KOIRAT EIVÄT KÄYTÄ HOUSUJA After losing his wife in a drowning accident, a widowed surgeon and now single father Juha is left emotionally paralyzed. Until one day he stumbles into the den of a dominatrix named Mona. A dangerous fetish will lead them down a painful, cathartic path toward emotional enlightenment. One of [...]
CONTEMPORARY ADORATION Fabrice du Welz, France/Belgium, 2019, 98' Fabrice du Welz concludes his "Ardennes trilogy" (after Calvaire and Alleluia, both previously screened at Kurja Polt) with an ethereal tale of teenage amour fou. Deceivingly simple, Adoration is a testament to the power of du Welz's filmmaking vision, as delicate as [...]
SARRAOUNIA During the "Scramble for Africa" in late nineteenth century, European colonial powers rush to plunder and subjugate the African continent. In 1898, the infamously brutal Voulet-Chanoine military expedition sets out to conquer new lands for the French colonial empire. Queen Sarraounia, sorceress, military strategist and forceful leader of the Azna, rallies her [...]
THE MAKING OF SONJA HENIE THE MAKING OF SONJA HENIE Karpo Godina, Yugoslavia/Slovenia, 1972-2007, DCP, 1.37, colour, 97', English subtitles Director, cinematographer and one of the standard-bearers of the Yugoslav Black Wave, Karpo Godina (author of exquisite avant-garde shorts The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk, Litany for Happy People, On the Art of Love) attended [...]
ADORATION Paul, a 12-year-old lonely boy, lives with his mother at the mental institution where she works since his father abandoned them years ago. When Gloria, a troubled and fascinating teenage girl, arrives at the institution, Paul immediately falls in love with her. So madly in love that, despite her dangerousness, he will run [...]
KOKO-DI KOKO-DA After a shattering tragedy, a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other. An old man in a straw hat and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper and deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick. A nightmarish [...]
JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY CIA Agents Palmer and Gagano are tasked with the mission of destroying a computer virus called "Soviet Union". They enter the system using VR but the mission turns into a trap. Billed as a "WTF Thriller" and "The Matrix on Acid", Llansó's (Crumbs, 2015) second [...]
BAD BLACK A mild-mannered doctor (Alan Hofmanis, expatriate New Yorker and Wakaliwood's ambassador to the world) is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid named Wesley Snipes. But he's up against Bad Black, the bad-ass, street-fighting vixen who's in charge of the gang ruling the streets of [...]
COZ OV MONI 2: FOKN REVENGE After they took a whooping in the first instalment Coz Ov Moni, Ghana's ingenious rappers Wanlov and M3NSA are back and hungry for revenge, some social justice, but also just hungry. Though many now follow in their footsteps, Ghana’s musical trailblazers FOKN Bois were the first to [...]
LA PETITE VENDEUSE DE SOLEIL A young crippled girl Sili lives on the streets of Dakar with her blind grandmother. While all the boys around her sell newspapers, Sili must beg for her daily subsistence. But she is determined to change things around. Starting tomorrow, she will sell newspapers just like the boys. [...]
