Are you ready for an Afro-Futurist, retro-cyberpunk, Cold War virtual reality satire?  

Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019) is director Miguel Llansó’s most ambitious film to date. This bonkers vision drops you through layers of computer-generated alternate realities, in which Stalin-masked viruses and leather-panted messiahs clash with human fly monsters, Ethiopian kung-fu masters, and a flabby, pixelated Batman. Can the pizza-obsessed CIA Agent Gagano (Daniel Tadesse) save the newly formed Beta-Ethiopia from a malevolent cyberintelligence threatening to rip reality apart?  

Llansó’s punk skewering of power structures through the lens of media and cinema tropes reaches the height of hilarious absurdity in this one-of-a-kind satire. A Shaw Brothers epic one minute, a 70’s spy thriller the next, this manic and description-defying funhouse ride is like a treasure chest full of signals and signposts for navigating our media-saturated world. You’ve never seen anything quite like it.