A young woman serves privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper.
The end of civilization has arrived. A Father and his Son are among the survivors. When the Father dies, the Son decides to undertake a journey along a river, in search of someone who can read his journal.
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
After a romantic evening in their secluded lake house, Emma (Megan Fox) awakens handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her husband’s twisted plan.
Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith Betsey refuses to eat, but loses no weight. In an agonising dilemma torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
A 16 year-old girl returns home from camp and learns that her mother has a new boyfriend, one she intends to marry. A man whose charm, intelligence and beauty make him look like he's not human at all.
Nell, Simon, and their boy Art are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
A night of unimaginable terror awaits twelve-year-old, Bobby, and his best friend, Kevin, when they are abducted on their way home from school.
Managing to escape his confines, Bobby navigates the dark halls, praying his presence goes unnoticed as he avoids his captor at every turn. Even worse is the arrival of another deranged stranger, whose mysterious arragement with the kidnapper may spell certain doom for Kevin.
With no means of calling for help and miles of dark country in every direction, Bobby embarks on a rescue mission, determined to get himself and Kevin out alive... or die trying.
A night of unimaginable terror awaits twelve-year-old, Bobby, and his best friend, Kevin, when they are abducted on their way home from school.
Managing to escape his confines, Bobby navigates the dark halls, praying his presence goes unnoticed as he avoids his captor at every turn. Even worse is the arrival of another deranged stranger, whose mysterious arragement with the kidnapper may spell certain doom for Kevin.
With no means of calling for help and miles of dark country in every direction, Bobby embarks on a rescue mission, determined to get himself and Kevin out alive... or die trying.
Ana se ve transportada a una onírica y peligrosa tierra en la que se alista en un ejército de chicas envueltas en una interminable y difícil guerra costera. Aunque consigue encontrar su fuerza en este emocionante mundo, se da cuenta de que no es la asesina que quieren que sea.
After defending his land against a powerful empire, soldier Van is taken into slavery and sent to the salt mines. One night, a pack of strange dogs attacks the mine and a mysterious disease begins to spread. Van meets a girl named Yuna, and as the only survivors of the plague, they embark on a journey together as father and daughter but with no blood ties.
17-year-old Paul likes strange things: stealth trails and abandoned buildings, whispered conversations and left-behind bags. Besides that, he seems to be a young man without qualities. His mysterious nature catches the eyes of his classmate Dala and his art-loving teacher Mr. Bulwer, both seemingly driven by hidden desires. Then a boy's dead body is discovered in the forest.
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.
The film follows cryptozookeepers through a richly-drawn hallucinatory world as they struggle to capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) and begin to wonder if they should display these rare beast in the confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown.
Irene is fifteen and lives in a juvenile correctional facility. She has just gotten pregnant and is ready to change her lifestyle thanks to Javier, one of the facility's educators, who offers her to live with him and his wife Adela in their secluded home in the woods so that she can be taken care of during her pregnancy. The only condition is that, in exchange, she must accept turning in the baby she is carrying once it is born. This deal will be compromised when Irene starts to feel like the life that's inside her is really hers.
A father searching for his missing son. A girl whose body is made of flesh and metal. In her new film, Julia Ducournau revisits something she had already explored in Raw: the updating of the new flesh, which confirms the French director as the true heir to David Cronenberg himself. Titane, the brand new Palme d'Or winner at the recent Cannes Film Festival, is here.
In a dystopia of undefined place and time, dominated by primitive technology, a group of people is being controlled by an omnipresent surveillance system. When one of them contracts a mysterious disease, out of fear to lose his job he tries to contact the Officials. Doubts arise about the structure he is working in. By questioning the system, he gets to know the depths of this structure which is darker than he thought.
A fertilizer used in a rich gated community becomes the source of a genetic mutation that transforms its residents into zombies. Can a teenager and his baby sister break free from the quarantined island before turning into grass?
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13 year old John discovers an unfinished bunker a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive.
When blind former skier Sophie cat-sits in a secluded mansion, three thieves invade for the hidden safe. Sophie's only defense is army veteran Kelly. Kelly helps Sophie defend herself against the invaders and survive.
A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
Film censor Enid takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences from the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled decapitations and eye-gougings she pores over. Her sense of duty to protect is amplified by guilt over her inability to recall details of the long-ago disappearance of her sister, recently declared dead in absentia. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film from the archive that echoes her hazy childhood memories, she begins to unravel how this eerie work might be tied to her past.
An escaped convict for negligent homicide returns to his hometown after 15 years, only to be haunted by his past, and got mixed up in a scheme involving the daughter of his victim.
In the near future, Taiwan has been occupied and made into a mere province of an oppressive empire. After being accused by the regime of hiding her rebel family, Yu escapes prison. Chased by the authorities, her mission is to find Lien, a girl who can help her escape Taiwan.
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.
In a desperate attempt to cure his midlife crisis, Martin has fled his family to live high up in the Norwegian mountains. Hunting and gathering like his ancestors did thousands of years ago.
A catholic priest joins forces with a Black Metal fan and an Italian obscurantism expert to prevent the birth of the beast, and with it, the end of the world.
A conference by award-winning illustrator and filmmaker Bill Plympton, where his most recent works will be screened for the first time: Your Face - "The Simpsons" couch gag - Homer's Face - Demi's Panic - Slide (trailer) - Slide (trailer) - Mexican Standoff.
Irene is fifteen and lives in a juvenile correctional facility. She has just gotten pregnant and is ready to change her lifestyle thanks to Javier, one of the facility's educators, who offers her to live with him and his wife Adela in their secluded home in the woods so that she can be taken care of during her pregnancy. The only condition is that, in exchange, she must accept turning in the baby she is carrying once it is born. This deal will be compromised when Irene starts to feel like the life that's inside her is really hers.
The end of civilization has arrived. A Father and his Son are among the survivors. When the Father dies, the Son decides to undertake a journey along a river, in search of someone who can read his journal.
A 16 year-old girl returns home from camp and learns that her mother has a new boyfriend, one she intends to marry. A man whose charm, intelligence and beauty make him look like he's not human at all.
Mankind attains longevity through gene manipulation, but finds itself on the road to extinction when the species loses the ability to reproduce. Their clones who rebelled 1,600 years ago are now known as Marigans and rule the bottomless underworld. Some of them seem to have become fertile and the government takes this as a ray of hope and decides to send civilians in to carry out an ecological study. Selected for the mission, Parton sets off on an adventure through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters in order to secure humanity’s future.
In a desperate attempt to cure his midlife crisis, Martin has fled his family to live high up in the Norwegian mountains. Hunting and gathering like his ancestors did thousands of years ago.
In the midst of a marital crisis, Marga decides to spend some days alone in her parent's old house. There, she begins to sense strange terrifying phenomena. At first, she believes they are related to her late mother, but she then discovers that this has to do with a small meteor that fell on the house when she was 9. Now, her life is about to give a definitive turn.
Three engineers who work for an air-conditioning companyreceive an assignment: develop a robot that will propel the company’s reputation. Just mere days before their presentation, the robot is destroyed in an accident. With no time left and their job on the line, the engineers decide to cover their tracks by building the robot’s empty structure with a human inside. Their plans have an unexpected resul
17-year-old Paul likes strange things: stealth trails and abandoned buildings, whispered conversations and left-behind bags. Besides that, he seems to be a young man without qualities. His mysterious nature catches the eyes of his classmate Dala and his art-loving teacher Mr. Bulwer, both seemingly driven by hidden desires. Then a boy's dead body is discovered in the forest.
A year and a half after the fall of civilization due to a viral outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman immune to the disease from a dangerous gang leader hunting her.
A young woman serves privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper.
A horrifying story of a shaman's inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. What could be possessing a family member might not be the Goddess they make it out to be.
A fertilizer used in a rich gated community becomes the source of a genetic mutation that transforms its residents into zombies. Can a teenager and his baby sister break free from the quarantined island before turning into grass?
Kyeong-mi, a young hearing-impaired woman runs off from an uncomfortable business dinner and drives to pick up her mother, who is also hearing-impaired. Then, Do-sik, a charismatic serial killer spots the mother while she waits for Kyeong-mi. He changes objectives when another young woman passes him while speaking on the phone. The killer's life is intermingled with that of the mother and daughter when she witnesses his murder attempt. Now Do-sik must get rid of both of them.
Four women in contemporary Shanghai are pursuing happiness in their lives. Their stories intertwine, as if they were those of a single person. A young executive argues with her fiancé about starting a family. A PhD student clashes with her professor about her thesis about happiness. A teenager fails to find the perfect boyfriend that meet her father’s expectations. A young woman dreaming of the US is stuck in a cab with the cabdriver in love with her.
Lo que pudo ser 2084 – PAFLO – Alex DEL ARCO – forbidden under 16 – 21:21 (Spain)
Fantástico local
Rectorado de la Universidad de Málaga
Free admission until full capacity is reached
The year is 2084. In the Earth-Mars colony of Hesperia, considered a utopia, four friends meet to celebrate a birthday, unaware that one of them will die under strange circumstances that very night... But, would that really happen in a "perfect world"?
A shy man who works as a taxi driver because he can't afford to live as a musician, meets a deaf girl dancer who is attracted to him despite his trouble communicating.
Back to the Future – Robert ZEMECKIS – forbidden under 12 – 21:56 (United States)
Special session
Contenedor Cultural UMA
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
A horrifying story of a shaman's inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. What could be possessing a family member might not be the Goddess they make it out to be.
A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.
The film follows cryptozookeepers through a richly-drawn hallucinatory world as they struggle to capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) and begin to wonder if they should display these rare beast in the confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown.
Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith Betsey refuses to eat, but loses no weight. In an agonising dilemma torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
Jacinto is an adult with a ten-year-old mentality. He lives in Mallou, a shady abandoned village in the mountains, with his parents and his dear pig Martiño. The death of his pet on the day of the slaughter, and the arrival of two new foreign neighbors will turn his world upside down. Jacinto suspects that the newcomers are vampires and plan on getting rid of his family and gaining control of the village. To prevent it he will have to apply everything he has been learning from horror films.
Nadia travels to Valladolid to give Nestor French classes. There, she will be welcomed by his father, Fernando, an eccentric, traditional man who will immerse her in the heart of Castile. In a foreign environment populated by "banderillas" and bulls' heads, Nadia will do her best to teach Nestor the language of Molière. Or so she thinks.
Kyeong-mi, a young hearing-impaired woman runs off from an uncomfortable business dinner and drives to pick up her mother, who is also hearing-impaired. Then, Do-sik, a charismatic serial killer spots the mother while she waits for Kyeong-mi. He changes objectives when another young woman passes him while speaking on the phone. The killer's life is intermingled with that of the mother and daughter when she witnesses his murder attempt. Now Do-sik must get rid of both of them.
Film censor Enid takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences from the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled decapitations and eye-gougings she pores over. Her sense of duty to protect is amplified by guilt over her inability to recall details of the long-ago disappearance of her sister, recently declared dead in absentia. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film from the archive that echoes her hazy childhood memories, she begins to unravel how this eerie work might be tied to her past.
Ana se ve transportada a una onírica y peligrosa tierra en la que se alista en un ejército de chicas envueltas en una interminable y difícil guerra costera. Aunque consigue encontrar su fuerza en este emocionante mundo, se da cuenta de que no es la asesina que quieren que sea.
An escaped convict for negligent homicide returns to his hometown after 15 years, only to be haunted by his past, and got mixed up in a scheme involving the daughter of his victim.
A shy man who works as a taxi driver because he can't afford to live as a musician, meets a deaf girl dancer who is attracted to him despite his trouble communicating.
Mankind attains longevity through gene manipulation, but finds itself on the road to extinction when the species loses the ability to reproduce. Their clones who rebelled 1,600 years ago are now known as Marigans and rule the bottomless underworld. Some of them seem to have become fertile and the government takes this as a ray of hope and decides to send civilians in to carry out an ecological study. Selected for the mission, Parton sets off on an adventure through a subterranean labyrinth crawling with monsters in order to secure humanity’s future.
In a dystopia of undefined place and time, dominated by primitive technology, a group of people is being controlled by an omnipresent surveillance system. When one of them contracts a mysterious disease, out of fear to lose his job he tries to contact the Officials. Doubts arise about the structure he is working in. By questioning the system, he gets to know the depths of this structure which is darker than he thought.
Four women in contemporary Shanghai are pursuing happiness in their lives. Their stories intertwine, as if they were those of a single person. A young executive argues with her fiancé about starting a family. A PhD student clashes with her professor about her thesis about happiness. A teenager fails to find the perfect boyfriend that meet her father’s expectations. A young woman dreaming of the US is stuck in a cab with the cabdriver in love with her.
After defending his land against a powerful empire, soldier Van is taken into slavery and sent to the salt mines. One night, a pack of strange dogs attacks the mine and a mysterious disease begins to spread. Van meets a girl named Yuna, and as the only survivors of the plague, they embark on a journey together as father and daughter but with no blood ties.
When blind former skier Sophie cat-sits in a secluded mansion, three thieves invade for the hidden safe. Sophie's only defense is army veteran Kelly. Kelly helps Sophie defend herself against the invaders and survive.
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13 year old John discovers an unfinished bunker a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive.
In the midst of a marital crisis, Marga decides to spend some days alone in her parent's old house. There, she begins to sense strange terrifying phenomena. At first, she believes they are related to her late mother, but she then discovers that this has to do with a small meteor that fell on the house when she was 9. Now, her life is about to give a definitive turn.
