Chronic Youth Film Festival 2024
Chronic Youth Film Festival 2024 presents OUT OF ORDER: A series of films about misdemeanours and transgressions.
Disruptive, playful and thoughtful, this year’s festival, curated by Barbican Young Film Programmers 2023/24 cohort, showcases a range of films from around the world that resist and reshape the life around us.
From messy encounters to lyrical dreamscapes, the festival presents four features and a programme of shorts over the last weekend of April.
Programme Notes
The festival opens with Gaston Kaboré’s Zan Boko, a fierce critique of rampant urbanisation and media censorship in 1980s Burkina Faso.
Fox Maxy’s kaleidoscopic Gush, made entirely from the filmmaker’s personal archive, is followed by Anhell69, a film that weaves fiction and documentary into a rumination on grief, friendship and sexuality in present day Colombia.
A programme of genre-bending shorts from emerging and established filmmakers opens Sunday.
To close the festival, previously only accessible via VHS and pirated copies, we are excited to present the London Premiere of the new 4K restoration of Nowhere, Gregg Araki’s 1997 cult film about disaffected youth in LA.
