Our Most Anticipated Horror Movies at the 2026 Final Girls Berlin Film Festival
The German festival showcases horror cinema by women and non-binary filmmakers
by Alex Secilmis 16 February 2026
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With everything from witchy summer camp horror to an Irish folk chiller, the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival returns in its 11th edition. The event takes place from March 4th to March 8th at Berlin’s City Kino Wedding cinema, with select films available to screen online.
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Camp
Riddled with guilt, a young woman tries to recover from tragedy by taking a job at a Christian summer camp, where she bonds with a group of witches in this dreamy, atmospheric coming-of-age story from writer-director Avalon Fast.
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La Virgen de la Tosquera (The Virgin of the Quarry Lake)
Like The Craft but set in a sultry Argentinian summer, this teen witch movie follows three girls who all fall for the same boy—and take drastic measures to win him over. Laura Casabe’s film, which premiered at Sundance last year, marks the first on-screen adaptation of Mariana Enríquez’s unnerving short stories.
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Fréwaka
Reeling from the death of her mother, a care worker is assigned to an elderly woman who believes she’s being haunted by shape-shifting spirits known as the Ná Sidhe. Aislinn Clarke’s Irish folk horror film is available on Shudder in the UK and the US.
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Dead Lover
A Sundance indie darling that reimagines Frankenstein through a blend of German expressionism and Monty Python, Grace Glowicki’s horror comedy is a charmingly off-centre love story about a gravedigger’s ill-begotten attempt to resurrect her dream man.
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Mother of Flies
The latest from prolific indie filmmaking troupe the Adams Family is a harrowing witch tale about a young girl with cancer who travels with her father to see an unorthodox healer in the Catskill forests.
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Retrospective: Eve’s Bayou
Kasi Lemmons’ horror drama, the most successful indie film of 1997, returns to the big screen. The hazy Southern Gothic tale, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Lynn Whitfield, follows a family filled with secrets and voodoo spells.
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Retrospective: The Seashell and the Clergyman
A significant work of French surrealism, Germaine Dulac’s 1928 experimental film is a 40-minute series of cryptic images that unfold as the lustful hallucinations of a priest enamoured with a general’s wife.