Starburst Media City Festival

Feature Film: Your Flesh, Your Curse

YOUR FLESH, YOUR CURSE (Unrated), 2017 Dir. Kasper Juhl, Denmark, 100 mins UK PREMIERE! When young drug addict Juliet White

Feature Film: Revisiting Melancholie Der Engel

REVISITING MELANCHOLIE DER ENGEL (Unrated), 2017 Dir. Magnus Blomdahl, Sweden, 60 mins In 2009, Marian Dora’s Melancholie Der Engel horrified

Feature Film: American Guinea Pig: Song of Solomon

AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: SONG OF SOLOMON (Unrated), 2017 Dir. Stephen Biro, USA, 85 mins UK PREMIERE! Following on from the

Feature Film: Nekromantik (1987)

NEKROMANTIK (18), 1987 Dir. Jörg Buttgereit, Germany, 75 mins INCLUDING Q+A WITH DIRECTOR JÖRG BUTTGEREIT! One of the most infamous of

A Welcoming Place

A Welcoming Place Director: Sam Saffold. Starring: Daniel J. Layton, Francesca Louise White, Cael King. A dead father and a

The Toll Booth

The Toll Booth Director: Martin Stocks. Starring: Andrew Shire, Suzanne Celensu, Abigail Poulton. Terry starts working in an isolated toll

Thalamos

Thalamos Directors: Scott Robson, Andrew Jaksch. Starring: Tom Farrah, Alexis Watt, Philip C. Claassen. After a successful mission to the

The Child Remains

The Child Remains Director: Michael Melski. Starring: Suzanne Clement, Allan Hawco, Shelley Thompson, Geza Kovacs. An expectant couple’s intimate weekend

The Dog Walker

The Dog Walker Director: Peter Mckerinon. Starring: Neil Gallagher, Andrew Butterworth, Sarah Chesters. Nobody ever suspects… the Dog Walker. Another

Feature Film: REDWOOD

REDWOOD Director: Tom Paton. Starring: Nicholas Brendon, Tatjana Inez Nardone, Jessica-Jane Stafford. After some bad news back at home, musician

Short Film: BLOOD SHED

BLOOD SHED Director: James Moran. Starring: Sally Phillips, Shaun Dooley, David Puckridge, Cat Davies. Jack loves a bargain. And he

TORMENT

TORMENT Director: Jason Figgis. Starring: Bill Fellows, Bryan Murray, Cora Fenton, Darren Travers. A grieving woman targets an architect as

CHARISMATA

CHARISMATA Director: Andy Collier, Toor Mian. Starring: Sarah Beck Mather, Jamie Satterthwaite, Andonis Anthony. As a rookie detective struggling to

Short Film: ECHOES OF THE PASSED

ECHOES OF THE PASSED Director: Scott Lyus. Starring: Sophie Tergeist, Tony Sands, Paul Dewdney, Mac MacFadden. A mysterious Professor, his

Short Film: SALIENT MINUS TEN

SALIENT MINUS TEN Director: Emma Dark. Starring: Alan Austen, Emma Dark, Chris Hampshire. Adam Harper is an average man. And

Short Film: DEAD MEET

DEAD MEET Director: Daniel Brant. Starring: Francesca Louise White, Dean Williams, Reuben Williams. Cleo is an assassin and has been

Short Film: Hell’s Bells

Hell’s Bells Director: Luke Jeffery. Starring: Magda Cassidy, Charlie Coldfield, Richard Feltham, Marie Cassidy. Morris dancing: quirky British pastime or sinister

Short Film: FTL

FTL Director: Adam Stern. Starring: Ty Olsson, Aliyah O’Brien, Karin Konoval. A lone astronaut testing the first faster-than-light spacecraft travels farther

Short Film: The Stay

The Stay Director: Frazer Lee. Starring: Daniela Finley. A young woman checks into a secluded holiday cottage and discovers that some

Short Film: Bragging Rights!

Bragging Rights! Director: James Atkins. Starring: Nikolas Salmon, Marcus Massey, Francesca Louise White, Clare Aster. Three superhero housemates try to

Short Film: CONNIE

CONNIE Director: Cat Davies. Starring: Catrin Stewart, David Puckridge. Wannabe stand-up Dolly Diggs suffers from stage fright. To overcome her

Short Film: SEARCH/DESTROY: A STRONTIUM DOG FAN FILM

SEARCH/DESTROY: A STRONTIUM DOG FAN FILM In the far future strontium-90 fallout has created a race of mutants, outcasts from

Feature Film: THE HOUSE OF SCREAMING DEATH

THE HOUSE OF SCREAMING DEATH Director: David Hastings. Starring: Ian McNeice, Tom Loone, Sha’ori Morris, A dark and stormy night…

Short Film: DOLL

DOLL Director: Jai He. A girl trapped in a house where an evil nesting doll captures souls. Student filmmaker Jai

Short Film: WORKING LATE

WORKING LATE Director: David Gilbank. Starring: Jamie Smelt, Kathryn Hanke, Tom Jackson. A suspicious wife confronts her husband when he

Short Film: SWINGS & ROUNDABOUTS

SWINGS & ROUNDABOUTS Director: Peter Mckeirnon. Starring: John Williams. Eric was always the child that nobody liked. He never knew

Feature Film: THE GATEHOUSE

The Gatehouse Director: Martin Gooch. Starring: Paul Freeman, Simeon Willis, Linal Haft, Scarlett Rayner, Vanessa Mayfield. Eternity (aged 10) lives

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