What better way to open the 41st BIFFF than with a teenage girl jumping from one dimension to the next, trying to save the world from impending doom alongside a magical cat and a talking three-legged chair? That teenager is Suzume, a seemingly ordinary high-schooler who on her way to class meets a strange fellow,… Continue reading SUZUME
Genre: Fantasy
A MONSTER CALLS
Twelve-year-old Conor has a lot on his plate. Sickly and dreamy, he’s the school’s favorite whipping boy. And he can’t find a sympathetic ear in his family. His father? Gone to live a new life in the United States. His mother? His mum… Conor loves her deeply, but he doesn’t want to add to her… Continue reading A MONSTER CALLS
THE THREE SISTERS OF TENMASOU INN
There’s this quaint out-of-time place called the Tenmasou Inn. It’s pretty exclusive though, in a world parallel to ours and strictly for people heading for the light at the end of the tunnel, also known as folks hanging between life and death. Don’t try looking for Trip Advisor comments either, just trust us it’s a… Continue reading THE THREE SISTERS OF TENMASOU INN
IN MY MOTHER’S SKIN
In his newest masterful melodrama, En la piel de mi mamá, Pedro Almodóvar continues in his signature colorful style to search for the raw emotional roots of his relationship with his mother. Just kidding! Love ya, Almo but here we get; or rather something quite literally gets in the skin of Lingaya, the mother of… Continue reading IN MY MOTHER’S SKIN
HALFWAY HOME
Krisztián, a young slacker raised by his aunt who’d rather teach him how to make magic potions than how to do his own laundry, is a lucky man. He was just accepted at his first job as a night watchman in a morgue. The description of the position, sitting on your ass and doing absolutely… Continue reading HALFWAY HOME
BLAZE
Unlike her classmates who are giggling while drawing dicks on bus stops, twelve-year-old Blaze is not quite ready yet to leave behind the innocent joys of childhood. Like playing with figurines, eating ice-cream and hanging out with her huge, imaginary dragon. But one event is going to jolt her into the ugliest reality of adulthood.… Continue reading BLAZE
Tistlebu
As a young urban couple on a working holiday hopes to connect with nature at Tistlebu farm, a primordial power comes into play, changing them both forever.
Alex’s Machine
Alex is the only girl in her “automotive biomechanics” class. For her degree, she has chosen to build an engine made of artificial flesh.
Divine Accounts
Monica is a normal woman with a normal life in any place in any of these modern times. However, one day, for an unimportant detail that could have been resolved like any other previous disagreement, she kills her husband. She thus discovers crime as a substitute for anxiolytics, liberation from all hypocritical moralism and, why… Continue reading Divine Accounts
Skinned
In an old building, lost in the middle of the swamp, live two strange women, Siamese twins by one leg. At night, the Flayed has terrifying nightmares in which she sees her sister’s flesh covering her own body…