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Davinia Hamilton - reading, interview, Q&A
2023-05-27 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Paris) | Kixott, 169 Triq Il-Kbira •, • Mosta, Malta
Davinia Hamilton
Reading, interview, Q & A
Fresh from the raving success of “Blanket Ban” at the Southwark Playhouse in London, Davinia Hamilton will join us at Kixott to share her thoughts, poetry, and the opening chapter of a forthcoming novel.
“i cannot speak it but it comes”, a long poem exploring grief, home, weather, and endings, was published as an Ede Chapbook in December ’22.
Davinia is a recent graduate of the Faber Academy’s Writing a Novel programme, under the tutelage of Nikesh Shukla. Her poems and short stories have been published widely in magazines and journals.

Cover photo: Richard Seymour

Giuseppe Ruffo - Neapolitan Trilogy
2023-05-25 19:00 - 21:00
Neapolitan Trilogy
thoughtless tales

by Giuseppe Ruffo
Magmata edizioni
cover Maiko Kikuchi
projection drawings by Salvatore Garzillo, Raffaele Scarienzo
soundscape Roberto Pugliese, Paolo Termini
You are invited to the book presentation by Italian author Giuseppe Ruffo “Trilogia Napoletana” Magmata edizioni.
The book is divided into three periods: The Bile of Naples, The Earthquakes, Naples Horror.
“Giuseppe Ruffo’s short stories return a narrative of the city of Naples that we can translate to any other metropolis.
As the author traverses the city slowly, changing pace, he manages to capture nuances that would otherwise be lost in the frenetic, superficial pace of everyday life and forces us readers to slow down as well.
In the first part of the Ruffo Trilogy he describes to us men who come from afar, dark stories. The stories are an attempt to answer some of the questions he poses: are immigrants happy in our city ? What do they think of us ? And of Naples ?… In the second part a visceral writing, from the bottom, which returns the humus of an era, that of the post-earthquake of November 23, 1980 … In the third part the author in a sci-fi, grotesque key tells the Naples of clichés.”
During the presentation of the book, the writer Giuseppe Ruffo is scheduled to participate with the reading of some stories, which will be accompanied by a sound environment, curated by musicians: Paolo Termini and Roberto Pugliese. Also planned is a projection of drawings in reference to the stories written by the author, by artists Raffaele Scarienzo and Salvatore Garzillo.

COLOMBIAN FILM NIGHTS - 24th and 26th May 2023
2023-05-24 18:00 - 22:00
Kixott is hosting two film evenings by Silent Art Bogota in collaboration with Malta Cooperative Federation and Cooperativa Coocreatica on the 24th & 26th May. 🇨🇴
Join us for screenings, a talk & discussion with filmmakers from Bogota on indie cinema.
All films are in Spanish with English subtitles.
See you there 🪡

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Kixott Movie Nights: Heavenly Creatures
2023-04-26 20:00 - 21:45
Before he became the architect of the seminal fantasy franchise of our time (though crucially, AFTER his foray into gloriously schlocky DIY horror), Peter Jackson gifted both Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey with their feature film debuts with Heavenly Creatures.
By turns beautiful and unsettling, what is ostensibly a ‘true crime’ story doubles up as a meditation on coming-of-age and female friendship, co-written with Jackson’s partner and frequent collaborator Fran Walsh.
Winslet’s skyrocketing career needs no introduction, of course, and Lynskey’s own renaissance in the public eye post-Yellojackets has also been inspiring to observe. But the seeds of their creative talents — and of pretty much everyone involved in this unique tonal mix of a movie — can be found here.
So grab a drink and loosen yourself up for a journey rife with shocks, giggles and tears… just remember there will be plenty more where those came from should you need them.

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Kixott Movie Nights: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
2023-04-19 20:00 - 22:15
One of the signature works of acclaimed German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder – which makes it one of the landmark works of European cinema by proxy – The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) takes place in a single room, but packs a strong emotional whallop for it.
It’s no surprise that it’s gone on to inspire a varied assortment of filmmakers with an equally uncompromising vision – from Peter Strickland to Olivier Assayas and Francois Ozon, who paid explicit homage to this masterpiece with the recent ‘Peter von Kant’.
So grab a drink and cocoon yourself in this unconventional play of neuroses!
Year: 1972
Starring: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake

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Kixott Movie Nights: Go
2023-04-12 20:00 - 22:00
“Life begins at 3am,” the tagline reads. It also reads “from the director of Swingers”, who soon also became the director of The Bourne Identity.
But while Go most emphatically does NOT track the journey of an amnesiac super-spy, Doug Liman’s hyper-kinetic style is very much in evidence here, where ‘one wild night’ is seen from the point of view of a variety of colourful characters, each embodied by some of Hollywood’s most magnetic of character actors.
Bursting with hyperactive energy and acidic inventiveness, this darkly comedic romp is probably the best of the ‘post-Tarantino’ American indies.
Grab a drink and get ready to party like it’s 1999!

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Kixott Movie Nights: Fellini Satyricon
2023-04-05 20:00 - 22:00
It’s a springtime midweek and you’re sat there thinking, “what I really need right now is to sit back at my favourite Mosta cultural centre to enjoy an adaptation of a chaotic, erotically-charged ancient Roman novel by one of history’s greatest filmmakers”.
Well, you’re in luck, because Kixott is not afraid to showcase the very best for the very best people, even when said ‘best’ refuses to paper over the fragmented nature of its source material with movie-friendly narrative padding.
Culled from antiquity but *very* much “of its time” – aka, 1969 – this is a woozy and boozy trip down decadence lane. One that you’re unlikely forget, even if soused with some Kixott’s signature cocktails

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Kixott Movie Nights: The Triplets of Belleville
2023-03-29 20:00 - 22:00
Oozing charm and riotous imagination in each of its lusciously animated frames, Sylvain Chomet’s animated adventure casts a spell that will have you humming and buzzing long after the credits have rolled.
The jazzy, rollicking adventure is largely free of dialogue but rich in unforgettable, quirky incident, as an elderly lady presses on to rescue her cyclist grandson from the clutches of the French mafia, aided along by her obese dog Bruno (who secured the film its ‘Palm Dog’ award at the Cannes Film Festival) and the titular triplets – dance hall singers from the Fredasterian heyday.

Few films would be as conducive to the Kixott vibe as this one, which is all the more reason to come over and enjoy it while spiced with some of our signature concoctions.
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Italian Bookclub
2023-03-23 18:30 - 20:30
Italian bookclub by Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta at Kixott, books from Mallia & D’Amato Booksellers!
Per maggiori informazioni: iiclavalletta@esteri.it
Istituto Italiano di Cultura La Valletta
https://linktr.ee/iiclavalletta

Kixott Movie Nights: Talk to her
2023-03-22 20:00 - 22:00
Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar’s sprint across the international cinema landscape remains undimmed, and he continues to rush through the firmament with the kind of bold, brash energy that characterises his most beloved works.
There are some standouts among his oeuvre, though, and Talk to Her is one of them.
Weaponising Almodóvar’s expert manipulation of complex, intertwined narratives made compelling and legible through an astute use of the language of melodrama, it tells a story of intersection obsessions that Hitchcock could have made, if only he had something resembling a fully-functioning human soul.
Grab your favourite potion and head on upstairs to let it all out: you may need some more after it’s all done, but only because it’ll remind you that life — for all its compounded pain — also comes with large dollops of beauty.

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Kixott Movie Nights: To Die For
2023-03-15 20:00 - 21:45
It’s a good thing that celebrity culture was eradicated from this earth entirely soon after this darkly satirical cult classic made its way to the multiplexes back in 1995.
It’s not like what used to be ‘limited’ to merely TV and print magazines has now spilled over onto palm-portable little machines that help us to not only mainline celebrity news and gossip, but to have our own stab at it.
Sure, Gus van Sant remains a seminal filmmaker and To Die For will continue to be seen as a fine example of the kind of smart, incisive storytelling this popular-AND-acclaimed artist has become known for. Nicole Kidman makes for a ravishing femme fatale any day of the week, and seeing a super-young Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon and Casey Affleck will add to its curiosity factor.
So it’s a shame that this story of a woman who will literally do anything — and anyONE — for her stab at fame has sadly lost all relevance nowadays. But alas, those who pay no attention to history are doomed to repeat it, and all that.
Grab a stiff drink from the bar and prime your instincts for some guilty pleasures… because this evil is all the more blissful for being so readily recognisable.

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Kixott Movie Nights: Le Samouraï
2023-03-08 20:00 - 21:45
You may be cool, but you sure as hell ain’t Alain Delon-at-his-peak cool.
That’s just something you’ll have to deal with for the rest of your life, so you may as well start processing now.
A key part of that process would begin with sitting down to watch Le Samouraï, one of the seminal collaborations between Delon and director Jean-Pierre Melville.
It’s a European neo-noir of such slick quality that it has gone on to influence the likes to Walter Hill, John Woo, Jim Jarmusch and Nicolas Winding Refn, along with countless others.
Like any classic, despite emerging from a very specific historical context, its core still thrums with an unsurpassed stylistic power, and it remains a delight to sit through to this day.

Kixott Movie Nights: Night Owl - A Seoul Stories Short Film
2023-02-22 19:30 - 20:30
A Maltese expat spends his last night in Seoul meeting an old fling, a couple of friends and a mysterious woman he keeps bumping into throughout the night. He is uncertain about his future back in Malta, but these encounters will force him to take a crucial decision – will he stay in Seoul or take his flight back to Malta?
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Franco Rizzo.
* Donations welcome *

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Kixott Movie Nights: Flawless
2023-02-15 20:30 - 22:30
Love him or loathe him, the late Joel Schumacher’s legacy as a master of the camp spectacle is hard to deny. He may have squandered a plethora of goodwill with the misjudged atrocities that were Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, but this prolific hit-churner also gifted us with The Lost Boys, Falling Down, Phone Booth…
Among his pile-up of hit-and-miss crowd-pleasers, one will find submerged a diamond in the rough which now serves to eulogise two cinematic geniuses.
Flawless stars the equally missed Philip Seymour Hoffman in a crime-comedy from that hallowed year of 1999, which co-stars none other than Robert De Niro and, refreshingly, introduces us to a transgender protagonist portrayed with verve, wit, and no hint of patronising sentimentality.
Sure, it’s still representationally un-ideal, but then again, it’s Seymour Hoffman we’re talking about here.

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Kixott Movie Nights: Run Lola Run
2023-02-08 20:30 - 22:00
When a certain fellow by the name of Harvey Weinstein discovered that his company, Miramax, had failed to acquire the American distribution rights for Run Lola Run, the German breakout hit on everyone’s tongue in 1998, he was understandably furious.
Less understandably, perhaps, he reacted by throwing a lit cigarette in the face of the poor junior exec responsible for the deal falling through.
That exec was Jason Blum, whose ascent seems to be inversely proportional to Weinstein’s deserved downfall.
But it’s a wound searing enough to deserve recounting.
The film in question, we’re happy to report, has lost none of its sting either. Both a time-capsule of that late-90s indie spirit and so brisk and simple to be timelessly enjoyable, this is a cinematic experience for whom the term ‘hi-octane’ appears to have been invented.

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Kixott Movie Nights: Office Space
2023-01-25 20:30 - 22:00
Work sucks, we know.
Mike Judge’s cult classic comedy-cum-satire of the lower rungs of corporate existence may feel like an escapist utopia now that we’ve lived through multiple recessions and a pandemic since it’s arrival on the scene in 1999.
A decent-sized cubicle and a steady paycheck? Sign me up!
Still, a man doesn’t live on bread alone, and given that we’re all broke and hungover ‘cos it’s January, this will still go down a treat.
Not least because one of the movie’s most iconic set pieces remains evergreen… as printers are no less temperamental now than they were two decades ago.
So show up, grab a drink and head on upstairs — forget about the boss and the spreadsheet due tomorrow, and *feel* the workplace solidarity wash over you!

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Kixott Movie Nights: Zardoz
2023-01-11 20:00 - 21:45
It’s time get ready.

And by get ready, we mean that the gentlemen among you should make like Sean Connery and put on the trademark red mankini he sports in this gonzo sci-fi classic from the inspired master of the vintage Hollywood epic, John Boorman.

Set in 2293 and NOT 2023 as a popular meme would have you believe (but why let that stop us), Zardoz opens with a giant stone mouth ejecting firearms while exclaiming that “the gun is good, the penis is evil.”

Which is pretty much all you need to know before taking the plunge into this wacky dystopian spectacle, which you could consider as a gloriously rank palate cleanser now that the Way of Water has washed up on the big screen…

And speaking of palates, this one will go down a treat after you’ve put a few trademark drinks in you.

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Ede Chapbooks 1-6 - Collective launch & readings
2022-12-30 19:00 - 23:30
Ede Chapbooks 1-6 – Collective launch & readings
Kullana ġdida ta’ chapbooks legati bl-idejn, b’kitba u arti friska u kontemporanja, minn awturi u artisti stabbiliti u emerġenti. Iċ-chapbooks huma magħmulin b’karta ta’ kwalità għolja u li tirrispetta l-ambjent, maħluqa mill-alki, miż-żebbuġ, mil-lewż u minn materji primi naturali oħra.
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A new collection of hand-bound chapbooks, showcasing fresh contemporary writing and artwork, by established and upcoming authors and artists. Made with high-quality, eco-friendly paper created from algae, olive pomace, almond and other natural raw materials.
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001 – Leanne Ellul – Il-manifest tas-siġar
002 – Antoine Cassar – Silan
003 – Davinia Hamilton – i cannot speak it but it comes
004 – Nadia Mifsud – meta tinfetaq il-folla
005 – Rebecca Bonaci – Drawings
006 – Sam Alekksandra – politics of touch

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He(a)rding CATS book launch
2022-12-21 19:00 - 23:00
Join us for the launch of our Playbook for He(a)rding CATS!
After numerous roundtable sessions with a variety of participants working in the creative sector, we present you with this publication, describing a number of real concerns that make for an insightful reframing of the fabric in which we, as creators, operate.
This project is supported by Arts Council Malta
He(a)rding CATS website
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Kixott Music Night: Ella Puci
2022-12-16 20:00 - 22:00
Join us for Kixott’s VERY FIRST live music event!

Singer-songwriter Ella Puci will be playing a handful of original tracks, along with some RnB, Neosoul and Jazz-inspired sounds.

Grab your favourite cocktail from the bar and head on up to experience a Kixott first in style!

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Kixott Movie Nights: Stalking Chernobyl (MALTA PREMIERE)
2022-12-14 20:30 - 22:30
* EXCLUSIVE Malta Premiere *
STALKING CHERNOBYL: exploration after apocalypse, a documentary from Cultures of Resistance Films, examines the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine. Three decades after the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster, wildlife has returned in the absence of human settlements. Meanwhile, illegal hiking adventurers known as “stalkers,” extreme sports aficionados, artists, and tour companies have begun to explore anew the ghostly, post-apocalyptic landscape.
The documentary is a must-see for anyone interested in environmental politics, human energy consumption, policy-making in the tourism industry, and bizarre, thought-provoking stories.

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Kixott Movie Nights: The General (on FILM!)
2022-12-07 20:00 - 22:00
Courtesy of its very own in-house film collector — and all-round gent — Malcolm Demicoli, Kixott is proud to present a bona fide classic of the silent era… on FILM, as the gods (once) intended!
Buster Keaton’s 1926 silent action-adventure-comedy The General is considered by many to be a shining jewel of the genre, overcoming its initially frosty reception to become a critical darling, hailed as a comic masterpiece, and among the most beautifully executed examples of the form.
So grab a drink and take a trip through time with this propulsive, locomotive jolt of vintage cinema!

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Kixott Movie Nights: Barbarella (1968)
2022-11-30 20:00 - 22:00
The world is in a mess and all of our superheroes have been snatched up by CIA-loving, copaganda-enabling global corporations.
What are we to do?
One option would be: turn to Barbarella!
After all, while a gratuitous zero-gravity striptease performed by the legendary Jane Fonda may not halt the nuclear apocalypse or imminent ecological collapse, neither did it ever do anyone any harm.
Following our screening of the Wachowski’s red-hot queer noir debut Bound, we will continue to shameless ride the wave of high-level horniness back in time but forward into space, regaling you with another Dino De Laurentiis cult classic – Roger Vadim’s beloved adaptation of Jean Claude Forest’s comic book series, first released in 1968 and unsurpassed since (though many have tried).
Grab a drink (or three) and get ready to forget to take anything seriously over a couple of hours. Barbarella is on a serious mission, but she is not here to judge.

* DOORS OPEN AT 19:30, FILM STARTS AT 20:00 *

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Kixott Movie Nights: Bound
2022-11-23 20:00 - 22:00
Before the Wachowski siblings made The Matrix, they straight up gave the world an immersive and convincing queer neo-noir thriller which we thought was impossibly cooked up by two straight men (only for that assumption to be blown to smithereens).
Total legends Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon slip snugly and sexily into familiar crime thriller roles and take us on a ride that offers all the traditional, sleazy & steamy, pleasures of the genre but with an added crucial twist.
If there ever was a film to benefit from being shown at the coolest cocktail bar in town, this is it. And Kixott is, of course that bar… and always will be

Kixott Movie Nights: Clouds of Sils Maria
2022-11-09 19:30 - 22:00
Back when Kristen Stewart was still Twilight girl, French auteur Olivier Assayas snatched her up and made her a de facto muse, a collaboration that started with the beautiful, elliptical meditation on art and ageing — 2014’s Clouds of Sils Maria — and which continues to this day (see: Stewart’s cameo in Irma Vep 2022).
But beyond the cinephilic factoids – which this film in particular richly invites, it must be said – we’re showing you this little gem at Kixott as autumn slowly approaches – encroaching slowly upon us like its titular meteorological phenomenon.

*** DOORS OPEN AT 19:00; FILM STARTS AT 19:30 ***

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Kixoween BOOK SALE!
2022-10-23 10:00 - 18:00
Halloween’s approaching, but few things are more horrific than Malta’s endemic bookshop deficit.

Kixott will seek to assuage that wound this Sunday, with a selection of newly-donated second hand books unleashed at great prices while you browse before or after your family lunch, romantic date, or solitary hike across the nearby landscape.

Wherever you’re coming from and in whichever directions your literary inclinations lie, we’re sure you’ll be able to find a gift for yourself (or another!) without having to break the bank.

** Open from 10am until 6pm! Stay tuned for photos and other updates **

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Kixoween Movie Nights: Freaky
2022-10-19 19:30 - 21:30
We’ve taken you back in time to when horror first hit the screen, before making a glorious pit-stop at the decadent ’80s with The Hunger. Now, we’re showcasing the best at what Gen-Z horror has to offer with a bloodthirsty but hilarious (and oddly heartwarming) mashup whose original working title says it all: ‘Freaky Friday the 13th’.
Where director Christopher Landon’s previous horror comedy mashed the slasher genre with Groundhog Day, this one offers a cheeky dark twist on the body swap genre, as Vince Vaugh’s slasher villain trades flesh-prisons with Kathryn Newton’s put-upon teenager.
This one’s a pure thrill ride that magically balances out disparate elements in a sleek package of fun — both gore and laughs click into place perfectly to guarantee a hoot of a time.
So grab a drink and get ready to enjoy some of the wackiest fun the season has to offer!

*** DOORS OPEN AT 19:00; FILM STARTS AT 19:30 SHARP ***

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Kixoween Movie Nights: The Hunger
2022-10-12 19:30 - 21:30
Before he changed the world of blockbusters as we know it with Top Gun, Tony Scott made his blisteringly stylish and unashamedly sensual debut with this vampire love-triangle fantasia that wears its gothic bonafides firmly on its rigidly shoulder-padded sleeve.
(I mean, Bauhaus themselves appear in the opening scene, with Peter Murphy bellowing out Bela Lugosi’s Dead straight at the audience)
Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie channel the sexiest possible version of the, “My girlfriend and I saw you from across the bar and were really digging your vibe. Can we buy you a drink?” lifestyle as they inveigle the fatally curious scientist Sarah (Susan Sarandon) into their thrall.
Yes, it’s totally style over substance. But by the gods… what style!
So pick a drink, head on upstairs and submit to the gorgeously rendered guilty pleasures that are about to unspool before you.

Kixoween Movie Nights: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
2022-10-05 20:30 - 22:30
Nothing like a German Expressionist masterwork to kick off the spooky season… and on film, no less!
Kixott is proud (and super, super happy) to present The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, on glorious film reels as god (once) intended, courtesy of our own in-house silent film collector Malcolm Demicoli.
Come experience what Roger Ebert called “the first true horror film”, as Robert Weine’s 1920 classic silent feature takes you down a dark psychic corrior that has gone on to influence the likes of David Bowie, Tim Burton and many, many others.
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! Ahead of the main event, Malcolm will also be regaling us with two short — and equally chilling — film from the silent era: Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923, dir. Wallace Worsley; 8 mins) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920, dir. John S. Robertson; 8 mins).
So snuggle up with your favourite Kixott cocktail for a haunted house ride that has well and truly stood the test of time!
(And keep your eyes peeled for similarly scary film screenings at Kixott in the coming weeks)
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Kixott Movie Nights: Bande à part
2022-09-21 21:00 - 22:30
It’s only apt.
Not that the late, great cinematic iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard ever made much of meal of propriety, mind.
But given the recent passing of the shining beacon of the Frencn New Wave, we only thought it appropriate to regale you with a screening of one of his most joyous and beloved features.
Have our barmen fix you only your very favourite drink and walk on upstairs, so you may toast the Master in true style — which was the only way to be for him.

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