PARTNER FESTIVAL: TOHORROR FANTASTIC FILM FEST
Thursday, September 25th at 8:00 PM
TAMBERLICK CINEMAS
This year we have the honor of having TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest (Italy) as our partner festival.
The TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest is one of Italy’s most important festivals dedicated to genre cinema. Born in 1999 with the blessing of an exceptional godfather, Dario Argento, it is based in the city of Turin, Italy. Proudly independent since its founding, it has been reinventing itself over the years, evolving from an event linked solely to Italian underground horror cinema to become an international heterogeneous festival that each year presents dozens of works from the most disparate corners of the globe, including both feature films and short films by both emerging and established filmmakers, dedicated to everything related to horror, science fiction, fantasy, thriller, dark comedy, grotesque, weird, surreal…
One of TOHorror’s objectives is to contribute to spreading new talented and independent voices in the genre cinema scene. Alongside films by established filmmakers, the festival program annually presents many works by debut directors or second-time filmmakers. In recent years they have had the honor and pleasure of presenting alternative gems and formidable debuts in Italy such as “Red Rooms” by Pascal Plante, “Saint Maud” by Rose Glass, “The Sadness” by Rob Jabbaz, “Skinamarink” by Kyle Edward Ball, “Eight Eyes” by Austin Jennings, “Abruptio” by Evan Marlowe, “Amulet” by Romola Garai, “One Cut of the Dead” by Shinichiro Ueda, “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” by Jane Schoenbrun, “Voidcaller” by Nils Alatalo, “Mad Heidi” by Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopfstein and many others.
In addition to feature films, the Short Films and Animation Short Films sections are definitely one of the festival’s cornerstones: more than 50 shorts are selected each year, bringing to light some of the most promising emerging filmmakers in the contemporary fantastic and horror cinema landscape.
Being a transversal event, TOHorror starts with films and then explores all possible modern media, with the aim of analyzing current society through the distorting lens of fantastic culture.
Thus, through screenings, meetings with guests (in recent years: Robert Morgan, Dave McKean, Richard Stanley, Jean Rollin, Dario Argento, Ruggero Deodato, Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, Miguel Angel Martin, Klaus Maeck, André Bonzel…), live music, art exhibitions, comic presentations, talks, roundtables and wild parties, we manage to experience reality through the most unbridled imagination.
The 24th edition of TOHorror was held in October 2024, presenting Italian premieres of such great films as “In A Violent Nature” by Chris Nash, “Oddity” by Damian McCarthy, “Sayara” by Can Evrenol, “Else” by Thibault Emin, “Animale” by Emma Benestan, “Steppenwolf” by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, “Krazy House” by Steffen Haars & Flip Van der Kuil, “Spermageddon” by Tommy Wirkola & Rasmus Sivertsen, “So Unreal” by Amanda Kramer and many, many others; as well as an extensive programming of incredible animation and live-action short films.
TOHORROR SELECTION
Onde dormen as gaivotas
Where the Seagulls Sleep
Dani Cornes
In a near future affected by global warming, biologist Amelia arrives to a remote archipelago on a recon task. All alone, her only companion is the voice of Mission Control in her ear. All seems well, but as time passes, tensions rise and they start to argue.
- Premio Novas Camadas Deleite – Festival de Cans 2020
- Premio do Xurado – Desafío Audiovisual Illas Cíes
- Selección oficial – FIC Bueu 2020
- Selección oficial – Curtocircuíto 2020
- Selección oficial – Vía XIV Verín 2020
- Selección oficial – Curtas do Imaxinario 2020
- Selección oficial – OUFF 2020
Amor de Mono
Monkey Love
Paulo Mosca
Given that you humans don't know how to solve your own problems, we subnormal monkeys have come to impart justice plus elegance with our sexy castizo style.
Regular Rabbit
Eoin Duffy
The good name of a seemingly regular rabbit falls victim to an unstoppable tide of disinformation.
- Sitges, Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástic de Catalunya (España, 2022)
- Ottawa International Animation Festival (Canadá, 2022)
- Imaxinaria, Festival Internacional de Cine de Animación (Galicia, 2023)
Mauled by a dog
Sion Thomas
Spanish Premiere
Across one long night, after a young woman has her face ripped off in an alleyway, her call centre worker boyfriend goes on a surreal journey through the underbelly of a South Wales Valleys town to take revenge on her attacker – a dog.
- 19º Fantastic Fest (EUA, 2024)
- 28º PÖFF – Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia, 2024)
- 21º London Short Film Festival (Reino Unido, 2024)
- 3º Anafi International Film Festival (Grecia, 2025)
Life24 (Elu24)
Kristjan Holm
Galician Premiere
Confirmed bachelor Einar Jernskjegg wins a one kind of lottery ticket.
- Selección oficial – ANNECY 2019
- Selección oficial – Sitges Film Festival 2019
- Selección oficial – Festival de Cine de Madrid 2020
Lion Bleu
Blue Lion
Zoïa Trofimoa
Spanish Premiere
A lonely peasant welcomes home a distressed kitten who one day becomes a big blue lion. But the villagers are suspicious of this creepylooking stranger and chase him away. Only his birch tree remains, which could not be uprooted…
- Premio, KFF – Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwán, 2021)
- Trickfilm – Festival Internacional de Cine de Animación de Stuttgart (Alemaña, 2022)
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Francia, 2022)
- Festival International de Film d'Animation de Varna (Bulgaria, 2022)
Tienminutengesprek
Ten-Minute Conversation
Jamille van Wijngaarden
Spanish Premiere
Mother Marit feels that her son’s primary school does not allow him enough room for his male energy. During the parent-teacher meeting, she seeks recourse. Miss Yvonne tries to keep up a professional attitude, but after the umpteenth reproach she can no longer restrain her pent-up frustration. The exasperation of a teacher who has had to endure countless changes through the years is embodied with explosive rage by Yvonne, in this brutal comedy with finger paint.
- Premio Mellor Curtametraxe – De Zilveren Krulstaart 2018
- Premio Mellor Curtametraxe Internacional – Emden International FF 2019
- Premio do Público – English Riviera FF 2019
- Premio Mellor Comedia – English Riviera FF 2019
- Premio Mellor Actriz – Shortcutz Amsterdam 2020
- Premio Mellor Filme – Shortcutz Amsterdam 2020
Devorados por la noche
Óscar Doviso
World Premiere
Starring Christian Escuredo. 1980s. The singer of a rock band tells what happens to him and his band one night, after a concert.
Midnight Talk
Raffael Oliveri
Galician Premiere
After her mother’s death, Sarah lives isolated with her aunt. One night, she confesses experiencing the feeling of a presence, something malicious and relentless.
Larval
Alice Bloomfield
Spanish Premiere
Living a lonely life of isolation, a girl dreams of luxury and beauty. She fantasises about possessing the looks of her celebrity idol and and winning the heart of her unrequited love, an oblivious worker at her local takeaway. In a surreal, dreamlike turn of events, featuring a moth-like spirit, she discovers that perhaps she should have been more careful what she wished for.
- Premio do Público, 9º Flatpack Film festival (Reino Unido, 2025)
- 33º Raindance Film Festival (Reino Unido, 2025)