Grimm Up North Festival Schedule 2020

The balance of power between man and animal has changed. In a remote countryside, any encounter with the dominant can become hostile.

Blue and Malone - Impossible Cases tells the story of Berta (Aura Garrido), the same girl who starred in the first adventure, nominated at the Goya Awards in 2014, but twenty years later. Berta is now a journalist overwhelmed by responsibilities of adulthood who returns to the theater her grandmother used to take her as a child just the night before it's demolition. What she doesn't know, is that two detectives she's already forgotten about from her childhood, her imaginary friends Mortando Malone and Big Blue Cat, are going to help her solve an impossible case: regain her desire to dream again with a "deadultizer," a magical press button that many people would want to press to see the world again through the eyes of a child. Written and directed by Abraham López Guerrero and produced by ESDIP Animation Studio, El Viaje Imposible, Salon Indien Films and Wiseblue Studios, Blue and Malone. Impossible Cases is the only Spanish short film to use real images with 3D and 2D animation. Goya Award 2021 Best Animated Short Film.

A story about a girl, a boy, his parents and the disowned brother.

A single mother struggles to bond with her apathetic child, born with an insatiable and increasingly inhumane appetite.

Igor is ready for anything for the sake of Polina's happiness and, in order to make up for the loss of her son, the spouses decide to adopt. But instead of an ordinary boy from the shelter, their family gets not just a "difficult" child .

Revealing, intimate documentary spotlighting the Hollywood horror community.

Two characters are forced to navigate a stark and brutal calculus in hunger, sex, and death when routine facility maintenance veers wildly towards conflict and the instinct for self-preservation.

A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold-blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness, where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.

Bodies start to pile up when a drug-user nurse and her cousin try to find a replacement kidney for an organ trafficker.

Suspecting his wife of infidelity, Jerry follows his friend down a dark rabbit hole into a horror landscape of addiction.

A fracking horror story, "Unearth" follows two neighboring farm families whose relationships are strained when one of them chooses to lease their land to an oil and gas company. In the midst of growing tension, the land is drilled, and something long dormant and terrifying, deep beneath the earth's surface is released. "Unearth" is about the horrifying repercussions sown by shortsighted decisions, and what our children reap from our actions.

While on Christmas vacation, a young couple contemplates their future together. Ashley is interested in getting married and having kids which terrifies Sam. When the more attractive and paternal Nolan enters the picture, Sam's life spirals out of control as Ashley questions their relationship. Chaos reigns as Sam desperately clings to Ashley while fending off the threatening Nolan.

A girl paralyzed. A rabid dog. A duel to death for survival.

A drifter returns to his hometown bar during a snowstorm. To settle a debt, he tells a story involving mistaken identities, betrayals, and violence, taking a dark turn from the night's simple start.

A married couple rents a beach side Airbnb only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. They soon discover that they are in the grip of a mysterious cult and the ancient sea god that they worship.

Spiritual healing gone wrong turns a relentlessly bullied teenager into a super-powered killing machine just as his tormentors do the unthinkable.

Liz just wants to host the perfect dinner party but an unexpected guest sends the evening into chaos, with potentially apocalyptic consequences.

Android mother malfunctions, enters therapy by company. Realizes she's an android living a fantasy. Cooperates with treatment to return to family.

1990: David, 40, looks after his dementia mom. He uses a video dating service to no avail. He buys a "Rent-A-Pal" video tape and things change.

A team of paranormal investigators head for the highlands of Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, to probe a series of alleged disturbances at a house with a dark past.

Nine high school friends have a five-year reunion camping in a forest. They all have secrets. An unknown person straps a time bomb to each of them. Killing another gives one their time. Last one lives.

In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.

1970s USA. Three African American siblings on the run from police take refuge at a Tennessee Ranch, unaware it's on the hunting grounds of a Ku Klux Klan cult. Trapped and tortured, they fight to escape and take down the bloodthirsty Klan.

Tomás, birdwatcher and photographer, tries to give his career a push by taking an impossible photograph: an albino Urubú never seen outside captivity. To this end, he drags his wife and daughter to the Amazonian forest.

Barry is a drug-addled, abusive bastard who - after yet another bender - is abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as an alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex and violence as our alien tourist enters the weird and wonderful world of humankind. FRIED BARRY is based upon the short film of the same name, which earned 57 official selections and 12 wins at festivals around the world.