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☆☆☆☆ This is a gloriously odd film, and has a really unabashed feel about it – which makes it inadvertently feel real and true, and even more haunting. The landscape is laid out from the start, as we meet two scrappily dressed men in frozen conditions, who are throwing a dead body, found rotting on a wintry pavement, into the back of an already-full van. Set in a near future, in an Europe that is a pale imitation of its past, this is a scary-looking premonition of a broken world. We then are launched into the dreamlike and surreal atmosphere that pervades throughout....

Share with: Battleship grey buildings, skies and uniforms overwhelm the opening minutes of Undergods as two men go about their job of collecting bodies in a destitute landscape of hollowed out abodes and apartments. Striking up a conversation the film shifts to a couple in a plain flat presumably not too far away from the aforementioned ‘dead zone’. It’s a smooth segue (as they all are) in this very original and disturbing debut feature from Chino Moya. Ruth (Hayley Carmichael) and Ron (Michael Gould) are called on by Harry (Ned Dennehy) who says he can’t get into his flat on anothe...

Undergods begins with a prologue set in a filthy, post-apocalyptic landscape of Soviet-style tower blocks, being scavenged by Z (Géza Röhrig) and K (Johann Myers). After dumping another corpse in the back of their truck, K confesses to a recurring dream about a pale-faced man – a “ghost” – haunting an empty apartment, “somewhere far, far away from this dump”. This is Ron (Michael Gould), protagonist of the next story, and apparently the only tenant in a high-spec development in the last stages of completion – could it be one of the post-apocalyptic blo...

'Undergods' Review: Chino Moya's Striking Vision of an Upside-Down Future 'Undergods' Review: Chino Moya's Striking Vision of an Upside-Down Future This visionary debut (from the director of St. Vincent's "Digital Witness" music video) combines elements of other dystopian classics into a parable about a power shift that leaves modern man in the cold. Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Chino Moya With: Géza Röhrig, Johann Myers, Ned Dennehy, Hayley Carmichael, Khalid Abdalla, Jan Bijvoet, Eric Godon, Tanya Reynolds, Tadhg Murphy, Katriina Unt, Sam Louwyck, Kate Dickie...

What's it about? An adaptation of the eponymous song by Renato Russo, a famous Brazilian singer and composer. After doing time in jail for killing the cop who murdered his father, Joao (Boliveira) heads for Brasilia where a distant cousin from Argentina helps him get a start as a carpenter's apprentice - as long as he sidelines as a drug dealer. He falls in love with Maria Lucia (Valverde), the daughter of a senator, who wants Joao to stop dealing, but his rival Jeremiah ensures that Joao has no hope but to stay in the game. Streaming after broadcast at SBS On Demand