Getting Ready for Film February

February is at our doors, yay!

The month of February is a special kind of "light at the end of the tunnel" time for me - the last month of the hated wintertime, the month you start feeling the days growing longer and spring is hopefully around the corner... To sweeten these last dark weeks, I declared the whole month as a movie month for myself in which I take my annual leave to watch as many movies as I can during the Final Girl Berlin Film Festival (FGBFF)* as well as the Berlinale Film Festival.

The Berlinale schedule will be announced in February, but the Final Girls Berlin have informed that the FGBFF will this year take place between February 1st - 5th.

The opening act is Raquel 1:1 directed by Mariana Bastos from Brasil and is supposedly about religion horror, sounds good to me! As each year I'm especially interested in the shorts and the block titles this year include the semi-traditional Female Bonds, Creatures, Body Horror, Queer Horror, Bodily Autonomy, The young 'n Deadly and Midnight Horror as well as "special" concepts such as Close to Home and High Tension. The talks revolve around female made rape revenge fiction, Mexican post-millenium horror and hagsploitation. Here's the full program 2023.

I haven't been feeling great lately, so I'm really hoping to be fit and ready until February to hopefully see the complete program, can't wait!

*Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. They are committed to creating space for female voices and visions, whether monstrous, heroic or some messy combination of the two, in the horror genre.