Gross Encounters : Two Nights of Frights in collaboration with the Black Movie Film Festival
Gross Encounters is a workshop, festival and film screening club, developed by Reem Saleh and NoamToran. This collaborative and ever-expanding initiative engages with the politics of monstrosity and alienhood hands on, by honoring subaltern and counter-hegemonic sci-fi and horror producers, their fandoms, and their scholars.

This year we are delighted to announce that Gross Encounters has been given carte blanche to host a late-night double bill of screenings as part of the Black Movie Film Festival!

• 24 january, 9:30 til late, Black Movie Film Festival, Les Salons
  Join us as we celebrate Indonesian horror and exploitation cinema with a double feature screening of the documentary Suzzanna The Queen of Black Magic (2024) followed by the infamous Sundel Bolong (1981)! Indonesian film scholar and actress Fala Pratika will host a special Q&A and give a talk in between screenings.
• 25 janvier, à partir de 19h00 - Epace Dukat
  Join us as we celebrate Indonesian horror and exploitation cinema with a double feature screening of the documentary Suzzanna The Queen of Black Magic (2024) followed by the infamous Sundel Bolong (1981)! Indonesian film scholar and actress Fala Pratika will host a special Q&A and give a talk in between screenings.

Special Guests include The Monstrous Feminine Podcast (UK, USA), makeup and FX specialist Justine Landais (FR), video game and real-time media artists collective Distraction (FR,CH), as well as a live musical and reactive animation performance by Migu, and works by Collectif Kimera and designers from the Space and Communication department at HEAD-Genève.

Gross Encounters is generously supported by HEAD – Genève.