Italy

A woman dabbles in the occult at Christmas, and her family is not pleased!

An Italian feature by a woman director with a clever reflection about the immigrants following up on a tradition of 'politically motivated' zombie horror and a hot topic in Europe. “In the course of a demonstration in Rome against the opening of a refugee center, an apocalypse of zombies breaks out. Enrico, an ultra-rightist young man lying on his identity, finds refuge in the center. The only safe place for him is this refugee camp that he did not want, while the dead are walking outside…
Nominated for the BUT award, and director present.

This avant-garde sex film is a tribute to the films of Alberto Cavallone, directed by Morgana Mayer, whose Sexual Labyrinth was shown at BUT last year. Just like that film, Female Touch is a blasphemous, dreamlike movie that offers a queer and kinky vision of womanhood.

A Chinese immigrant arrives in a small Texas town inhabited by hard-nosed cowboys who don’t take kindly to outsiders. He quickly gains a reputation for his unbeatable fi ghting skills. When word of Chin’s skills spread to Stanley Spencer, the owner of the state’s largest cattle ranch, Chin lands a job as a fellow cowboy. Friend soon becomes foe when Chin realizes he is working for a cattle smuggler bent on brutalizing Mexican farmers and anyone else who stands in his way. Shown in 16mm.

Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust) is back with this nasty morality tale about three backpackers trying to solve the murder of their roommate, while also trying to get rid of the body. Expert genre-thrills from the master of the gory horror movie.

We at BUT like it kinky, and there is nothing more kinky on our program than Sexual Labyrinth, a dark, surrealistic exploration of beautifully perverse sexuality. Pleasure and pain are interchangable in this ode to the poetic sex films of seventies auteurs like Joe D’Amato and Jess Franco.