Week of the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival at the Gaumont

The National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA), through its platform for promoting fantastic and horror cinema, Blood Window, and in collaboration with Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, present the seventh edition of Sitges Week in Buenos Aires, which will take place from on November 30 until December 4 at the Gaumont Cinema.

The sample is made up of a selection of the best films programmed in the 2023 edition of the Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, the most important of its kind. A total of five feature films and three short films will be exhibited, some of national production and others from France, Spain and South Korea. Tickets are on sale at the Gaumont Cinema box office.

The opening of Sitges Week will be accompanied by the president of INCAA, Nicolás Batlle; the manager of International and Institutional Affairs, Cecilia Diez, the co-directors of Ventana Sur, Bernardo Bergeret and Guillaume Esmiol ―executive director of Marché du Film―, the general director of the Sitges Foundation, Mónica García Massagué; the deputy director of the Festival, Diego López, the person responsible for the INCAA Blood Window program for Ventana Sur, Javier Fernández; and Demián Rugna, director of When evil lurks(Argentina, 2023), a film that will open the exhibition and which in October this year won the Best Film award at the Sitges Festival, becoming the first Latin American production to obtain that award in the history of the Festival.

The programming is completed with the following feature films: The waitby F. Javier Gutiérrez (Spain); Acidby Just Philippot (Francia); Vincent must die, by Stéphan Castang (France); and Sleep, by Jason Yu (South Korea). Short films will also be shown Eyestringby Javier Devitt (Argentina); The other sisterby April Dores and Malena Martins Yanz (Argentina); and Exceptional stories from a youth women’s team: Las Rojasby Tom Espinoza (Argentina/Venezuela).

Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is the first fantastic film festival in the world, which this year celebrated its 56th edition and has established itself as a space for meeting, exhibition, presentation and screening of fantastic cinema worldwide.

Blood Window is an event platform aimed at the marketing and promotion of Ibero-American horror and fantasy audiovisual content from the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts.

SITGES WEEK PROGRAMMING IN BUENOS AIRES

GAUMONT CINEMA – Av. Rivadavia 1635, CABA.
Fernando Birri Room
From November 30 to December 4

Thursday, November 30, 7:30 p.m.

When evil lurksby Demián Rugna
Argentina – Fiction – 99 min – 2023
Synopsis: In a remote village, two brothers discover a man infected by evil forces who is about to give birth to a demon. Desperate to prevent the entry of Evil into his peaceful world, the brothers will discover the terrible truth: it is too late. The new film from the person responsible for Terrified (2017) promises to keep us glued to our seats with a tense and disturbing story of demonic possessions.

Friday, December 1, 7:30 p.m.

Eyestringby Javier Devitt
Argentina – Fiction – 9 min – 2023
Synopsis: With a mysterious thread coming out of her eye and the questionable advice of a hotline phone service, Veronica embarks on a strange search for answers.

The waitby F. Javier Gutiérrez
Spain – Fiction – 100 min – 2023
Synopsis: In the Andalusian mountains, the guard of a farm accepts a bribe from a hunter without knowing that, by doing so, he will begin a macabre descent into hell in which guilt will be his worst enemy. Rural horror and intimate fantasy meet in a raw and merciless film, where F. Javier Gutiérrez vindicates native folk horror with a brilliant staging.

Saturday, December 2 – 7:30 p.m.

The other sisterby Abril Dores and Malena Martins Yanz
Argentina – Fiction – 10 min – 2023
Synopsis: Lucy arrives home convinced that she will be alone. She doesn’t know that something is waiting for her.

Acidby Just Philippot
France – Fiction – 99 min – 2023
Synopsis: During a heat wave, strange clouds begin to drop acid rain, causing devastation and panic throughout France. In a world on the brink of an abyss, a girl and her divorced parents must join forces to try to escape this climate catastrophe. The director of the award-winning Sitges film The Cloud returns with a new piece of eco-horror that describes a frighteningly real dystopian world.

Sunday, December 3 – 7:30 p.m.

Vincent must dieby Stéphan Castang
France – Fiction – 115 min – 2023
Synopsis: Vincent begins to be attacked by strange people with clear homicidal intentions. His existence as a nondescript man is upended, and as things spiral violently out of control and the phenomenon intensifies, he is forced to flee and change his life completely. A raw and groundbreaking debut that is part of the new wave of French horror.

Monday, December 4 – 7:30 p.m.

Exceptional stories from a youth women’s team: Las Rojasby Tom Espinoza
Argentina/Venezuela – Fiction – 14 min – 2023
Synopsis: Carmen is a vaulter (artistic gymnastics with horses) and has a tense relationship with her teammates and coach who introduce her to a strange ritual.

Sleepby Jason Yu
South Korea – Fiction – 95 min – 2023
Synopsis: A pregnant woman worries about her husband’s sleeping habits. What begins as light sleepwalking soon turns into surprisingly menacing and grotesque behavior. After consulting a sleep clinic without success, the couple desperately seeks the help of a shaman. Claustrophobic and domestic terror in one of the great sensations of the last Cannes Critics’ Week.