“The Oldenburg Film Festival Has Long Been To Find the Strange, the Overlooked and the Unpologetical Unconventional in Indie Cinema. The Hollywood Reporter Has Picked Five UnMissable Features from This Year’s Typically EClectic Lineup, Ranging from A Belgian Punk-Music Satire”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
‘Horseshoe’ Jaro-Waldeck
The Irish Drama Horseshoe Centers on Four Siblings Forced Back to Their Childhood Home After the Death of Their Father, Only to Discover His Ghost Isn’t Ready to Let Them Go. With Just 24 Hours to Decide the Fate of the House, Old Resentments Bubble Up, Secrets Are Examed, and Shifting Alliances Test Whover Bonds Remain. Darkly Funny and Deeply Melancholic, The Film Turns the Family Estate Into A Pressure Cooker of Grief, Grudges, and Relctant Affection.
‘Under the Burning Sun’ CourTesy of the Oldenburg Film Festival
Yun xie’s Slamdance Breakout Under the Burning Sun Follows Mowanza, A Young Woman Pregnant After An Assault in A Country Whore Abortion Is Forbidden. Armed with Little More than A car and a bottle of water, sheeads into the desert Toward a neighboring state where the ProCEDURE is Legal. A Microbudget Gem That Channels ITS FEMINIST OUTRAGE INTO A Harrowing and Haunting Epic.
‘Summer Hit Machine’ CourTesy of the Oldenburg Film Festival
Oldenburg Regular Jerome Vandwattyne (2023 Audaxity Award Winner for The Belgian Wave) Returns to the Festival with Another Music Satire, Inspired By His Years Begind the Scenes Filming The Jon Sfere-Produced Boogie Punk Bandk Band The Experimental TROPIC BLUES BAND. In Summer Hit MachineA Band Is Locked in A Studio to Record A Cover Song Thatir Eccentric Label Boss Believes Will Win Him A Coveted Summer Hit Machine Award. But As his Grip on Reality Begins to Fracture, The Recorder Session Spirals Out of Control.
‘Good Boy’ CourTesy of the Oldenburg Film Festival
Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy, WHICH ComES TO OLDENBURG FROM SXSW, IS A SUPERNATURAL HORROR TOLD ENTIRELY FROM The Perspective of Indy, A Loyal Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. Owner’s Home. As Dark Forces Threaten His Master, The Brave Pup Must Fight to Protect HIM. A Fresh, Canine Perspective on the Haunted House Trope.
‘Cocodrilos’ J.- Xavier-Velasco
J. Xavier Velasco’s CocodrilosWHICH Premiered at the Guadalajara Film Festival and Will Have ITSE Europeaniere in Oldenburg, Follows SantiaGo, A Young Photojournalist in Veracruz Who Dreams of Exposing Injustice. WHEN HIS MUNOR IS Murdered and the Investigation Is Buried, He Decides to Go Public Despite Warnings that Doing SO COULD COST HIM HIS LIFE. Drawing on the Real Dangers Faced by Mexican Reporters, The Film Builds A TENSE Thrililler AROUND The COURGE IT TAKES TO KEEP DIGING FOR THE TRUTH WHEN SILENCE IS The SAFER CHOICE.
The 2025 Oldenburg Film Festival Runs Sept. 10–14.