The 6th edition ACTION THRILLER CRIME ADVENTURE FILM FESTIVAL PRIVATE ROOM

Detective Talon Crowford, bereft of his wife, finds solace in the bottoms of bottles. One night, a concerned frog presents him with a case that sets him on a new quest—to hunt down a twisted criminal known only as “Silly Goose.” Crowford quickly finds himself pulled into action in a city where everybirdy’s counting on him.

After a night of drinking, a college student finds a dead body in the trunk of his car and is determined to discover the truth.

When a peaceful library is disturbed by a loud customer, Charlène, a young woman trying to resolve her anger issues, takes the matter into her own hands.

2 high school grads attempt to pull off a heist to afford their college tuition.

"The Art of Blackmailer" is a hard-boiled crime drama centered around a ruthless and cunning blackmailer who navigates the underworld, engaging in dangerous negotiations and high-stakes gambits. The story opens in a desolate wasteland, where the blackmailer is conducting a transaction. He receives a large sum of money from his client in exchange for an envelope. However, betrayal follows as the client’s henchmen draw their guns. The blackmailer reacts swiftly, disarming them and turning the tables. This scene establishes his composure and deadly skill. The setting then shifts to a dimly lit bar, where the blackmailer meets Kinzo Takayashiki. Holding evidence related to a crime, he demands a hefty sum to keep it a secret. Kinzo remains outwardly calm, but the blackmailer sees through his facade, detecting the unease beneath. This gripping story delves into the power struggles of the underworld, the constant threat of betrayal, and the blackmailer’s relentless fight for survival. A work that pays homage and respect to Nikkatsu films from the 1950s and 1960s.

Dante, a regretful ex military contractor and his companion, his horse, search for his missing wife and daughter in the remnants of civilization decimated by thousands of malevolent entities known as ' Reapers ',

Amid the neon glow of Frankfurt’s red-light district, a young man drifts between two worlds: the gritty underbelly of the city and a tender relationship with his girlfriend Charlie. By day, he’s a dreamer; by night, a runner for shady street figures. Torn between loyalty, violence, and longing, “Dream-Man” struggles to stay grounded. But when Charlie walks away, one question remains: Will he ever return to her reality – or is he destined to drift away for good?

A compulsive gambler, blessed by luck with the help of a prostitute, tries to settle a debt with a criminal, but ends up putting his life on the line with one last bet.

In the heat of the Hundred Years' War, English Lord Talbot and the fierce French warrior Joan la Pucelle clash on the battlefield outside Orléans. Talbot, brimming with confidence, watches in disbelief as his once-victorious troops falter under the determined charge of a woman. From Shakespeare's Henry VI. "In a battle of wills, only one will stand unbroken."

Given an impossible mission to protect his country; Hunter Matthews is asked destroy his life to uphold his oath. Will he remember you always have a choice?

BREAKING THE LINE is a 20 minute action short film about Cleo, a female detective who dominates on the job but has retreated from her crumbling personal life. But when a ruthless crime family kidnaps her daughter Scarlett to warn Cleo off their turf, she is forced to fight for her family head-on — or risk losing her daughter for good.

A childrens sambo coach named Borov conducts clandestine fights without rules for the entertainment of a criminal boss. Borov needs money to send his son to school and to protect him from the poverty and banditry that are going on in the town. The son does not know about his father's work for criminals, but upon returning from the army, he comes to fights without rules in order to get a job with a criminal boss. There is a fight, the son is almost beaten to death in battle. Borov, risking his life, saves his son, but becomes a victim of another guy, whose brother died in a previous battle due to Borov's fault. A criminal boss comes to his son and says that his father is dead, and now his son has a debt for his father that needs to be worked off. The son refuses to work for the bandits, he is ready to pay off the only value – an apartment, but, already packing up, the son finds his father's money, set aside for his studies. The son runs away with the money, abandoning the criminal path.

A prestigious attorney colludes with his impulsive brother to hide a manslaughter, but when an innocent is charged, their plans spiral out of control, leading to moral reckoning and inevitable judgment.

In Two thousand and twenty-four, a series of unsolved murders, in the African country of Ghana, Led the National Intelligence Bureau, N.I.B to investigate any possible links between the cases. It soon became clear that these cases may not only be linked but the answer to solving the crimes may lie in the United Kingdom. In a highly politically motivated move, The N.I.B Was immediately granted special dispensation to send two officers to the UK, to carry fire arms and investigate on British soil. Although they are allowed to be here, the British government doesn't really want them here.

When an Inuit artist tracks his nephew’s killer to Manhattan, he’s forced to team up with a street-wise detective just to survive this foreign environment. When the killer circles back to the Arctic, it's now the NYC detective who is out of his element in a deadly landscape.

Bleeding out in a blood-filled bathtub, nihilistic drug dealer Adiran narrates his final night: already haunted by his girlfriend’s accidental rooftop death, his world implodes when Mary is shot in the face. An acid-fueled rampage with best friend Seth ends in carnage—cops dead, a house in flames—before a hollow “I love you” to sheltered teen Angela dooms her to suicide in his wake.

A priest-of-crime treats Los Angeles like a canvas, but a terminal diagnosis accelerates his last job—leaving a breadcrumb trail for a relentless detective, drawing her in by design, and forcing a reckoning that will change everyone around him. Genre: Heist. Tagline: Legacy isn’t given. It’s taken.

“Valley of the Gun” is set in the cocaine-saturated Phoenix of the late 1980s, where white plastic bags roll across empty lots like tumbleweeds. Jerome, a 17-year-old petty drug dealer who's young enough to have a few morals left, falls in love with a woman 20 years his senior who's one of the most notorious coke dealers in town. After they start their unlikely romance, she admits that she's in massive debt with nasty people who want to bring their relationship to a violent end. Jerome vows to engineer the one big score that will save them both.

A talking pizza is murdered. Two detectives must solve the case as they navigate their relationship.

Dreading boredom, an autistic P.I. visiting a B.C. hamlet is on the case when its most introverted resident is found dead. With the help of Snuneymuxw journalism student Matt Johnny, Hal, having never investigated a death, encounters secrets, intrigue, and the challenges of sleuthing in a place too small to even be a town.