As it celebrates its third year of screening movies, Neo Kino A.D. has announced an event in a new venue. On July 24th at 20:30, doors will open for its first showcase at De Nieuwe Anita.
Federico Petrini is an Italian-Brazilian who has been living in Amsterdam for the past five years. In his own words, he is “an actor, editor and a huge film enthusiast” – and since June 2022, he has been hosting a label of events called Neo Kino A.D., screening forgotten or overlooked cult movies to a growing audience of loyal revellers.
On July 24th 2025, the label is back on the big screen – with a new cult movie, to surprise and delight audiences brave enough to attend. Hosted at Amsterdam‘s De Nieuwe Anita, doors will open at 20:30, before the label’s latest bonkers, blood-soaked extravaganza gets underway at 21:00.
In a release announcing the event, Petrini said, “We’ll showcase a movie that represents the power of independent cinema, at its most kickass potential. A real tour de force of hyper-kinetic sequences that blends genres with full-crazy energy.”
The idea that we haven’t seen “full-crazy” until now bodes very well for whatever underappreciated B-movie Neo Kino A.D. has found this time!
Versus (2000, directed by Ryûhei Kitamura)
In an isolated forest, a rendez-vous between an escaped prisoner and gangsters turns into an all-out battle to the death.
Unknown to them, their battleground is actually one of the 666 portals of resurrection and an occult presence is watching the events unfold, awaiting to strike…
Arriving in the film festival circuit like a sudden thunder, Versus embodies the spirit of Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste, but with the “edginess” and visual aesthetics of the 2000’s (leather trench coats, dual-wielding pistol anti-hero etc), alongside a style of hyper-kinetic action sequences that was previously unseen in Japanese cinema.
The crazy blend of genres made sure that Versus took over the cult cinema world by storm and was instrumental in building Ryûhei Kitamura’s presence in Western cinema, where he’s best remembered for the Clive Barker adaptation The Midnight Meat Train (2008).
For more information, interested viewers can also sign up for the mailing list: neokinoad@gmail.com.
