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Highlight to Ibero-american horror cinema in MOTELX's 11th edition
MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival will join Past and Present - Lisbon, Ibero-american Capital of Culture 2017's programme with films, debates and masterclasses that explore the diversity of genre cinema produced in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival will join Past and Present - Lisbon, Ibero-american Capital of Culture 2017's programme with films, debates and masterclasses that explore the diversity of genre cinema produced in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
"The Strange World of Latin Horror" will cross the entire programme of MOTELX's 11th edition, which returns this year to Cinema São Jorge and Teatro Tivoli BBVA from 5 to 10 September. The Festival will screen classic titles, lesser known films, and more recent productions such as "The Bar" by the master Álex de la Iglesia, which premiered in February at the Berlinale.
Part of the contemporary films offer is also "The Untamed" by Amat Escalante, one of the promising names of Mexican cinema after having won the Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival in 2013 with the thriller "Heli". "The Untamed" won him a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2016.
From Brazil, we have "Excitação" by Jean Garrett (1976), director of one of the greatest Brazilian box office successes of all time, "A Ilha do Desejo". Born José António Nunes in the Flores Island of the Azores, the Brazilian-Portuguese was one the greatest names of exploitation cinema in São Paulo during the 70s. The link between Portugal and the rest of the Ibero-american universe is also made with "Crime de Amor" (1972), a forgotten Portuguese-Mexican-Spanish co-production that holds a special place in national genre cinema.
The programme dedicated to the Ibero-american Capital of Culture also runs through our section dedicated to the younger audiences, Big Bad Wolf, with two special screenings of the animated film "The Book of Life". Produced by Guillermo del Toro, the film unfolds in the context of the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead and explores the universe of life and death in a way suitable for younger audiences.
Yet another highlight will be the screenings of the classics of Latin horror cinema at the Portuguese Cinematheque, who has partnered with MOTELX during the popular Warm-Up that precedes the Festival.
On 18 of July more details of MOTELX's 11th edition will be revealed.
"The Strange World of Latin Horror" will cross the entire programme of MOTELX's 11th edition, which returns this year to Cinema São Jorge and Teatro Tivoli BBVA from 5 to 10 September. The Festival will screen classic titles, lesser known films, and more recent productions such as "The Bar" by the master Álex de la Iglesia, which premiered in February at the Berlinale.
Part of the contemporary films offer is also "The Untamed" by Amat Escalante, one of the promising names of Mexican cinema after having won the Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival in 2013 with the thriller "Heli". "The Untamed" won him a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2016.
From Brazil, we have "Excitação" by Jean Garrett (1976), director of one of the greatest Brazilian box office successes of all time, "A Ilha do Desejo". Born José António Nunes in the Flores Island of the Azores, the Brazilian-Portuguese was one the greatest names of exploitation cinema in São Paulo during the 70s. The link between Portugal and the rest of the Ibero-american universe is also made with "Crime de Amor" (1972), a forgotten Portuguese-Mexican-Spanish co-production that holds a special place in national genre cinema.
The programme dedicated to the Ibero-american Capital of Culture also runs through our section dedicated to the younger audiences, Big Bad Wolf, with two special screenings of the animated film "The Book of Life". Produced by Guillermo del Toro, the film unfolds in the context of the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead and explores the universe of life and death in a way suitable for younger audiences.
Yet another highlight will be the screenings of the classics of Latin horror cinema at the Portuguese Cinematheque, who has partnered with MOTELX during the popular Warm-Up that precedes the Festival.
On 18 of July more details of MOTELX's 11th edition will be revealed.