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The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra and Holy Spider
Confession (Jabaek)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2020; Director: Yoon Jong-seok; Writer: Yoon Jong-seok; Stars: So Ji-seob, Kim Yunjin, Im Jin-Ah, Choi Kawng-il)
A story about a man who has been pointed out as the culprit of a locked-room murder and his lawyer approaching the truth.
Fast & Feel Love
(Country: Thailand; Year: 2022; Director: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Writer: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Stars: Nat Kitcharit, Urassaya Sperbund, Anusara Korsamphan)
When a world champion of sport stacking is dumped by his long-time girlfriend, he has to learn basic adulting skills in order to live alone and take care of himself.
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Park Syeyoung; Writer: Park Sye-young)
After a couple splits up, mould left behind on a mattress slowly grows into a creature that steals the vertebrae of humans who inhabit the bed.
Goodbye, Don Glees! (Gubbai, Don Gurîzu!, Goodbye Donglees)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2021; Director: Atsuko Ishizuka; Writer: Atsuko Ishizuka; Stars: Natsuki Hanae, Kana Hanazawa, Yûki Kaji, Ayumu Murase)
When three boys get lost together in the forest, the adventure they share will change them forever.
The Harbinger
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Andy Mitton; Writer: Andy Mitton; Stars: Raymond Anthony Thomas, Gabby Beans, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Emily Davis, Laura Heisler, Cody Braverman)
A woman leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who's suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.
Sick Of Myself and Confession
Holy Spider (Ankabut-e moqaddas)
(Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ali Abbasi; Writer: Ali Abbasi, Afshin Kamran Bahrami; Stars: Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bajestani, Arash Ashtiani, Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Sina Parvaneh, Nima Akbarpour, Sara Fazilat, Alice Rahimi, M. Ali Nazarian, Sima Seyed, Firouz Ageli, Farhad Faghih Habibi)
A journalist tries to track down a serial killer who is murdering sex workers.
Huesera (Huesera: The Bone Woman)
(Country: Peru, Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Michelle Garza Cervera; Writer: Michelle Garza Cervera, Abia Castillo; Stars: Alfonso Dosal, Samantha Castillo, Martha Claudia Moreno, Mayra Batalla, Sonia Couoh, Aida López, Pablo Guisa Koestinger, Mercedes Hernández, Enoc Leaño, Anahí Allué, Natalia Solián, Gabriela Velarde)
Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she’s pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something’s off. Nightmarish visions and an unshakeable paranoia have her questioning what she wants, and an ancient evil spirit may be the cause.
Incredible But True (Incroyable Mais Vrai)
(Year: 2022; Director: Quentin Dupieux; Stars: Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, Anaïs Demoustier)
A mysterious tunnel in the cellar of a new home turns lives upside down.
Medusa Deluxe
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Thomas Hardiman; Writer: Thomas Hardiman; Stars: Clare Perkins, Kayla Meikle, Darrell D’Silva, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Kae Alexander, Heider Ali, Luke Pasqualino, Debris Stevenson, Lilit Lesser)
A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing competition.
La Pieta
(Year: 2022; Director: Eduardo Casanova)
A surrealist odyssey into the extremes of codependency, depicting the close relationship between a mother and her son – and the ways that relationship changes when one is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
The Harbinger and Goodbye, Don Glees!
Sadako DX
(Country: Japan; Year: 2022; Director: Hisashi Kimura; Writer: Yuya Takahashi, based on the book by Kôji Suzuki; Stars: Hiroyuki Watanabe, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Fuka Koshiba, Kazuma Kawamura, Naomi Nishida)
People who watch a cursed video suddenly die. These deaths take place all over Japan.
Sick Of Myself (Syk Pike)
(Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Kristoffer Borgli; Writer: Kristoffer Borgli; Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Eirik Sæther, Kristine Kujath Thorp)
Signe and Thomas are in an unhealthy, competitive relationship that takes a vicious turn when Thomas suddenly breaks through as a contemporary artist.
Unicorn Wars
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2022; Director: Alberto Vázquez; Writer: Alberto Vázquez)
This story tracks two brother teddy bear soldiers: Azulín, who yearn for unicorn blood to be beautiful for ever; and Gordi, who just wants to be accepted and liked.
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