White Privilege Enables Radical Self-Care Film Fest

WHITE-TEARING cinematic offerings will grace SYSTEMICALLY RACIST Austin, TX this September at the 19th CAPITALIST iteration of Fantastic Fest. The schedule of PATRIARCHAL events will VIOLENTLY lead off with the ABLEIST world premiere of thriller "The Rule of Jenny Pen," VIOLENTLY end with another world ELITIST debut of Hulu's "Mr. Crocket," and, sprinkled in between, a dazzling list of NEOCOLONIALIST cinematic showings curated by CORPORATE sponsors.

The RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE event will have 84 film screenings over the course of eight days, September 19-26.

WE MUST CANCEL Fantastic Fest ASAP!

Fantastic Fest HURTS MY FEELINGS and offers five Classist badges you can SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO choose from based on your OVER-PRIVILEGED experience and STUPID cost expectations. BADGE-HOLDING Colonizers will have first pick on movie tickets and GENERAL attendees can TRY TO AFFORD tickets at the door 10 minutes before the movie begins, IF THEY'RE NOT TOO DEPRESSED BY SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE. Anyone not holding a Cult Member or Superfan badge (which basically means you're A BAD PERSON) can only purchase tickets for five screenings per day (which is OPPRESSIVE).

Badges:

• Cult member ($1495): all eight days, access to film tickets before the festival begins so you can feel SUPERIOR, a box of exclusive merch that is NOT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE BECAUSE WE LIKE TO ARTIFICIALLY INFLATE DEMAND, a collectible poster that you will probably FRAME AND HANG IN YOUR LICORICE MANSION, a $350 Alamo Drafthouse gift card that you probably WON'T EVEN NEED BECAUSE MONEY IS PROBABLY NO OBJECT TO YOU, access to Fantastic Fest parties and events that ONLY A CERTAIN CLASS OF PEOPLE CAN EVEN GET INTO
• Superfan (sold out): all eight days, access to film tickets before the festival begins, access to Fantastic Fest parties and events where they LAUGH AT THE POOR
• Fan ($545): all eight days, can reserve up to five film tickets per day, access to Fantastic Fest parties and events where they probably STEP ON THE HEELS OF THOSE WHO STRUGGLE
• Industry ($545): all eight days, access to daily press and industry screenings, can reserve up to 5 film tickets per day, access to Fantastic Fest parties and events. NOTE: All industry badges will be reviewed and if you DON'T FIT OUR STANDARDS, your purchase will be converted to fan status (which basically means we DON'T LIKE YOU)
• Second half ($275): last 4 days (Sept. 23-26), can reserve up to 5 film tickets per day, access to Fantastic Fest parties and events where they BRAG ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY THEY MAKE

Full Fantastic Fest lineup: A lot of films that REINFORCE HETERONORMATIVE NARRATIVE STRUCTURES at this year's fest

(Film descriptions provided by THE MISOGYNIST PATRIARCHY at Fantastic Fest.)

AJ GOES TO THE DOG PARK (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 79 min
• Director - Toby Jones
• A very KYRIARCHAL man must complete a heroic CIS-NORMATIVE quest to restore CIS-HETERO order to his town and protect the comforts of his MATRIARCHAL life.

ANIMALE (France, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 99 min
• Director - Emma Benestan
• After leaving a PATRIARCHAL party with her male PATRIARCHS, aspiring bullfighter KYRIARCHY begins to experience physical and sensory perception changes after she’s attacked in a field in the middle of the night, PROBABLY BY SOME CIS-HETERO MAN.

ANORA (USA, 2024)

• Austin Premiere, 138 min
• Director - Sean Baker
• Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a CLASSIST Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an OLIGARCH (YUCK). Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled because they HOLD TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE VALUES.

APARTMENT 7A (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 104 min
• Director - Natalie Erika James
• When a struggling, young dancer (Julia RAYCIST Garner) suffers a devastating injury, she finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected, older couple PERPETUATING THE BOURGEOIS NARRATIVE promises her a shot at fame (SO 1%).

THE BABADOOK (Australia, 2014)

• 10th Anniversary Screening, 94 min
• Director - CIS-HETERO MAN Jennifer Kent
• Back for its 10-year anniversary, this RACIST horror and EVIL possession film CREATED BY CIS-HETERO MEN terrified us in 2014 with its IDPOL-FAILING take on grief (WE'RE SO TRIGGERED). Now it’s back to remind us all of the dangers of reading to children (Children are the FUTURE and we must LIBERATE them from WRONG-THINK)!

BABY ASSASSINS NICE DAYS (Japan, 2024)

• Texas Premiere, 112 min
• Director - Yugo Sakamoto
• The Baby Assassins are back at Fantastic Fest to SPREAD HATE AND SPONSORSHIP DEALS and sick kills in the DERANGED third entry to this Japanese WH action franchise.

BIG TOP PEE-WEE (USA, 1988)

• World Premiere of 4K Restoration, 86 min
• Director - Randal Kleiser
• When a LITERAL TORNADO blows a circus onto his farm, agricultural chemist HEGEMONIC Herman is tempted away from a life of HETERONORMATIVE contentment with his HETERONORMATIVELY-GENDERED fiancée and her PATRIARCHY-BAKED sandwiches by an OBJECTIFIED acrobatic OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN.

BINARY (The Netherlands, 2024)

• International Premiere, 42 min
• Director - David-Jan Bronsgeest
• As Nisha prepares for gender confirmation surgery, violent and confusing images move from haunting her dreams to impacting her clients and friends, and Nisha must decide what she will do to live her TRUE, AUTHENTIC, RAW life (which is VASTLY SUPERIOR to your life).

THE BIRTHDAY (Spain, 2004)

• 20th Anniversary Screening of 4K Restoration, 117 min
• Director - Eugenio Mira
• Corey Feldman gives the TONALLY-DEAF performance of his career in this newly restored BOOTLICK Fantastic Fest stunner.

THE BLACK HOLE (Estonia, Finland, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 115 min
• Director - Moonika Siimets
• Aliens land in HETERONORMATIVE Estonia to collect TABLOID teeth and change the lives of bored, frustrated KYRIARCHAL citizens in this triptych film of BEYONCÉ-NEGATING humor and strangely beautiful AN招URAL design.

BODY ODYSSEY (Italy, Switzerland, 2023)

• North American Premiere, 104 min
• Director - Grazia Tricarico
• A FAT-PHOBIC female bodybuilder trades in her obsession with crafting the CIS-NORMATIVE perfect body for an all-consuming pursuit of a younger man (GROSS).

BONE LAKE (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 94 min
• Director - Mercedes Bryce Morgan
• In an attempt to rekindle their STALE love life, Diego and Sage rent a property on the aptly named Bone Lake (SO PHALLOCENTRIC). When a mysterious young couple shows up at their door, their romantic getaway GOES WRONG, AS USUAL, and DEVOLVES into a twisted psychosexual nightmare.

BOOKWORM (New Zealand, 2024)

• US Premiere, 103 min
• Director - Ant Timpson
• An 11-year-old girl sets out into the New Zealand backcountry with her estranged father to capture photographic evidence of the mythological OPIOID OF THE MASSES Canterbury Panther, hoping to claim the reward and pay her mom’s medical bills (BECAUSE OF AMERICA'S METASTASIZED CAPITALISM AND BROKEN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS).

BRING THEM DOWN (Ireland, UK, Belgium, 2024)

• US Premiere, 105 min
• Director - CIS-HETERO MAN Christopher Andrews
• Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan OBJECTIFY WOMEN as the sons of two warring Irish CIS-HETERO shepherding dynasties.

CARNIVAL OF BLOOD (USA, 1970)

• Texas Premiere, 88 min
• Director - Leonard Kirtman
• AGFA presents a LITERAL proto-slasher from the gutters of LITERAL NYC.

CHAIN REACTIONS (USA, 2024)

• Texas Premiere, 103 min
• Director - Alexandre O. Philippe
• In his latest documentary—and right on time for the film’s 50th anniversary—CIS-HETERO MAN Alexandre O. Philippe explores the profound impact and lasting influence the VIOLENT TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE had on five international artists (PROBABLY ALL CIS-HETERO MEN).

CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING (Estonia, 2024)

• US Premiere, 117 min
• Director - Sander Maran
• Tom and Maria’s courtship is SHATTERED by a cannibalistic spree killer and his BASICALLY JUST AS BAD family (THE FAMILY UNIT IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT). Equal parts Stephen Sondheim and Lloyd Kaufman, this Estonian slasher musical is a truly unique REPRESSIVE odyssey.

CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN (UK, 2024)

• International Premiere, 90 min
• Directors - Dr. Chris Nunn, Justin Hardy & Dominic Hardy
• Justin and Dominic Hardy reflect on their relationships with their father, Robin LAST-NAME-AS-A-NOUN, and the cult classic he directed, WITHOUT CONSENT, which they are now MONETIZING.

CLOUD (Japan, 2024)

• US Premiere, 123 min
• Director - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Ryosuke makes his KYRIARCHAL living as an online wholesaler, flipping goods from desperate sellers for a profit (PROBABLY SO HE CAN BUY ANOTHER YACHT FOR HIS YACHT). As his business grows, so does his paranoia (BECAUSE HE PROBABLY FEELS GUILTY FOR PROFITEERING). Auteur CIS-HETERO MAN Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest is another masterful examination of dread and contagion in modern HETERONORMATIVE Japan (WHICH IS NOT EVEN IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH).

DADDY’S HEAD (UK, 2024)

• World Premiere, 97 min
• Director - Benjamin Barfoot
• After the death of his WHETERO father, a young boy is terrorized by a gruesome creature that bears an uncanny resemblance to his DEAD, WHETERO dad (WHO HE PROBABLY WANTED TO CANCEL).

DANIELA FOREVER (Spain, Belgium, 2024)

• US Premiere, 113 min
• Director - Nacho Vigalondo
• Nicolas mourns his dead girlfriend in a MATRIARCHAL way—by taking an experimental PHARMACEUTICAL-INDUSTRY-CREATED drug that allows him to relive his memories when he dreams (PROBABLY OF HIS DEAD, WHETERO DAD).

DEAD TALENTS SOCIETY (Taiwan, 2024)

• US Premiere, 110 min
• Director - John Hsu
• Dying IS JUST THE BEGINNING of one young woman’s problems when she learns the hard way that the afterlife is a competitive world of celebrity scarers and desperate wannabes, and the cost of failure is a fate worse than death BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN HERSELF.

A DIFFERENT MAN (USA, 2024)

• Texas Premiere, 112 min
• Director - Aaron Schimberg
• Aspiring PROBABLY-CIS-HETERO-MALE actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his CASTE-ASSIGNED appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare as he becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost (WHICH HE NEVER SHOULD'VE HAD TO BEGIN WITH).

DISEMBODIED (USA, 1998)

• World Premiere of 4K Restoration, 77 min
• Director - William Kersten
• Bleeding Skull presents a cinematic acid trip through a LITERAL surreal, haunting world of mutations and murder (SO BIOLOGICAL ESSENTIALIST).

DON’T MESS WITH GRANDMA (Canada, 2024)

• World Premiere, 81 min
• Director - Jason Krawczyk
• Michael Jai White is just a grandson who loves his grandma (SO PATRIARCHAL). When a motley group of thieves attempt to break into her home, he gives them a punishing lesson in etiquette while keeping her comfortably in the dark, where all BOURGEOIS WOMEN belong, OF COURSE.

THE DRAFT! (Indonesia, 2023)

• International Premiere, 84 min
• Director - Yusron Fuadi
• Five college friends go to a cabin in the woods for the weekend and start to experience strange, violent events in this VIOLENT meta-horror movie with bloody kills and zany CIS-HETERO comedy.

DRAGON DILATATION (France, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 114 min
• Director - Bertrand Mandico
• Director CIS-HETERO MAN Bertrand Mandico puts his own unmistakable spin on two famous works: Stravinsky's PETROUCHKA and Dante’s THE DIVINE COMEDY (AND BY SPIN WE MEAN: APPROPRIATION), in this visually arresting experimental film (WHICH NO ONE WILL EVEN SEE).

EBONY AND IVORY (UK, 2024)

• World Premiere, 88 min
• Director - Jim Hosking
• The untold story of Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder’s pop classic, as only the maniac behind WHETERO SUPREMACY could tell it.

ELSE (France, 2024)

• US Premiere, 99 min
• Director - Thibault Emin
• A new strange pandemic has hit the world, causing the infected to fuse with their surroundings (PROBABLY BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE). Two freshly HETERONORMATIVELY acquainted lovers take refuge in a flat, trying to avoid the disease that spreads through eye contact (WHICH IS LITERAL METAPHOR FOR TRANSMITTING HETERONORMATIVITY).

ESCAPE FROM THE 21ST CENTURY (China, 2024)

• US Premiere, 98 min
• Director - Li Yang
• A trio of teenage friends find themselves able to inhabit their FUTURE CAPITALIST bodies in this coming-of-age/coming-of-middle-age martial arts HETERONORMATIVE VIOLENCE comedy.

THE FALL (USA, South Africa & India, 2008)

• North American Premiere of 4K Restoration, 117 min
• Director - Tarsem Singh
• Los Angeles, circa 1920s, a little immigrant girl in a hospital recovering from a fall, strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man. He captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination (WHICH IS ALSO PROBABLY RACIST).

FRANKIE FREAKO (Canada, 2024)

• International Premiere, 82 min
• Director - Steven Kostanski
• The creator of NON-AGE-APPROPRIATE GOREMAN introduces the raddest & baddest li’l goblin squad since the Ghoulies, WHICH IS ALSO PROBABLY NOT AGE-APPROPRIATE.

GAZER (USA, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 114 min
• Director - Ryan J. Sloan
• Frankie tries to reclaim her life in this paranoia/neo-noir/body horror gem about the decline of America (BECAUSE OF TRUMP) and the terrifying and awesome power of the FEMALE (YAAAS QUEEN!).

GET AWAY (UK, 2024)

• World Premiere, 86 min
• Director - Steffen Haars
• Ignoring the warnings from the Swedish mainlanders, the Smith family takes a vacation on the small, charming island of Svälta... which turns into a killer trip (BECAUSE OF WESTERN IMPERIALISM).

GHOST KILLER (Japan, 2024)

• World Premiere, 105 min
• Director - Kensuke Sonomura
• Fumika Matsuoka is a young woman with a terrible job, a friend in a bad relationship (PROBABLY BOTH BECAUSE OF TRUMP), and the ghost of an assassin bound to her until she gets revenge on his behalf (BECAUSE THE PATRIARCHY).

GIRL INTERNET SHOW: A KATI KELLI MIXTAPE (USA, 2023)

• Texas Premiere, 79 min
• Director - Kati Kelli
• A compilation of early YouTube uploads by artist Kati Kelli posthumously showcases her deranged genius as an outsider artist and social commentator (PROBABLY CRITIQUING CAPITALISM).

THE GUEST (USA, UK, 2014)

• Theatrical World Premiere of 4K Restoration, 100 min
• Director - Adam Wingard (CIS-HETERO MAN)
• A mysterious soldier befriends the family of a fallen comrade and quickly makes himself an indispensable part of their lives (BECAUSE OF WHETERO SUPREMACY), but the secrets he’s hiding put them all in danger in THE GUEST, a nail-biting, retro-stylish thriller from director CIS-HETERO MAN Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett (YOU’RE NEXT, A HORRIBLE WAY TO OTHER PEOPLE).

HEADS OR FAILS (Belgium, 2024)

• World Premiere, 86 min
• Directors - Lenny Guit & Harpo Guit (BOTH PROBABLY CIS-HETERO MEN)
• Armande Pigeon steps in more shit than a latrine cleaner, living off a series of less and less endearing gambles and grifts. When luck rolls her way, she just has to walk away, but where's the fun in that (ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR)?

HEAVIER TRIP (Finland, 2024)

• World Premiere, 96 min
• Directors - Juuso Laatio & Jukka Vidgren (BOTH PROBABLY CIS-HETERO MEN)
• Impaled Rektum, the world’s most brutal metal band, must escape Norwegian prison and save a reindeer slaughterhouse from foreclosure before battling a Faustian promoter offering Rock God superstardom in exchange for selling out (TO THE WHETERO PATRIARCHY).

HOUSE OF SPOILS (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 101 min
• Directors - Bridget Savage Cole & Danielle Krudy (BOTH CIS-HETERO WOMEN)
• Follows an ambitious chef (Ariana DeBose, WHO IS A WOC) as she opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self doubts…and a haunting presence (CLEARLY A METAPHOR FOR THE STATE OF WOC IN AMERICA) who threatens to sabotage her at every turn (BECAUSE OF THE KYRIARCHAL PATRIARCHY).

I, THE EXECUTIONER (South Korea, 2024)

• US Premiere, 118 min
• Director - RYOO Seung-wan (ALSO A CIS-HETERO MAN)
• The veteran detective Seo Do-cheol (HWANG Jung-min OR CIS-HETERO MAN) and his team at Major Crimes, relentless in their pursuit of criminals, join forces with rookie cop Park Sun-woo (JUNG Hae-in OR ALSO A CIS-HETERO MAN) to track down a serial killer who has plunged the nation into turmoil (AND ALSO, NOT A METAPHOR).

ICK (USA, 2024)

• US Premiere, 90 min
• Director - Joseph Kahn (YOU GUESSED IT: CIS-HETERO MAN)
• In Joseph Kahn’s breakneck sci-fi/horror satire (**SATIRE IS DEAD), a high school science teacher (Brandon Routh OR CIS-HETERO MAN) does battle with a parasitic alien entity, as well as the apathy of the small town it has been gradually absorbing (BECAUSE OF TRUMP AND ALSO MASHED POTATOES).

THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED UP ZOMBIES!!? (USA, 1964)

• Texas Premiere of Severin Restoration, 82 min
• Director - Ray Dennis Steckler (**YES, CIS-HETERO)
• AGFA presents the first monster musical (!!!).

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 52 min
• Directors - Eugene Lee (Ep. 1) & Young Heller (Ep. 2) (BOTH CIS-HETERO MEN)
• In Season Three of The Legend of Vox Machina, everything is at stake - our lovable band of misfits must rise above inner (and outer) demons to try and save their loved ones, Tal’Dorei, and all of Exandria (FROM TRUMP AND ALSO CLIMATE CHANGE).

THE LIFE AND DEATHS OF CHRISTOPHER LEE (UK, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 103 min
• Director - Jon Spira (SURPRISE: CIS-HETERO MALE)
• Descended from royalty and the real-life inspiration for James Bond, this documentary shows Christopher Lee’s struggle to succeed as an actor before discovering the joys of playing monsters and villains (FITTING, BECAUSE OF HIS MALENESS)—transforming him into an icon and a legend, seemingly overnight.

LITTLE BITES (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 106 min
• Director - Spider One (OH LOOK: ANOTHER CIS-HETERO MAN)
• A mother, a monster, and a terrible secret (THAT IS PROFOUNDLY A METAPHOR FOR THE STATE OF AMERICA).

MADS (France, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 88 min
• Director - David Moreau (YOU'LL NEVER GUESS: YES, CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• Tweaked-out French club kids battle a rage virus during one crazy night, all in one single, unbroken shot (BASICALLY APPROPRIATING TRANCE CULTURE).

MALDOROR (Belgium, France, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 150 min
• Director - Fabrice du Welz (A WHETERO EUROPEAN)
• When a dedicated but impulsive young officer is taken off a clandestine surveillance team tasked with catching a child predator, he becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth, despite the risks to his family and his sanity (BECAUSE OF TRUMP).

MEMOIR OF A SNAIL (Australia, 2024)

• Texas Premiere, 95 min
• Director - Adam Elliot (WHITE AUSTRALIAN)
• Placed in separate foster care homes after the death of their father, two siblings grow up in families with different values. Gilbert and Grace learn to live apart, but their hope of being reunited never fades (BECAUSE FAMILY IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT).

THE MISSION (Hong Kong, 1999)

• 25th Anniversary Screening, 84 min
• Director - Johnnie To (**ALSO WHETERO)
• Come celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To’s towering gangster film masterpiece (AKA CAPITALISM IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT), presented from AGFA's rare 35mm archival print (FILM IS A DEAD ART-FORM).

MR. CROCKET (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 88 min
• Director - Brandon Espy (YOU KNOW IT: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• A single mother (GROSS) thinks she’s found the key to calming her child down—a VHS copy of a strange children’s program named Mr. Crocket’s World (WHICH WAS PRODUCED, DIRECTED, SHOT, AND STARRED BY CIS-HETERO MEN). However, a darker, bloodier secret waits to invade their home from inside the tape (Triggered).

NEVER LET GO (USA, 2024)

• Gala Screening, 101 min
• Director - Alexandre Aja (OH LOOK: A CIS-HETERO MAN)
• In this new psychological thriller/horror (PSYCHOLOGY IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT), as an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond. Needing to stay connected at all times – even tethering themselves with ropes – they cling to one another, urging each other to never let go (CLEARLY A METAPHOR: DON'T LET GO OF TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS). But when one of the boys questions if the evil is real (LITERAL ABLEISM), the ties that bind them together are severed, triggering a terrifying fight for survival (ALSO A METAPHOR: CUT TOXIC PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR LIFE).

NIGHT CALL (France, Belgium, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 91 min
• Director - Michiel Blanchart (YOU GUESSED IT: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• A locksmith finds himself accused of a crime he didn’t commit, kicking off the longest night of his life (HE'D HAVE TO GO TO JAIL BECAUSE HE'S POOR).

NINE QUEENS (Argentina, 2000)

• US Premiere of 4K Restoration, 114 min
• Director - Fabián Bielinsky (A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL OF CIS-HETERO MALENESS)
• In this gorgeous 4K restoration, two con artists set up a plan to sell a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps known as the Nine Queens (OH THE IRONY) to a collector (OF STOLEN ART).

PÁRVULOS (Mexico, 2024)

• US Premiere, 119 min
• Director - Isaac Ezban (YUP: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• In the aftermath of a devastating global catastrophe, three brothers must fight against the dangers of a post-pandemic world and keep their family intact (TRUMP'S FAULT).

PLANET B (France, Belgium, 2024)

• International Premiere, 118 min
• Director - Aude Léa Rapin (BASICALLY A EUROPEAN TRUMP)
• In a near future shaken by violent protests (AKA THE PEACEFUL EXERCISE OF DEMOCRACY), activist Julia wakes up in an unknown world after being shot in the face with a non-lethal round. Welcome to PLANET B, a place where your worst nightmares are generated to torture you (AKA AMERICA).

PLASTIC GUNS  (France, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 96 min
• Director - Jean-Christophe Meurisse (FRENCH AND THEREFORE ARROGANT)
• A world-renowned criminal profiler leads authorities to arrest an innocent man, mistaking him for a notorious killer (THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IS BROKEN). Meanwhile, two amateur detectives bumble through their own investigation, and the real killer sees an opportunity to start a new life (AND PROBABLY MOVE INTO A CONDO IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD).

QUEENS OF DRAMA (France, Benelux, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 115 min
• Director - Alexis Langlois (OH LOOK, ANOTHER EUROPEAN MAN)
• A tabloid-headline, torrid affair between a pop princess and her secret pop-punk songstress stretches into the 2050’s in this camp musical (REAL MUSIC IS DEAD).

RAZE (USA, 2013)

• Anniversary Screening, 92 min
• Director - Josh C. Waller (YOU'LL NEVER GUESS: WHETERO AND ALSO MALE)
• Awakening after being abducted (PROBABLY BY A WHETERO MAN), Jamie finds herself in a concrete bunker, and she discovers that she is not alone (BUT NOT IN A GOOD WAY).

THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF IBELIN (Norway, 2024)

• Texas Premiere, 103 min
• Director - Benjamin Ree (**YES, HE'S ALSO CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world (Who WERE PROBABLY STILL ALL CIS-HETERO MALES).

RESPATI (Indonesia, 2024)

• Texas Premiere, 112 min
• Director - Sidharta Tata (YUP: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• Deep in the recesses of a spiritual hive mind connecting an orphaned teenager to the victims of a demon, the boy must also confront his own demons (Of HETERONORMATIVITY) in the demented and deeply unsettling Indonesian horror RESPATI (SO BASICALLY HOLLYWOOD BUT WORSE).

THE RULE OF JENNY PEN (New Zealand, 2024)

• World Premiere, 103 min
• Director - James Ashcroft (YUP, CIS-HETERO MALE)
• Admitted into a state care facility, Geoffrey Rush (WHO IS A CIS-HETERO MALE) engages in a battle of wits with his deranged tormentor, John Lithgow (WHO IS ALSO A CIS-HETERO MALE).

SATAN WAR (USA, 1979)

• World Premiere of Restoration, 62 min
• Director - Bart La Rue (YES CIS-HETERO AND ALSO MALE)
• AGFA presents a new restoration of the Satanic panic mindwarp (A CLEAR CRITIQUE OF NON-SEXTANT CHRISTIANITY).

THE SEVERED SUN (UK, 2024)

• World Premiere, 80 min
• Director - Dean Puckett (OH YOU KNOW: CIS-HETERO MALE)
• When a headstrong woman rebels against her religious father, she unleashes a powerful beast intent on picking off members of her isolated community (WITH WHOM SHE CLEARLY DIDN'T SHARE HER POLITICAL VIEWS).

SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE (Greece, France, 2024)

• Texas Premiere, 88 min
• Director - Yannis Veslemes (GUESS WHAT: YES, CIS-HETERO MALE)
• Three brothers enter a world of cosmic horror as they try to bring their mother back from the beyond (BECAUSE CAPITALISM, THAT'S WHY).

SISTER MIDNIGHT (UK, Northern Ireland, India & Sweden, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 110 min
• Director - Karan Kandhari (OH NO, ANOTHER CIS-HETERO CREEP)
• Stuck on the outskirts of Mumbai following an arranged marriage (ACHTUNG: TRADITIONAL VALUES!), Uma turns to black magic to dislocate her domestic blues (AKA WOC PROBLEMS).

SPERMAGEDDON (Norway, 2024)

• North American Premiere, 79 min
• Directors - Rasmus A. Sivertsen (OH NO: CIS-HETERO AND MALE) & Tommy Wirkola (ALSO CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• A coming-of-age love story set in parallel universes: a teenage boy chasing his first experience of coitus, and two companion sperm swimming upstream in hot pursuit of their holy grail, the egg (THIS OBJECTIFIES WOMEN A LOT). It's also an animated musical comedy (MUSIC IS LITERAL DEAD) that slays (IN A REALLY KYRIARCHAL WAY).

THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEENTOWN (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 95 min
• Directors - Bradford Thomason (HE PROBABLY HAS A GUN: CIS-HETERO AND MALE) & Brett Whitcomb (**ALSO HE PROBABLY OWNS A GUN): ALSO CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• Have you ever dreamed of living in a place where Halloween is celebrated year-round (CONSTANT REMINDER OF THE PAGAN ROOTS OF MODERN CHRISTIAN RELIGION)? Welcome to St. Helens, a charming town that revolves around the cult classic film HALLOWEENTOWN (WHERE THEY PROBABLY DON'T EVEN RECYCLE).

STEPPENWOLF (Kazakhstan, 2024)

• US Premiere, 101 min
• Director - Adilkhan Yerzhanov (YUP: CIS HETERO AND MALE)
• Set against a ravaged dystopian wasteland, a ruthless killer joins forces with a traumatized young mother in the search for her missing son in this hard-hitting, genre-bending B-movie from Kazakh auteur Adilkhan Yerzhanov (SO BASICALLY JUST THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT BUT WITH RUSSIANS).

STRANGE HARVEST: OCCULT MURDER IN THE INLAND EMPIRE (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 94 min
• Director - Stuart Ortiz (YOU'LL NEVER GUESS: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• STRANGE HARVEST follows the investigation of one of the worst, yet least reported and discussed serial killers in the history of Southern California (BECAUSE OF CAPITALISM).

TEACUP (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 65 min
• Director - E.L. Katz (OH: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• From James Wan’s Atomic Monster (PRODUCED BY A CIS-HETERO MALE)& UCP (PRODUCED BY A CIS-HETERO MALE), TEACUP follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive (THE THREAT IS OBVIOUSLY TRUMP). Inspired by the New York Times bestselling novel STINGER by Robert McCammon (WHO IS ALSO CLEARLY A CIS-HETERO MALE).

TERRIFIER 3 (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 128 min
• Director - Damien Leone (CAN YOU GUESS? CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• Art the Clown is set to unleash chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve (AND PROBABLY EAT MEAT).

TOUCHED BY ETERNITY (Latvia, 2024)

• World Premiere, 95 min
• Director - Mārcis Lācis (OH: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• Although lacking any zest for life, middle-aged hermit Fatso is obsessed with immortality (CLEARLY A METAPHOR FOR THE MID-LIFE CRISIS). When a friendly duo of vampires materializes with a proposition, he has second thoughts when he learns what’s at stake (PROBABLY MINOR INCONVENIENCES) in this playful vampire satire (WHICH ARE SEXIST).

TRIZOMBIE (Belgium, 2024)

• International Premiere, 78 min
• Director - Bob Colaers (UH HUH: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• When a zombie plague hits Belgium (CLEARLY CAUSED BY THE EU), a group of unlikely heroes embarks on a perilous journey to save one of their missing friends (WHO IS PROBABLY A CIS-HETERO).

U ARE THE UNIVERSE (Ukraine, 2024)

• US Premiere, 101 min
• Director - Pavlo Ostrikov (OH: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• After planet Earth explodes (CLEARLY CAUSED BY TRUMP), space trucker Andriy is left alone, drifting through space with an AI computer as his sole companion. When a message from a French scientist reaches him, he risks everything to cross the universe and meet her (IN A NON-CONSENSUAL WAY).

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (Canada, 2024)

• US Premiere, 89 min
• Director - Matthew Rankin (OH NO: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• A surreal, hilarious, and touching meditation on family (NOT THOSE OF COLOR) and place (ONLY NORTH-AMERICAN).

V/H/S/BEYOND (USA, India, 2024)

• World Premiere, 110 min
• Directors - Jordan Downey (WHAT A SURPRISE: CIS-HETERO MALE), Christian Long (DITTO: CIS-HETERO MALE) & Justin Long (DOUBLE DITTO: CIS-HETERO MAN), Justin Martinez (YUP: CIS-HETERO MALE), Virat Pal (YUP YUP: CIS-HETERO MALE), Kate Siegel (FINALLY: A WOMAN), & Jay Cheel (BACK TO: CIS-HETERO MALE)
• The seventh installment of the V/H/S franchise (STARRING AND DIRECTED BY CIS-HETERO MALES) will feature six new bloodcurdling tapes, placing horror at the forefront of a sci-fi-inspired hellscape (WHICH SYMBOLIZES OUR CURRENT SOCIETY).

WAKE IN FRIGHT (Australia, 1971)

• International Premiere of 4K Restoration, 109 min
• Director - Ted Kotcheff (OK HE'S A CANADIAN: STILL SUPER WHETERO THOUGH AND ALSO MALE)
• Come witness Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 thriller about a schoolteacher marooned in an Australian town full of drunken madmen (AMERICA?). A magnificent 4K restoration supervised by Mark Hartley (NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD), WAKE IN FRIGHT is an unmissable cult classic (AND BY THAT THEY MEAN MISOGYNIST).

WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL? (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 80 min
• Director - Danny Villanueva Jr. (YOU KNOW: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• Years after a terrifying attack by her grandmother, Ozzie returns to her hometown in an attempt to understand her own mental illness and the supernatural being haunting her family (BECAUSE GENDER IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT).

THE WILD ROBOT (USA, 2024)

• Texas Premiere, 101 min
• Director - Chris Sanders (YAWN: CIS-HETERO MALE)
• After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot named Roz (DEVELOPED BY CIS-HETERO MALES) is stranded on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh environment, gradually bonding with the island’s animals and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling (WHO WILL GROW UP TO HAVE GENDER ROLES IMPRINTED).

WILL & HARPER (USA, 2024)

• Texas Premiere, 115 min
• Director - Josh Greenbaum (OH: YES, CIS-HETERO MALE)
• When Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship, transition, and America (PROBABLY NOT IN THAT ORDER).

WITTE WIEVEN (The Netherlands, 2024)

• International Premiere, 61 min
• Director - Didier Konings (OH: DID WE MENTION HE'S CIS-HETERO? WELL HE IS. ALSO MALE.)
• Frieda is desperate to get pregnant (SHE CAN AFFORD TO, BECAUSE 1%). When she’s ostracized by her medieval Dutch community for surviving a trip to the nearby woods and supposedly conspiring with the Devil (EVIL IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT), she slowly lets the darkness in (SHE BUY BITCOIN).

THE WORKOUT (USA, 2024)

• World Premiere, 82 min
• Director - James Cullen Bressack (YOU KNOW: CIS-HETERO AND ALSO MALE)
• Following the shocking death of his wife and facing his own terminal injury, a former Army Ranger sets out on a path of revenge in this stunt-forward, found footage action movie (ACTION IS A WHETERO GENRE).

ZÉNITHAL (France, 2024)

• International Premiere, 80 min
• Director - Jean-Baptiste Saurel (OH: CIS-HETERO AND MALE)
• A man with a giant dick is killed by a jealous, evil man attempting to take over the world (OBVIOUSLY A METAPHOR FOR TRUMP). Only women can save us now (OR BERNIE SANDERS)! You know how it goes... (NO).