SPECIAL GUEST: LAMBERTO BAVA!

Lamberto Bava in persona at Kurja polt festival! We will talk with the legendary horror director about his father’s work and screen the 80s cult classic Demoni in te presence of the director.

The young bloods …

HALLELUJAH!

The second edition of Kurja polt festival presents the latest film by Fabrice du Welz, the Belgian exponent of the New French Extremity and a master of contemporary horror cinema. Alleluia is the winner of European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation’s Méliès D’Or for Best Feature Film of 2014. Fabrice du Welz is currently at work on his first American production, but we look forward to welcoming the director at one of our upcoming festivals editions to present his newest films along with the earlier masterworks Calvaire and Vinyan. Read more…

Fall is coming early this year, or …
KURJA POLT FESTIVAL MOVES TO APRIL! April 16 – 19!

KURJA POLT 2: MARIO BAVA 101
Slovenian cinematheque, Kinodvor / Ljubljana

With its second edition Kurja polt (= Goose Flesh) weekend-festival of horror cinema’s cults, classics and genre-bending renegades moves to April and delivers on its promise to accompany the old masters with fresh young blood. Our contemporary programme will include a fistful of full-blooded horror films and some of those renegade festival favourites, films of extreme discomfort and unease, which bend and transcend genre conventions, but make your skin crawl all the same. In accordance with its creed Kurja polt festival again looks back and delves into the history of cinematic horror, proudly presenting the retrospective Mario Bava 101, the crowning jewel of this year’s festival – which we therefore christen “LA PELLE D’OCA”. In 2014 we celebrated the centennial of Mario Bava’s birth, and with it the life and work of this master of horror, a virtuoso of cinematography and a genius of special effects, the godfather of Italian Gothic cinema and the indigenous giallo. But since every year is ripe time for celebrating the work of Mario Bava, we pay homage to the filmmaker on the no less prominent 101st anniversary of his birth, with an elementary “101” course in the cinema of Mario Bava.
More on 2015 edition coming soon!