Final Girls Berlin Film Festival June '17 Edition | Page 5

A devoted cult gathers in an ice-skating rink for mass
suicide. All are complicit but one. At the eleventh hour a
young woman called Josie begins to doubt her faith in
Doug, the charismatic cult leader.
20:15 Feature:
Women Who Kill (1:33:00)
Ex-lovers and current true-crime podcast
partners Morgan (Ingrid Jungermann)
and Jean (Ann Carr) get caught in a cycle of suspicion and paranoia when
Morgan begins a new relationship with the beautiful Simone (Sheila Vand),
who they suspect may have close ties to their murderous research subjects.
Written & Directed by Ingrid
Jungermann, US, 2017
The Kingdom of Doug (15:00)
Written & Directed by Victoria Thaine, Australia, 2012
22:15 Shorts Program 2 - Phantasmagoria
A surreal array of nightmarish figures, fantasies, landscapes, scenarios.
This is a program marked by spectacle, by atmosphere, by apparitions,
and by subtle and creeping hauntings and obsessions.
Roger Ballen’s Theatre of Apparitions (5:00)
Written & Directed by Emma Calder and  Ged
Haney, UK, 2016
An animated theatre of dismembered people,
beasts and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and
tear themselves apart, a nightmarish subconscious
world, in black and white.
Several women describe their personal experiences
with the psychological phenomenon called sleep
paralysis, in this animated documentary.
A Blurred Line (4:37)
Written & Directed by Neela Tayade, India,
2016