HOW TO MAKE A FANZINE Festival fanzine workshop 9. 4. – 14. 4. 2019 / Application deadline: April 1, 2019 Pullum Cutis #3 Festival Fanzine 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 [...]
FESTIVAL WARM-UP FILM CONCERT ALIPATO: THE VERY BRIEF LIFE OF AN EMBER Khavn, Philippines/Germany, 2016, 87' 7 April / 19:30 / Pritličje / Free admission! Philippine underground filmmaker and punk poet Khavn returns to the megacity of Manila to show us the lurid bleak face of his hometown [...]
HOMAGE: SERGIO MARTINO Sergio MARTINO (Italy), our guest of honour and filmmaker-in-focus of our Homage section, is the true renaissance man of Italian genre cinema, a jack of all trades and master of all genres. He began his filmmaking career under the tutelage of his brother, writer and producer Luciano Martino, and as second [...]
VENDETTA DAL FUTURO IN 1997: THE GUARDIAN OF THE FUTURE IS MUCH MORE THAN A MAN The future is 1997. The human race teeters on the verge of extinction. Evil industrialist Francis Turner creates a cyborg Paco Queruak, programmed to terminate the leader of an environmentalist faction who stands in his way. But the [...]
IL TUO VIZIO È UNA STANZA CHIUSA E SOLO IO NE HO LA CHIAVE Oliviero (Luigi Pistilli), a frustrated writer and an abusive husband to Irina (Anita Strindberg), amuses himself by holding drunken hippy orgies in their crumbling country villa. But when one of his lovers is found dead, he becomes the prime suspect [...]
ROAR "THERE’S NEVER BEEN A FILM LIKE ROAR – AND THERE NEVER WILL BE AGAIN!" Hank (Noel Marshall) is an energetic scientist, living in the bush country of East Africa, alongside a menagerie of over 100 wild lions, tigers, panthers and an elephant or two. They all live together in apparent harmony. Until [...]
THIS IS NOT A LOST FILM BY KHAVN 12. 4. / EXACTLY AROUND 23:30 / KINODVOR CAFÉ / FREE ADMISSION! Film-concert featuring "The Lost Film Trilogy", composed of Filipiniana, Aswang (1933) and Juan Tamad Goes To The Moon (1898), and an excerpt from Nitrate: To The Ghosts Of The 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films [...]
THE STRANGE COLORS OF GILLES VRANCKX Slovenian Cinematheque, Kinodvor 1. 4. - 22. 4. 2019 KURJA POLT Festival is proud to present an exhibition of selected works by Belgian artist Gilles Vranckx. The Brussels-based master of drawing and graphic design counts among the precious few artists keeping alive the once vibrant tradition of [...]
BALANGIGA: HOWLING WILDERNESS Philippines, 1901. A young boy flees the town of Balangiga with his grandfather and their buffalo to escape the American occupation. As they travel through the countryside strewn with carnage, they find an infant amid a sea of corpses. Together, the two boys struggle to survive in the howling wilderness. [...]
BAMBOO DOGS On what should have been just another night on the job, police officers Esquivel and Corazon receive an order that seems simple enough at first: fix an arrest mix-up by taking the Kuratong Baleleng, a notorious group of robbers, to Camp Crame where they will be let go. But mid-transport, the orders [...]
