SECTION: MIDNIGHT MADNESS

Wild & weird: From aliens in the Kazakh steppe, werewolves in medieval Latvia and vampires in a trailer park, full of jealousy, delusions of omnipotence and murderous intent. Anyone who likes suspenseful cinema, dark legends and ludicrous genre mixes is cordially invited to MIDNIGHT MADNESS.

BURNING

Radik Eshimov
KG / 2024 / 101 min

Folk horror about a family falling apart in a small Kyrgyz town. A year after the death of their child, a young couple's house burns down. The neighbours gather; everyone has their own version of events – each one darker than the last. But behind ...

THE DEATH OF DRACULA

DRAKULA HALÁLA

Attila Gödri, Flóra Kovács, Gyopár Buzási, Szabolcs Sztercey, Orsolya Orbán, Boglárka - Angéla Farkas, Nóra Miklós, Zsófia Makkai
Ro / 2025 / 60 min

Dracula is back to his roots – in the first Dracula film from Transylvania, an imaginative remake of the lost earliest film adaptation of the story from 1921. A young girl encounters sinister doctors and a patient who claims to be Dracula in a ...

DOG OF GOD

Raitis Ābele, Lauris Ābele
LV/US / 2025 / 95 min

Animated gothic fantasy from Latvia: In the 17th century, a pastor tormented by his lust, an impotent baron and a strange stranger who calls himself a werewolf meet in a remote village. But the entire village community is already in the midst of a ...

SASYQ

Yerden Telemissov
KAZ / 2025 / 106 min

An ageing alcoholic in rural Kazakhstan witnesses a spaceship crash and takes the extraterrestrial passenger under his wing. But the mayor orders all ‘undesirable elements’ to be removed from the streets for the sake of a parade. A crazy sci-fi ...

THREE LOVES

TRZY MIŁOŚCI

Łukasz Grzegorzek
PL / 2025 / 99 min

After her divorce, actress Lena seeks a new beginning and throws herself into a passionate affair with the younger student Kundel. But her jealous ex-husband Jan cannot let her go. Between desire, control and voyeuristic obsession, a love triangle ...

TOUCHED BY ETERNITY

MūžīBAS SKARTIE

Mārcis Lācis
LV / 2024 / 96 min

A horror comedy that ponders a serious philosophical question: does man really need eternal life? Fatso, a shady cryptocurrency trader, lives in a trailer and spends his days listening to a podcast about immortality. One evening, two vampires appear ...