New to the festival this year, Midnight Madness is a special programme dedicated to genre cinema in its wildest, most unexpected and unruliest forms. Horror, eroticism, fantasy, black comedy and other hard-to-classify offshoots come together in a shared territory defined by a taste for the strange, the excessive and the sheer pleasure of surprise. 

Taking place on Saturday night, following the festival's closing ceremony, this marathon brings together films that defy convention, explore extraordinary imaginative worlds and display boundless creativity. The programme explores themes including desire and intimacy, the dynamics of relationships, bodily transformation, obsession, dreams and fantasy, always through irreverent, disconcerting and often darkly humorous approaches. Suspended between the absurd and the unsettling, the grotesque and the seductive, films such as “Make Me a Pizza” by Talia Shea Levin, “The Dream Is a Snail” by An Thien Nguyen, “Marriaginalia” by Hannah Cheesman, and “Tuna Tartare” by Lena Greene invite audiences into worlds where the strange becomes familiar and the everyday is transformed into something delightfully unpredictable. 

Genre fans, adventurous cinephiles and every other festival tribe will find in this programme a unique blend of excitement, suspense and discovery. A celebration of the legendary midnight movie tradition and of the cinema auditorium as an irreplaceable space for shared encounters, collective excitement and unforgettable experiences. A celebration of the legendary midnight movie tradition and of the cinema as a place of shared experiences, connection and collective emotion.