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URBAN EXPLORER (Andy Fetscher/Germany)An Andy Fetscher filmScreenplay: Andy FetscherCast: Nathalie Kelley, Andreas Wisniewski, Nick Eversman, Max Riemelt, Brenda Koo, Catherine de Léan, Johannes Klaussner, KaiMichael Wolter, Adolfo Assor, Klaus StiglmeierRunning time: 88 min.Insatiably curious to explore the world beneath their feet, four young tourists -Korean Juna, French Marie, American Denis and his Venezuelan girlfriend Lucia -engage the services of Kris, a local guide, to lead them through the maze of tunnels,bunkers, cavernous spaces and others WO II remains underneath Berlin. When Krisfalls into a shaft and breaks his leg, Juna and Marie try to trace their way back to findhelp. Denis and Lucia stay with Kris. Suddenly Armin shows up. The former EastGerman border guard knows his way around and proposes to carry Kris to hisshelter, where they can contact the authorities. Soon it becomes clear that our urbanexplorers have made the mistake of their life.Urban explorers are hot ! All over the world, these amateur speleologists explore thehidden and often forbidden world under our big cities. Fertile feeding ground for anew subgenre, you’d say. And it’s young German film talent Andy Fetscher, whosedirecting debut Bukarest Fleisch was shown at the Bifff in 2008, who dives first into the abyss. Nail bitingtension and terror are assured, because Fetscher uses his claustrophobic and creepy sets to maximumadvantage. And he’s certainly not stingy with blood, gore and gruesome situations best not viewed upon witha full stomach.WAKE WOOD (David Keating/Ireland-UK-Sweden)A David Keating filmScreenplay: David Keating & Brendan McCarthyCast: Eva Birthistle, Ella Connolly, Timothy Spall, Aidan Gillen, Brian Gleeson, Dan Gordon, Ruth McCabe, Amelia CrowleyRunning time: 91 min.Alice, the young daughter of veterinarian Patrick and his wife Louise, is bitten todeath by a rabid dog. The grieving couple moves from the big city to the small,rural village of Wake Wood. Its name is aptly chosen, because the forestsaround Wake Wood have the power to bring back the recently deceased; butthis only for three days. With the help of village elder Arthur, Patrick and Louiseuse the magic of Wake Wood to revive Alice. Soon the villagers sense thatthere’s something not right with the girl. They demand for her to be returnedback into the earth. But Alice has other plans.How far would you go to spend some precious time with someone who wasbrutally taken away from you ? Wake Wood is one of those solid horror picswhere the director takes his time to create a bond between the audience andthe characters – among whom Aiden Gillen (Tommy Carcetti from The Wire) asPatrick, Eva Birthistle (Breakfast on Pluto, The Children) as Louise and Timothy Spall (Secrets and Lies,Harry Potter, Sweeny Todd) as Arthur – after which you will be enthralled by the carefully crafted mountingtension and suspense until the very end. Wake Wood is also the first production of the revived HammerStudios, the legendary house of horror from the fifties, sixties and seventies.25