FILMMAKERS Jonas Govaerts (Belgium) is a music video, television and film director based in Antwerp. He wrote and directed several award-winning shorts before making his feature debut Cub (Welp) which premiered at TIFF and brought him the Best Direction award at Sitges 2014. He is the author of [...]
SHIVERING SKIN, SHARPENING GAZE Film Criticism Workshop 17.–23. 4. / Register by: April 10 Kurja Polt Genre Film Festival once again brings together a motley crew of cults, classics & genre-bending renegades, screening and celebrating the wonderfully bizarre, daring and wild works of cinema. Some are film orphans without a pedigree, others the suppressed, [...]
STAGING DEATH Jan Soldat, Austria/Germany, 2022, DCP, 8’, English subtitles Udo Kier dies his way through film history. He screams, falls, lies, is chopped up, shot or takes his own life. Again and again his empty gaze, again and again his rigid body. In 54 years of acting career Udo Kier played in more [...]
10 YEARS OF KURJA POLT Photo Exhibition From March 28th at Kinodvor Gallery Kurja Polt Genre Film Festival celebrates and screens those wonderfully bizarre, daring and wild works of cinema that proudly wave the banners of cult, genre, exploitation, B movie, camp, paracinema and the likes. Some are film orphans and bastards without a [...]
KINO EKRAN X KURJA POLT: WESTERN POLITICS 19. 4. 2022 / 20:00 / Slovenska kinoteka / Free admission “All According to the Law”: Sergio Corbucci, The Great Silence and the Italian Western Talk by Dr Austina Fisherja(Bournemouth University, UK) On the surface, Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence (Il grande [...]
HOW TO MAKE A FANZINE Festival fanzine workshop 17.–23. 4. / Register by: April 9 The festival fanzine will yet again capture the atmosphere of watching films, hanging with guests, listening to lectures and the overall festival happening in fetching and juicy printed form. Participants, whether experts or enthusiastic novices, will tackle the elements of [...]
CULT FILM CONFERENCE 21. 4. 2023 / 14:00–16:00 / Kinodvor / Free admission The Cult Film Conference is presented in collaboration with Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK) and chaired by Dr Russ Hunter, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Northumbria. Lectures are conducted in English. Free admission. It is [...]
RETROSPECTIVE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KURJA POLT! THE PARTY Blake Edwards, US, 1968, DCP, 99' The great masters of fusing slapstick and satire, Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers, skewer Hollywood snobbery in this on-target, behind-the-scenes lampoon of Tinseltown and the pinnacle of the Pink Panther team’s combined comedic genius. Opening film [...]
MR. VAMPIRE GEUNG SEE SIN SANG Ricky Lau, Hong Kong, 1985, DCP, 96', English subtitles ©2010 Fortune Star Media Limited All Rights Reserved. When Taoist priest and expert ghost buster Master Kou (Lam Ching Ying) is called in to supervise the relocation of a grave, he realises that the corpse inside the [...]
