Philippine underground filmmaker and punk poet Khavn returns to the megacity of Manila to show us the lurid bleak face of his hometown in this singular, hallucinatory and ultraviolent saga – the only possible answer to the chaos of violence and perversion of lawlessness in the land of Duterte. A movie not only about, but from the slums of Manila. An uncompromising vision of a radically engaged cinema.
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Dahomey Dahomey
Mati Diop
Sunday, 24. 11. 2024 / 19:30 / Main Hall
In her beguiling work of speculative documentary the young French-Senegalese filmmaker charts the repatriation of stolen artefacts to Benin, interrogating colonial legacies, ancestry and the weight of history.
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Good One Good One
India Donaldson
Sunday, 24. 11. 2024 / 21:10 / Main Hall
17-year-old Sam goes on a camping trip with her father and his best friend. The two men josh and joke as they hike, stressing about their careers and cracking dirty jokes. Sam mostly puts up with it – until one of them crosses the line.
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Julie Keeps Quiet Julie zwijgt
Leonardo van Dijl
Monday, 25. 11. 2024 / 16:00 / Main Hall
Belgian tennis prodigy Tessa Van den Broeck makes her screen debut in this story about a talented athlete who decides to keep silent after her coach is accused of misconduct.