Fantastic Fest 2009

In 1975, the year before the Sex Pistols released their first album, a Japanese punk band called Gekirin recorded their single, “Fish Story” and then they broke up, never to record again. Thirty-seven years later, in 2012, their song saves the world. (New York Asian Film Festival)

Short Description Marc appears to be having a breakdown, the stern man now plagued by visions and prone to walking in his sleep, a situation that set in when he arrived in the village of Kaifeck with his young son. But could there be truth to Marc's visions? And is history about to repeat?

The dynamic duo of Chile, Marko Zaror and Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, are returning to Austin with the World Premiere of their new action thriller MANDRILL. Marko Zaror plays MANDRILL, a young hitman who will not relent until he has exacted bloody revenge on the man who killed his mother many years ago.

A heart-wrenching exploration of the unfortunate people who stand strong despite their tragedies.

Deep mysteries open up in the world of an average woman. More impossibilities from the mind of FF's favorite Spaniard!

Indonesia’s first martial arts film in roughly fifteen years and quite possibly the first to ever feature a serious treatment of local martial art silat.

A vastly inexperienced rural doctor develops an unquenchable thirst for the morphine in the hospital medicine supply room. Morphine is another dark tale from Aleksey Balabanov, director of last year's Fantastic Fest critical sensation Cargo 200.

A medical student in 1910 Korea discovers a corpse in the woods and secretly takes it for dissection practice. When he discovers that the body is the son of the city's most powerful gangster he enlists the help of a shady private detective to find the killer before the murder is pinned on him.

Blossoming to adulthood sure ain't no picnic. A dreamish, jarring vision of growing up.