Night Visions Spring 2017 Lineup Includes Raw, Prevenge, XX, Gary Sherman Retrospective, and Lots More
Debi Moore
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You may recall that our own Heather Buckley was fortunate enough to attend the fall 2016 edition of the Night Visions film fest in Finland, and with a lineup that includes over 30 features and a half-dozen short films (including 5 World Premieres), you better believe we’ll be keeping our eyes on their spring 2017 event!
Read on for the full details of this year’s lineup.
From the Press Release:
Night Visions International Film Festival has announced the Official Selections of its April 2017 edition. The spring edition of Scandinavia’s biggest genre film festival takes place in Helsinki, Finland, from April 19th-23rd. The complete lineup includes a total of 31 feature films and a selection of carefully hand-picked shorts.
One of the headliner themes of the festival, our Killer Female Directors section features a trio of international festival hits and two strong genre outings from Scandinavia. Alice Lowe’s pitch black comedy Prevenge (UK 2016), Julia Ducournau’s Raw (France/Belgium 2016), and the omnibus hit XX (USA/Canada 2017) will all have their Finnish premieres now in Helsinki. Jonna Nilsson’s Drip Drop (Sweden 2017) is an original take on the monster in the house theme. Charlotte Brodthagen’s Lau & Laudrup (Denmark 2017), one of Night Visions’ World Premieres, is a story of two Bosnian immigrant siblings in the midst of a zombie outbreak somewhere outside Copenhagen.
The Mentors: Kings of Sleaze Rockumentary (USA 2017) also fits the bill of Killer Female Directors, though its director, April Jones, is not dealing with fiction. This Night Visions World Premiere provides an in-depth, feature-length look at the infamous “rape rock” group of nearly mythical proportions.
Other highlights of the festival’s documentary selection include Marty Langford’s Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four (USA 2016), Alexandre O. Philippe’s Sundance hit 78/52 (USA 2017), and Dominik Graf & Johannes Sievert’s Berlin Film Fest Panorama entry Open Wounds – A Journey Through German Genre Films (Germany 2017). All three now have their Scandinavian premieres on the big screen at the festival.
The vibrant genre cinema scene of Argentina is also presented through two Scandinavian premieres: Still Life director Gabriel Grieco’s Hypersomnia (2016) is a modern, multi-layered take on the almost forgotten sub-genre of women-in-prison movies. Sebastian Perillo’s directorial debut, Amateur (Argentina 2016), is a unique serial killer thriller with distinctly De Palma-esque flavours.
Among its World Premiere shorts, Night Visions also presents the Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom auteur CHRZU’s latest Carlotta Moore adventure, The Consequence (Finland 2017); Ramin Sohrab’s highly anticipated action extravaganza Viulu (Finland 2017); and the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired Sound from the Deep (Finland 2017), directed by Joonas Allonen and Antti Laakso.
On the retro side, one of the definite highlights of the lineup includes a retrospective of the legendary U.S. genre filmmaker Gary Sherman. Sherman’s Death Line (aka Raw Meat, UK, 1972), Dead & Buried (USA 1981), and Vice Squad (USA/UK 1982) are all now seen for the first time ever in their uncut form on the silver screen in Finland.
Ticket sales are now open. For more info visit the Night Visions International Film Festival website at nightvisions.info.
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