LUFF 2017
Films screened at the 16th edition of the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (October 18 to 22)
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- DirectorBertrand MandicoStarsPauline LorillardVimala PonsDiane RouxelThe tale of five adolescent boys enamored by the arts but drawn to crime and transgression. After committing a brutal crime aided by Trevor, a deity of chaos, they're punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming them.Opening Film
- DirectorHélène CattetBruno ForzaniStarsElina LöwensohnStéphane FerraraBernie BonvoisinA grizzled thug and his gang head to an island retreat with a haul of 250 kilograms of gold bullion to lay low; however, a bohemian writer, his muse, and a pair of gendarmes further complicate things, as allegiances are put to the test.Closing Film
- DirectorFlying LotusStarsHannibal BuressGeorge ClintonDavid FirthEvents unfold after a devastating earthquake in Los Angeles.
International Feature Film Competition (Winner) - DirectorAleksandr VartanovStarsEkaterina SteblinaAleksey MaslodudovArtur BeschastnyyTwo lovers escape into the woods after committing a crimeInternational Feature Film Competition
- DirectorJosé Pedro LopesStarsDaniela LoveJorge MotaMafalda BanquartThe Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. On a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.International Feature Film Competition
- DirectorMathieu DenisSimon LavoieStarsCharlotte AubinLaurent BélangerEmmanuelle Lussier MartinezA group of young people in Québec resolve to form a revolutionary cell together in the aftermath of student protests.International Feature Film Competition
- DirectorRobert MocklerStarsAddison TimlinIan NelsonLarry FessendenA young woman sets out on a crime spree that she broadcasts on social media.International Feature Film Competition
- DirectorEvgeniy YufitStarsAnatoliy EgorovIvan GanzhaMaksim GribovA biologist, obsessed with the idea of writing a treatise on a new kind of mouse, becomes witness to a number of bizarre and horrific events, from his son's suicide, to the S&M engaged in by respectable middle-aged men, to his own family's psychic morbidity.Yevgeny Yufit and the Necrorealism
- DirectorVladimir MaslovEvgeniy YufitStarsSergey ChernovVasili DeryaginValeri KrishtapenkoThe necrorealist science fiction plot involves a team of scientists attempting to cross a human being with a tree, and a special unit dispatched to hunt down the zombie-like mutants created in a previous, failed experimentYevgeny Yufit and the Necrorealism
- DirectorVladimir MaslovEvgeniy YufitStarsTatyana VerkhovskayaVladimir MaslovIgor BezrukovA documentary filmmaker, is obsessed with documenting the marginal manifestations of life around him. As he moves closer to them with the lens of his film camera, himself, against his will, becomes a direct participant and victim of them.Yevgeny Yufit and the Necrorealism
- DirectorEvgeniy YufitStarsAleksandr AnikeyenkoSergey ChernovStanislav IlyukhinAn entomologist and painter who moves into an old house with his family discovers the work of a mysterious scientist. He finds a cinematography archive with a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal.Yevgeny Yufit and the Necrorealism
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsVera TschechowaJohn MooreNiki TriantafillidiAwaiting for Orpheus to save her from a modern Hades, Euridice faces her fears, desires, hallucinations and memories.Tribute: Nikos Nikolaidis
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsMichele ValleyTakis SpyridakisPanos ThanassoulisGoing alone into an abandoned, living city, a woman tries to cross a forbidden zone swarming with the Morning Patrol and traps. Meeting one of the last city guards, they attempt recall the past and penetrate the zone together.Tribute: Nikos Nikolaidis
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsAlkis PanagiotidisKonstantinos TzoumasRita BensousanFive friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence.Tribute: Nikos Nikolaidis
- DirectorNikos NikolaidisStarsVicky HarrisValeria HristodoulidouPaschalis TsarouhasVera, Elsa, a man, and the great love that unites them. They grew up together but didn't get very far. Leaving behind a desolate world full of traps, they begin a hallucinogenic journey of tenderness and violence.Tribute: Nikos Nikolaidis
- DirectorHisayasu SatôStarsKiyomi ItôTakeshi ItôJuneRyuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. Jump ahead one year, Ryuzaki is released from jail and goes in search of Kitami, perhaps to make amends. The films of Pasolini, especially "Salò," dominate Ryuzaki's imagination; he works sometimes at the Lunatic Theatre, which shows films about rough trade; and, he becomes involved with a couple into S & M. Will Ryuzaki find Kitami, and what will happen if he does?Hisayasu Satō: Heavenly King of Pink
- DirectorHisayasu SatôStarsRei TakagiNaomi SugishitaMiki FukadaOnce Yue, being still a young schoolgirl, was subjected to brutal rape on the roof of her own school. Slightly matured, she became a prostitute and began to cruelly avenge all members of the masculine gender, for her sadistic pleasure.Hisayasu Satō: Heavenly King of Pink
- DirectorHisayasu SatôStarsMisa AikaYumika HayashiMika KiriharaA scientist taints his mother's scientific experiment with his own drug that transforms pain into a pleasurable experience. Unfortunately for the three women involved in the experiment, the drug works a little bit too well.Hisayasu Satō: Heavenly King of Pink
- DirectorHisayasu SatôStarsKinakoYumi YoshiyukiKiyomi ItôAn episodic story about the sexual experiences of three women in Tokyo. A housewife is hunting for men at night and her mother-in-law runs a sex club. A girl who came from the countryside now gets to know the liberal sides of the city.Hisayasu Satō: Heavenly King of Pink
- DirectorRouzbeh RashidiStarsAlicja AyresMartin BerridgeJann Clavadetscher"Pictures Of A Far-Off World"Experimental Film Society, Dublin
- DirectorJulien NitzbergStarsJ. Parker Bazzle IIBig & RichPonty's CamperA year in the life of the White family, well known for Jesco White, the star of the "Dancing Outlaw" documentary.Redneck Is Not Dead
- DirectorMarc LawrenceStarsToni LawrenceJesse VintCatherine RossThe owner of a roadside diner, and his new helper, kill people and feed them to pigs.Redneck Is Not Dead
- DirectorRoberto MinerviniStarsMark KelleyLisa AllenJames Lee MillerIn an invisible territory at the margins of society lives a wounded community who face the threat of being forgotten by political institutions and having their rights as citizens trampled. Disarmed veterans, taciturn adolescents, drug addicts trying to escape addiction through love; ex-special forces soldiers still at war with the world; floundering young women and future mothers; and old people who have not lost their desire to live. Through this hidden pocket of humanity, renowned documentarian Roberto Minervini opens a window to the abyss of today's America.Redneck Is Not Dead
- DirectorRichard ComptonStarsAlan VintCheryl WatersMax Baer Jr.A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters.Redneck Is Not Dead
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsAkihiro MiwaIsao KimuraKikko MatsuokaJapanese sixties comedy featuring a cunning female jewel thief named Black Lizard who tries to kidnap Sanaye, a wealthy jeweler's beautiful daughter as part of a plot to steal the jeweler's expensive "Star of Egypt" diamond. To thwart the planned kidnapping, the jeweler hires Japan's number one detective, the brilliant Akechi. This sets off a dual between Black Lizard and Akechi as each tries to outwit the other. In the process, the two adversaries develop a mutual respect and affection for each other. Despite Akechi's efforts, Black Lizard and her crew are able to kidnap Sanaye and gain possession of the "Star of Egypt". Black Lizard takes Sanaye to her secret lair on a remote island which is populated by an eerie collection of naked human dolls. There Black Lizard plans to preserve Sanaye's beauty forever by turning her into one of her dolls. As Sanaye's doom quickly approaches, it is up to Akechi to save the day.20 years of Mauvais Genres
- DirectorClaude FaraldoStarsMichel PiccoliBéatrice RomandMarilù ToloMade without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, this is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.20 years of Mauvais Genres
- DirectorEduardo FullerStarsAnne SparrowTony EadesClara KellerOlaf and his mother run a boarding house and a white slavery ring. They also smuggle heroin to keep the addict girls happy so they do not try and escape. A young couple move into the house and the evil landlords take a liking to the female.20 years of Mauvais Genres
- DirectorFrancis GirodStarsMichel PiccoliRomy SchneiderMascha GonskaA cunning French legal adviser teams up with an unemployed German girl and her sister to commit murders in Marseille.20 years of Mauvais Genres
- DirectorWerner NekesStarsArmin WölflTabea BlumenscheinRussel DersonDirector Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are represented by poetic, symbolic images and language, with a certain amount of nudity added in.Werner Nekes' Uliisses
- DirectorSteve SanguedolceStarsMegan BergMarina BlackMaria De SanctisDocumentaries
- DirectorAnthony ShortStarsSteve AustinA unique examination of the life-long existential journey taken by a self-made musician, his unforgiving ambition and self-destructive determination to express himself.Documentaries
- DirectorFredrik Horn AkselsenChristian Aune FalchStarsVegar LarsenHéctor CarmonaSina WinterHow far would you go for the music you love?Documentaries
- DirectorAngela ChristliebStarsLiam GillickAgnes Husslein-ArcoLeo KoenigArtist Liam Gillick hasn't seen them. Director John Waters has no idea where they are. Filmmaker Tony Conrad has his theories, but he's not saying. But whoever you ask, the fact remains, the four members of the Austrian artist group, Gelitin (Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither, and Tobias Urban) have disappeared. So Salvatore Viviano, artist, art dealer, and occasional collaborator in Gelitin performances, sets off on a cinematic search for the funniest boy group in the world. With an imposing microphone in hand, he questions artists, gallerists and curators about the group's possible whereabouts. This is a celebration of a multimedia practice oozing in humour, spontaneity, child-like naiveté and blatant sexuality. From performances and documentations of happenings to the iconic series such as Mona Lisa and Falling Sculptures, the show will once again invite the visitors to participate in this journey in order to enjoy art from a whole new perspective. This film pokes fun at how art is consumed in a conservative manner, forcing the viewer to engage in a new and exciting fashion.Documentaries
- DirectorJérôme VandewattyneThis is a mockumentary about the real band 'The Experimental Tropic Blues Band'. The band has composed the whole soundtrack of the film.Documentaries
- DirectorJames LathosStarsMark AndersenYana ChupenkoAnthony Countey"Finding Joseph I" is a feature documentary chronicling the eccentric life and struggles of punk rock reggae singer, Paul "HR" Hudson, a.k.a. Joseph I, legendary lead singer from Bad Brains.Documentaries
- DirectorChristine FranzStarsAndrew FearnSteve IgnorantSleaford ModsBritish punk duo Sleaford Mods have been called "the voice of Britain" by their fans, "Britain's angriest band" by the Guardian and "The world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" by Iggy Pop. "Bunch of Kunst" follows them on their two-year journey from Nottingham bedroom recording sessions to chart success.Documentaries
- DirectorMatt ReynoldsStarsGillian Wallace HorvatInternational Short Film Competition
- StarsJean-Louis Froment'With joy and merriness' is a experimental documentary where we observe, through every day scenes, the degeneration of a society where the rise of technology leeds the population to the biggest dream of all men: immortality.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorEileen O'MearaYou know the nagging thoughts that start with 'did I leave the coffee on?' and turn in to 'what if I give birth to Satan's baby?' This hand-drawn animation explores anxiety, obsession, and one woman's slippery hold on reality.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorJake FriedInternational Short Film Competition
- DirectorVictoria VincentAfter suffering the consequences of opening it, a cat attempts to close its third eye.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorRainer KohlbergerRainer Kohlberger applied various algorithms to extract the noise from a vast number of action films and used this to reduce the dramaturgy of the narrative to its essence.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorAaron ZeghersA shorthand study of the mythology of numbers, from 1 to 12. Scientific tradition is adopted then eschewed for rumors, legends and defunct theories from across the ages.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorMiriam GossingLina SieckmannOne Hour Real explores the coulisses and facades of a contemporary free-time phenomenon, real-life escape games. These games originally emerged in Japan, and their popularity among players in Europe has recently snowballed. In its unbiased observation of the automated mechanisms used in escape rooms, the film raises questions about surveillance, the human yearning to play, and the relation between imprisonment and desire.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorBrandon DaleyStarsDan DaleyWyatt FairBrian KnallWill Gillman sets out to impress his date by bringing her to a photography competition at a local bar.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorJames SiewertStarsSchuyler HelfordMiles Joris-PeyrafitteAn allegorical tale of a couple who attempt to renew their dying relationship by plugging directly into recordings of their memories.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorBrian LonanoStarsWilliam TokarskyPaul PainterBlair BathoryA recently released criminal is looking for a good time. He can forget his sins but he can never forget...Gwilliam.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorJim CummingsStarsRae GrayWaymond LeeMatt MillerCrystal robs a liquor store-it goes pretty OK.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorNicolas DunnStarsNicolas DunnCharles SchacheA wayward loner. A solitary runaway. A common desire to be alone, and to share that loneliness with someone else.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorMike MarreroJon RhoadsStarsBrandon BeachPony CharvetCarolyn CooperJane is out to get a buzzcut and ends up dealing with apocalyptic matters of a special kind while trying to fix the haircut her barber botched so that she can get laid before she dies.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorEddie AlcazarStarsCharles BakerJesse SullivanWith the ability to travel in time, a lonely girl finds love and comfort by connecting with her past self. Eventually faced with rejection she struggles with her identity and gender, and as time folds onto itself only one of them can remain.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorSalamo Manetti-laxStarsTyler RocheCedric L. WilliamsRae MiddletonTwo video interns document an ALIEN's tortured journey through Los Angeles.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorChris McInroyStarsAddison BillingsleyMichael DalmonSam EidsonA metalhead gets passed down a satanic guitar that riffs to shreds.International Short Film Competition
- DirectorMatthew SaltonStarsRichard AtkinsRichard Atkins, the singer and songwriter of the early 70's California Pop Duo, 'Richard Twice' was on his way to stardom and a huge career in the music business when he mysteriously walked away from it all.Documentaries
- DirectorAntoine HervéDocumentaries