Monday, October 9, 2023

Program for Halloween 2023

Selections have been made and once more we bring you an evening of strange cinema from around the world!

Join us in the Comfy Chairs at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, California, on Oct. 23:  * GET TICKETS HERE  *

PROGRAM

BIGFOOT UNLEASHED PART VII (Don Swanson, USA) 

Bigfoot vs. destroyers of the environment


SINCOPAT (Pol Diggler, Spain)

A playlist for your brain, whether you like it or not


FIRST TIME BUYERS (Lauren Blackwell, UK)

The price is right, so ghosts be damned!


SIRIUS LEE AND THE MULTI-VERSE MIXUP (Theo Hollingsworth, USA)

Featuring Oakland’s own rapping quantum physicist!


CLOSING TIME (Hector Perez-Aguilar, RWS Johnson, USA)

A night at the truck stop of the damned


LAST DAY ON EARTH (Rajko Radovic, Serbia)

What would you do with your last minutes of life?


TEMP7 (Marco Goi, Italy)

The stakes in this video game are very high.


CRAZY MEL’S AUTO EMPORIUM (Kevin Maher, Australia)

An ad with TMI


SILHOUETTE SOAP OPERA (Ted Hogeman, USA)

Who needs writers when we’ve got AI?


DAMNED SUPPER (Ariel Hansen, Canada)

Wannabe witches conjure up more than they bargained for.


ILLUMINAGENTS: THE MUSICAL (Herman Wang, Canada)

Singing to avoid surveillance


… AND BLOOD (Caitlin Stow, USA)

Zombies just keep on coming. 


BACILLUS (Brad McClane, USA)

Mom’s home… or is she?


JACQUES AND BARNABUS (Georgiy Marvelas, Australia)

Stuck under the sea with a mischievous monkey


BATH TIME (Dave Inglis, UK)

Vampires need down time too


UN TACO (Antonio Rotunno, Mexico)

Mocking the poor could go very badly.


THURSDAY (Murray Toews, Canada)

A surreal walk with a surreal man 


ALPHABET SOUP (Romina de la Puente, USA)

An edible message from the beyond

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Submissions open for Halloween 2023

 The Weird Film Fest is back for a ninth year of short horror, sci-fi, fantasy & just plain weird films from around the world - screening this year at the luxurious New Parkway Theater in Oakland, California. We’ve seen Argentine zombie bikers, Slovak werewolves, revenant Mississippi clowns and dancing Finnish cavemen, and we want more! Open for submissions and waiting for your weirdness:

https://filmfreeway.com/WeirdFilmFest

Monday, October 17, 2022

Weird Film Festival 2022 Program

Live in San Francisco, Oct. 29 @ 8pm! 

Book tickets for a night of wonderfully weird films at PianoFight

** SET ONE: NORTH AMERICA **

KAIJUBURBIA (Bailey Oliver, USA)

A rookie Kaiju lost in the suburbs faces the most heinous monster of all: the HOA!


BRIGITTE (Gabriel Auclair-Doucet, Canada)

A search for the perfect love doll


TZITHU (Oscar Ortega Navoa, Mexico) 

A peasant is tempted by the devil in exchange for his soul.


AS GOOD AS DEAD (Dave Reda, USA)

A horribly sweet tale with Zombies and 80's music.


HOTFOOT (Matthew Barnett, Canada)

Sasquatch and hunter play cat and mouse.


THE BIG D (Nathan Ludwig, Chad Farmer, USA)

A journalist with secret motivations chases Bigfoot.


L’ABBATU DES VENTS (F. A. Garneau-Chouinard, Canada)

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean crabs aren’t out to get you.


THIRST (Andrea Schmitz, USA)

Zombie coffee - why not work 24/7 ?


LEAF OF LIGHT (Geoffrey Hoskinson, USA)

Little bugs vs big bugs - a message of hope in the darkness of nature


COME F*CK MY ROBOT (M. B. Morgan, USA) 

Based on a real craigslist ad for a sex robot beta-tester



** SET TWO: EUROPE & IRAN ** 


BURIAL (Cally Trench, UK)

Animated bones to set the tone


RESPIRATIONS (Remi Tournier, France)

A survivor of a polluted world heads for his final destination.


PARTICLE MAN (Stuart Leask, UK) 

A 'citizen scientist' almost discovers the secrets of the universe.


TRIGGERED (Kirill Nong, Belarus)

Elevator phobia made real


POX (Simon Young, Austria)

In the 1930s American dust bowl, a pox rages through a pioneer family. 


CHICK WASH (Bethany de Forest, Netherlands)

Chicks undergo a ‘cleaning process’. 


SURVIVERS (Carlos Gómez-Trigo, Spain)

Post-apocalyptic quarantine protocol can be lethally confusing.


TATTIES (Jon Robertson, UK)

A moment of self-gratification creates a human root vegetable hybrid.


THE SPRAYER (Farnoosh Abedi, Iran) 

Life finds a way, through the cracks in fascism.