KURJA POLT: THE LAST HURRAH! Dear Colleagues, Dear Guests, Dear Friends of Kurja Polt Festival, These words don’t come easy, so let me rip off the bandage: Kurja Polt Festival is closing its doors. For a decade, we worked with passion and dedication to create our precious celebration of daring and dangerous cinema. [...]
19. 4. / 22:15 / Kinodvor BAAHUBALI: THE BEGINNING S.S. Rajamouli, India, 2015, DCP, colour, 137', English subtitles In an ancient Indian kingdom, a woman pursued by soldiers sacrifices herself to save a child. Raised in a remote tribal village, the boy Shivudu grows up a carefree young [...]
19. 4. / 19:30 / Kinodvor WAKE IN FRIGHT Ted Kotcheff, Australia, 1971, DCP, colour, 109' When young teacher John Grant arrives to the small mining town of Bundanyabba, he only plans to say overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But as one night stretches to five and he [...]
19. 4. / 17:00 / Kinodvor HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS Mike Cheslik, USA, 2023, DCP, bw, 108' In this silent supernatural epic, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness. Can he go from zero to hero, become North America’s greatest fur trapper, and defeat hundreds of beavers? Filmed [...]
THE OLD MAN MOVIE Grandkids are dropped off for the summer with the Old Man on his farm. Determined to make his progeny see the simple beauty of country living, he ends up working them like slaves, only to have the little bastards accidentally set loose his prized and thoroughly abused cow. Now [...]
HOW TO MAKE A FANZINE Festival fanzine workshop 14. 4.–19. 4. 2020 / Application deadline: 7. 4. 2020 The free-of-charge workshop How To Make A Fanzine is intended for genre film fans and all those enamoured with festival frenzy. Participants, whether experts or enthusiastic novices, will tackle the elements of fanzine art, from [...]
MAID IN SWEDEN An innocent schoolgirl Inga travels from her home in the countryside to visit her older sister Greta who is living in Stockholm with her boyfriend Casten. Both shocked and aroused by the couple's open sexuality and pot smoking, Inga is tormented by dreams of violent sexual fantasies. Then she meets Björn, [...]
CONTEMPORARY ALIPATO: THE VERY BRIEF LIFE OF AN EMBER Khavn, Philippines/Germany, 2016, DCP, 87′ Philippine underground filmmaker and punk poet Khavn returns to the megacity of Manila to show us the lurid bleak face of his hometown in this singular, hallucinatory and ultraviolent saga – the only possible answer to [...]
