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Sections of 54th KVIFF

Archive of 54th KVIFF

Mystify Michael Hutchence Mystify Michael Hutchence / Mystify Michael Hutchence
Directed by: Richard Lowenstein
Australia, 2019, 108 min

A documentary journey into the complicated inner world of Michael Hutchence, the charismatic frontman of the Australian band INXS, whose popularity peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Director Richard Lowenstein elegantly combines home movies and news reports with concert footage and interviews with friends, colleagues, and former girlfriends – the only ones to whom the famous singer revealed his true self.
Old-Timers Staříci / Staříci
Directed by: Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, 2019, 85 min

Vlasta and Tonda don’t have much longer to live but they do have one more important task ahead of them – to find and kill the communist prosecutor who sent them to prison in the 1950s. An unusual road movie about two former political prisoners who fight for justice despite every obstacle.
The True Adventures of Wolfboy Podivuhodná dobrodružství Paula Harkera / The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Directed by: Martin Krejčí
USA, 2019, 88 min

Paul, the protagonist of Martin Krejčí’s eagerly anticipated feature debut, is growing up with his father. Making friends is practically impossible because he looks drastically different from his peers: he has the condition known as congenital hypertrichosis, meaning that he suffers from an abnormal amount of hair growth all over his face and body. On his thirteenth birthday, Paul decides to seek out his mother in order to get answers to unasked questions.