SPLAT! FILM FEST ONLINE
The festival covering horror, dark fantasy, dark comedy, dark drama and even documentaries will take place online from 1 to 14 December and will be available for all Polish IP numbers. 29 full-length and 26 short films will be presented. Short ones free of charge, while a festival pass for most full-length movies is on a special Black Friday offer: upon creating an account, the first 30 people get it half-price. Generally, you have to set up an account and buy tickets for yourself only - a move designed to avoid bots. One film can be seen within 72 hours meaning you can stop and continue watching another day. No schedule - full benefits of the online form. So it's enough to focus on watching. But each movie will be available to see just once. The organizers promise HD audio and subtitles clearly visible even on a mobile.
The festival took off in Lublin in 2015 with just a few screenings. I heard of it only in 2018-2019 when Warsaw joined. The dates always collided with my regular festivals so I've never participated so far. The online version is bound to change it.
Audience awards will cover as many as 6 categories. And what is there to watch? "Possessor" by Brandon Cronenberg - the name is no coincidence. A WTF section, as the name implies, will comprise of class B productions. The "Zgniłe uszy" ("Rotten ears") director finds "Evil Dead" to be the best movie ever. He's mentioned some other class B titles. So I guess the section will appeal to him. Not to me rather. Argentinian and Turkish entries are far more intriguing. What's interesting is the possibility of searching by hashtags. Speaking of which, a sports documentary titled "Be Water" is my greatest astonishment. I'm dying to know (pun intended) what a documentary is doing at such a festival, a sports one in that. Well, as Bruce Lee used to say, be water - get anywhere, adapt, change shape. Sounds like fantasy or horror, doesn't it?
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