Horizons / Kika / Belgium, France 2025
Social worker Kika suddenly finds herself in a situation that she is used to seeing in her clients. After her partner’s sudden death, she ends up alone with her daughter, pregnant, and without money or a place to live. In a brief moment of hopelessness, she remembers one of her clients, who earned extra money selling used underwear. And so the young woman slowly and hesitatingly becomes part of a profession that couldn’t be farther removed from her original job. Nevertheless, a client is a client, regardless of whether you help them fill out a form or strike them with a long leather whip. Kika is a comedy that humanizes the world of (among other things) BDSM and erotic services in general while giving a voice to those who usually hide beneath the light of red lanterns.
Anna Kořínek
104 min / Color, DCP
Director Alexe Poukine
/ Screenplay Alexe Poukine, Thomas Van Zuylen
/ Dir. of Photography Colin Lévèque
/ Music Pierre Desprats
/ Sound Sabrina Calmels
/ Editor Agnes Bruckaert
/ Art Director Julie Irribarria
/ Producer Benoit Roland
/ Production Wrong Men
/ Coproduction Kidam
/ Cast Manon Clavel, Suzanne Elbaz, Makita Samba, Thomas Coumand
/ Sales Totem Films
Alexe Poukine. Filmography: Dormir, dormir dans les pierres (2014, doc.), That Which Does Not Kill (Sans frapper, 2019, doc.), Palma (2020, short), Who Cares? (Sauve qui peut, 2024, doc.), Kika (2025).
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5 rue de Charonne, 750 11, Paris
France
Phone: +33 685 769 063
E-mail: [email protected]
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