WFF2025 Film Guide

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Anémone

Anémone

Anemone is a modern mermaid. Every night, she sings at a bar, seduces a man and invites him over to her place, where she kills him. Her seven roommates have the same routine, as they all share the same mission: ridding the world of as many cishet men as possible, by killing them, one by one.
Directed By:
Mila Lignel
Country:
Belgium / Greece
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
11
Premiere:
North American Premiere
Warning:
Implied Violence‎
Screening:
27468
Bring Me the Head of a Smiling Pig

Bring Me the Head of a Smiling Pig

Right before the opening ceremony of the newly opened Ilsung Art Museum, the museum director says that the pig’s head on the ceremonial table is not smiling. A member of the museum staff must find the best smiling pig head, while battling his nervous breakdown.
Directed By:
Wooje Chang
Country:
Korea
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
23
Premiere:
North American Premiere
Screening:
27487
Deathless

Deathless

10 years after people have stopped dying, Florian, a self destructive porn star, tries desperately to understand the point of life after his twin sister announces her pregnancy.
Directed By:
Country:
United States
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
19
Premiere:
NYC Premiere
Warning:
Nudity‎; Explicit Sexual Situations‎; Non-Explicit Sexual Situations‎; Implied Violence‎; Graphic Violence‎; Drug Use‎; Discussion or Depiction of Suicide‎; Discussion or Depiction of Self-Harm‎
Screening:
27468, 27473
Dig

Dig

A man is digging a clandestine grave in the middle of the forest at night when he is suddenly discovered.
Directed By:
Country:
Spain
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
12
Premiere:
NYC Premiere
Warning:
Graphic Violence‎
Screening:
27468, 27473
Go To Bed Raymond

Go To Bed Raymond

When your kid tells you there's someone in his room, you might want to listen.
Country:
United States
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
7
Screening:
27468, 27473
Humanzee

Humanzee

Deep in the basement of an old house on a quiet suburban street, Jane Howell harbors a strange little creature named Ziggy. The two share their life in solitude, where Ziggy’s only connection to the outside world comes from black and white movies on an old TV. Their way of life is put into question when an old friend from the past appears at her door, leaving Jane scrambling to preserve Ziggy’s innocence as he starts connecting the dots of his mysterious origins.
Directed By:
Country:
United States
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
24
Warning:
Implied Violence‎
Screening:
27468, 27473
Juggernaut

Juggernaut

In a medieval dark fantasy atmosphere, a fearless warrior embarks on a painful and exhausting journey to get back what he has lost.
Directed By:
Emanuele Ricci, Daniele Ricci
Country:
Italy
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
20
Premiere:
NYC Premiere
Screening:
27468
Lapse

Lapse

A star competitive swimmer blacks out alone one night in the pool—the same pool a dead body is found in the next morning.
Directed By:
Country:
United States
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
6
Premiere:
NYC Premiere
Warning:
Implied Violence‎
Screening:
27468, 27473
Room Service

Room Service

Surprise! Oliver reveals a luxurious NYC hotel suite to his blindfolded fiancée Victoria, an extravagant expense made possible with the help of Victoria’s wealthy, manipulative mother. Recovering from depression, Victoria is newly off her meds and feeling uneasy. She attempts to relax and enjoy the evening, but discerning between visions and reality becomes increasingly difficult when eerie events begin to occur - a bathtub filled with blood, a bellhop ushering her into a new, identical room, and Oliver showing up with a gash in his head. Is everything all in her head because she stopped taking her antidepressants? Or is there really a scheme to hurt them?
Country:
United States
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
18
Warning:
Implied Violence‎; Discussion or Depiction of Suicide‎; Discussion or Depiction of Self-Harm‎
Screening:
27468, 27473
Slayer

Slayer

After missing the bus, three beefing friends take a shortcut through the park, only to face another obstacle – this one of monstrous proportions
Directed By:
Eileen McQueen
Country:
United States
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
18
Screening:
27468, 27473
Sound of the Divine Bell

Sound of the Divine Bell

Susanna, who completed four years of training to become a nun, looks forward to her vow ceremony in three days. However, when she shares a room with an old nun, she is confused if she can complete the ceremony without trouble.
Directed By:
Ji-Eun Hwang
Country:
Korea
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
28
Premiere:
North American Premiere
Screening:
27487
The Cursed Land

The Cursed Land

A widower moves with his teenage daughter to a derelict mansion in a Muslim-majority suburb of Bangkok after his wife's death. Ignoring local warnings, he removes protective talismans from the house, inadvertently unleashing a furious djinn and a 200-year-old curse. As supernatural events escalate, his daughter embarks on a journey to Thailand’s deep south to seek help from a Muslim doctor to save her father and confront the malevolent forces they’ve awakened.
Directed By:
Panu Aree
Country:
Thailand
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
131
Warning:
Implied Violence‎
Screening:
27487
Vivir

Vivir

In her darkest moment, a despairing Latina artist crosses paths with a mysterious vampire.
Directed By:
Country:
United States
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
9
Warning:
Implied Violence‎; Discussion or Depiction of Suicide‎
Screening:
27468, 27473
Vomiting On An Open Wound

Vomiting On An Open Wound

Five young unmarried girls and boys travel to northern Iran, where due to restrictions on renting hotels or safe villas for singles, they are forced to rent a cabin from a motorcyclist who turns out to be a pervert.
Directed By:
Alireza Sharifi
Country:
Iran / United States
Genre:
Horror
Minutes:
25
Premiere:
NYC Premiere
Warning:
Explicit Sexual Situations‎; Non-Explicit Sexual Situations‎; Implied Violence‎; Graphic Violence‎
Screening:
27468, 27473

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