Sitges presented the Méliès d'or Awards with newly elected award winner "In Fabric" by Peter Strickland, "Wild" by Jan Verdijk, and director and actress Asia Argento for the Career Méliès.

Guilherme Daniel’s Bad Seed wins the MOTELX Award for Best Portuguese Horror Short / Méliès d’Argent, Kirill Sokolov wins the MOTELX Award for Best European HorrorFeature / Méliès d’Argent with Why Don’t You Just Die! and Midsommar wins the Audience Award.

The opening session on 10 September brings the Portuguese premiere of Ma, a thriller by Tate Taylor with Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer. Come to Daddy closes the Festival on 15 September with an equally bold and unexpected turn from Elijah Wood.

The 13th edition of MOTELX takes place between 10 and 15 September and offers more than 60 sessions to showcase the best of Portuguese and international horror. Workshops, activities for children, presentations and masterclasses. Before the start of MOTELX there are Warm-Up events: open-air screenings, concerts and a visit at Portuguese Ancient Art Museum.

15 September | 17h30
In this masterclass, Ari Aster and writer Howard David Ingham (“We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror”) will discuss exactly what is so inspiring about the genre, why the time is right for it to find a new audience, and what the New Folk Horror brings to the field.