OFFSCREENINGS | Offscreen
The Offscreenings program presents a fine selection of special, new and unreleased films, giving a platform to movies at the cutting edge of contemporary cinema. These films are noted for their artistic originality, unique vision and inventive approach to the medium and genre. Come and see the cult films of tomorrow.
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.
REVENGE - SECOND SCREENING
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.
KUSO
This psychedelic fever dream evokes Jodorowsky and “Eraserhead” in a stunning assault on the senses and a scatological fiesta for all the body cavities. Electro-rapper Flying Lotus (Steve Ellison) makes his feature debut in shocking, nauseating, hilarious and nonsensical style. An instant cult item.
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”.
REY
In 1860, a French lawyer and explorer dreamed of becoming the King of Patagonia... and realized his dream. How Chileans remember his story, though, is not how it happened. An award-winning reflection on colonialism in the tradition of “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Embrace of the Serpent”.
BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99
Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Udo Kier, and Don Johnson excel in this brutal, brilliantly-written action film by “Bone Tomahawk” writer-director S. Craig Zahler, in which an ex-boxer turned drug dealer lands in prison after a deal goes horribly wrong. Skull cracking B-movie entertainment.
THE ENDLESS
Linklater meets Lovecraft when two brothers who escaped the cult that raised them find themselves drawn back to it. The directing duo of “Resolution” and “Spring” prove once again how much can be accomplished on a small budget. Eerie sci-fi which overflows with originality and creativity.
ALL YOU CAN EAT BUDDHA
On holiday at an all-inclusive Caribbean resort, Mike meets a talking octopus and starts performing miracles. What begins as an Ulrich Seidl-like semi-realistic portrait of mass tourism erupts into an insane study of a collapsing civilization and the preaching of political and intestinal revolution.
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”.
HAGAZUSSA: A HEATHEN'S CURSE
This haunting, hypnotic study of witchcraft, superstition, sexuality, and madness in the 15th century Austrian Alps is reminiscent of Robert Eggers' “The Witch”, while offering an extraordinary and disturbing viewing experience which echoes the cinema of Tarkovski in its abstract and lyrical approach.
CANIBA
In 1981, Issei Sagawa murdered and cannibalized a Dutch student in Paris. Today, he lives with his brother in Japan. The makers of “Leviathan” film this new documentary in experimental style, in extreme close-up, to sketch an intimate, lurid, captivating portrait of a man consumed by his dark urge.
EUTHANIZER
The Finnish director describes his film about a 50-year-old black-market mercy killer of pets as “'Dirty Harry' with animals”. Wrapped in grungy 1970s B-movie packaging, this social satire about animal rights, suffering and death packs a powerful emotional punch.
A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN
In 2014, Billy Moore wrote a book about his incarceration in one of the world's most notorious prisons: Thailand's Klong Prem Prison, a hell on earth, where the inmates stage Muay Thai boxing matches. This vicious, realistic drama in the vein of “Midnight Express” hits the emotional bullseye.
GUTLAND
A fugitive thief seeks refuge in a small community in rural Luxembourg, hoping to find work there. But sinister secrets lurk behind everyday village life in this Belgian co-production, a fascinating debut feature. An uncanny film noir that gradually unfurls in mystery and dark fantasy.
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