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SITGES 2021

Un volcan de films de genre explose à Sitges

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- La 54e édition du festival entrera en éruption le 7 octobre, expulsant un magma horrifique composé de 269 titres, parmi lesquels une série rendant hommage à Chicho Ibáñez Serrador

Un volcan de films de genre explose à Sitges
Historias para no dormir: El doble de Rodrigo Sorogoyen

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At its 54th edition, the Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is presenting a white-hot programme consisting of 269 works, which will be on show from 7-17 October. The latest Spanish genre productions will get an airing at Sitges, including those by established directors such as Álex de la Iglesia (with Veneciafrenia [+lire aussi :
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) and Paco Plaza (with The Grandmother [+lire aussi :
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), as well as by other flagbearers from the country’s recent fantastical scene, like Historias para no dormir [+lire aussi :
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, the return of the legendary series originally created by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador some 50 years ago, this time directed by Paco Plaza himself, Rodrigo Cortés, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Paula Ortiz (see the news).

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The debut feature by Catalonian director David CasademuntEl páramo [+lire aussi :
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, will also enjoy its world premiere in the Official Fantastic Competition Section: toplined by Inma Cuesta and Roberto Álamo, it tells of the quiet life of a family who live cut off from society and who are visited by a terrifying creature that will put the ties that bind them to the ultimate test. Also included on the programme, as a special session, is the epic Everyone Will Burn, the second feature by David Hebrero, a saga about a mother’s quest for vengeance against the town that caused her to lose her son (see the news).

Other Spanish movies in the Official Fantastic Competition Section include the unsettling flick Out of Sync [+lire aussi :
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by Juanjo Giménez, starring Marta Nieto, and the world premiere of Visitor [+lire aussi :
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, the feature debut by Alberto Evangelio, starring Iria de Rio, Miquel Fernández, Jan Cornet and Sandra Cervera, about a marital crisis that turns into a fantastical thriller revolving around parallel realities. The Panorama Fantàstic strand will host two world premieres of Spanish films: the Galician movie Jacinto by Javi Camino, about a boy trapped in an adult’s body, and the horrifying road movie The Passenger [+lire aussi :
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 by Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González.

This edition of the festival will also be showing off the totally bonkers Titane [+lire aussi :
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: its director, Julia Ducournau, paid a visit to the gathering back in 2016 with Raw [+lire aussi :
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, which was crowned with three prizes. Norway’s Tommy Wirkola, the man behind Dead Snow [+lire aussi :
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Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters [+lire aussi :
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and What Happened to Monday? [+lire aussi :
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, is back with The Trip, a black comedy about a crisis-riddled married couple who decide to get away for a weekend in a cabin in the woods, hoping for a chance to start from scratch… just as soon as the other spouse is dead.

Away from the main core of the festival, there will be thematic offshoots and focuses on the means of expression in genre film, including new styles and mythologies stemming from more popular ones (such as in In the Earth [+lire aussi :
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) and nightmarish visions of motherhood (Son [+lire aussi :
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Lamb [+lire aussi :
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). Meanwhile, invoking the past or the mundanity of the day-to-day can lead to the breakdown of one’s inner circle (in She Will [+lire aussi :
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Inexorable [+lire aussi :
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Silent Night [+lire aussi :
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, New Zealand’s Coming Home in the Dark and Canada’s Violation), and other titles visualise reality under the scourge of the pandemic, either directly or allegorically (The Feast [+lire aussi :
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and the USA’s We Need to Do Something). On the other hand, while touring this year’s Official Section, we find variations on classical themes, such as childhood evil in The Innocents [+lire aussi :
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, cursed abodes in The Deep House [+lire aussi :
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, teenage angst in the US title Seance, cannibalism in Barbaque, lycanthropy in Eight for Silver [+lire aussi :
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, the classic slasher in Halloween Kills, and giallo in the aforementioned Veneciafrenia.

Information on all of the festival’s titles (which a single article would be insufficient to cover) and sections can be found on its website.

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