From underground and camp to B-movies and “so bad they’re actually good” films. In our CULT series, controversy is not avoided, censorship is playfully challenged, guilty pleasures are given a place, and nostalgia goes hand in hand with exploitation. Taboo-breaking for some and excessive for others, but one thing is certain: CULT leaves no one unmoved.

HIGHLIGHTS

Thirteen-year-old Alpha is going through a turbulent adolescence. She lives with her hardworking, single mother, but things truly reach a breaking point when Alpha unexpectedly comes home with a tattoo. Her mother immediately fears the worst: has Alpha contracted the mysterious virus everyone is terrified of, yet no one talks about, through a dirty needle? That fear becomes all too tangible when her heavily addicted uncle Amin suddenly shows up on their doorstep. In ALPHA, Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau (RAW, TITANE) explores themes of fear, loss, and coming of age in a claustrophobic, visually stunning family drama.

BOSCINEMA, the collaboration between De Cinema en Het Bos, presents Philippe Garrel’s LE RÉVÉLATEUR (1968) with a live soundtrack of the duo Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) and Réka Csiszér (VÍZ). A rare opportunity to experience a cult classic of the French underground as it may always have been meant to be seen: live, loud and in the dark.

On Halloween, we’re renaming Freaky Friday to Freaky Saturday for a one-off screening of two zombie films: George A. Romero’s horror classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and the surrealist cult favorite MESSIAH OF EVIL.