HÕFF Main Programme

The heart of the festival, hosting up to 10 films including Baltic and international premieres, as well as the finest selection from well-known festivals (Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Venice etc) and important genre hubs (SXSW, Neuchâtel, Sitges, Austin Fantastic Fest etc) across the globe.

Adorable Humans

Adorable Humans

Four separate yet interconnected chapters of a contemporary horror adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen.

Local title
Toredad inimesed
Director
Anders Jon, Michael Kunov, Kasper Juhl, Michael Panduro
Country
Denmark
Affection

Affection

A gripping horror sci-fi starring scream queen Jessica Rothe.

Local title
Võõras lähedus
Director
BT Meza
Country
USA
Crazy Old Lady

Crazy Old Lady

One stormy night, Laura asks her ex Pedro to watch over her senile mother who draws him into a cruel nightmare.

Local title
Hull vanamoor
Director
Martín Mauregui
Country
Argentina, Spain
Egghead Republic

Egghead Republic

An alternative reality where the Cold War did not end, and Soviet Kazakstan has been struck by an atomic bomb.

Local title
Munapeade vabariik
Title in Russian
Munapeade vabariik
Director
Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman
Country
Sweden
Hokum

Hokum

A novelist is haunted at a remote inn during a trip to scatter his parents' ashes.

Local title
Hokum
Director
Damian Mc Carthy
Country
Ireland, USA
Meat Kills

Meat Kills

The bloodiest Dutch film of all time, in the spirit of French New Extreme classics.

Local title
Liha tapab
Director
Martijn Smits
Country
Netherlands
Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant

Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant

When a messy millennial underachiever accidentally gets alien-pregnant she must reclaim her life.

Local title
Ema, ma olen tulnukast rase
Director
Jordan Mark Windsor, Sean Wallace
Country
New Zealand
Never After Dark

Never After Dark

With the help of her dead sister's spirit, a medium takes on a grotesque apparition that haunts an isolated country home.

Local title
Auhinnatseremoonia ja 'Mitte kunagi pimedas'
Title in Russian
Award ceremony and 'Never After Dark'
Director
Dave Boyle
Country
Japan
Saccharine

Saccharine

Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in a weight loss craze.

Local title
Sahhariin
Director
Natalie Erika James
Country
Australia
Sicko

Sicko

A cash-strapped couple becomes embroiled in a toxic web of social media, violent criminality and spiralling greed.

Local title
Haiglane
Director
Aitore Zholdaskali
Country
Kazakhstan
Ukraine Solidarity Auction and the closing film 'The Dam'

Ukraine Solidarity Auction and the closing film 'The Dam'

Ukrainian soldiers find a hidden Soviet research bunker full of the walking dead.

Local title
Ukraina toetusoksjon ja lõpufilm 'Kahhovka objekt'
Director
Oleksiy Taranenko
Country
Ukraine
Zhaza

Zhaza

In a small town, a corrupt major learns that his daughter has been raped by the chief of police.

Local title
Karistus
Director
Darkhan Tulegenov
Country
Kazakhstan