Bloody Belgium

Saturday 3 sept

13:00 - 14:30

Nieuwe Veste KWA zaal 2

90min

Film screening

Hotel Poseidon

Hotel Poseidon volgt 24 uur in het leven van Dave (Tom Vermeir), een uitgebluste veertiger die in het bouwvallige hotel van zijn overleden vader woont. Hij vult er zijn dagen met luisteren naar ruis op een oude walkman, het ontlopen van zijn dominante moeder (Tania Van der Sanden) en het incasseren van vernederingen door zijn vriendin (Ruth Becquart). Dave wil liefst met rust worden gelaten... maar de komst van een mysterieuze gast (Anneke Sluiters) en een onbetrouwbare vriend (Dominique Van Malder) zet een reeks magische en surreële gebeurtenissen in gang... A day in the life of reluctant hotel owner Dave – a man troubled by nightmares, his neighbor, his friends and love. Dave’s existence is hopeless. His days and nights blend into each other as he wanders vacantly through the halls of the abandoned and dilapidated Hotel Poseidon, which he inherited from his deceased father. When a young woman knocks on the hotel’s door looking for a room, while Dave’s best friend wants to throw a party in the backroom and a recurring dream haunts him, a surreal and grisly ordeal is set in motion.

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Genre

Director

Stef Lernous

Production country

Production year

2021

Film duration

90minutes

Language spoken

Dutch

Language subtitles

Dutch

Trailer

Program category

Duyster

Lidewij — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:39:19 +0000

Duyster

Program 2022

Lidewij Tue, 07/12/2022 - 17:39

Saturday 3 sept

15:00 - 16:15

Nieuwe Veste KWA zaal 2

81min

Film screening

Duyster

Three students film a documentary about Johannes Duyster, Antwerp's 17th century executioner. This is their footage.

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Genre

Director

Thomas Vanbrabant & Jordi Ostir

Production country

Production year

2021

Film duration

81minutes

Language spoken

Nederlands

Language subtitles

Nederlands, Engels, Spaans

Trailer

Program category

Mother Schmuckers

Lidewij — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:41:38 +0000

Mother Schmuckers

Program 2021

Lidewij Thu, 08/05/2021 - 22:41

Sat, 4 sept 2021

17:30 - 18:45

Chassé Cinema

75min

Film screening

Mother Schmuckers

BLOODY BELGIUM

Issachar and Zabulon, two brothers in their twenties, are supremely stupid and never bored, as madness is part of their daily lives. When they lose their mother's beloved dog, they have 24 hours to find it - or she will kick them out. Anywhere these schmucks turn up, there is chaos and misunderstanding, people get hurt or are killed by accident. They truly master the art of fucking things up. Brussels has become a dangerous place.

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Genre

Other

Director

Harpo Guit

Production country

Production year

2021

Film duration

70minutes

Language spoken

French

Language subtitles

English

Trailer

Program category

Suite 16

Lidewij — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:14:50 +0000

Suite 16

Program 2021

Lidewij Thu, 08/05/2021 - 21:14

Sat, 4 sept 2021

13:30 - 15:15

Nieuwe Veste KWA zaal 2

106min

Film screening

Suite 16

BLOODY BELGIUM

After an argument and fight with a wealthy one night stand in a posh hotel, young hustler Chris finds himself trapped inside. With nowhere to go and the cops closing in on the hotel fast, he wanders into "Suite 16" in a fit of despair. Inside, a handicapped and wheelchair-bound Glover (Pete Postlethwaite) is held captive for the evening once discovered by Chris. However, things change the next day when Glover informs Chris that the woman he slept with is now dead; and that he surely will be sought out for her murder. Lonely and bored, Glover offers to shelter Chris for awhile while the cuts and bruises from the previous nights' escapades have time to heal.

Details

Director

Dominique Deruddere

Production country

Production year

1995

Film duration

106minutes

Language spoken

English/Dutch

Language subtitles

Dutch

Trailer

Program category

Zombies from Sector 9

Rop — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:56:37 +0000

Zombies from Sector 9

Program 2020

Rop Mon, 07/27/2020 - 11:56

Sat, 5 sept 2020

17:30 - 19:00

Chassé Cinema

90min

Film screening

Zombies from Sector 9

The story is about Bookwalker, once a useless bum, now turned zombie killer and raider hunter. The story is set in CrittersVille where there is a nuclear meltdown and the dead are coming back to life and you have raiders, roaming the lands.

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Genre

Director

Rob Ceus

Production country

Production year

2020

Film duration

84minutes

Language spoken

English

Language subtitles

English

Trailer

Program category

Belgica Obscura (PRESENTATION)

Dorien — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 17:46:37 +0000

Belgica Obscura (PRESENTATION)

Dorien Mon, 07/01/2019 - 19:46

22:15 - 23:45

90min

Film screening

Belgica Obscura (PRESENTATION)

A Flemish director recently stated that horror was not ours. Harry Kümel, Jonas Govaerts, James Desert and many others would gladly dare to disagree. On Facebook, Belgica Obscura managed to collect nearly 200 Belgian horror (co)productions, going from big budget pictures, student films, to inevitable homemade splatter and amateur flicks. Vampires, psychopaths, aliens, demons, zombies, even cardboard prehistoric creatures and even more! You name it, we have it. That's why the directors and me are bringing you a small selection of short films to show you the diversity of what Belgica Obscura stands for.
Horror is not ours? The stubborn Belgians dare to disagree!
BUT FF wish to thank Wesley Remory and Razor Reel Film Festival in Bruges, and invites everyone who enjoyed the Harry Kümel films and FORGOTTEN SCARES (BUT 2017).

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Director

Wesley Remory

Production year

2019

Film duration

90minutes

Program category

Malpertuis

Dorien — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:44:57 +0000

Malpertuis

Dorien Mon, 07/01/2019 - 17:44

16:00 - 18:00

125min

Film screening

Malpertuis

Malpertuis is a labyrinth where characters issued from the Greek mythology are made prisoners by Cassavius. He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) as prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As the nephew unravels the mystery, we find out he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than we were led to believe. A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harbouring a dark secret. With Orson Welles!

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Genre

Belgium | France | West Germany

Director

Harry Kumel

Production country

Production year

1971

Film duration

125minutes

Language spoken

dutch

Language subtitles

english

Trailer

Program category

Daughters of Darkness

Dorien — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:44:43 +0000

Daughters of Darkness

Dorien Mon, 07/01/2019 - 17:44

20:15 - 22:00

105min

Film screening

Daughters of Darkness

A newly wed couple arrives in Oostende for their honeymoon in a weird and extravagant hotel. Stefan is a wealthy and cynical Englishman, his wife Valerie a sexy lower class girl from Sweden. Stefan does not want want Valerie to meet his parents, and tries to prevent het from joining him to go go to England. Then, two new mysterious guests arrive: Countess Bathory and a young woman.

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Genre

Director

Harry Kümel

Production year

1971

Film duration

100minutes

Trailer

Program category

The Last Inquisitors

Dorien — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:15:15 +0000

The Last Inquisitors

Dorien Mon, 07/01/2019 - 17:15

14:00 - 15:45

105min

Film screening

BLOODY BELGIUM: The Last Inquisitors

Father John (Guy Bleyaert), an orphan and ex-ranger who lost his best friend during Operation Fury in Grenada steps into a church and meets a Cardinal of the Roman Church. He convinces John to become a priest and sends him to study the Bible. 25 years later, John is a priest in a quiet town and gets a visit of his superior bishop. Father John is invited to the board of a extreme Catholic cult who believes that it is God's will to rid Earth of all human evil was given to them as a mission. Father John decides to refuse the offer and is kidnapped and arrested for heresy and conspiracy against God.

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Genre

Live action

Director

Guy Bleyaert

Production year

2013

Film duration

105minutes

Trailer

Program category

Le Saigneur est avec nous (In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx)

Dorien — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:22:26 +0000

Le Saigneur est avec nous (In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx)

BUTFF 2018 Program

Dorien Fri, 07/27/2018 - 14:22

Sun 2 Sept

14:00 - 15:30

Nieuwe Veste Zaal 3

90min

Film screening

Screening of Le Saigneur est avec nous (In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx)
PLUS 2 shorts:
- Gourmandise
- Hotel Party

Le Saigneur est avec nous (In Memoriam Alfons Vranckx)

It’ World War III, Man ! (“Le Saigneur est avec nous”)
This film looks like a paranoid statement.
Everyone is fighting everyone and the rest against all others.
Male chauvinism fights love while love makes war to violence and fascism.
Time and Work are eternal enemies. Sadism and nazi’s are big friends.
All images have been cut into small pieces, no image standing still.
No story. No main character. No net to save you.

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Genre

Underground

Director

Roland Lethem

Production country