The Pretenders(2023)

The Undertaker(en)

A meek undertaker becomes trapped in a violent world when a gangster enlists him to dispose of a growing number of corpses.

The Lodger(en)

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Darkness of Man(en)

Russell Hatch, an Interpol operative who takes on the role of father figure to Jayden, the son of an informant killed in a routine raid gone wrong. Years later, Hatch finds himself protecting Jayden and his grandfather from a group of merciless gangs in an all-out turf war, stopping at nothing to protect Jayden and fight anyone getting in his way.

Jack Donovan(hu)

Umbra of Deceit(en)

In the halls of power, a minister has fallen from grace. Government agent Beckett recruits a deadly operative Richards with a dubious past to restore control via coercion. As the power play unfolds, Beckett must confront the consequences of his choices while Richards seeks to safeguard his own interests.

Silêncio Noir(pt)

Epitaph(en)

An ex-Army marksman's plan to avenge the murder of his parents brings him into business with a murder-for-hire organization and the C.I.A.

The Divinity of a City(en)

David Bono is a hitman hired to target Orshanabi Nazzar, a high-ranking priest-bureaucrat in a temple corporation in the fictional city of Babylonia (Brussels-based). The corporation has invented a way to avoid death by recording people's lives. While gathering information and preparing for the job, David meets Ellie, with whom they slept together. However, Ellie is a member of a cult called Children of Ishtar, and David's job would interrupt their life-recording ceremony. Facing an obsessive dilemma, David tries to find a way to do his mission without killing Ellie. First, he tries to convince Ellie not to attend the ceremony, and then he hires a local crook to kidnap her while he does the job. After the successful job, Ellie frees herself from the kidnapper, discovers the truth, and leaves for Akkadia. Meanwhile, David calls to receive the rest of his payment but gets ambushed by the contractor.

Death is Business(en)

A new short film from Trance Productions.

Black Hair(ko)

Yeon-shil is the lover of crime boss Dong-il. She pays off one of the boss's henchmen, Man-ho, with whom she once had an affair; Man-ho is an opium addict, and he has been blackmailing Yeon-shil by threatening to disclose their past relations.

The Chest of Ryou(en)

Amid the hysteria of World War II, a Chinese-American private investigator meets with a Japanese-American client and must choose between his desire to help those in need and his angry and bitter community.

The Big Trouble(fr)

Sherlock Holmes: Memories of Murder(en)

Sherlock Holmes is forced to confront his age and health condition as he struggles to solve the murder of a fellow detective.

Shift(en)

Tom, a Steve Buscemi type with less drive, takes the night shift job at Your Storage in Chicago armed with security monitors, lackluster wit, a late night radio DJ, and his trusty office chair Grace Kelly, but the usually easy gig takes a mysterious turn when one of the regulars, Mrs. Jones, lures an unsuspecting man into her unit - a man that Tom never sees again.

Coercion(en)

A man wakes up with a fractured memory, and tries to solve his past

The Frontier(en)

A desperate young woman, on the run from the law, takes a job at a remote desert motel. She quickly discovers the motel's patrons are rendezvousing after a large robbery. With nothing to lose, and all to gain, she hatches a plan to steal their loot.

Black Strait(ja)

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again.

Quid Pro Quo(en)

At the party, Faye drives all the men crazy, hoping to find what she still hasn't got - love. At the same time, Arthur steals an expensive painting from the mansion. But by chance, he ends up locked in a room with the beautiful Faye…

Vodka(en)

Manuel Jiménez receives some clandestine wiretappings that he has to transcribe. Because of this, and almost without wanting to, he enters a kaleidoscopic plot that involves a group of people at a party, their later walkabouts around the city at night, and their relationship with the secrets hidden inside Vodka’s diary.

Quelle Ragazze(it)

A man, on his way home from work, meets two girls. It will be the beginning of a dark and disturbing journey.