It’s the early 80s, the heyday of B-to-Z slashers that are raking in the cash. Michael, the big boss of a porn film crew, smells money and suggests that they let themselves get hacked to pieces in a slasher film he wrote himself. The plot: students on spring break at a summer camp fall prey [...]

Feisty matriarch Alicia lives in a huge, dilapidated house with a caregiver, because her memory is increasingly failing her. One evening, her daughter Laura, on the road with her daughter Elena, receives a series of disturbing phone calls from Alicia. Unable to reach the caregiver on duty, Laura asks her ex-husband Pedro to visit Alicia [...]

Aslan is a sturdy cop who spends his days in a provincial backwater, lost in the endless Kazakh steppe. He’s surrounded by boorishness, toxic masculinity, and corruption that drags his spirit down. And yet Aslan carries on, the bags under his eyes growing heavier by the day. When his daughter is picked up off the [...]