Spamflix, the specialised TVoD platform dedicated to out-of-the-ordinary, edgy and cult cinema, is introducing an enriched line-up for the end of the year. Starting on Thursday 5 December, viewers of Spamflix will have a chance to enjoy Bertrand Mandico’s debut feature, The Wild Boys [+leggi anche:
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Also, on the same date, US viewers of Spamflix will be able to watch another debut feature, Miguel Llansó’s (Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway [+leggi anche:
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One week later, UK viewers will be able to watch Suffering of Ninko by Japanese director Norihiro Niwatsukino, an erotic fantasy film about a devout and unusually handsome young Buddhist monk in Edo-period Japan, who is faced with a serious predicament: wherever he goes, women and some men find him sexually irresistible and follow him around like the Pied Piper’s rats. Finally, on 19 December, ten animated shorts by Latvian director Signe Baumane (Rocks in My Pockets [+leggi anche:
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Giving a glimpse of its 2020 releases, Spamflix has confirmed that six movies by Denis Côté will be available on the platform. The slate dedicated to the Quebecois auteur will begin with Drifting States, available from 26 December virtually worldwide. The film revolves around Christian, who, after committing a crime of compassion, flees from the law and starts his life anew in a small community 1,500 km north of Montreal. His story drifts along between fiction and reality.

Spamflix is co-financed by the Lisboa 2020 programme of the ERDF European Fund.