Gallery / Cinema

Artists at the Gallery

Artists and Authors for Berlin Swamp Fest 2025


Movies at the Cinema

curated by Final Girls Berlin

Nian (6:27)

Written and directed by Michelle Krusiec, USA, 2023 

A Chinese American girl stands up to her racist bully armed with a Chinese demon mask and the help of the Nian, a mythological creature said to eat rotten children.

Vibrator Girl (13:12)

Directed by Kara Strait, USA, 2023 

An isolated young woman uses her vibrator compulsively — until it starts deforming her body in disturbing ways. To regain control and change the way she masturbates, she goes on a journey through a lurid underground of corporate neurologists and orgasm gurus, none of whom seem to have her best interests in mind. Ultimately, there’s little she can do to withstand her vibrator’s eerie influence.

The Blue Diamond (16:28)

Directed by Sam Fox, USA, 2024

After the death of her toxic mother, a cultish 80s apres ski club is the setting of a grieving daughter trying to find closure, but as usual with 80s ski clubs, nothing is as it seems (aliens).

Autophagy (11:04)

Directed by Edie Lawrence, UK, 2024

A waterborne disease ravages a town, the affliction slowly morphing you into an octopus. With the societal hatred towards those suffering building, a couple have the limited choice: afford the medication to carry on living, or drink the water and suffer being shunned.

Nosocomephilia (15:00)

Directed by Michèle Kaye, Canada, 2024

A middle-age woman in a state of ennui starts compulsively visiting doctors.

Micro-Short (5:55)

Directed by Beth Fletcher, USA, 2024

A woman hypnotized by her microwave finds out how far she’ll go to satiate its hunger.

Erdbeeren (Strawberries) (5:40)

Directed by Lara Krämer, Germany, 2024

Early summer sun, birds chirping, the perfect day in the allotment garden – until a woman shows up who doesn’t seem to be having a particularly perfect day.

Tastes Like Pork (11:27)

Directed by Dante Dammit, USA, 2024

An eager trans woman serves up her genitalia to a cannibalistic cis woman.

Content warning: castration
Bloody Hell (6:00)

Directed by Lena Albin, Australia, 2024 

Sam’s period arrives just moments before an important visitor knocks at her door. Her frantic attempt to get ready derails into a blood soaked nightmare.

SHE (15:30)

Directed by Renee Zhan, UK, 2023

When pressures mount on a tightly wound violinist in a London youth orchestra, her internal monsters take external form.

A Fermenting Woman (23:58)

Directed by Priscilla Galvez, Canada, 2024

On the brink of getting fired from her restaurant by new owners, visionary chef and master fermenter Marielle Lau develops an incendiary new dish with a bewitching ingredient she’s convinced will save her career.

Open Your Eyes (13:59)

Directed by Samantha Scaffidi, USA, 2024

Haunted by recurring dreams of a sinister hallway and a young girl, Lily does everything she can to stay awake. But the harder she tries, the more her paranoia increases.

Triptych (14:29)

Directed by Sophia Ray, UK/Bulgaria, 2024

Provocative artist Margaux Kasser plans to destroy a Bosch masterpiece, claiming it’s performance art. But the artwork conceals a dark secret from her past. A horrific reckoning is coming. Margaux must fight to escape her fate.

It Came From Inside! (12:02)

Directed by Aura Martinez Sandoval & Jackson Rees, USA, 2024 

On Halloween night, an aloof young couple find a corpse, a cassette tape, and a mysterious transmission device. Panic ensues as they discover who — or what — the device is designed to summon.

Hair Wolf (12:15)

Written and directed by Mariama Diallo, USA 2018

The staff of a Black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from Black culture.

The Itching (15:07)

Written and directed by Dianne Bellino, USA, 2016

In this handmade collaboration, a shy wolf tries to befriend a group of hip, party-loving bunnies but finds her body is in revolt.

Fry Day (16:00)

Directed by Laura Moss, USA, 2017

An amateur photographer discovers that there is money to be made in the celebration of Ted Bundy’s impending execution.

09. August 2016 um 23:01