Programme du 23ème Festival de Malaga The Fancine

Bonjour,

Voici le Programme de la Compétition officielle du 23ème Festival de Malaga The Fancine qui se déroulera du 21 au 28 novembre 2013 :

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Two bus crash survivors who awake in hospital to discover they are the only people left alive in their small town. As a dark log advances towards the town they form an aliance to unravel the truth behind their isolation and escape the ravenous creatures concealed within the mist.

Breakaway

After an impoverished single father loses his young son at a busy shopping mall. Realizing he will receive little help from the police, the desperate father chooses to take matters into his own hands. His search pits a father’s love against the horrific world of child-trafficking, as he scours the back streets of Manila, determined to find his son at all costs.

Cheap Thrills

Recently fired and facing eviction, the married father of a newborn has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security… but at a price.

Cheap Thrills a remporté le Prix de la Meilleure Première Oeuvre au festival Fantasia de Montréal.

Cheap Thrills est également en Compétition au Festival International de Film Fantastique de Paris (PIFFF).

El Limpiador

In the midst of a mysterious, devastating epidemic in Lima, Eusebio discovers an eight-year-old boy hiding in an uninhabited house and finds he must look after him as civilisation crumbles around them.

Forever’s End

Six years after an apocalyptic event killed her family and seemingly everyone else on earth, a lone girl on the verge of insanity is forced to question everything she has ever known when a strange man suddenly appears at her door.

Halley

Alberto can no longer conceal the fact that his body is decomposing, and he begins to withdraw from the world. But before yielding to his living death, Alberto forms an unusual friendship with Silvia, his tough but sympathetic boss.

Halley a a reçu la Mention Spéciale de la Meilleure Première Oeuvre au festival Fantasia de Montréal.

Kiss of the Damned

Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human, screenwriter Paolo, but everybody gives in to their passion. When her troublemaker sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna´s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.

Kiss of the Damned a remporté le Grand Prix à FEFFS de Strasbourg.

La Pasion de Michel Angelo

Chile, 1983. The first street protest poses a dangerous threat to Pinochet’s military govermment. In a village, a 14-year old boy claims he can see and talk to the virgin Mary and they soon turn him into a prophet. In his turmoil, the Church sends a priest to investigate: is it a real a miracle or a political manipulation?

Missionary

A dramatic thriller about a single mother who gets romantically involved with a Mormon missionary. When she decides to get back with her ex-husband, she discovers that the missionary is not who he seems, and will stop at nothing to get her back.

Scenic Route

Mitchell and Carter, life-long friends who have drifted apart, are on a road trip when their old pickup breaks down, leaving them stranded on an isolated desert road. Nobody can pick apart a man like his best friend, and as the relentless elements of the desert grind them down, they start to attack each other’s life decisions with unwavering brutality, and what begins as an inconvenience becomes a very real life or death struggle.

The Battery

Two young men cut an aimless path across a desolate New England. They stick to back roads, dirt roads, and forest to steer clear of the shambing corpses that patrol the once bustling cities and towns. But in order to survive, they must overcome the stark differences in their characters.

The Battery a remporté le Prix du Public au Festival Mauvais Genre de Tours, ainsi que le Grand Prix au Festival Razor Reel de Bruges.

The Battery est également en Compétition au PIFFF 2013.

The Fifth Season

A mysterious calamity strikes: spring refuses to come. The cycle of nature is capsized. Alice and Thomas, two teenagers living in a Belgian village deep in the Ardennes forest, struggle to make sense of the world that is collapsing around them.

Avec Cheap Thrills, Halley et The Battery, les Festivaliers ne risquent pas de s'ennuyer ! Trois grands films déjà primés dans d'autres festivals ...

Bon festival et rendez-vous le 28 novembre pour le palmarès de cette 23ème édition !

Olivier H.