Film News South Africa

X Fest Extreme Film Festival offers wide variety

The most outrageous film festival on South African soil claws its way to the half decade mark, when The X Fest Extreme Film Festival will be held at The Labia Theatre in Cape Town from 11-13 May 2012.

This year the big screen extremities pushing the boundaries of the expected norm in feature films, documentaries and short films expand even more to cover ground like freestyle moto-cross, zombies, martial arts legends, forest demons, Viking religious exploration, the porn industry, apocalypse, psychos, ghosts, terrorists, Japanese Harakiri, experimental, myth, fantasy and musical inclusions.

The films to be screened includes "Mind of the Demon - The Larry Linkogle Story". Narrated by Lemmy from the timeless rock band Motorhead, this award-winning documentary takes us through the rise and fall of fearless moto-cross luminary and madman Larry Linkogle. In "Put up your Dux" is Frank Dux the martial arts expert whose life was the basis for the popular movie "Bloodsport", starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. This documentary looks at Dux's life, hearing from the man himself.

An amazing discovery in Norway

A Canadian director tries to make it in Hollywood in the movie "Adventures in Pornoland". Struggling to find work, he takes a job in the porn industry to make a little money. He ends up more interested in the adult world than anybody thought he'd be, especially his fiancée. Quite possibly one of the most amazing discoveries of all time, the documentary "The Viking Serpent" reveals an ancient and incredible legacy from the great Norwegian landscape.

After the end of the world descends, a family of four desperately tries their best to survive the ever-present deadly dangers in "The Collapsed". After they flee into the forest, they soon discover that the other vicious and relentless survivors may be the least of their worries as the living nightmare closes in...

An anthology of short films from around the world, pushing the boundaries of what the viewer has come to expect, include "Miss Mishima", "Red Lines", "Veriga Mesa", "No Face", "Reign of Terror", "Obsession", "The Black Angel", "Onrusbarend", "Help Me" and "All Night in the Laundry".

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