Everything you ever wanted to know about FrightFest... but were afraid to ask! The organisers and fans chart the history of the festival and discuss the key films and events that have helped shape the event since its inception in 2000, and attempt to explain what's been behind the festival's ever growing success.
Inspired by solar science and spectacular images of the Sun, 'Celestial Motion' explores humans’ relationship to the universe through a cosmic meld of contemporary dance and motion-capture technology.
Official Selection Hot Docs 2018 - World premiere
Nineteen-year old Londoner Leon returns home to take care of his alcoholic mother and adjust to life as an adult after an adolescence spent in and out of foster care. Frustrated by his lack of an education and his bleak financial prospects, Leon finds solace in the boxing ring. He soon meets the rebellious and beautiful Twiggy, who is squatting in abandoned houses to escape her family’s unfeeling affluence. As rumblings of riots begin in the streets and police and protesters engulf his neighborhood, Leon must decide whether to join his friends and fight or seek a new life with Twiggy.
A raw and unflinching look at one young man’s struggle to better himself, when the world appears to be dead-set against him. Set against the turbulent backdrop of one of London’s most violent periods of social unrest, a story full of fire, rage, and vulnerability.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2018 - International Narrative Competition - World premiere
Indie kid Rich lives in a remote cottage in Wales with his mum, Nesta, who is a novelist. He plays a guitar, but mostly to the sheep outside the house and the majestic, barren hills opposite.
Nesta is a heavy smoker and has just been brought back from the hospital, suffering, probably, from a lung cancer. Rich is looking after her and helping out with the shopping and house work, but wants her to make a change. They have a heated argument, but she refuses to accept the fact that cigarettes could be the cause for her decease, even though she gets slimmer and noticeably weaker.
She spends her days in bed, having lost her writing inspiration. She is visited by the local mobile GP, fitness maniac Dr Mickiewicz, who runs through forests and fields to reach his patients. He prescribes her movement and to Nesta's astonishment, even a fitness program which she has to follow. Nesta finds the very idea of her getting fit and taking up running ridiculous...
Wounded and armed with a rifle, a young man hides out in the storage room of an empty building awaiting the arrival of his target - political candidate Debra Gray. Haunted by two conflicting accounts of his brother's death in police custody, his obsession with Debra Gray slowly escalates as his sanity begins to unravel.
Hotshot Air Force pilot, Rick Janssen, is chosen for a military experiment that will create a human being capable of surviving the harsh environments of Saturn’s moon, Titan. The experiment is successful, turning Rick into a super-human, but it also creates deadly side-effects which threatens the life of Rick, his wife and family, and possibly humanity itself.
Newlywed Elizabeth arrives with her brilliant scientist husband Henry to his magnificent estate, where he wows her with lavish dinners and a dazzling tour of the property. The house staff Claire and Oliver treat her deferentially but she can't shake the feeling something is off. Henry explains that everything in his world now belongs to her, all is for her to play in - all except for a locked-off room he forbids her from entering. When he goes away for business Elizabeth decides to investigate and finds she may not be who she thinks she is at all.
A science fiction reimagining of the French folktale 'Bluebeard'.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2018 - Visions - World premeire
Black comedy horror following clueless electrician Rio Tard who is unwittingly possessed at a séance while working for charlatan clairvoyant Keef Raven. Rio continues with his work not realizing the demon that possesses him is using electrical appliances to kill who were present at the séance.
Narrated by a weird host, and featuring a sick tramp, a killer drone, a dodgy transvestite, a son who loves his mum a little too much and a whole lot of other shite...
Berlin. Forty years from today. A roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science-fiction Casablanca. Leo Beile, a mute bartender has one reason and one reason only for living here, and she’s disappeared. But when Leo’s search takes him deeper into the city’s underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons seem to be the only recurring clue, and Leo can’t tell if they can help, or who he should fear most.
Set at the dawn of time, when dinosaurs and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, 'Early Man' tells the story of how one plucky caveman unites his tribe against a mighty enemy and saves the day (while also inadvertently inventing the game of football!).
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Open-air Screenings
Dame Vivienne Westwood: punk, icon, provocateur and one of the most influential originators in recent history. This is the first film to encompass the remarkable story of her life, her fashion, her activism and her cultural importance, as she fights to maintain her brand‘s integrity, her principles – and her legacy.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - World Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere
