#SHAKESPEARESSHITSTORM The Opioid Epidemic is destroying America. Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman celebrates Troma's 45th and his 50th year making movies, by taking on Big Pharma, addiction and the intolerance of social media in #ShakespearesShitstorm. This irreverent musical adaptation of The Tempest is ripe with bawdy couplets, Hieronymus Boschian images of excess and unrefined iambic [...]
SLEEP Marlene (Sandra Hüller) is plagued by horrific dreams that seem to be about a real place. Soon after tracking down the quiet village of Stainbach, she suffers a nervous breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. Her daughter Mona (Gro Swantje Kohlhof) journeys to the village to unravel the mystery of her [...]
LABYRINTH OF CINEMA Setouchi Kinema, the only movie theatre on the Onomichi seafront, is about to close its doors. Its last night of existence will be an all-night marathon screening of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theatre, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world [...]
MORGANA Morgana is an artistic character portrait of a 50-year-old housewife, who re-invents herself as a sex-positive feminist porn star. After 20 years as a dutiful housewife stuck in a loveless, sexless marriage, Morgana has had enough of her dreary life. Desperately lonely and starved of intimacy, she books a male escort for one [...]
BLOOD MACHINES Machines we are sending to the skies While on Earth things can revolve around family drama, epic history, romantic comedy, Space is left only with science fiction. Although constantly in its embrace, we are unaware of Space and find nothing traditional in its presence. When the screening shows yet another black screen with [...]
FOKN Bois LIVE! Friday / 17. 4. 2020 from 23:00 / Channel Zero Refresh & Kurja Polt present FOKN Bois Ghanaian "gospel porn rap" phenomenon M3NSA and Wanlov the Kubolor aka FOKN Bois are coming to Kurja Polt ready to take up the lead role both on screen and on stage! [...]
GUESTS Joël Séria (France), director and writer, started his filmmaking career with no holds barred. His debut feature film Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal (Don't Deliver Us from Evil, 1971), a masterpiece of subversive and transgressive cinema, was banned in France upon its release. But today deservedly enjoys [...]
CULT FILM CONFERENCE WE ARE ALL HAUNTED HOUSES: THE CULT OF THE UNCANNY 17. 4. 2020 / 14:00 – 17:00 / Kinodvor 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. Free admission. Lectures are conducted in [...]
WHO KILLED CAPTAIN ALEX? Captain Alex, one of the most decorated officers in Ugandan People's Defence Force, is sent out to destroy the evil Richard and his Tiger Mafia. When Alex is killed in the process, his brother, a Ugandan Shaolin Monk, arrives in Kampala in search of the murderer. From Wakaliwood, home of [...]
SCHWEINCHEN Schweinchen documents a decomposition study conducted by forensic biologist Dr. Mark Benecke under the artistic guidance of Jörg Buttgereit. The score was composed by Andre Abshagen, Buttgereit's frequent collaborator for several audio dramas and documentaries. Benecke commissioned Michal Kosakowski (German Angst) with editing and producing the project. Poster art was created by Gilles [...]
