Club VXN 13 (2024)

Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can’t afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.

Popoy and Basha have had a wonderful wedding, but their subsequent married life turns out to be extremely difficult.

Simple and quiet moments in the life of an elderly Lebanese couple who are following the madness and chaos of the 2011 Egyptian revolution through their TV set.

Only a few hours into his shift, a cab driver in Tripoli, Lebanon finds a lone boy sitting in the backseat of his car. The boy’s peculiar silence forces the cabbie to deal with his most unique passenger yet.

A gorgeous and smart film by Daniel Garcia and Rania Attieh, Almost, Brooklyn, gives us an old man doing just what audiences did, crossing the bridge. “I’ve lived in Manhattan all my life, and I’ve never been to Brooklyn. Take me there,” says the old man, armed with an 8mm camera, to the South Asian cabbie. The film, a pet project of the living legend and Iranian new-waver Abbas Kiarostami, ushers the audience through a surreal and very telling sojourn in the magical borough”.

Anti-war tale in which several characters recollect their First World War experiences.

The Hague, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Two ambitious lawyers face each other in the trial of Milorad Krstić, who’s accused of committing war crimes as a commander in the Bosnian war. The defender, Mikhail Finn, has managed to refute all the accusations against his client. Convinced of Krstic´s guilt, Catherine Lagrange, the prosecutor, summons a young man with incriminating evidence against Krstić. He claims to have been abandoned by his parents as a child and to have been one of Krstić’s soldiers. Defender Finn starts to investigate in order to verify the witness’ testimony – and soon encounters the young man’s family. Inspired by a true story.

'Euskal Harriaren ABDak' is a collective film made up by 26 horror, science fiction and fantasy short films. The shorts are directed by Basque filmmakers and amateur groups.

Frank Quinlan e Huey Driscoll, dois repórteres de um tabloide de Chicago, juntamente com Dorothy Winters, um "especialista em anjos", são convidados a viajar para o Iowa rural para investigar uma carta de uma mulher de idade na qual ela afirma que compartilha sua casa com um verdadeiro Arcanjo vivo chamado Michael. Quando chegam eles veem que suas afirmações são verdadeiras - mas Michael não é o anjo que eles esperavam: ele fuma, bebe cerveja, tem uma libido muito ativa e tem um vocabulário bastante colorido. Na verdade, eles nunca acreditariam se não fosse pelas duas asas emplumadas que sobressaiam de suas costas. Michael concorda em viajar para Chicago com o trio, mas o que eles não percebem é que a jornada que estão prestes a realizar mudará suas vidas para sempre.

Após um pequeno acidente, o Doutor John Dolittle recupera o dom de infância de conversar com animais. Mas esta habilidade rara começa a causar muitas confusões na vida do médico, que agora tem que cuidar de macacos embriagados e leões deprimidos que precisam de ajuda. O comportamento estranho de Dr. Dolittle acaba fazendo com que ele vá parar em um hospital psiquiátrico.

One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony of his sanity, his iPhone video diary ultimately becomes an unfiltered look at the mind of an untreated schizophrenic.

Marian, a classics teacher with regrets about not living life to the fullest, is unaware that she is being tested by the gods as she tries to reach a difficult student.

"An Affirmative Act" is pro-gay marriage film, starring Charles Durning, Eric Etebari, Costas Mandylor, Rachael Robbins, and Blanche Baker, about a lesbian couple where one pretends to be a man in order for the two to get married and equal benefits. A slice of life of a young, professional married couple with their darling baby turns a sharp, dark corner when the pair are arrested and charged with several counts of fraud. The reason: Terry and Samantha Succi aren't the man and woman that they purported to be... Terry and Samantha married under false pretenses, ignoring state law that discriminates against homosexual partners and prohibits them from receiving the same rights and benefits as their straight counterparts.

When estranged father, dreamer, and visionary architect Glen Howard Small bequeaths his daughter the task of writing his biography, she answers instead with a provocative film about his precarious career and thorny private life. At 31, Glen Small, founder and faculty member of the internationally acclaimed Southern California Institute of Architecture, was a rising star. At 61, he can barely pay his bills. In the tradition of My Architect and The Royal Tenenbaums, filmmaker Lucia Small digs deep to explore the delicate tension between her father's obligations to family and his life-long passion to "save the world through architecture."

After the death of their mother, two sisters are forced to question and redefine their love for each other.

Depois de assistir a um vídeo desagradável estranhamente familiar, Enid, uma censora de filmes, começa a resolver o mistério do passado do desaparecimento de sua irmã, embarcando em uma busca que dissolve a linha entre ficção e realidade.

Quando Harry Sanborn, um homem já envelhecido. e sua jovem namorada Marin chegam à casa de sua família de praia nos Hamptons, eles descobrem que a mãe dela, a dramaturga Erica Barry, também pretende ficar para o fim de semana. Erica se escandaliza com o relacionamento e o machismo de Harry. Porém quando Harry tem um ataque cardíaco e um médico prescreve repouso na casa de Barry, ele se apaixona por Erica.

Carola Lehmann (Nina Hoss) está em férias no Quênia. Quando faltam poucos dias para retornar ela conhece Samburu (Jacky Ido), um guerreiro Lemalian que usa armas e roupas tradicionais. Fascinada, ela logo se apaixona. Carola decide cancelar o vôo de volta e mandar Stefan (Janek Rieke), seu namorado, retornar sozinho, enquanto ela própria percorre o Quênia tentando reencontrar Samburu.

Sprotte is about 12 years old and has a "gang" with her three friends Frieda, Melanie and Trude. Together the girls take Care of Sprottes grandmothers chickens. The new girl in School, Wilma, wishes to join the group, which Melanie is very unhappy about, and on top of all of that they have an on going revalisasion with a group of boys. Sprottes grandmother is planning on slaughtering the chickens! Will the Wild Chicks put Down their war with the boys? And Will they be able to save the chicken?

A bold anthology feature film made by an all-female creative team and cast. Based on the popular play of the same name the 80-minute movie follows 10 women scorned as they directly address their exes' new wives and lovers at an open mic night in Los Angeles. Created by a dynamic group of emerging filmmakers at a time when audiences are demanding films made both by and for women, the project taps into a social and political climate that's left women poised to take back their voices and be heard.