AWARDS
Honorary Vicious Cat: Christina Lindberg and Sam Firstenberg
Vicious Cat: Tumbbad (India; 2018; Rahi Anil Barve, Adesh Prasad)
Melies d’Argent: Hopes (Spain; 2019; Raúl Monge)
Slak's Vicious Cat: My First Time (Israel; 2018; Asaf Livni)
-Special mention: La Noria (Spain; 2018; Carlos Baena)
Noisy Cat: The Allins (Denmark; 2017; Sami Saif)
Audience award for best feature film: X - The eXploited (X - A rendszerből törölve, Hungary; 2018; Károly Ujj Mészáros)
Vicious Cat Wine Champion: Muscat Otonel 2018 (Kaučič Winery)
Little Workshop of Horrors Winner: Mortal Sin (Smrtni greh; Slovenia; 2019; Vanja Lea Kocen)
JURIES
Vicious Cat: Sam Firstenberg, Romain Roll, Roberto San Sebastian
Slak's Vicious Cat and Melies d’Argent: Mikko Aromaa, Michael Panduro, Julian Richards
Noisy Cat: Igor Vidmar, Jerome Vandewattyne, Harald Warneke
Little Workshop of Horrors: special Grossmann commission
VICIOUS CAT COMPETITION
Black Circle (Svart cirkel; Sweden; 2018; Adrián García Bogliano)
Here Comes Hell (UK; 2018; Jack McHenry)
God's Hill (El cerro de los dioses; Spain; 2019; Daniel M. Caneiro)
In Fabric (UK; 2018; Peter Strickland)
X - The eXploited (X - A rendszerből törölve; Hungary; 2018; Károly Ujj Mészáros)
Tumbbad (India; 2018; Rahi Anil Barve, Adesh Prasad)
MELIES D'ARGENT COMPETITION
2050 (Russia; 2019; Alexandra Lupashko)
Rain Catcher (UK; 2018; Michele Fiascaris)
Making Friends (UK; 2018; Chris Vincze)
Atomic Ed (France; 2018; Nicolas Hugon)
Bedtime Story (El cuento; Spain; 2019; Lucas Paulino, Ángel Torres)
Abyssus (Finland; 2018; Kim Westerlund)
Metod (Slovenia; 2017; Tomaž Gorkič)
Limbo (Spain; 2018; Daniel Viqueira)
Z Fest (Spain; 2017; David Cordero)
And So He Opens His Eyes (Russia; 2019; Sergey Vasiliev)
Avarya (Turkey; 2019; Gökalp Gönen)
A Little Taste (Spain; 2019; Victor Català)
Dead Animals (Tote Tiere; Switzerland; 2018; David Oesch, Remo Rickenbacher)
The Third Hand (UK; 2018; Yoni Weisberg)
Hopes (Spain; 2019; Raúl Monge)
SLAK'S VICIOUS CAT COMPETITION
Evströnger (Spain; 2018; Silvia Conesa)
Dead Teenager Séance (Brazil; 2018; Dante Vescio, Rodrigo Gasparini)
Shhhh (Israel; 2019; Jonathan Mordechay)
La Noria (Spain; 2018; Carlos Baena)
Five Course Meal (Canada; 2018; James Cadden)
Countryside (Pleine Campagne; France; 2018; Pierre Mouchet)
Spirit of the Drowning Girls (云中居三子：溺女婆; China; 2019; Runze Cao)
My First Time (Israel; 2018; Asaf Livni)
What Metal Girls Are Into (USA; 2017; Laurel Vail)
The Peephole (La mirilla; Mexico; 2018; Enrique Manzo Escamilla)
Latched (Canada; 2017; Justin Harding)
Here There Be Monsters (Australia; 2018; Drew Macdonald)
Flesh (骨肉香; Hong Kong; 2019; Tim Poon)
NOISY CAT COMPETITION
Boom! A Film About The Sonics (USA; 2018; Jordan Albertsen)
Sing Me a Song (Poj mi pesem; Slovenia; 2018; Miran Zupanič)
Betty - They Say I'm Different (USA; 2017; Phil Cox)
Band vs Brand (Bend vs brend; Slovenia; 2019; Hanna Szentpeteri, Simona Jerala)
RocKabul (Australia; 2017; Travis Beard)
Kameleoni - The Beatles of Former Yugoslavia (Kameleoni - Beatlesi nekdanje Jugoslavije; Slovenia; 2019; Miha Čelar)
The Allins (Denmark; 2017; Sami Saif)
VICIOUS CAT WINE CHAMPION COMPETITION
Chardonnay (dry) 2011 (Frangež sparkling wine house)
Fragrant Traminer (semi-sweet) 2018 (Steyer vina)
Muscat Otonel (semi-dry) 2018 (Kaučič winery)
Pinot Gris (dry) 2017 (Vina Gjerkeš)
WTF – Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (dry) 2018 (Templar Estate Tourist Farm Hlebec)
OUT OF COMPETITION
The Field Guide to Evil (Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Poland, Turkey, USA; 2018; Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Lee Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland, Yannis Veslemes)
The Curse of Valburga (Prekletstvo Valburge; Slovenia; 2019; Tomaž Gorkič)
Iron Sky: The Coming Race (Finland; 2019; Timo Vuorensola)
Lords of Chaos (UK, Sweden, Norway; 2018; Jonas Åkerlund)
The Last Serb in Croatia (Poslednji Srbin u Hrvatskoj; Croatia; 2019; Predrag Ličina)
Why Don't You Just Die! (Papa, sdokhni; Russia; 2018; Kirill Sokolov)
Reborn (USA; 2018; Julian Richards)
Four Hands (Die Vierhändige; Germany; 2018; Oliver Kienle)
Cutterhead (Denmark; 2018; Rasmus Kloster Bro)
His Master's Voice (Az Úr hangja; Hungary; 2018; György Pálfi)
The Night Shifter (Morto Não Fala; Brazil; 2018; Dennison Ramalho)
The Wind (USA; 2018; Emma Tammi)
The Dead Don't Die (USA; 2019; Jim Jarmusch)
Mutant Blast (Portugal; 2018; Fernando Alle)
The Father's Shadow (A sombra do pai; Brazil; 2018; Gabriela Amaral Almeida)
Werewolf (Wilkolak; Poland; 2018; Adrian Panek)
Freaks (Canada; 2018; Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein)
Is That You? (¿Eres Tú, Papá?; UK; 2018; Rudy Riverón Sánchez)
The Last Berliner (Der letzte Mieter; Germany; 2018; Gregor Erler)
RETROSPECTIVE: CHRISTINA LINDBERG
Thriller - A Cruel Picture (Thriller - en grym film; Sweden; 1973; Bo Arne Vibenius)
Christina Lindberg: The Original Eyepatch Wearing Butt Kicking Movie Babe (Sweden; 2018; Ika Johannesson, Jane Magnusson)
RETROSPECTIVE: SAM FIRSTENBERG
American Ninja (USA; 1985; Sam Firstenberg)
Avenging Force (USA; 1986; Sam Firstenberg)
DOCUSHOCK
Aquarius Visionarius - The Films of Michele Soavi (Aquarius Visionarius - Il cinema di Michele Soavi; Italy; 2018; Claudio Lattanzi)
Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema (UK 2018; Calum Waddell)
All Eyes on Lenzi: The Life and Times of the Italian Exploitation Titan (UK 2018; Calum Waddell)
George Romero - An Independent Man (USA 2019; The Ambrotype Group)
ENCHANTED CINEMA
Captain Morten and the Spider Queen (Estonia, Belgium, Ireland, UK; 2018; Kaspar Jancis)
The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear (Den utrolige historie om den kæmpestore pære; Denmark; 2017; Philip Einstein Lipski, Jørgen Lerdam, Amalie Næsby Fick)
Muri the Cat Miniseries (Slovenia; 2013, 2016, 2018 Boris Dolenc, Jernej Žmitek)
The Elephant Cycles Around the World (France, Belgium, Croatia, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Georgia, Slovenia; 2012, 2014, 2017; Kolja Saksida, Lena von Döhren, Ana Chubinidze, Julia Ocker, Natalija Černiševa, Ivana Guljašević, Olesya Shchukina)
ON THE FANTASTIC SIDE OF THE ALPS
Between the Cuts (Serbia; 2018; Dušan Brković)
Bloody Popcorn (Russia; 2018; Miroslav Lakobrija)
The Last Passenger (Poslednji putnik; Serbia; 2019; Petar Milić)
Ballad of Pipe and Necklace (Balada o fruli i ogrlici; Croatia; 2018; Martin Babić)
No Entrance! (Vstop prepovedan; Slovenia; 2019; Andrej Koritnik)
TORTURE GARDEN – in collaboration with JINGA FILMS
Echoes of Fear (USA; 2018; Brian & Laurence Avenet-Bradley)
The Damned (Mekulalim; Israel; 2018; Evgeny Ruman)
The Night Sitter (USA; 2018; John Rocco , Abiel Bruhn)
Volition (Canada; 2019; Tony Dean Smith)
Abrakadabra (Argentina, New Zealand; 2018; Luciano Onetti, Nicolás Onetti)
MASTER CLASSES
Christina Lindberg (host: Nenad Bekvalac)
Sam Firstenberg (host: Stephane Everaert)
Additionaly, each film Guest gave a short introduction prior to the screening of their film and answered the audience questions after the screening.
EXPERT SYMPOSIUMS
Master Class with Michael Panduro (music video production)
EXHIBITION
15 Years of Grossmann Festival
BOOK PRESENTATIONS
The Poetics of Horror - a series of books by Orfelin, Novi Sad - dr Dejan Ognjanović
Poisoned Land, Evil Mirror - Angel Rose
CONCERTS – music program
Three Men and His Music
Monsters of Breka - Mburns, Dark Sphere, Smrt
Buena Banda
Grossmann gRave
Šaht, Odpisani
Prlekian Singers-Songwriters - On the Same Stage for the First Time - Tadej Vesenjak, Mojca Prejac, Samo Budna
Fit Fat
Monstrumental
DJ Mario Kovač
ZOMBIE WALK
A procession of zombies on the final day of the festival.
THEATRE
The Witch from Blackwood; Culture Club Delavec Lenart
Mr. President; Žiga Čamernik, Janez Vajevec
Dead End
WORKSHOPS
Little Workshop of Horrors - making of short genre fims during the festival
Little Workshop of Special Make Up Effects (Miroslav Lakobrija, Mateja Naberšnik)
Grossmann's Zombierama - workshop for children
Grossmann's Film-O-Rama - workshop for children
SUBCULTURE FAIR
On Friday and Saturday the festival featured the Subculture Fair at the Main Square, offering DVDs, books,comics, movie posters, new and second-hand records, CDs, and unique artistic products.
WINE PROGRAM
Presentation of wine makers and competing wines at the symbolic wine road
Public wine tasting of all the samples in competition with Alojz Filipič, the main Guest of the Wine Program, giving his expert opinion on each of the competing wines. The wine tasting was also attended by this year's Slovenian Wine Queen Meta Frangež.
Sparkling Wines of Slovenia - Wine Event with Bruno Gaberšek
GUESTS
Christina Lindberg (Sweden), Sam Firstenberg (USA), Ben Pearson (UK), Margaret Clunie(UK), Jack McHenry (UK), Daniel M. Caneiro (Spain), Jack McHenry (UK), Jérôme Vandewattyne (Belgium), Julian Richards (UK), Károly Ujj Mészáros (Hungary), Mónika Balsai (Hungary), Kirill Sokolov (Russia), Michael Panduro (Denmark), Mikko Aromaa (Finland), Miroslav Lakobrija (Serbia), Nenad Bekvalac (Serbia), Predrag Ličina (Croatia), Rickard Gramfors (Sweden), Romain Roll (Luxembourg), Roberto San Sebastián (Spain), Severin Fiala (Austria), Timo Vuorensola(Finland), Jani Novak (Slovenia), Iztok Turk (Slovenia), Tomaž Gorkič (Slovenia), Vlado Kreslin(Slovenia), Alojz Filipič (Slovenia), Bruno Gaberšek (Slovenia), Meta Frangež (Slovenia), Stephane Everaert (Belgium), Igor Vidmar (Slovenia), Dejan Ognjanović (Serbia), Angel Rose (Slovenia), Mateja Naberšnik (Slovenia), Vasja Rovšnik (Slovenia)
