Day 4, Sunday 22 September 2024

Timetable:

12:00h - Free family session: Buenas noches, señor monstruo (1982), Antonio Mercero, Spain.

Synopsis: Four children get lost in the woods in the middle of a storm and go to take refuge in an abandoned mansion. There they will meet and confront Dracula, the Wolf Man, Quasimodo and Doctor Frankenstein. Despite the monsters’ attempts to scare them and, in the process, to recover their lost prestige, the boys, with the help of Count Dracula’s son, will face the evil creatures.

Cult movie with a luxury cast and the psychotropic songs of Regaliz.

Duration: 80 minutes, Watch Trailer!

16:00h - Visitors (Akuma ga harawata de ikenie de watashi) (2023), Ken'ichi Ugana, Japan.

Synopsis: This crazy, gore-filled monster movie is billed as an homage to low-budget horror-comedy studio Troma.

The plot, while not easy to describe, goes something like this: When they haven’t heard from a friend in a while, the members of a rock band arrive to his house unannounced to see what’s going on. What they find is a violent chaos world of monsters, demonic possession and a macabre situation…

Duration: 60 minutes, Watch Trailer!

17:00h - Pirámides Murcianas, (2019), Miguel Guirado and Liana Guadaño, Spain.

Synopsis: Pirámides Murcianas collects the work of researcher Miguel G. Díaz, who, for three years, was touring the most enigmatic places in Murcia in search of evidence that would support his surprising thesis. Without leaving aside humor and irony, in the more than 40 hectic minutes that the documentary lasts, it plants constant doubts in the viewer, showing locations that – in its opinion – demonstrate the viability of its approach and the existence of what it calls the “Murcian power triangle”; trying to demonstrate the discovery of pyramidal structures modified by the passage of time, based on the well-known theory of “ancestral aliens”.

Duration: 60 minutes, Watch Trailer!

18:30h - International Short Film Competition.

Short film marathon:
  • Those!, 2024, Álvaro Beltran, Spain, 12:00
  • Before Everything, 2023, Yon Bengoechea Peña, Spain, 2:00
  • Feminancy, 2024, Uxuri Etxegia, Spain, 06:35
  • Asshole, 2023, Joan Bentallé and Pol Diggler, Spain, 07:20
  • Après-Ski, 2023, Stéphane Turgeon, Canada, 04:44
  • Ghoulies the return, 2024,César San Pedro, Spain, 05:00
  • Space Dumbs, 2023, Alan ‘Wasted Talker’ Talkenov, Kazakhstan, 06:52
  • My father, 2023 ,Yago Casariego, Spain, 10:00
  • Apotemnophilia, 2023, Jano Pita, Spain, 09:53
  • Joy, 2024 ,Manolis Levedelis, Greece, 05:00

B-Retina Awards 2024

Presentation of the awards to the categories:
  • AWARD for Best Short Film
  • CDMon AWARD for the Second Best Short Film by the Audience
  • Dacia AWARD for Best Short Film of the Audience
  • AWARD for Best Feature Film of the Audience

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