Klassiki Picks is our series of curated watchlists personally selected for our subscribers by celebrated filmmakers, writers, and actors. We’re delighted to welcome Peter Strickland to the hot seat for the latest edition. Peter is an acclaimed director whose work draws on his love of experimental and exploitation cinema and his desire to push at the boundaries of genre filmmaking. After a number of years living in Slovakia and Hungary, he burst onto the international stage in 2009 with his feature debut, the rape revenge drama Katalin Varga. Shot in Transylvania on a tiny, self-financed budget, the film screened in competition in Berlin, where it won a Silver Bear. Peter’s other features are Berberian Sound Studio (2012), a tribute to the Italian giallo film; the sado-masochistic romance The Duke of Burgundy (2014); the supernatural horror In Fabric (2018); and the art-comedy ensemble piece Flux Gourmet (2022). He has also directed the short Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) (2022) and co-directed the concert film Björk: Biophilia Live with Nick Fenton.

In this subscriber exclusive, Peter introduces his selection of five titles for Klassiki Picks that reflect his deep engagement with the cinema and history of Central Europe and Ukraine.

Available to Klassiki subscribers from 26 March – 23 April 2025.