#FIRSTLOOK: IFC PRESENT SUMMER 2021 LINEUP

IFC present their summer slate of programming to premiere both on VOD and on their subscription services IFC Films Unlimited. HOLLER which premiered at TIFF ’20 will arrive in June!

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*Available to rent on Apple TV

HOLLER (2021) – June 11, 2021 (Drama)
Director: Nicole Riegel
Starring: Jessica Barden, Pamela Adlon, Becky Ann Baker, Austin Amelio, Gus Halper
Synopsis: In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.

WEREWOLVES WITHIN (2021) – July 2, 2021 (Comedy, Horror)
Director: Josh Ruben
Starring: Milana Vayntrub, Cheyenne Jackson, Michaela Watkins, Sam Richardson, Anni Krueger, George Basil, Sarah Burns, Glenn Fleshler, Harvey Guillen, Wayne Duvall, Rebecca Henderson, Michael Chernus, Catherine Curtin
Synopsis: After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger FINN (Sam Richardson) and postal worker CECILY (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community.

ENEMIES OF THE STATE (2021) – July 30, 2021 (Documentary)
Director: Sonia Kennebeck
Synopsis: When their hacker son is targeted by the US Government, the DeHarts will do anything to protect him. And so begins to unravel a web of secrets in this twisty, stranger-than-fiction cyber-thriller story.

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LITTLE FISH (2021) – June 2, 2021 (Romance, Sci-fi)
Director: Chad Hartigan
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Jack O’Connell, Soko, Raúl Castillo, Carmen Moore, David Lennon
Synopsis: As a memory loss virus runs rampant, one couple fights to hold their relationship together before the disease can erase all memory of their love in this sweeping sci-fi romance.

A L’AVENTURE (2009) – June 9, 2021 (Drama)
Director: Jean-Claud Brisseau
Starring: Arnaud Binard, Carole Brana
Synopsis: Carole is sexually unsatisfied; she meets Sophie who intrigues Carole with accounts of her sexual experimentation; Carole will follow her onto the dangerous paths of hypnosis, where she will witness ecstasy.

68 KILL (2017) – June 16, 2021 (Thriller)
Director: Trent Haaga
Starring: Matthew Gray Gubler, AnnaLynne McCord, Alisha Boe
Synopsis: It started with a couple dead bodies and $68,000 in stolen cash. Chip Taylor’s girlfriend Liza had the perfect plan to rip off her rich sugar daddy. But things started going wrong.

THAT SUMMER (2018) – June 23, 2021 (Documentary)
Director: Göran Hugo Olss
Starring: Peter Beard, Lee Radziwill, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, Edith Bouvier Beale, Andy Warhol
Synopsis: In 1972 Lee Radziwill asks Peter Beard to help make a film about her childhood on Long Island. Her eccentric cousines, the Beales of Grey Gardens, become the focus of the project.

EMBATTLED (2020) – July 7, 2021 (Action)
Director: Nick Sarkisov
Starring: Stephen Dorff, Darren Mann, Colin McKenna, Karrueche Tran, Donald Faison, Ava Capri, Saïd Taghmaoui, Elizabeth Reaser, Leopold Manswell, Mimi Davila
Synopsis: The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough, larger- than-life MMA champion must literally fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued in this emotional thriller.

NO MAN’S LAND (2021) – July 14, 2021 (Drama, Western)
Director: Conor Allyn
Starring: Frank Grillo, Andie MacDowell, George Lopez
Synopsis: When a vigilante border patrol turns fatal, a man flees on horseback – the law hot on his heels – seeking forgiveness from the victim’s father in this modern spin on the classic Western.

FREAK SHOW (2018) – July 21, 2021 (Comedy)
Director: Trudie Styler
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Alex Lawther, Ian Nelson, Annasophia Robb, Celia Weston, Walden Bryan Hudson, Daniel Bellomy, Bette Midler
Synopsis: Billy Bloom is talented, fierce and fearless but does he have what it takes to win homecoming queen? Bette Midler, Abigail Breslin star in this fabulous comedy.

HAMPSTEAD (2019) – July 28, 2021 (Comedy)
Director: Joel Hopkins
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Diane Keaton, James Norton, Alistair Petrie
Synopsis: An American widow living in the London suburb of Hampstead and a man who lives on the Heath form an unlikely alliance against unscrupulous property developers in the neighborhood.

BLITHE SPIRIT (2021) – August 8, 2021 (Comedy)
Director: Edward Hall
Starring: Judi Dench, Isla Fisher, Dan Stevens
Synopsis: A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer’s block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.

MOFFIE (2021) – August 11, 2021 (Drame, War)
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Kai Luke Brümmer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak, Hilton Pelser, Wynand Ferreira
Synopsis: South Africa, 1981: a white boy is called into military service to defend the apartheid regime, but that’s not the only danger he faces.

FERAL (2018) – August 18, 2021 (Horror)
Director: Mark H. Young
Starring: Scout Taylor-Compton, Lew Temple, Olivia Luccardi, Renee Olstead, Brock Kelly, Landry Allbright, George Finn
Synopsis: A wild animal attacks six grad students on a weekend hike in the woods. One by one, they become infected with an unknown virus that turns them into bloodthirsty creatures.

DONNYBROOK (2019) – August 25, 2021 (Drama)
Director: Tim Sutton
Starring: Jamie Bell, Frank Grillo, Margaret Qualley, James Badge Dale
Synopsis: Jamie Bell is a veteran desperate to win or die trying in order to escape the ruthless criminal underworld and provide a better life for his family.

LAST CALL (2021) – Summer 21 (Comedy)
Director: Paolo Pilladi
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Taryn Manning, Bruce Dern, Zach McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, Jack McGee, Cathy Moriarty, Cheri Oteri
Synopsis: A successful developer must decide whether to raze or resurrect his family’s bar after returning to the blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood of his youth.

MONDAY (2021) – Summer 21 (Romance, Drama)
Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos
Starring: Sebastian Stan, Denise Gough, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Dominique Tipper
Synopsis: Two thrill-seeking Americans trying to find themselves in Greece become entangled in a passionate love affair after an unexpected encounter one Friday night.

#FIRSTLOOK: IFC MAY PROGRAMMING LINEUP

IFC announce their new programming slate for May on both their subscription service IFC FILMS UNLIMITED and also on VOD.

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*Available to rent on Apple TV

MAINSTREAM (2021) – May 14, 2021 (Comedy, Romance)
*Will be available on IFC FIlms Unlimited Summer 2021
Director: Gia Coppola
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff, Johnny Knoxville, Jason Schwartzman
Synopsis: An artist (Andrew Garfield) satirizing social media culture finds his own ironic internet fame that threatens the bonds of his creative team in this hilariously modern love story.

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HUNTER HUNTER (2020) – May 5, 2021 (Thriller)
Director: Shawn Linden
Starring: Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell, Devon Sawa, Nick Stahl, Lauren Cochrane, Gabriel Daniels
Synopsis: A mysterious predator eludes an aging detective and a cunning outdoors man to corner and terrorize a woman and daughter trapped in a remote forest cabin

THE NIGHT (2021) – May 12, 2021 (Thriller)
Director: Kourosh Ahari
Starring: Shahab Hosseini, Niousha Jafarian, Leah Oganyan
Synopsis: A couple becomes trapped in a hotel with their demons – real and imagined – until they can confront the secrets in their marriage in this mind-bending supernatural thriller.

THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES (2013) – May 19, 2021 (Horror)
Director: Chris James Thompson
Cast: Andrew Swant, Pamela Bass, Jeffrey Jentzen
Synopsis: A documentary about the people around Jeffrey Dahmer during the 1991 summer of his arrest for the murder of 17 people in Milwaukee.

THE OTHER WOMAN (2011) – May 26, 2021 (Drama)
Director: Don Roos
Starring: Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow, Scott Cohen, Charlie Tahan
Synopsis: The story of a young woman who finds the key to recovering her marriage in her relationship with her precocious stepson.

#FIRSTLOOK: IFC APRIL 2021 PROGRAMMING LINEUP

IFC present new additions to their April 2021 lineup of programming via rental and on their subscription service IFC FILMS UNLIMITED.

IFC FILMS VOD releases
*Available to rent on Apple TV

MOFFIE (2021) – April 9, 2021 (Drama, War)
*Will be available on IFC FIlms Unlimited Summer 2021
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Kai Luke Brümmer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak, Hilton Pelser, Wynand Ferreira
Synopsis: South Africa, 1981: a white boy is called into military service to defend the apartheid regime, but that’s not the only danger he faces.

MONDAY (2021) – April 16, 2021 (Romance, Drama)
*Will be available on IFC FIlms Unlimited Summer 2021
Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos
Starring: Sebastian Stan, Denise Gough, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Dominique Tipper
Synopsis: Two thrill-seeking Americans trying to find themselves in Greece become entangled in a passionate love affair after an unexpected encounter one Friday night.

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*Available on Amazon Prime Video Channels and Apple TV

FAREWELL AMOR (2020) – April 7, 2021 (Drama)
Director: Ekwa Msangi
Starring: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, Jayme Lawson, Joie Lee, Marcus Scribner, Nana Mensah
Synopsis: Reunited after 17 years apart, an Angolan immigrant welcomes his wife and daughter into his tiny Brooklyn apartment. Now strangers, they find common ground in their shared love of dance.

EATING ANIMALS (2018) – April 14, 2021 (Documentary)
Director: Christopher Quinn
Starring: Natalie Portman (narrator)
Synopsis: Filmmaker Christopher Quinn examines the environmental, economic and public health consequences of factory farming. Topics include animal rights, pollution and the use of antibiotics and hormones.

MLK/FBI (2021) – April 21, 2021 (Documentary)
Director: Sam Pollard
Synopsis: Based on recently declassified files, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Pollard explores the US government’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

68 KILL (2017) – April 21, 2021 (Thriller)
Director: Trent Haaga
Starring: Matthew Gray Gubler, AnnaLynne McCord, Alisha Boe
Synopsis: It started with a couple dead bodies and $68,000 in stolen cash. Chip Taylor’s girlfriend Liza had the perfect plan to rip off her rich sugar daddy. But things started going wrong.

BLACK 47 (2018) – April 28, 2021 (Drama)
Director: Lance Daly
Starring: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea
Synopsis: Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family.

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#FIRSTLOOK: IFC FILMS UNLIMITED WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH 2021 PROGRAMMING

In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, subscription video service IFC Films Unlimited have announced a slate of women-led programming in March!

FEMALE DIRECTORS
*Titles listed by date

A Call to Spy (2020) – Drama
Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher
Starring: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache
Synopsis: At the dawn of WWII, a desperate Churchill orders his new spy agency to train women for covert ops. Together, they help to undermine the Nazi regime and turn the tide of the war.

Relic (2020) – Horror
Director: Natalie Erika James
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, Bella Heathcote 
Synopsis: A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family’s home.

Knives and Skin (2019) – Drama
Director: Jennifer Reeder
Starring: Marika Engelhardt, Grace Smith, Ireon Roach, Kayla Carter, Tim Hopper, Kate Arrington, Audrey Francis, James Vincent Meredith, Ty Olwin, Raven Whitley, Jalen Gilbert, Emma Ladji, Robert T. Cunningham, Tony Fitzpatrick, Marilyn Dodds Frank
Synopsis: What happened to Carolyn Harper? Part suburban nightmare, part neon-soaked teenage fever dream, this tantalizing mystery traces the wave of fear and distrust that spreads across a small Midwestern town in the wake of a high school girl’s mysterious disappearance. As the loneliness and darkness lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life gradually comes to light, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town’s teenage girls—gathering in force until it can no longer be contained. Unfolding in a hallucinatory haze of lushly surreal images, Knives and Skin is a one-of-a-kind coming-of-age noir that haunts like a half-remembered dream.

Sword of Trust (2019) – Comedy
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Marc Maron, Jon Bass, Michaela Watkins, Jillian Bell
Synopsis: Mel (Marc Maron) is a cantankerous pawnshop owner in Alabama who spends most of his time swindling customers while trying and failing to get his man-child employee Nathaniel (Jon Bass) to do any work. When Cynthia (Jillian Bell) and her wife Mary (Michaela Watkins) try to hawk a Civil War-era sword inherited from Cynthia’s recently deceased grandfather, he tries to get the better of them. The sword, however, comes with a convoluted report from Cynthia’s grandfather claiming the relic to be proof the South actually won the war. It isn’t long before the coveted “prover item” draws the attention of overzealous conspiracy theorists and the two duos have to join forces in order to sell the sword to the highest bidder. The journey that ensues takes the ragtag bunch on a tour through the deep South and the minds of the local fanatics who inhabit it. Created from the raw talent of its cast and infused with a lot of heart and laughs, Sword of Trust takes a stab at uncovering emotional truths through moments of hilarity and hits right on the mark.

Out of Blue (2019) – Drama
Director: Carol Morley
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Toby Jones, Jacki Weaver, James Caan, Mamie Gummer, Aaron Tveit, Yolonda Ross, Jonathan Majors, Devyn Tyler
Synopsis: The hunt for a killer draws a detective into an even larger mystery: the nature of the universe itself. Mike Hoolihan (Patricia Clarkson) is an unconventional New Orleans cop investigating the murder of renowned astrophysicist Jennifer Rockwell (Mamie Gummer), a black hole expert found shot to death in her observatory. As Mike tumbles down the rabbit hole of the disturbing, labyrinthine case, she finds herself grappling with increasingly existential questions of quantum mechanics, parallel universes, and exploding stars—cosmic secrets that may hold the key to unraveling the crime, while throwing into doubt her very understanding of reality. Awash in a dreamlike, neo-noir atmosphere, this one-of-a-kind thriller is both a tantalizing whodunnit and a rich, metaphysical mind-bender.

Furlough (2018) – Drama
Director: Laurie Collyer
Starring: Tessa Thompson, Whoopi Goldberg, Melissa Leo, La La Anthony, Drena De Niro, Azhy Robertson, Jerry Dean
Synopsis: When an inmate is granted one weekend out of prison to see her dying mother, a rookie correction officer struggles to keep her under control.

The Female Brain (2018) – Comedy
Director: Whitney Cummings
Starring: Whitney Cummings, Sofia Vergara, Cecily Strong, Toby Kebbell, James Marsden, Lucy Punch, Beanie Feldstein
Synopsis: A comedy about modern day relationships that takes us from the heart into the inner workings of brain chemistry to understand love among couples at different stages of their relationships.

Evolution (2016) – Thriller
Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović
Starring: Max Brebant, Roxane Duran, Julie-Marie Parmentier
Synopsis: In this sci-fi thriller, a remote island is inhabited by young boys who are subjected to strange medical treatments. Soon one boy makes a disturbing discovery beneath the waves.

#Horror (2015) – Horror
Director: Tara Subkoff
Starring: Sadie Seelert, Haley Murphy, Bridget McGarry
Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of a cyber bullying to a night of insanity.

Bare (2015) – Drama, Thriller
Director: Natalia Leite
Starring: Dianna Agron, Paz de la Huerta,
Synopsis: A young girl living in a small desert town in Nevada becomes romantically involved with a female drifter who leads her into a life of drugs, stripping, and psychedelic spiritual experiences.

Slow Learners (2015) – Comedy
Director: Sheena Joyce, Don Argott
Starring: Adam Pally, Sarah Burns, Reid Scott, Catherine Reitman
Synopsis: High school teachers Jeff and Anne are work BFFs all too familiar with the woes of romance. Desperate to turn their luck around they take on new personas and embark, withgusto, on an adventurous summer of uncharacteristic encounters.

Free the Nipple (2014) – Comedy
Director: Lina Esco
Starring: Casey LaBow, Zach Grenier, Monique Coleman, Lola Kirke, Lia Esco
Synopsis: An army of passionate women launch a revolution to “Free the Nipple” and decriminalize the female body. Based on a true story, this mass movement of topless women, armed with First Amendment lawyers, graffiti installations and national publicity stunts, invade New York City to protest the backwards censorship laws in the USA.

Kelly & Cal (2014) – Comedy
Director: Jen McGowan
Starring: Juliette Lewis, Cybill Shepherd, Jonny Weston
Synopsis: A former rock chick turned suburban housewife (Juliette Lewis) rediscovers her wild side when she befriends the teenaged boy next door. Also stars Cybill Shepherd.

Beyond the Edge (2014) – Thriller, Documentary
Director: Leanne Pooley
Starring: Chad Moffitt
Synopsis: A 3D feature film about Sir Edmund Hillary’s monumental and historical ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 – an event that stunned the world and defined a nation.

Dancing in Jaffa (2014) – Documentary
Director: Hilla Medalia
Starring: Pierre Dulaine
Synopsis: Over a ten-week period, renowned ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine teaches Jewish and Palestinian Israeli children to dance and compete together. The film explores the complex stories of three children, all of whom are forced to confront issues of identity, segregation, and racial prejudice as they dance with their enemy.

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2014) – Documentary
Director: Chiemi Karasawa
Starring: Elaine Stritch, Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey , Nathan Lane
Synopsis: What does it mean to be a performing artist – first, last and always? Broadway legend Elaine Stritch can answer that. At 87, Stritch is still here, dominating the stage in her one woman cabaret act, torturing Alec Baldwin on 30ROCK, giving us her take on aging, her struggle with alcohol and diabetes, and the fear of leaving the follow spot behind. In stolen moments from her corner room at the Carlyle, and on breaks from her tour and work, candid reflections about her life are punctuated with rare archival footage, words from friends (Hal Prince, George C. Wolfe, Nathan Lane, Cherry Jones and John Turturro) and photographs from her personal collection. By turns bold, hilarious and achingly poignant, the journey connects Stritch’s present to her past, and an inspiring portrait of a one-of-a-kind survivor emerges.

The Selfish Giant (2013) – Drama
Director: Clio Barnard
Starring: Sean Gilder, Steve Evets
Synopsis: THE SELFISH GIANT is a contemporary fable about two teenage boys who get caught up in the world of copper theft.

Dark Touch (2013) – Horror
Director: Marina de Van
Starring: Marie Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Padraic Delaney, Aidan Gillen, Charlotte Flyvholm
Synopsis: One night, the furniture and objects in an isolated house runs riot against the family within, leaving only an eleven-year-old girl alive.

Una Noche (2013) (Spanish) – Drama
Director: Lucy Mulloy
Starring: Dariel Arrechaga, Anailin de la Rua de la Torre, Javier Nuñez Florian
Synopsis: Havana: Accused and desperate, Raul is forced to the edge. 90 miles of treacherous ocean stand between him and his dream: Miami.

Breaking the Girls (2013) – Thriller
Director: Jamie Babbit
Starring: Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner, Shawn Ashmore
Synopsis: Two college girls become more than friends when they make a pact to kill off each other’s nemesis.

The Loneliest Planet (2012) – Thriller
Director: Julia Loktev
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Hani Furstenberg, Bidzina Gujabidze
Synopsis: A local guide takes a young couple through a twisted backpacking trip across the Georgian wilderness.

The Decoy Bride (2012) – Comedy
Director: Sheree Folkson
Starring: David Tenant, Kelly McDonald, Alice Eve
Synopsis: When the media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is getting married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.

Buck (2011) – Documentary
Director: Cindy Meehl
Starring: Buck Brannaman
Synopsis: In a story about the power of non-violence, master horse trainer Buck Brannaman uses principles of respect and trust to tame horses and inspire their human counterparts.

Tiny Furniture (2010) – Comedy
Director: Lena Dunham
Starring: Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, David Call, Alex Karpovsky
Synopsis: 22-year-old Aura returns home after college to her artist mother’s loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her YouTube page, and no shoulders to cry on. Starring Dunham and her real-life family, Tiny Furniture is tragicomedy about what does and does not happen when you graduate with no skills, no love life, and a lot of free time.

LADIES OF HORROR
*Titles listed by date

Kindred (2020) – Thriller
Director: Joe Marcantonio
Starring: Fiona Shaw, Edward Holcroft, Jack Lowden, Tamara Lawrance, Chloe Pirrie, Anton Lesser, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Michael Nardone
Synopsis: A chilling tale of one young woman slowly losing her grip on reality…or is she being brainwashed and psychologically tortured by her deceased boyfriend’s family?

The Other Lamb (2020) – Horror, Drama
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Starring: Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough.
Synopsis: A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality.

Relic (2020) – Horror
Director: Natalie Erika James
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin, Bella Heathcote 
Synopsis: A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family’s home.

Knives and Skin (2019) – Drama
Director: Jennifer Reeder
Starring: Marika Engelhardt, Grace Smith, Ireon Roach, Kayla Carter, Tim Hopper, Kate Arrington, Audrey Francis, James Vincent Meredith, Ty Olwin, Raven Whitley, Jalen Gilbert, Emma Ladji, Robert T. Cunningham, Tony Fitzpatrick, Marilyn Dodds Frank
Synopsis: What happened to Carolyn Harper? Part suburban nightmare, part neon-soaked teenage fever dream, this tantalizing mystery traces the wave of fear and distrust that spreads across a small Midwestern town in the wake of a high school girl’s mysterious disappearance. As the loneliness and darkness lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life gradually comes to light, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town’s teenage girls—gathering in force until it can no longer be contained. Unfolding in a hallucinatory haze of lushly surreal images, Knives and Skin is a one-of-a-kind coming-of-age noir that haunts like a half-remembered dream.

Beyond the Gates (of Hell) (2016) – Thriller
Director: Jackson Stewart
Starring: Barbara Crampton, Brea Grant, Ryan Kunert
Synopsis: Dice turn deadly when two brothers fight to survive a nightmarish role-playing game run by a sinister host (Barbara Crampton) in this throwback thriller.

Anesthesia (2016) – Drama
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Glenn Close, Michael K. Williams, Tim Blake Nelson, Mickey Sumner, Sam Waterston
Synopsis: Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

The Abandoned (2016) – Horror
Director: Eytan Rockaway
Starring: Jason Patric, Louisa Krause, Mark Margolis
Synopsis: A struggling single mother works as a security guard for a corporation, where she becomes trapped in the dark catacombs of the structure and her sanity is terrorized.

The Den (2014) – Horror, Thriller
Director: Zachary Donohue
Starring: Melanie Papalia, David Schlachtenhaufen, Matt Riedy, Adam Shapiro
Synopsis: A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.

Dark Touch (2013) – Horror
Director: Marina de Van
Starring: Marie Missy Keating, Marcella Plunkett, Padraic Delaney, Aidan Gillen, Charlotte Flyvholm
Synopsis: One night, the furniture and objects in an isolated house runs riot against the family within, leaving only an eleven-year-old girl alive.

Breaking the Girls (2013) – Thriller
Director: Jamie Babbit
Starring: Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner, Shawn Ashmore
Synopsis: Two college girls become more than friends when they make a pact to kill off each other’s nemesis.

Contracted (2013) – Horror, Thriller
Director: Eric England
Starring: Najarra Townsend, Caroline Williams
Synopsis: A young girl has a one-night stand with a random stranger and contracts, what she thinks is, a sexually-transmitted disease – but is actually something much worse.

The Pact (2012) – Horror
Director: Nicholas McCarthy
Starring: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Haley Hudson, Sam Ball
Synopsis: When their mother dies, sisters Annie and Nicole begin to face their disturbing childhood. Nicole visits her mother’s house to deal with the estate and vanishes.

Dead Hooker in a Trunk (2011) – Horror
Director: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Starring: Rikki Gagne, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, CJ Wallis, John Tench
Synopsis: A Canadian grindhouse film about a group of friends, including twin sisters (who are also the directors), who somehow end up with a dead hooker in their trunk. As they try to figure out how it happened, they become chased by cops, a sleazy hotel manager, chainsaw wielding triads, a brutal serial killer, and a mysterious cowboy pimp.

The Housemaid (2011) (Korean) – Thriller
Director: Im Sang-soo
Starring: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-jae Lee, Woo Seo, Yuh-Jung Youn
Synopsis: A remake of Kim Ki-young’s Housemaid from the 1960s. A strange housemaid joins a peaceful family only to destroy them.

Exorcismus (2011) – Horror
Director: Luis de la Madrid
Starring: Sophie Vavasseur, Stephen Billington, Douglas Bradley, Jo Anne Stockham
Synopsis: Medical tests have ruled out any illness of 15 year old daughter Suzy but she gets worse every day. Father Ellis resorts to hypnosis to help Suzy but to find out what happens during the sessions, Suzy sets up a video camera.

FEMALE CINEMATOGRAPHERS
*Titles listed by date

Furlough (2018) – Drama
Director: Laurie Collyer
Cinematographer: Berenice Eveno
Starring: Tessa Thompson, Whoopi Goldberg, Melissa Leo, La La Anthony, Drena De Niro, Azhy Robertson, Jerry Dean
Synopsis: When an inmate is granted one weekend out of prison to see her dying mother, a rookie correction officer struggles to keep her under control.

Marguerite and Julien (2016) – Romance
Director: Valérie Donzelli
Cinematographer: Céline Bozon
Starring: Anaïs Demoustier, Jérémie Elkaïm, Frédéric Pierrot
Synopsis: An aristocratic brother and sister embrace passion and hope as they flee from society. A story of desire, love and death beyond all morality.

Anesthesia (2016) – Drama
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Cinematographer: Christina Voros
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Glenn Close, Michael K. Williams, Tim Blake Nelson, Mickey Sumner, Sam Waterston
Synopsis: Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

The Pact 2 (2014) – Thriller
Director: Dallas Hallam, Patrick Horvath
Cinematographer: Carmen Cabana
Starring: Camilla Luddington, Scott Michael Foster
Synopsis: Sequel to Pact. When a series of brutal murders lead authorities to believe the Judas killer is back, Annie, (Caity Lotz The Machine), returns home for the final showdown.

Errors of the Human Body (2013) – Sci-fi
Director: Eron Sheean
Cinematographer: Anna Howard
Starring: Rik Mayall, Karoline Herfurth
Synopsis: When a potentially lethal virus is created within his new lab, Dr Geoff Burton is shocked to discover he is not only the unwitting cause, but also its first victim.

The Flat (2012) (Hebrew, German, English) – Documentary
Director: Arnon Goldfinger
Cinematographer: Talia Gal’On
Starring: Arnon Goldfinger
Synopsis: At age 98, director Arnon Goldfinger’s grandmother passed away, leaving him the task of clearing out the Tel Aviv flat that she and her husband shared since immigrating to Palestine from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. In this emotionally riveting documentary, Goldfinger follows the hints they left behind in a lifetime’s collection of documents.

The Decoy Bride (2012) – Comedy
Director: Sheree Folkson
Cinematographer: Nanu Segal
Starring: David Tenant, Kelly McDonald, Alice Eve
Synopsis: When the media descend on the remote Scottish island where a Hollywood actress is getting married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.

House of Pleasures (2011) – Drama
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Cinematographer: Josée Deshaies
Starring: Adèle Haenel, Alice Barnole, Céline Sallette, Hafsia Herzi, Iliana Zabeth, Jasmine Trinca, Noémie Lvovsky
Synopsis: At the dawn of the XXth century, in a brothel in Paris, a man disfigures a prostitute for life. She is marked with a scar that draws a tragic smile on her face.

XX/YX (2003) – Comedy, Drama
Director: Austin Chick
Cinematographer: Uta Briesewitz
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Kathleen Robertson, Maya Stange, Petra Wright, David Thornton
Synopsis: Hot Sundance world premiere stars Mark Ruffalo; written, directed by Austin Chick. Friends begin a dangerous 3-way relationship that spirals out of control; dire consequences haunt them years later.

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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW MARCH 2021 RELEASES FROM IFC FILMS

IFC Films present their upcoming slate of releases in March 2021 on both their IFC Films Unlimited Subscription Service and also on VOD, among them LAST CALL starring Jeremy Piven and Bruce Dern.

IFC FILMS VOD releases
*Available to rent on Apple TV

LAST CALL (2021) – March 19, 2021 (Comedy)
*Will be available on IFC FIlms Unlimited Summer 2021

Director: Paolo Pilladi
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Taryn Manning, Bruce Dern, Zach McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, Jack McGee, Cathy Moriarty, Cheri Oteri
Synopsis: A successful developer must decide whether to raze or resurrect his family’s bar after returning to the blue-collar Philadelphia neighbourhood of his youth.

IFC FILMS UNLIMITED
*Available on Amazon Prime Video Channels and Apple TV

A CALL TO SPY (2020) – March 3, 2021 (Drama)
Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher
Starring: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte
Synopsis: In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency to recruit and train women as spies. Together, these women help to undermine the Nazi regime in France.

SHITHOUSE (2020) – March 10, 2021 (Comedy)
Director: Cooper Raiff
Starring: Dylan Gelula, Cooper Raiff, Amy Landecker, Logan MillerSales: Submarine
Synopsis: A homesick college freshman goes to a party at Shithouse and ends up spending the night with his sophomore RA who’s had a shitty day and wants someone to hang out with.

THE HOUSEMAID (2011) – March 17, 2021 (Thriller)
Director: Im Sang-soo
Starring: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-jae Lee, Woo Seo, Yuh-Jung Youn
Synopsis: A remake of Kim Ki-young’s Housemaid from the 1960s. A strange housemaid joins a peaceful family only to destroy them.

GHOST STORIES (2018) – March 24, 2021 (Thriller)
Director: Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman
Starring: Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther, Andy Nyman, Paul Whitehouse
Synopsis: Professor Phillip Goodman, psychologist and skeptic, has his rationality tested to the hilt when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three terrifying hauntings.

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#FIRSTLOOK: NEW HORROR FILMS COMING TO IFC FILMS UNLIMITED IN OCTOBER

Something exciting for you Horror fans. IFC Films Unlimited is available now in Canada on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV at $5.99.

Check-out some of the classics and some of the new hits including selections from the Venice Film Festival like THE OTHER LAMB:

The Other Lamb  (2020) Director: Malgorzata Szumowska Starring: Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough Synopsis: A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality. Walking Out  (2017) Director: Alex Smith, Andrew Smith Starring: Matt Bomer, Josh Wiggins, Bill Pullman, Alex Neustaedter, Lily Gladstone Synopsis: Father and son fight to escape an unforgiving no man’s land in this riveting survival thriller. Devil’s Pass (2013) Director: Renny Harlin Starring: Holly Goss, Luke Albright, Matt Stokow, Ryan Hawley, Gemma Atkinson Synopsis: One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. The student recently recovered footage – the only clue to what happened to them – was deemed too disturbing for public eyes. Acolytes  (2011) Director: John Hewitt Starring: Joel Edgerton, Michael Dorman, Sebastian Gregory, Hannah Mangan-Lawrence, Joshua Payne Synopsis: Three teenage friends discover a buried body. They decide to blackmail the killer into murdering the brutal bully who has victimized them all their lives. What could go wrong? 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012) Director: Abel Ferrara Starring: Willem Dafoe, Natasha Lyonne, Paz de la Huerta, Shanyn Leigh Synopsis: People cope with the discovery that the world will come to an end the next day at 4:44. Contracted  (2013) Director: Eric England Starring: Najarra Townsend, Caroline Williams Synopsis: A young girl has a one-night stand with a random stranger and contracts, what she thinks is, a sexually-transmitted disease – but is actually something much worse. The Human Centipede  (2010) Director: Tom Six Starring: Dieter Laser, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlyn Yennie, Akihiro Kitamura Synopsis: Two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods; they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon who explains his mad scientific vision to his captives’ utter horror. They are to be the subjects of his sick lifetime fantasy: to be the first to connect people, one to the next, via their gastric system, and in doing so bring to life ‘the human centipede’. Knives and Skin  (2019) Director: Jennifer Reeder Starring: Marika Engelhardt, Grace Smith, Ireon Roach, Kayla Carter, Tim Hopper, Kate Arrington, Audrey Francis, James Vincent Meredith, Ty Olwin, Raven Whitley, Jalen Gilbert, Emma Ladji, Robert T. Cunningham, Tony Fitzpatrick, Marilyn Dodds Frank Synopsis: A small town collapses into disarray after a teenage girl goes missing and her friends and their families become ensnared in a web of lies, suspicion, and depravity. The Wretched  (2020) Director: Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce Starring: John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Zarah Mahler, Azie Tesfai, Jamison Jones Synopsis: A rebellious teenage boy embarks on a gutsy crusade to stop the terrifying evil he suspects has possessed his neighbor in this bone-chilling occult thriller.

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