VIDEO GALLERY 2023

VIDEO GALLERY 2023 Kurja Polt 10: Trailer 10. KURJA POLT: Dr Austin Fisher on Sergio Corbucci, The Great Silence and the Italian Western 10. KURJA POLT: 2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned Q&A: Norbert Pfaffenbichler & Julia Witas 10. KURJA POLT: H4Z4RD Q&A: Jonas Govaerts 10. KURJA POLT: Dr Steve [...]

GALLERY 2023

GALLERY 2023 OVERTURE FESTIVAL OPENING AUSTIN FISHER - WESTERN POLITICS THE ORGY OF THE DAMNED MONA LISA AND H4Z4RD THE CULT FILM CONFERENCE FANZINE WORKSHOP

Guests 2023

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 cult Flemish TV series [...]

STAGING DEATH

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

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 [...]

FANZINE WORKSHOP 2023

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 [...]