The new edition begins next Monday with the Austrian film “The Devil’s Bath”, by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, which was the winner this year in the original festival.
A week of just three days, but intense, and a greater feminine (and diabolical) presence, promises the 8th. Sitges Week in Buenos Aireswhich starts next Monday at 7 p.m. at the San Martín Cultural Center with this year’s winner, the Austrian “The Devil’s Bath” (Des Teufels Bad), of Severin Fiala and Veronika Franzwhich took the top prizes from the jury, the critics and the young jury. Set in the 18th century in a town lost between the forests and the closed-mindedness of its inhabitants, and apparently based on real events, it stars the singer Anja Plaschgalso the author of music.
Immediately after, at 9:30 p.m., the Colombian goes “My beast”of Camila BeltranBlood Window award for Best Ibero-American Film. Set in Bogotá, 1996, it follows the anxieties of a preteen girl worried about the changes in her body, on the eve of a lunar eclipse that, according to superstitions, allows a visit from the devil.
On Tuesday, “Call me Paul.”of Victor MatellanoSpain, recreation of certain fundamental moments in the life of Paul Naschyborn Jacinto Molinaauthor of “The Devil’s Howl” and other classics of Iberian horror, and “Fréwaka“, of Aislinn ClarkeIreland, about a nursing student haunted by an old trauma. And on Wednesday, “Exorcism”documentary Alberto Sedano on the evolution of late Franco censorship between 1975 and 1983, and “Mads”of David MoreauFrance, warning about the risks of picking up a stranger who decides to kill herself in the car when one is drugged.
Something else: on Monday there will be a panel of Argentines who passed through Sitges (Demian Rugna, Jimena Monteoliva, Gustavo L. Mendoza, Laura Casabé, Tamae Garateguy, Nicolás and Luciano Onetti) and on Tuesday another with Latin directors of the genre (producer Roxana Ramos, Laura Casabé, Ayi Turzi), both meetings at 5:30 p.m. and all free. They organize the Sitges Festival, the Argentine Film Academy, Buenos Aires Film Commission and Culture of the City. And something less: this exhibition with the most relevant of the last festival comes from being presented in Montevideo, current headquarters of Ventana Sur, an old creation of Incaa that became the great market for South American cinema based in Buenos Aires, until the current ones authorities decreed its closure. The Uruguayans immediately took it over.
Source: Ambito
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