Five Flavors Festival: The Big Budd+ | Opening of the Replica and meeting with the director

TypeGreat Hall

Hour

19.11

|

5.30 pm |

THE POETICS OF SPIRITUALITY

Meeting with director Hsin-yao Huang after the screening

Radzodkieva works at the Buddha monument factory as a security guard on the night shift. His buddy Navel collects secondary raw materials during the day. In the evenings, they meet in the guardhouse: they devour junk food, throw crickets and, to kill boredom, watch footage from the car camera of the head of Radziwa. Then one night they come across something they definitely shouldn't see. This discovery will change their lives forever.

“The Great Buddha+” looks at spirituality and religion with irony and cheeky humor. In an Asian buddy-movie, two buddies fall into an addiction to voyeurism, and increasingly disturbing car camera footage creates the impression that reality is under the power of the omnipresent (divine) gaze. Transcendence, however, takes on an extremely cynical form here. Still unknown in Poland and Taiwan, Huang Hsin-yao's iconic black comedy mirrors a world filled with a sense of impunity and the logic of violence of late capitalism. Huang's debut turned out to be an unexpected hit, receiving as many as 11 Golden Horse Awards nominations in 2017 and winning in five categories. (Lukasz Mankowski)

THE GREAT BUDDHA+, dir. Hsin-yao Huang, Taiwan 2017, 102'

Language: Taiwanese with Polish and English subtitles

Tickets: 27 (normal), 25 (reduced), 22 (with Kinomana Card)

Venue: Sala Wielka

For whom: youth, adults