Boyz in the Wood
A group of half-stoned teenagers find out they are being hunted in this crazy comedy full of bizarre plot twists.
87'
USA
IFFR 2020
Goody two shoes Kazuto wants to be an actor, yet an annoying affliction prevents this – he faints when he gets nervous. Every time things get tense, he squeezes his boob-shaped stress relief ball, usually to no avail.
Just as Kazuto seems condemned to sad mundanity, he encounters his brother for the first time in years. Hiroki works for an agency with actors who are hired to act as a friend or family member and he thinks Kazuto would be perfect. They get the tricky assignment of saving a family-run inn from a fraudulent sect. On the day the sect celebrates the 8,396,825,800th birthday of its god, everything reaches a crazed, confusing apotheosis with apparitions and litres of fake blood.
The personal mission of Ueda, director of the unexpected cult hit One Cut of the Dead, is "making films which will still be fun after 100 years", and he has more than succeeded with this charming loser epic. The fun is as blatant as the fake blood spurting from the fake actors. From the maker of the unexpected cult hit One Cut of the Dead.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
Rotterdam goes hardcore genre, with an eclectic mix of films that brashly bend, blend or respect conventions, each in their own distinctive way.
Read more about this programmeA group of half-stoned teenagers find out they are being hunted in this crazy comedy full of bizarre plot twists.
87'
USA
IFFR 2020
Korean thriller in which a mother is confronted with the secrets of a local fishing community as she searches for her missing son.
108'
South Korea
IFFR 2020
Zany road movie in which Mexico's political history is almost rewritten by two tripping stoners.
90'
Mexico
IFFR 2020