, not everybody is as easily swayed by their capricious leader, who eventually starts to question his own beliefs.
- DirectorArno PluquetStarsMichel AngélyDaphnis BoelensMichael CambierBernadette and Serge decide against all odds to organize their wedding reception while Belgium is in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.
- DirectorShugo FujiiStarsTatsuji SugiyamaTomoya MochizukiDaiki TanakaOne morning. Fuma wakes up on the bed with his only son Ren dazzling as usual. However it is something different from the others. The place they wakes is in the deep forest. Suddenly a monster attacks them who is Japanese traditional monster known as Namahage. At the same time, a car drives into the forest not far from them. A wadding planner is taking two lovers and bride's father to the wedding ceremony hall for the rehearsal. However loses their ways. In the meantime, the car breaks down. When two stories comes together, the story goes in a direction where it can not be predict.
- DirectorChris ButlerStarsHugh JackmanDavid WalliamsStephen FryMr. Link recruits explorer Sir Lionel Frost to help find his long-lost relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. Along with adventurer Adelina Fortnight, this trio of explorers travel the world to help their new friend.