Alexe Poukine’s poised fiction debut transforms a tale of social struggle into a transgressive study of female endurance, blurring the lines between choice and necessity. Kika is no victim, but a ...

Necessity is the mother of reinvention in Kika. The first feature-length narrative from French-born, Belgium-based filmmaker Alexe Puokine follows a young social worker who takes desperate measures to ...

Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then ...