CULT FILM CONFERENCE June 8 – 11 / 14:00 CEST / online The online conference is free, accessible worldwide and conducted in English. The conference is chaired by Dr Russ Hunter, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK). The final talk will be followed by a discussion with the conference [...]
KURJA POLT 7: IN RATIONS (»NA OBROKE«) KURJA POLT Genre Film Festival returns! But served in rations… When we were forced to cancel the festival in mid-March, our 7th edition – originally planned for April 14 to 19 – was ready to go. Our programme leaflets were fresh from the printers, our [...]
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WRITING YOUR FIRST SHORT HORROR FILM Have you always had a secret desire to write your own short film – but don’t know where to start? In this interactive and supportive workshop, you will learn how to create stories, imagine new characters and how to plot and structure your ideas. By the end of [...]
POSSESSOR From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, Possessor is an arresting sci-fi thriller about elite, corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people’s bodies to execute high profile targets. But as she sinks deeper into her latest assignment Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to [...]
ALIEN ON STAGE A very amateur dramatics group led by Dorset Bus Drivers spent a year creating a serious stage adaptation of Ridley Scott's cult classic sci-fi horror film Alien. Their village-hall show is a crushing flop; it seems their hard work was for nothing, but fate gives them a second chance to perform [...]
BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES Kato owns a small café in front of Kyoto's Nijo Station. One night he returns to his small abode above the café and just when he is about to play his guitar, another Kato appears on his TV screen and says: "Hey, I'm you. Two minutes in the [...]
DINNER IN AMERICA An on-the-lam punk rocker (Kyle Gallner) and a young woman (Emily Skeggs) obsessed with his band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest. Adam Rehmeier's Dinner in America is a proper, old-school American indie. It's smart, without being pretentious. Funny, without trying [...]
FILMS A-Z DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL CATALOGUE 2021 #SHAKESPEARESSHITSTORM Lloyd Kaufman, USA, 2020, 94’ 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 this irreverent musical adaptation of The Tempest. Shakespeare [...]
CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI After a short historical exposition, a 77-minute sequence unfolds in which master martial-arts choreographer, actor and stuntman Tak Sakaguchi in the role of legendary ronin Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) takes on an endless string of opponents – in real time and one single take! Helmed by Kingdom's action director Yûji Shimomura and [...]
