The year starts with great news for Berlin horror fans - the program and time schedule for the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival is ready! I have to say I'm super excited for this year's selection - especially, as always, for the short film selection, squee! Here goes their message:
Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, a festival showcasing horror directed, written, and/or produced by women and non-binary people will be doing things a bit differently this year - we are splitting our 6th edition! Part 1 of the festival will take place online on February 4-7 2021 and Part 2 will be on Halloween weekend, October 29-31 2021, at City Kino Wedding in Berlin.
Here is what we planned for February!
Our opening night film is
Sabrina Merten's debut feature FELLWECHSELZEIT (Berlin Premiere), a
disturbing, brilliantly conceived psychological thriller about young
Stephanie who is trapped in a dysfunctional family set-up with no way of
getting out.
Another film about being sealed off from the world is
DARKNESS (German Premiere), directed by Emanuela Rosi, following three
sisters who have been ordered to stay inside by their father due to the
apocalypse that's looming outside.
On the other end of the genre
spectrum is Brea Grant's horror-comedy 12 HOUR SHIFT (German Premiere)
revolving around Nurse Mandy (Angela Bettis), who wants to get through a
shift of her draining job while also trying to pull off a black market
organ-trading scheme.
Laura Casabé's THE RETURNED (Berlin Premiere) from
Argentina is a haunting genre tale that reckons with the country's
colonial past.
Jill Gevargizian's THE STYLIST (German Premiere) follows
Claire, a hairstylist who has trouble connecting with others and has
horrifying ways of expressing her distress.
Our February edition also
includes a wide array of shorts! Our short blocks are devoted to cyber
horror, young girl protagonists, comedy horror, isolation, and revenge.
We were able to invite more remarkable horror specialists that live far
away to this edition because geography was not a barrier! Our supporting
program will include talks on “Rethinking Women's Horror Filmmaking,“
“Girl's Gone Wild – Young Girls in Horror,“ “A History of Sadomasochism,
Domination, and Submission in Horror Cinema,“ from specialists from the
US, the UK, and Australia.
There will also be a screenwriting workshop,
a Spinsters of Horror podcast episode on satanic horror, a top 10 of
horror's best Final Girls, and more! All of our films will be accessible
to audiences all over Germany. We invite you to join us for four days
of chilling (and frequently timely) horror – in the comfort of your own
home!
Here's our festival trailer: https://vimeo.com/
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