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Welcome to the third edition of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival! We’re excited to
bring our festival to B-Ware Ladenkino with a heap of new offerings for you. All of the
horror films you’ll see here were directed, written, and/or produced by women and non-
binary filmmakers. We believe that horror is a beautiful, messy, and fruitful means of
resistance, as well as a visceral medium for exploring incongruities and ailments,
whether internal, interpersonal, or societal. The films we’re presenting dismantle and
raze traditional representations of women in film. They redefine and reimagine the
limitations of the human body, shed light on the perversities lurking within the family
structure, show the diverse ways in which humans can relate to one another, and paint
motley portraits of revenge.
This year Final Girls Berlin has selected twice as many unnerving feature films for you as
last time - most of which are also exclusive German premieres! We’re excited to bring
you the sacrilegious horror of BOOK OF BIRDIE, the hellishly familiar horrors of an
ostracised adolescence in PIN CUSHION, a queer pregnancy-themed paranoia horror
following in the footsteps of Rosemary’s Baby with LYLE, a very different kind of
pregnancy-themed horror filled with ruthless killings and pitch-black comedy in
PREVENGE, and a true horror verite in MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND, which drags the
viewer through the lived nightmare of a woman whose precarious legal and financial
circumstances lead her into increasingly desperate situations.
While you’re here, check out our workshops and panels, and please also grab one of our
ghastly and much-coveted Final Girls T-shirts and tote bags. We look forward to serving
you a tasty array of thrills, chills, and terror-packed film bills!!!
--Sara Neidorf, co-director of Final Girls
Thursday, 1. February, 2018
Shorts Program 1: Obsession 18:15
In this program, we pay tribute to the obsessions that plague us,
both as individuals and as a society. Be it the relentless search for
true love, our blindly morbid love of true crime, the refusal to spend
a single moment without technology, or unusual culinary or sexual
proclivities, obsessions drive us in all sorts of directions.
Directed by Holy Fatma, France, 2016
In a surreal world, 14-year-Lili lives alone with her
mother Claudie who overprotects her from the
outside world. Obsessed with her own
appearance, Claudie regularly replaces aging
parts of her face while Lili dreams of Lyesse, her
16-year-old handsome neighbor. Scared of so
much love, Lyesse gently pushes her away.
Please Love Me Forever (27:16)