Kurja polt Genre Film Festival

Contact

Kurja polt, festival horror filma

Trubarjeva 22, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://kurjapolt.org

Phone386 (0) 41 284 327

Organised byDruštvo za širjenje filmske kulture Kurja polt

Frequencyannual

Festival dates16.4.2016 - 19.4.2016

The Kurja polt Horror Film Festival is a very special, artistically ambitious film festival that reflects, unearths and puts forward particularly worthy pieces of – very liberally understood – horror genre cinema. It presents them either through retrospectives, which actually feature as the main part of the programme, or through a smaller selection of contemporary films.

The festival, its name meaning 'goosebumps', was established in 2014 and is taking place at Slovenian Cinematheque and Kinodvor Cinema.

Film programme

The stated motto of the festival is 'cults, classics and genre-benders'. Especially the section of contemporary films very firmly follows genre-bending approach, and the chosen films are of a very diverse nature, and can also include Tollywood historic blockbusters. Some of them are Child of God (James Franco, 2013), Aleluja Alléluia (Fabrice du Welz, 2013), What We Do in the Shadows (Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement, 2014), Bahubali: The Beginning (S. S. Rajamouli, 2015), Demon (Marcin Wrona, 2015,), Bone Tomahawk(S. Craig Zahler, 2015)

The retrospectives are either thematically or author focused. There was the 'Urban versus rural' selection (from Boorman's Deliverance to Italian cannibal exploitation), a presentation of the ouvre of the cult Italian italo-horror direcotor Mario Bava (his son, also a director, was that year's guest speaker), and – in 2016 – the trope of the final girl (a concept taken from the work of the theorist Carol J. Clover), which pays tribute to prominent female figures and roles. Examples of this theme are I Spit on Your Grave (Meir Zarchi, 1978) and Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977).

In collaboration with Kraken Film Society,

- a hommage to the world-famous Swiss artist and visionary surrealist H. R. Giger, author of the Academy Award-winning design for Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Alien and Jodorowsky’s Dune, - Belinda Sallin’s intimate and insightful documentary feature Dark Star – HR Giger’s World (Dark Star – HR Gigers Welt, 2014) will accompany - Giger’s Universe (Das Universum Giger), a precious selection of short films (rarely screened shorts and music videos directed by Giger) curated by Laura Walde and John Canciani of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur,

Accompanying programme

- Comic book workshop and film plakat - Peter Kalinski (Cosmic/Glitch), dark topics - Fumetti dell’orrore: od Dylan Doga do Lucifere - a lecture by Pia Nikolič (Zavod Stripolis). - RAZSTAVA - Iz kinotečne zbirke: žanrski plakat - delavnica filmske kritike, delavnica avdiovizualne postprodukcije, razstava plakatov, predavanje

See also

• Slovenian Cinematheque
• Kinodvor Cinema
• Kraken Film Society
• Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival

External links

• Kurja polt Horror Film Festival website