The Ceremony Is About to Begin (2024)

Costa Rican Summer

A titillating teen comedy, a young surfer and his friends head to Costa Rica to save his beautiful aunt's beach motel, resurrect an old surf champion and find enough waves and women to make for a totally tasty time.

A Woman in Antarctica

For the last fifteen years, French mountaineer, explorer and writer Laurence de la Ferrière has been scaling the heights of the world's highest tops, and in 1997 became the first French woman to reach the South Pole single-handed. Two years later, she attempts to cross the Antarctic from the South Pole to the French base of Dumont d'Urville. A 3,000 km long challenge over 3 months filled with unexpected hurdles.

RGB

Two teenagers, trapped in the horrible place where they were born, try to escape from a world in black and white and look for a world in color.

Why Beauty Matters

Contemporary philosopher Roger Scruton presents a fascinating argument for the importance of beauty in our art and in our lives, and explores what truly is and is not beautiful, regardless of its beholder.

Good Morning, Mr. Hitler

Newly discovered amateur color footage of the 1939 Cultural Festival in Munich attended by Hitler six weeks before the outbreak of World War II is reviewed and remembered by survivors who were also there.

Go! Anpanman: The Secret of Fairy Rin-Rin

Anpanman’s strength from the flowers provided by the fairy Rin-Rin is in jeopardy when bad Baikinman tricks her into giving them to him instead!

The Iron Maiden

The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.

Lotus Sports Club

Shot in Cambodia over 5 years, Lotus Sports Club, is an inspiring coming-of-age story that centers around Leak, a teenage trans man who plays football in the under-21s women's team of Kampong Chhnang, and Pa Vann, the coach and father-figure to Leak and other LGBTQ+ players on the team. 61-year-old Pa Vann established the football team in 2009 to encourage solidarity among straight, lesbian and gender-diverse players. He also opened his home to the more vulnerable often homeless teenagers, including Leak, thus providing these LGBTQ+ players a safe place to be themselves. After living with Pa Vann for many years, Leak, driven by the pressure to make more money for his family and forced off the football team because of his age, takes the heart-breaking decision to move to Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, leaving behind the one person he loves the most.

A Stitch in Time

An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.

My Pure Joy

On the outside Adam appears to be a normal teenager, but underneath...his mind has been so rotted by trauma from his past and the gory films he watches, that he has blurred the lines between reality and pretend! This prompts Adam to start killing people in similar ways to films he watches, making sure to put his own little spin on it.

Carl Gustav, the Gang and the Parking Bandits

Carl Gustav is 12 years old and particularly interested in comics and detective work. Gjengen is his friends, two boys and two girls of the same age and 'Rævedilter'n' Georg who is seven.

How Good the Whites Are

The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, disorganization gradually takes over the convoy. Each of the members of the group, little by little, yield to their petty, selfish impulses: violence, power, nostalgia - The breakdown of one of the trucks forces Michele and Nadia to wait at an oasis for the arrival of spare parts. But a starving local tribe settles threateningly near them. The chief of the tribe makes a speech they don't understand, which is followed by a macabre purification ceremony.

Gangway

Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

Journey to the West: A Duel of the Faith

An evil force has trapped the villagers of Qing Ya and spirited them away to a realm in the clouds. There, guarded by fierce dragon-like creatures, they must toil endlessly to satisfy the whims of the cloud-dwelling gods.

The Idols

This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, manipulative managers and disc jockeys are portrayed as the pop culture is thoroughly and effectively lampooned in this independent feature.

June 9

Terror strikes teenage pranksters armed with a video camera.

Paranormal Activity

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

The Death of April

Meagan Mullen, freshly moved in her new home, keeps in touch with her friends and family through a video blog. As her entries (and her life) become more complex and emotional, strange things begin to happen in her room and the camera captures all of it.

Honto Ni Atta! Noroi No Video 90

90th entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series.

The Resurgence

'Resurgence' is a fan-made film based on the 'Paranormal Activity' franchise.

Project Eerie

On Halloween, 2020, Jesse and Jacob Warner disappeared while live streaming on social media. This is that live stream.

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

Noroi: The Curse

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."

Honto Ni Atta! Noroi No Video 91

91st entry in the popular "Honto ni Atta. Noroi no Video" series. The posted videos include; "Crawling", "Wet bills", "Second-hand clothes", "Kinjin: Part 1", "Come out.", "Series Surveillance Camera Playground Equipment", "Shian" and "Gold God, Part 2".

The Mummy Resurrection

When an infamous "cursed" Egyptian sarcophagus falls into the hands of unscrupulous huckster Everett Randolph, he becomes obsessed with resurrecting the mummified princess held within it.

Complex

You are locked in an empty room with a camera. The room is dark. It is raining hard outside. You are a subject of Complex, a scientific experiment, whose purpose is to test the limits of the human mind. The objective is simple: stay alive.

Midnight Incident

'Somethings' that happened in a local neighborhood was captured by a video camera which was found by a police officer near the bathroom of the incident.

Broadcast Dekinai Forbidden Spirit Video

A collection of psychic videos that collects broadcast-prohibited levels. "Housewife who couldn't protect" who caught the boy spirit reflected behind the housewife who is abnormally sensitive to environmental problems, "Recovery" who was surprised at the appearance of the famous urban legend, Tonka Rat N, etc.

The Blackwell Ghost 3

A filmmaker takes a journey to discover a new haunted house and brings along his cameras to document what happens inside. The house, which is plagued by its dark history, begins to come alive in this third instalment of “The Blackwell Ghost.”

Ile Alatau

A story of four childhood friends who mysteriously disappeared while camping in the rural mountains of Trans Ili Alatau. The following events were recorded on Sultan's videocamera, who was making his student thesis project on a local plant called the Asafoetida.

Faces of Death

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

Dream Eater

Mallory, a documentary filmmaker, and her boyfriend Alex go on a vacation to a remote, rustic cabin in the woods to celebrate Alex’s 30th birthday. Alex suffers from parasomnia, and Mallory believes some time to disconnect is what the couple needs. Mallory packs her camera so she can document Alex’s episodes while they’re away - a request made by Alex’s sleep therapist to better diagnose his disorder. Mallory's recordings uncover a dark secret within Alex.

Honto ni Atta: Toko Yami Eizo 7

Seventh entry in the "Honto ni Atta: Toko Yami Eizo" series.

Banned from Broadcast 3: Stalker Hell Chapter

A woman agrees to have confrontations with her stalker recorded by hidden cameras.

Chateau

While on a French vacation funded by odd jobs, an aspiring influencer covertly films a vlog in a reportedly haunted chateau she's been hired to clean.

Do You Like My Basement?

Do You Like My Basement? tracks how one man's creative frustration bore a need to make the perfect horror film. Stanley Farmer was rejected universally by the film world. His frustration provoked a darker side and soon cunning, guile, devilish charm and a sociopath's streak compelled him to produce a home-made magnum opus. A film that blurs the lines between reality and fiction and demands the attention of the very world that spurned him.

Interchange

In 2006, a 20 year old animal and nature lover ventures into the woods with a camera and a sense of serenity, only to discover that he would emerge with his reality shaken, and that only his footage would be found.

Moth

An enthusiastic lecturer and her student travel to Europe to go after the mythology of the Mothman, but they soon have to fight for survival.

Stripped

Four friends head to Vegas for a 21st birthday in hopes of finding adventure, debauchery and memories that will last them a lifetime.

Devil's Market

Tamara, a vlogger who received blasphemy from netizens for uploading fake apparition videos. As soon as she learns the legendary story of the Devil's Market, he plans to prove the existence of spirits as well as clear his reputation. Together with her friends, Tamara visited a forbidden forest called Devil's Market. Instead of getting what she wants, Tamara is stuck in it.

Cama-Cruso

Anna, a young journalist, is interested in a cottage in the Landes promoting it through strange advertisements on TikTok. Armed with her new camera and her journalistic experience, she decides to investigate and gradually discovers a multitude of disturbing elements, letting her imagine that people would be held hostage by a disturbed owner. Is this real or just a game?

Beckoning the Butcher

Beckoning the Butcher explores the night Chris Shaw and his four friends summoned a spirit into their holiday house - then disappeared forever.

Dybbuk Box: True Story of Chris Chambers

The encounters recorded by Chris Chambers have been studied by industry professionals and proven to be accurate recorded paranormal accounts. Currently documented as one of the most supernatural recorded events to date.

#FollowMe

Three British women from London, consisting of a YouTuber and her two friends, go missing from a motel in California while travelling from Los Angeles to San Francisco after posting on social media using the the hashtag #followme.

Pandora

In this film, the filmmaker makes his first immersion in found footage taking previously recorded images to create a discourse totally different from the original context.

Red Woods

A group of urbex enthusiasts travel to the backwoods of Appalachia to capture footage of abandoned houses, when they unwittingly become the subjects of a much darker video - made by a different kind of "enthusiast".

Indigenous

A group of five American friends on the cusp of adulthood travel to Panama to relax and reconnect. They befriend a local woman in their hotel bar—and despite some ominous whispers—she goes against the specific instructions of her brother and brings the Americans on a daytrip into the pristine falls at the nearby jungle. What begins as an innocent outing to a picturesque waterfall quickly turns terrifying after she suddenly goes missing. As night closes in, the friends realize too late the truth behind the rumors—the legendary, blood-sucking Chupacabra is now stalking them.

[REC]

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

The La Llorona Curse

A paranormal television show crew investigates a home where alleged paranormal sightings of La Llorona (The Crying Woman) have occurred. Soon, the group finds themselves in a life or death fight as one of the world's oldest urban legends comes to life before their eyes.

Quarantine

A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community. She and her film crew soon realize the family that welcomes them into their home might be hiding a sinister secret.

Face Swap: The Movie

You'll never want to face swap again.

Ouija Experiment

Five participants take part in a psychology experiment on the aftereffects of a Ouija board session, finding something far more sinister than they could ever expect.

Tape_13

Young lovers Ann and Gero are travelling through Europe when their car breaks down in the Eifel mountains. Vinzent and Franz invite them to spend a carefree weekend partying in a remote holiday cabin. But after a playful ‘séance’ their initial bright mood soon becomes uneasy as strange occurrences start to take place with alarming regularity...

Frogman

An amateur filmmaker, struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns with friends to Loveland, Ohio, the location of his first, notorious sighting of the Frogman, determined to obtain irrefutable proof that the cryptid legend exists.

The Night Visitor

When a suburban couple hires a new age spiritualist to help with their troubled marriage, her advice to video their lives 24/7 to help reunite the family, turns out to reveal their son is having conversations with an unseen entity, calling itself the Night Visitor.

Hooked Up

Two young friends from New York travel to Barcelona to get over the break up of one of them. But things won't go as expected and they will end up trapped in a house where they will have to fight an evil girl and the evil inside them.

Finally Home

A man has his home invaded by a stalker and is locked out. His only choice is to break into his own house and take matters into his own hands.

The Sculptor's Clayground

Comedian Alan Resnick plays a sculptor with Lynk's disease, who teaches you how to make sculptures of random objects.

The House in Sherwood

Angela Bennett is conducting an investigation into the paranormal events that happened at a haunted house in Sherwood. What Angela doesn't know is that she is being followed by Karen, who is making a film of her own.

Bigfoot at Millcreek

Three film students from California travel to Utah to seek out the phenomenal forest creature known as Bigfoot.

Bubba Ho-tep

Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.

Cannibal Holocaust

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Student Project

A b-movie horror-comedy/found footage film about a young student who records his last days of high school before he disappears.

Sacred

A group of young filmmakers from Jakarta arrived in Bantul, Yogyakarta to prepare for a shoot. Things are normal until the second day when they start to experience unexplained phenomenon.

Apocalyptic

A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.