Day 3 Program – Final Girls Berlin Film Fest 11th Edition
Stay up late with us, it’s Friday 😈
Hey ghouls,
Can you believe we’re halfway through our 11th fest edition already? We’ve got some horror delights in store for you today, including our retrospective feature film, our time-honoured Midnight Shorts screening, plus two short films accompanied by a live musical performance from Pavone Cristallo.
The full round-up of what’s happening at City Kino Wedding today 👇
16:00 – Shorts Block 4: Social Horror
18:00 – Live Score to The Seashell and the Clergyman & Meshes of the Afternoon (with live musical accompaniment performed by the band Pavone Cristallo, featuring our fest co-director Sara Neidorf on drums)
19:30 – Feature 4: Eve’s Bayou (our 2026 retrospective feature)
21:30 – Feature 5: Mother of Flies
23:30 – Shorts Block 5: Midnight
What’s scarier than the society in which we already live? Monstrous bureaucratic apathy, familial violence, post-partum alienation, and desperate loneliness, our Social Horror Shorts Program slurps up these social ills and spits them out onto the screen, blurring the lines between the horrors of our world and the horror we watch.
View the full Social Horror Program here.
Up next, we have a real treat in store for you: a double bill screening of Germaine Dulac’s The Seashell and the Clergyman (1927) and Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943).
We’re screening these seminal works of experimental film history with an accompanying soundtrack performed live by the band Pavone Cristallo (featuring our fest co-director Sara Neidorf on drums) on our beloved City Kino Wedding stage.
View the details for the Live Score Screening here.
Our 2026 retrospective feature, Kasi Lemmons’ Eve’s Bayou (1997), is a supernaturally-infused, Southern gothic tale of adolescence, voodoo, and family strife within Louisiana’s Creole community. Featuring an all-Black cast and directed by Kasi Lemmons, one of the few Black female directors whose film was to receive wide distribution at the time (just a few years after Julie Dash), this film challenged conventions and patriarchal power on many levels, within the diegesis and the larger world, showing the complex and ambiguous subjectivities of women and girls as they relate to each other and come of age within oppressive structures.
View the details for Eve’s Bayou here.
The Adams Family return for a fourth(!) time this year with Mother of Flies, in which a terminally ill young woman seeks out a forest witch to save her. Ripe with dark magic, mythology, and close calls with mortality, get ready for Mother of Flies to take you on a dangerous and transformative journey.
View the full details for Mother of Flies here.
Does anything scream Final Girls more than a potpourri of midnight madness? We love to take you ghouls on a wild, late-night ride every year, and this festival edition’s Midnight Shorts Block promises time loops, paranoid comedies, mortician beauticians, egg monsters, and more. Stay up late and get freaky with us 😈🍿
View the full Midnight Shorts Program here.
Slither over to City Kino Wedding and join us tonight for our first screening at 16:00 🪱
Need tickets?
→ Grab an All Access Fest Pass here – and get access to all our feature film screenings and short film programs for just 75€!
→ Buy tickets for individual screenings here.
→ Buy Watch-On-Demand tickets for our Shorts Programs here.
See you ghouls there 🎃