MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE DU BI QUAN WANG DA PO XUE DI ZI Jimmy Wang Yu, Hong Kong/Taiwan, 1976, 35mm, 83', English language version + short film: STAGING DEATH Jan Soldat, Austria/Germany, 2022, DCP, 8’ Udo Kier dies his way through film history. He screams, falls, lies, is chopped up, shot or takes his [...]
THE TAKING Alexandre O. Philippe, USA, 2021, DCP, 76' The latest film from documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe (Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist) is a radical examination of Monument Valley’s representation in cinema and advertising since John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939). The Taking scrutinizes how a site located on sovereign Navajo [...]
THE GREAT SILENCE IL GRANDE SILENZIO Sergio Corbucci, Italy/France, 1968, DCP, 105', English subtitles Organized in cooperation with CSC – Cineteca Nazionale, the screening will include the presentation of the film's two alternative endings. Before the screening, Dr Austin Fisher from Bournemouth University (UK), a specialist in Italian Western and its political implications, will present [...]
APACHE DRUMS Hugo Fregonese, USA, 1951, DCP, 76' Images Courtesy of Park Circus/Universal. To become a respectable and appealing, western town Spanish Boot must rid itself of its prostitutes and its notorious gambler and gunslinger Sam. But a band of Apaches is descending upon them and Sam is the only one that can [...]
A LIFE ON THE FARM Oscar Harding, UK/USA, 2022, DCP, 75' When filmmaker Oscar Harding's grandfather passed away in the rural English county of Somerset, his family inherited an extraordinary video tape – a feature-length home movie from neighbour Charles Carson, which can best be described as "Monty Python meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". [...]
INEXORABLE Fabrice du Welz, Belgium/France, 2021, DCP, 98', English subtitles Inexorable, the latest creation of the Belgian master of arthouse genre fare Fabrice du Welz is a slow-burning thriller filled to the brim with tension, lies and desires. The premise is simple. There is a well-off family. There is the father, a successful novelist, [...]
MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON Ana Lily Amirpour, USA, 2021, DCP, 106' Mona Lisa Lee (Jeon Jong-seo), a mysterious young woman of Korean descent, escapes from a mental hospital with the help of her supernatural abilities. As she tries to navigate the outside world, she is taken under the wing of an exotic [...]
MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON Dean Fleischer Camp, USA, 2021, DCP, 90' Images Courtesy of Park Circus/Universal. Marcel is a tiny talking shell, living in a human Airbnb house with his grandma Connie. When a filmmaker moves into their house, he starts making a documentary about this wee whimsical soul with one [...]
WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD WIR KÖNNTEN GENAUSO GUT TOT SEIN Natalia Sinelnikova, Germany, 2022, DCP, 93′, English subtitles A high-rise at the edge of a forest houses a carefully curated community. When a dog disappears, Anna, who lives in the building with her teenage daughter, faces an absurd battle against an irrational [...]
SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING FUMER FAIT TOUSSER Quentin Dupieux, France, 2022, DCP, 80' Serving as the festival curtain raiser on March 28 at 20:30 at Kinodvor cinema, the screening of Smoking Causes Coughing will be followed by the opening of the 10 Years of Kurja Polt photo exhibition at Kinodvor Gallery. The newest [...]
