This is not an adaptation of a Lana Del Rey album, but both contain very spicy subject matter. Almost all the employees of a spicy sauce factory are slaughtered. Responsible for this drama: hitman Victor Patibulo, notorious for sucking on a pacifier ever since his favorite poodle got killed. One body is absent among the… Continue reading BORN TO DIE
Country: Argentina
JORGE AND ALBERTO VS THE NEOLIBERAL DEMONS
Jorge and Alberto are two wizards in Buenos Aires. One works as an assistant in a courthouse, while another is pining for his magical glory days. During their weekly ritual, they discover that Saturn has turned, which mostly means much mayhem and doom. They are proven right, when Argentina’s president storms in and asks Jorge… Continue reading JORGE AND ALBERTO VS THE NEOLIBERAL DEMONS
THE MISSING PART
In The near future, the climate confuses arctic frost with tropical showers. Public services have all but disappeared and technology keeps evolving at breakneck pace. The streets of Buenos Aires are filled with the sounds of sirens from police cars and ambulances. The first are there to smother any kind of protest, while the latter… Continue reading THE MISSING PART
THE RETURNED
Somewhere deep in the heartlands of Argentina, in a small town where the Nazi’s used to run a hospital that experimented on children, two boys and a girl return after they went missing for a day. Their parents should breathe a huge sigh of relief, but the kids are dirty and naked and do not… Continue reading THE RETURNED
THE SECOND DEATH
Alba Aiello, a young secretive homicide detective, moves to a small town, where, apparently, nothing ever happens. When various burnt corpses are found in a praying position in the middle of a field in strange circumstances, she starts investigating the case with the help of her assistant Fidel, to whom she feels attracted. The investigations… Continue reading THE SECOND DEATH
ZENITRAM
2025. Argentina suffers from the yoke of a giant corporation who has the monopoly of the water supply. One evening, Martinez, a regular Joe from a poor neighborhood, looses his job as a garbage man. When he goes to pee in a public toilet, he meets a strange man who bestows a unique gift upon… Continue reading ZENITRAM
PHASE 7
Just when Coco and his seven months pregnant wife Pipi have settled in their new flat, the authorities hermetically seal the building. One of their neighbors seems to have been infected with the latest killer virus. The emergency phone number doesn’t work and the inhabitants are left to fend on their own. It doesn’t take… Continue reading PHASE 7
I’LL NEVER DIE ALONE
Once you have experienced the big city with its shopping mall, trendy bars and boys who don’t smell of sweat before 5pm and who do not greet you by putting their hand on your ass, going back to the countryside can be traumatizing. Especially if this countryside is located in the deep south of Argentina,… Continue reading I’LL NEVER DIE ALONE
FILMATRON
In a not-so-distant future, a country is ruled by a government which ruthlessly censors everything audiovisual. There are no movies at all. Nothing except bizarre TV-shows that are aired to entertain and instruct the people, especially about the artificial food. In this extremely bizarre world, there are daredevil filmmakers who wage a celluloid war with… Continue reading FILMATRON
THE AERIAL
Set in an undisclosed time and place, the inhabitants of “The City Without A Voice” have lost their voices to the sinister Mr. TV. Their lives are subjected to controlled television programming, accompanied by equally mind-numbing TV-dinners. However, this is not enough for Mr. TV. He also wants to control their thoughts. So he and… Continue reading THE AERIAL