OFFSCREEN ON TOUR | Offscreen
A selection of several films can be watched at different locations in our program "Offscreen - on tour"!
REVENGE
A stylistic tour-de-force wrapped in a bloody grindhouse packaging. Debuting french filmmaker Coralie Fargeat injects the hyperviolent rape & revenge subgenre with a healthy dose of feminism. Matilda Lutz plays the sexy Barbie stereotype reborn as a lady of vengeance; Kevin Janssens is the bad guy.
CINEKETJE
These short silent films for children have one theme in common: being different. How can you fit in this world if you feel as though you don't belong? How to overcome differences? Various characters, such as a schoolgirl, a giant, a mouse, a square, and a cupcake, show us how they deal with the subject. Their moving and funny stories encourage reflexion and discussion.
CRONOS
A mysterious device giving eternal life to its owner resurfaces after 400 years. But immortality has its price. This original, compelling revision of vampirism is the debut feature of the Mexican filmmaker who would go on to win international acclaim with “Pan's Labyrinth” and “The Shape of Water”.
MARTIN
The director of “Night of the Living Dead” has another, lesser-known classic to his name in this exceptional film about a troubled 17-year-old who believes he's a vampire. Romero considered this bold, downbeat deconstruction of the vampire myth to be one of his best films.
A GHOST STORY
A unique spectral tale in which Casey Affleck haunts his former house as a specter draped in a white sheet, watching passively while his bereaved partner (Rooney Mara) struggles with her loss. A moving meditation on love and sorrow, hailed by critics as one of the best films of 2017.
THE ROOM
This is it: the first concoction from a director with the ambition of Orson Welles and the talent of Ed Wood. The result is a “so bad it’s good” movie turned worldwide cult phenomenon à la Rocky Horror Picture Show. Bring your plastic spoons and pillows for this ultimate in guilty pleasures!
TOKYO VAMPIRE HOTEL
The theatrical cut of Sion Sono's nine-part mini-series for Amazon Prime Japan oozes with color, delirious spectacle, and tons of blood and gore. A clan of vampires lures humans into a hotel where they plan to set up a blood farm. Sardonic entertainment from the maker of “Suicide Club”.
A GHOST STORY
A unique spectral tale in which Casey Affleck haunts his former house as a specter draped in a white sheet, watching passively while his bereaved partner (Rooney Mara) struggles with her loss. A moving meditation on love and sorrow, hailed by critics as one of the best films of 2017.
NOVEMBER
A farmer's daughter falls in love with a young man from her village, a pagan place inhabited by werewolves, ancestral spirits, and the Black Death. Estonia's entry for the Oscars, beautifully filmed in black & white, is infused with the magic realism of such East European films as “Marketa Lazarova”.
SHORTSCREEN
For the annual Shortscreen program, Offscreen and website Kortfilm.be present a selection of recent short films that fit the Offscreen criteria: original, unusual, bizarre, and surprising. The films will be introduced by the filmmakers!
COONSKIN
In an innovative mix of freestyle animation and stylized live action, Ralph Bakshi employs blatant stereotypes
to force us to reflect on racism and corruption. Made in 1975, this provocative story about African-Americans is, unfortunately, still relevant.
FRITZ THE CAT
In 1972, the U.S. rating system gave this animated film an X-rating, for pornography. Yet it raked in 190 million dollars profit. The story, based on Robert Crumb's underground comic, is a death knell for 1960s ideals, with hope for a better future giving way to paranoia, cynicism, and violence.
THE NINE LIVES OF FRITZ THE CAT
Fritz the Cat may have lost one of his lives in the comics, but in his new movie, he has eight more lives left to go! While his wife screams at him, Fritz lights up a joint and reminiscences about what could have been.
THE VIOLENT PROFESSIONALS
Police inspector Giulio Caneparo (Luc Merenda) takes justice into his own hands to avenge the death of his boss, who was on the trail of a gang of bank robbers. All bets are off and anything goes in this indictment of Italian fascism and political chaos.
SHORTSCREEN
For the annual Shortscreen program, Offscreen and website Kortfilm.be present a selection of recent short films that fit the Offscreen criteria: original, unusual, bizarre, and surprising. The films will be introduced by the filmmakers!
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