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One Eyed FILMS AFM 2016 Lineup
The High Frontier / Dir Wojciech Kasperski / Poland / 98’ / 2016
Genre Thriller Action Drama
Austin Fantastic Fest Official Selection
Audience Award, Best Music, Best Actor - Koszalin Film Festival
Gdynia Film Festival Official Selection
Special jury mention - Krakow Off Camera Festival
‘’Slow-burning thriller… fabulous use of hostile natural environment…a powerful debut” AUSTIN FANTASTIC FEST
‘’Filmmaking that quickly becomes absorbing and gut-tightening’’ SCREENANARCHY
"Cinema for strong nerves!’’ OFF CAMERA
"A fantastic film for anyone who loves intelligent thrillers the climax is absolutely incredible’" SHUFFLE ONLINE
Mateusz an ex border patrol guard, sets of camping in an isolated forest as a bonding experience between with his two teenage sons.
As they reach an abandoned cabin, a stranger stumbles half frozen by their doorstep, mumbling something about a lost party of people, before collapsing, Mateusz decides to set off in the snow to find the group, leaving the boys to care for the stranger. However, after regaining consciousness this stranger does not seem to be a victim of chance he appeared to be, transforming the family holiday into a terrifying hellish experience.
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The Unraveling / Dir Thomas Jakobsen / 82 min / USA / 2015
Genre Horror Thriller
London Frightfest Selection
Nevermore Film Festival
ScreamFest
"tight and tense thriller" CULTURE CRYPT
"brilliantly dark" ADDICTED TO HORROR
"great thriller" QUIET EARTH
"clever, fast-paced, action packed thriller" BRITFLICKS
Michael has been trying to shake off his heroin habit. A surprise party at a forest with friends, away from his drugs, sends Michael on edge. Then, the body of one of friends found mortaly wounded. The remaining group is thrown into a vicious game of survival as Michael's anxiety escalates in a spiral.
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La Fille Aux Deux Visages / Dir Roman Serir / France / 2016
Genre Horror Thriller, Film Noir
Clarisse visits Marc’s stylish mansion for the first time. Marc is a mysterious , sophisticated plastic surgeion, they are dating, and Clarisse spends the night with him.
The following morning she if found drugged, handcuffed and Marc’s hostage.
Marc’s has a plan, his obsession is to transform Clarissa into Hélène, his beloved deceased girlfriend.
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Ratpocalypse / Dir Vladimir Uglin / 92 Min / USA
Geenre Fantasy Comedy Caper
Winner - SPORTS OSCARS
Do gooder, American Senator John Perryman, delivers a speech to the Moscow Parliament, predicting that “corruption will lead to disaster and that they would all lose the human form and metamorphose into rats!
One by one, prominent Russian politicians turn life size rats, causing a major world crisis.
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Cord / Dir Pablo Gonzales / Colombia / Germ / France / 2015 / 65 min
Genre Erotic Scifi
"Like ‘From Beyond’ crossed with “Fifty Shades of Gray’’
HORROR TALK HORROR TALK
"Cord is an accomplished and oddball..plus a welcome new chapter in dystopian storytelling’’ BRUTAL AS HELL
"A post-apocalyptic 9½ Weeks” JBSPINS
Grand Prix Du Jury & Prix De La Critique / Mauvais Genre - Best Film
Ravenna Nightmare - Best Film / Zinema Zombie - Best Actress
Fantasporto - Best Actress / Genrenale - Best Actress
Planet Terror - Macabro Film Festival - Sci-Fi London
European Independent Film Festival
On a post-apocalyptic world of never-ending winter, for a cast of survivors for whom physical contact has become a health hazard.
Inventor Czuperski creates and deals on devices to enhance solitary physical experience. One day he meets a new client, the mysterious Tania.
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Massacre Country / Dir André de C. Mello, Marcos DeBrito / 115 min / Brazil / 2015
Genre Outrageous Slasher
Best Latin american Film
Fantaspoa Film Festival
Official Selection Morbido Fest Zinema Zombie
Mostra de Sao Paulo
"Spiralling vortex of blood, laughter, alcohol and horror" MAGAZINE MX
"Hybrid of Jason and the Texas Chain Saw Massacre" CINEMA UOL
''Re imagines the genre in same way as Tarantino, Rodriguez, Rob Zombie'' PREVIEW MAGAZINE
A group of friends hire a country house for the weekend unaware of the horrors awaiting.
A clown is arrested by the police near the scene of the crime. Roaming the countryside, a local wildboar farmer searches for flesh to feed his animals.
Nothing is as it seems however.
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The Drought / Dir Adrian Fabrissin / Argentina / 82 min
Genre Drama
An impoverished farmer’s livelihood is threatened by an endless drought, eviction from his ranch and his hopeless addiction to alchool.
In a state of drunken stupor, the prostituion of his teenage daughters becomes his only means of salvation.
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Neckan: Justice Awaits / Director Gonzalo Tapia / Spain
Genre Historical Thriller
Montreal Film Festival World Premiere
Morocco late 50’s , Santiago an young lawyer, son of an important Francoist politician, travels to Tétouan, then the Capital of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco after receiving an anonymous letter.
As Santiago gradually starts to unveil the dark secrets surrounding his real family’s mysterious disappearance, he uncovers a web of political intrigue surrounding the last years of the demise of the last Spanish colony.
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Thirst / Dir Joe Houlberg / 80 min / Ecuador / 2015
Genre Drama
"Impressive piece of work which looks great” BRUTAL AS HELL
Travelling as a foursome with her cousin and their respective boyfriends for a weekend away in her old family country home, makes life feel almost normal for blind 23 years old Sara.
Once there, all is not as it as seems, and the eerie abandonment of the Colonial house set in spectacular Ecuadorian tropical forest becomes the backdrop to the unraveling the past and family secrets, and in turns creating an unsettling dynamic between the travellers voyeuristic, perverse and sexually liberating in turns.
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Monsterman / Dir Anti Haase / Finland / 2014
Genre Music
Best Documentary - Jury Awards, Austin Film Festival 2014
Official Selection - CPH:Dox 2015
Official Selection - DocPoint Film Festival 2015
Official Selection - DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2015
"Instantly engrossing’’
"The Beat Rises from the Ashes" IS/T.T
"Enduring drummer tragedies that would depress Spinal Tap’’ STRAIGHT.COM
"Mr Lordi is King!’’ READER LETTERBOXED
"Terrific’’ DANGEROUS MINDS
Rock and Roll is Particularly cruel to its aging stars. "Monsterman" charts the rise of young heavy metal Finnish band Lordi ,whose outrageous performances in satanic grotesque costumes led them to run for and unlikely win, the Eurovision Song Contest.
Conceived by its frontman Tomi Putaansuu as a kid, the victory propelled the band into whirlwind fame, sell out world tours, international TV appearances, and national treasure status.
Five years later, their careers however spiralled downwards with an impressive dive, greatness being now only in distant memory.
The only gigs on offer seem to be a performance at Russian travel agents’ Convention in their "Santa Claus Village.
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Cannabis in Uruguay / Dir Federika Odrizola / Uruguay / 2016
Genre Human Rights
Traces the events which led to the historical watershed ruling by the government of Uruguay to regulate of the cultivation and sale of cannabis.
Connecting, charting and revealing the unique political,social and cultural circumstances which guided this innovative historical step forward.
The key actors in this process include politicians, intellectuals, social activists, doctors, lawyers, scientists and businessmen, all of whom share
their own perspective in this democratic process of civil liberty.
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Beavers:Invaders of the end of the World / Dir Pablo C. & Nicolas I. / Arg / 52"
Genre Ecology
Cine Latino Recontress De Toulousse 2015 (France)
FICMA 2015 (Spain)
MAFF 2015 (Estonia)
KLEFF 2015 (Malaysia)
SHH 2015
Since the misguided introduction of the Canadian beaver to Patagonia in the 50’s in an attempt to emulate the Canadian fur industry,
disregarding the fundamental differences in these countries ecosystems, this specie has been expanding to an alarming extent to all
surrounding Andean territory, destroying ancient forests and jeopardizing this unique and fragile ecosystem.
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