H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival Best of 2016(2016)

The Yellow Sign(en)

A young art gallery owner, Tess Reardon, is looking for new talent to spark life into her failing business. Haunted by nightmares, she discovers that an artist she dreamt about, Aubrey Scott, actually exists, and she seeks him out. The eccentric painter agrees to a showing of his art, but only if Tess will model for his new work. She grudgingly agrees and begins to regress into a past life from a parallel world, and that everything is not at all as it seems.

Nullarbor(en)

An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain.

Red(pt)

Red(en)

Based on the true story of Louis "Red" Deutsch. A New Jersey bar-owner is plagued with prank phone calls that prompt him to flip into psychotic, profanity-laden rages.

Along Came Auntie(en)

A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.

The Severed Heads Are Smiling.(fa)

A passenger picks up a woman at dawn who is to be a guest until midnight. Their journey begins...

Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage(ja)

Time to ease up ... not! Although the Yamato's crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler gathers together the shattered remnants of his Gamilus Empire, new forces are at work in the universe that could augur in another conflict. Seems the Black Star Empire has invaded Dessler's homeworld and is decimating it, all the while gathering power for its war machine.

LE LIEU DE L'ENDROIT DE LA PLACE(fr)

The Good Witch's Garden(en)

Middleton prepares for its bicentennial, and Grey House is to be the party venue. Good witch Cassie is remodeling it as B&B. her first and only guest, Nick Chasen, claims to be a distant relative. He produces papers to prove he's the heir of the builder, colonial era captain Hamblin, while the Grey lady was his mistress and stole it. Police chief and lover Jake Russell goes all the way to motivate her to fight and disprove the claim before she's effectively disowned. Brandon is dared to pass a rascals-initiation by local brat Steve and Duke. George's gardening skills lead to romance.

Americans Smell Good(en)

The film combines the filmmaker's story in the U.S.A. with people from different social, racial, and ethnic backgrounds that he wouldn't have met if he hadn't come to this country. It explores the experience of being in between many cultures when living in a foreign land.

Treacherous(en)

A former race car driver who has retired and is the owner of a Mexican resort hotel gets mixed up in a robbery involving $2 million by one of his former girl friends.

Curse of the Maya(en)

Renee Summers has just been released from a mental institution when her fiancee and psychiatrist, Jeffrey Morgan buys her a secluded cabin to rest before she faces her friends and family. Renee soon befriends her only neighbour Michael Richards who is not all that he seems to be. She also uncovers a deadly secret! The former tenants of the cabin, a mayan family, were butchered to death and dumped

A Violent World(fr)

Two brothers rob a truck full of smartphones in a desperate attempt to escape their lives.

To R(en)

A boy and a girl coming from different worlds fall in love. When summer is over, they will face the shackles of their normal routine and discover what binds them and what breaks them apart.

Big Man from the North(en)

Bosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a peg-legged villain wanted dead or alive.

When Mousehood Was in Flower(en)

The Black Knight overwhelms his competitors in a jousting tournament until an operetta-singing Mighty Mouse comes to save the day.

L'Incroyable Noël de Shaun le Mouton et de Timmy(fr)

A program of 2 short films: "Timmy's Christmas Surprise" (22 min) and "Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas" (30 min).

Life in the Arctic(ru)

A BAFTA award nominated Russian film looking at life in their harsh Arctic environment.