Final Girls Berlin Best Of 2023

Final Girls Berlin Film Festival showcases horror cinema that’s directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers. They are committed to creating space for female voices and visions, whether monstrous, heroic or some messy combination of the two, in the horror genre.
The »Best Of« programme features a diverse selection of standout shorts from their February 2023 edition. The programme touches on themes of family dysfunction, pregnancy anxiety, possessions, and more.

MOVIES

Spell On You (22:38)
Directed by Sarah Lasry, France, 2022
Salomé has a wart on her nose. She's disgusted by her own reflection. At night, she spies on her parents through the keyhole. Strange things are happening, which no one speaks of.

Shallots & Garlic (17:17)
Directed by Andrea Nirmala Widjajanto, Indonesia/Canada, 2022
When polar opposite sisters Nur and Karina reunite for their grandparents' wedding anniversary dinner, Karina starts itching and blames Nur for putting garlic in her food.

Legs (15:33)
Directed by Celine Cotran, UK, 2022
Joy and Harry are trying to have a baby. One night, Joy swallows a spider in her sleep. When Joy subsequently develops an insatiable appetite for flies, it dawns on her that there may be more than one way of becoming a mother

Violet Butterfield: Makeup Artist for the Dead (12:43)                                                        
Directed by Brooke H. Cellars, US, 2022
Violet Butterfield, a mortician beautician, receives a visit from a new client and discovers that sometimes a person feels they cannot authentically live their best life until after they're dead.

Mantra (17:03)
Directed by Stef Meyer & Pascal Bourelier, France, 2022
Emma and Paul just moved into an old suburban mansion, when Paul is forced to leave on a working trip. Isolated and clueless, Emma discovers a praying mantis and develops a strange bond with the insect. Until Paul comes home again.

You Will See (15:13)
Directed by Kathleen Bu, Singapore, 2022
Gwyn is a young photographer grasping with the moral boundaries of her own art. When she is given a supernatural camera by her mentor, an obsession with an old man’s physique overwhelms her. She stalks him, desperate to take the perfect photograph.

The Promotion (4:13)
Directed by Kate Espada, US, 2022
Two office drones toil late into the night, competing for a truly killer promotion.

Run time: approx. 105 mins