Fifteen films that you cannot miss if you go to the Sitges Festival
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'Censor', 'Titane', 'Veneciafrenia' or 'Stories to keep you awake' are some of the titles that will land this year in the fantastic film competition
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This Thursday will see the start of the long-awaited 54th edition of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, which will screen 269 film productions over eleven days. This year's event brings eleven international premieres, and is one of the most important events of the year for fans of fantasy and horror films on the big screen. Around the leitmotif of the inner monster, it brings together a billboard with prominent names such as Alex de la Iglesia, and some Cannes award-winning films. Here are fifteen essential films that you cannot miss if you go to the Festival.
1. Titan
A young man with a bruised face is discovered at an airport. He says his name is Adrien Legrand, a boy who disappeared 10 years ago. For his father, Vincent, this marks the end of a long nightmare and brings him home. Simultaneously, a series of horrific murders are taking place in the region. Titane, the brand new Palme d'Or at the last Cannes festival is here.
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2. The wasteland
Lucía and her son live far from society in a flat area where there is almost no life. The small family unit formed by mother and son rarely receives visitors, and their goal is to develop a quiet existence. At first they succeed, but the appearance of a mysterious and violent creature that begins to harass their small house will test the relationship that unites them.
3. The Passenger
A van carrying a man and three women hits a hiker who is walking in the dark on a secondary road. After putting her in her vehicle to take her to the nearest hospital, they begin to observe that she behaves strangely. The occupants of the old van soon understand that it is time to fight for her life and they have a clear rule: “don't sit next to her”.
4. Venicephrenia
Alex de la Iglesia inaugurates The Fear Collection label with a film about gentrification. Fed up with the tourism that fills the city, the inhabitants of Venice have a sinister plan to put an end to the foreign invasion they suffer year after year. A group of Spanish tourists oblivious to this imminent threat will see how, in a short time, their vacations turn into a fight for survival.
5. belle
Suzu is a shy teenager who lives in a mountain village with her father, but she has a virtual world called 'U' where she is Belle, a music icon with millions of fans. The separation between one universe and another will be compromised when she meets the Beast, a fascinating but terrifying figure. Mamoru Hosoda once again explores the interstice between the fantastic and the virtual, in a new animated gem presented at the last Cannes festival.
6. Stories to keep you awake
Directors Rodrigo Cortés, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Paco Plaza and Paula Ortiz reinterpret the legendary television series by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. The original episodes of The joke, The double, Freddy and The asphalt, are now reimagined by directors who grew up with Chicho's stories of cathode terror. The films will be screened in pairs. The series will be available on Amazon Prime Video and later on RTVE.
7. Last night in Soho
Psychological thriller by Edward Wright - which will also bring the musical documentary The Sparks Brothers to Sitges - where Eloise, a fashion student in London, begins to have very vivid dreams that transport her to the sixties and to Sandie's life, a young singer who wants to achieve fame. The visions soon turn into nightmares as the line between fact and fiction blurs, and Eloise and Sandy's lives merge.
8. Lamb
Maria and Ingvar live isolated with their flock of lambs on an island in Iceland. When they discover a mysterious newborn, they decide to raise him as their own child. The new life brings a lot of happiness to the couple, but nature has one last surprise in store for them. Lamb is a story about motherhood and the unpredictable force of nature, which earned her the award for originality at the last Cannes festival.
9.Visitor
Marga, in the middle of a crisis with her husband and full of doubts about her future, travels to an old house of her family. Shortly after being in it, she discovers a dimensional portal that communicates with another reality. In that parallel dimension, her other self warns her that something terrible is about to happen in her life if she doesn't make a certain decision.
10. Censor
Enid takes her job too seriously: she's a film censor, and sometimes she goes too far with the snip. Haunted by the disappearance of her sister years ago, her world is turned upside down when she discovers that a murder has taken place much like a scene she didn't censor. The director places the film in Thatcher's England and wonders about the aesthetic limits of violence.
11.Antlers
A mutilated body appears in an Oregon town. The sheriff attributes the crime to an animal, but her sister, an elementary school teacher, suspects that one of her students has something to do with it. As she investigates, she discovers that Lucas has a supernatural connection that could have fatal consequences.
12. Mona Lisa & the Blood Moon
The film that will open the festival, directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, is about a mysterious girl, possessing dangerous abilities, who manages to escape from the psychiatric hospital where she has been confined all her life. After her escape, she arrives on the streets of New Orleans, a place full of colorful characters who begin to cross her path. Those encounters will unleash a maelstrom of events with unexpected consequences.
13. Three
Juanjo Giménez arrives in Sitges with a film that investigates the essence of cinematographic sound. C. is a sound engineer who takes refuge at work to postpone the relationship with her ex-partner or her elderly mother. After turning in a paper with the audio out of sync, he begins to realize that he suffers from a rare condition: he hears everything out of sync, to the point of being able to hear the recent past.
14. Demonic
A scientist contacts the daughter of a serial killer to ask her to participate in the testing of an experimental technology. The goal is to enter the mind of her mother, who is currently in a coma, to communicate with her. But the experiment doesn't go as planned and ends up awakening the demons of the past in an unexpected and... supernatural way?
15.Bloodthirsty
Grey, an indie singer-songwriter, moves to a studio in the woods to record her second solo album. The recording process, directed by fashion producer Vaughn Daniels, is complicated when the young singer begins to have vivid nightmares where she turns into a bloodthirsty beast. Has Gray really become a monster, or is it just a psychological disorder?
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