Didier Konings’ simmering mediaeval horror Witte Wieven explores the confluence of religion and patriarchy in an excessively puritanical Dutch village. Blamed by her community for being childless, Frieda immerses herself in prayer and ritual. When she returns unscathed from the forbidden forest surrounding the village, having evaded a lecherous butcher, she is condemned as an agent of the devil. Frieda, however, finds new faith in the dark powers that inhabit the woods.
Shot in a reduced colour palette at the edge of visibility, Konings’ gripping film constructs a convincing pre-modern society whose practices it elucidates with patience and attention. Although set in the Middle Ages, Witte Wieven displays an unmistakably contemporary spirit, crafting a feminist parable about women discovering new ways of understanding their lives and the world.
“Rosario,” directed by Bobby Bonifacio Jr., draws on a Filipino superstition which dictates that a broken rosary must be placed in the hands of the dead; but when an unbroken rosary is mistakenly left in the hands of a deceased woman, a deadly family curse is unleashed.
In the not-too-distant future, a group of American citizens attempt to flee the country to escape an authoritarian regime, but their path to freedom quickly becomes a dystopian nightmare.
In the middle of the sea, Wirpul and his half-brother Candi fight for survival when an unexpected storm turns into Hurricane Otis, a category 5 hurricane, off the coast of Acapulco. A story of fraternity, inequality, and extreme courage, where brotherly love becomes their only hope.
A desperate farmer resorts to the unthinkable to reclaim his livestock. A blood pact unleashes killer pigs returning to their nightmare's genesis. The farmhouse and inhabitants are shrouded in darkness when the three piggies come home.
An elite military unit ventures into the South American tropical jungle on a mission to eliminate an enemy target. What begins as a tactical operation quickly turns into a nightmare when they encounter supernatural forces emerging from the depths of the jungle. Five hundred years earlier, a Spanish conquistador expedition was consumed by the same relentless force. Separated by ...