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MOTELX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival kicks off today

The Spanish film “Malasaña 32”, by Albert Pintó, opens this Monday the MOTELX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, in an edition that has more spaced sessions, of reduced capacity and mandatory use of a mask.

The 14th MOTELX opens at São Jorge cinema, with the premiere of this a paranormal story about a family that moves from the village to an apartment in Madrid.

MOTELX promises more than 70 sessions to kill the big screen and show the unique place that horror cinema has in the world today. The program will also feature the world premieres of “A beast in love”, by Japanese Koji Shiraishi, and “History of the occult”, by Argentine Cristian Jesús Ponce.

Also noteworthy is the inclusion of the Brazilian film “Macabro”, by Marcos Prado, in the programming, and, in a special session, “Epidemic”, a film by Lars von Trier, from 1987.

MOTELX’s management had previously announced a retrospective on racism and horror cinema, with precursor films of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement, with the screening of “Ne change rien” (2009) and “Cavalo Dinheiro” (2014).

The “Room Service” section shows this year a record number of films made by women, such as Rose Glass’s “Saint Maud”, “Relic”, by writer Natalie Erika James, and “The trouble with being born”, by Sandra Wollner.

The competition for Portuguese short films will feature the films “A Grande Paródia”, by André Carvalho, “Carnaval Sujo”, by José Miguel Moreira, “Com Sono, Mas Não Durmo”, by Tiago Bastos Nunes, “Death on Tape” , by Pedro Miguel Costa, “O Intruso”, by Hugo Pinto, “Karaoke Night”, by Francisco Lacerda, “Loop”, by Ricardo M. Leite, “Mata”, by Fábio Rebelo, “Mirror Room, by David Seguro , “Petrichor”, by Gustavo Silva, “Why do you hate your brother?”, By Pedro Martins and Inês Marques, and “O Silêncio”, by Pedro Caldeira and Paulo Graça.

This year there are seven films in competition for the MOTELX award for best feature film: “Advantages of Traveling by Train”, by Aritz Moreno (Spain), Amulet, by Romola Garai (United Kingdom), Darkness, by Emanuela Rossi (Italy), “Hunted”, by Vincent Paronnaud (Ireland/Belgium), Pelican Blood”, by Katrin Gebbe (Germany), “Sputnik”, by Egor Abramenko (Russia), and “Stranger”, by Dmitriy Tomashpolski (Ukraine).

The closing, on September 14, will also be with a horror story between four walls, “The rental“, a film that marks the debut in the making of the American actor Dave Franco.

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