DIRTY LOVE – Patricio Valladares

It’s an interesting experiment this one brought forth by the Chilean director Patricio Valladares and by the italian scriptwriter Andrea Cavaletto, a movie made up of three segments connected one another by the killer. In a sort of metacinema Toro Loco meets the characters of the three different episodes and roughly kills them, giving birth to surreal dialogues full of social involments.

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RITES OF BLOOD – Sami Haavisto

During eighteenth century witch-hunting is reaching its climax, becoming a real fever infecting persecutors aware that blood period is going to an end. East-Europe is sought by cardinal De Ceville, an assassin who haunts out presumed heretics for satiating his will of death. Young Mary participates to a ritual of Satan’s worshippers, offering her own body to complete an ancestral rite with ill-omened result. Point of view changes in a snowy Helsinki, where a vampire hangs about melancholically through the white landscape, searching for her origin.

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DESIRE OF THE INNOCENT BLOOD – Sami Haavisto

A young woman with a white veil on her face proceeds shuffling between trees and leaves lifted up by the wind, careless of rain flowing down. Pale obscurity doesn’t hide her figure who slowly and relentlessly is coming back home, to the house where she lived with her young husband, before death devours her body.

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GUIDA PER RICONOSCERE I TUOI SANTI – Dito Montiel

In un angolo del mondo, Astoria, la canicola annienta anime che vagano in cerca di un futuro che sanno di non poter avere. Dito, Antonio, Giuseppe e Nerf si muovono tra la noia delle giornate tutte uguali, spinti dalla violenza, dalla marijuana e dall’istinto sessuale surriscaldato da tre ragazze. Un ghetto macchiato dai graffiti e dalla solitudine, dalla povertà e dal vizio, un punto sulla cartina geografica da cui Dito tenta di sfuggire, specialmente a causa del suo essere incompreso.