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Co-produced by Pete Tombs of Mondo Macabro, Zibahkhana (Hell’s Ground) marks the directorial début of Omar Ali Khan - a film historian and ice-cream chain owner - and is being billed as Pakistan’s first gore film.

The film follows a group of teenagers who are diverted on their way to a rock concert by protesters demonstrating against polluted water. Forced to take a back road, they soon encounter both a family of deranged murderers and rampaging undead ghouls.

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The story behind small independent productions is usually the same: a low budget, therefore a limited number of shooting days, and actors that are primarily pulled from the filmmakers’ inner circle. The story behind Firefly, the début film of Pete Marcy, is no different. Marcy and his friends have been putting together short films since they were in high school. You’re never too young to learn. Firefly cost less than six thousand dollars to make and was financed by independent production company Failure Boys in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Originally, the filmmakers meant to start the film with the ending, but they soon gave up on that idea, thereby giving Firefly the opportunity to work towards a both suspenseful and magical finale. This demands courage from the screen writers, because they burdened their main characters with the aftermath of an event which remains shrouded in mystery for the audience. Those main characters are Del, a guy who awakes in a car without knowing what happened; Brandt, floating around on a river; and Susan, a girl who has to be rushed to the hospital covered in blood and suffering from hypothermia. The time: Halloween night. What happened: unclear.

Firefly is screening at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival on 19th and 22nd April.

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In Russian comedy Svobodnoe plavanie (Free Floating), Lyonya - who works at the local factory - sees his planned career vanish when the factory is taken over by ‘the Americans’ and closed down. He becomes a regular visitor to the employment office and attempts a variety of dead end jobs - shoe seller in a market, plasterer, road mender.

He eventually meets a female school friend and, after trading insults, tells her she’s pretty.

Set in a small town on the Volga, where hardly anything happens, Boris Khlebnikov finds a quirky humour and sense of the absurd in his laconic observation of the mundane - a picture of Chuck Norris on a workbench, trying on shoes, a woman peeling a boiled egg, the creaking door of the employment office - and asks us to look again at the world about us.

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In Vier Minuten (Four Minutes), elderly piano teacher who works at a women’s penitentiary encounters an angry and violent young girl. Initially the teacher refuses to have anything to do with the convict but, as the story progresses, the teacher realises that the convict is incredibly talented and a relationship starts to develop…

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100 Tears is a Grim, Stark and twisted horror film from indie director Marcus Koch that explores the depths of depravity in which the human mind can ultimately sink. Saturated with Graphic Violence, and Gore, 100 `Tears aims to give gorehounds what they’ve been starving for.

Mark and Jennifer are two daring tabloid reporters, seeking out a bigger better story, which leads them into the bizzare world of a serial murderer known only as “The Teardrop Killer”. Hot on his bloody trail, they begin to piece together the things that make him tick, eventually finding themselves fighting for their very lives, deep within his cavernous house of horrors.

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Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream tells the hidden history of these landmark films, El Topo (1970), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Harder They Come (1973), Pink Flamingos (1972), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Eraserhead (1977). The documentary includes in-depth interviews with the directors, producers, writers and actors who were part of these low-budget, yet monumental productions, the exhibitors and distributors who played them, and the audiences who viewed them.

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In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen’s and the thousands of people like him.

Grimm Love has toured a ton of festivals and won Best Director, Best Actor and Best Cinematographer in the prestigious Sitges Film Festival and the Grand Prize of the European Film Festival in Luxembourg.

The film is due to be screened at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival in April and will be released in the US in 2007.

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Taxidermia is Gyorgy Palfi’s grotesque tale of three generations of men: grandfather, father and son. One is an orderly, one is a leading sportsman, and one is a master taxidermist. One desires love, the other success, and the third immortality.

The grandfather lives in his fantasies and on cold winter evenings he warms up his freezing little shed with his feverish dreams. Nothing can stop his fertile imagination.

The father stuffs himself. For four years he was the first in his section in the Confectionery Industry. He is still unbeatable in chocolate wafers with an individual record of 2.98 (just as a comparison Igor Vostongonoff was the European champion in Sophia with 3.21.).

The son stuffs animals. He was born one and a half kilos. Now he has less than one and a half minutes left. He goes in for something that nobody has ever imagined before.

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Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, Khadak tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman. A plague strikes the animals and the nomads are forcibly relocated to desolate mining towns. Bagi saves the life of a beautiful coal thief, Zolzaya, and together they reveal the plague was a lie fabricated to eradicate nomadism. A sublime revolution ensues.

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Nina is the voluptuously alluring girlfriend of Johnny, a charming but delusional crook. She is quite fed up of her current lifestyle especially the drunken dreams of Johnny and, to escape from her weary life she casually sleeps with an old friend, Teddy. One night after an argument with Johnny, she storms home where she is abducted by a pair of thugs and is fortunately rescued by a timid and guilt-ridden girl, Monella.

Even though they are from two very different worlds, they quickly become close friends and sooth each other lives.

Johnny hearing about Nina’s ordeal with the thugs, sadly attempts to win her heart back by going on a crazy revenge spree. This scares Nina off even more. Nina eventually tells Monella of her ploy of escaping from Johnny’s seedy world by conspiring to steal his much talked about hidden stash, stored in a safety deposit box deep in the neon city.

Monella reluctantly agrees to help…and we follow each of their dangerously entangled lives until their ultimate and timely fate.

No Right Turn is a haunting fairy-tale thriller set between snowy landscapes and a neon city.

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