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PHASE 7 (Nicolas Goldbart/Argentina)A Nicolas Goldbart filmScreenplay: Nicolas GoldbartDaniel Hendler, Jazmin Stuart, Yayo Guridi, Carlos Bermejo, Abian Vainstein, Sung Kim Chang, Patricia Gutierrez,Federico LuppiRunning time: 96 min.Just when Coco and his seven months pregnant wife Pipi have settled in their new flat,the authorities hermetically seal the building. One of their neighbors seems to havebeen infected with the latest killer virus. The emergency phone number doesn’t workand the inhabitants are left to fend on their own. It doesn’t take long before the situationspirals out of control. Their neighbors turn into enemies and Coco is forced to forge analliance with the unstable and paranoid, but extremely well armed Horacio to protect hiswife and the contents of his fridge. Meanwhile outside the building, the world as weknow it, is rapidly disappearing.Luckily there are also films where you can have a good laugh with the end of all things.Phase 7, hailing from Argentina, presents us with the lighter and funnier side of theApocalypse. Director Nicolas Goldbart has found an original way to show the usual disintegration of society.Just when you think you know where the story is heading, he twists and turns it into a completely differentdirection. The humor is as absurd as it is outrageous, but it all remains perfectly credible. Federico Lupi(Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone) is outstanding as Horacio, an elderly Rambo with a very itchy trigger finger.RAMMBOCK (Marvin Kren/Germany)A Marvin Kren filmScreenplay: Benjamin HesslerCast: Michael Fuith, Anka Graczy, Theo Trebs, Melanie Berke, Sabrina Caramanna, Emily Cox, Carsten Behrendt, Mila Gach, HaraldGeil, Sebastian Achilles,Jörn Hentschel, Arno Kölker, Brigitte Kren, Nenad Lucic, Steffen Münster, Ingrid BeerbaumRunning time: 64 min.A bunch of zombies is invading the German capital. Some survivors are stuck inan apartment complex which is surrounded by the raging hordes. One of them isMichael, who got the stupid idea of putting the pieces back together with his exgirlfriend. But there’s a snag; anxiety makes you hungry. And when the fridge isempty, while you yourself are on the menu of those folks downstairs, you have todo something, even if that means swapping with the neighbours; – food formedication, for instance. Michael and the other inhabitants do their utmost torespect this new mantra: eat or be eaten and trying to survive this nightmare inone piece, of course.A. Romero.Rammbock, a huge surprise at the last Cannes Film Market, offers a freshapproach to genre cinema. Marvin Kren, best known for his short movies(among which the multi-awarded Shautag), wraps up his feature in 64 minutes,by cutting through the flesh and going straight to the bone, with a story andcharacters that are more related to Danny Boyle and Zack Snyder than George52