The latest project from another Latin American genre icon, director of “Clementina,” “To Kill the Dragon” and “Welcome to Hell” and producer of “She Wolf” and “Kryptonita.” The story of the “kidnapping, vampirism and redemption of the three “brides” of J.,” the logline runs. “The Queen,” (“La Reina,” Jimena Monteoliva, Argentina)įlor (20), wakes up in a cabin, alongside two other girls, having been abducted. A sex doll, found in a box which falls off a lorry during a robbery, strews carnage in the jungle. In many women are oppressed, fight back is savage ways. These days, any new film by the prolific and provocative Garateguy (“Las Furias,” “Pompeya”), described by Variety as “undisputed Argentine shock-and-awe royalty,” is an event. “Fuckin’g Sexy,” (Tamae Garateguy, Argentina) An expose of real life human trafficking backed by Argentina’s Cruz del Sur Cine (“Limbo”) and Far Away Cine (“Yésica”) and Uruguay’s Sueko Films (“Reus”). Teen Malena plunges into a forest to rescue her sister, captured by a creature: The Solapa. “Caw,” (“La Solapa,” Laura Sanchez Acosta, Argentina)Ĭaught at August’s Sanfic-Mórbido, a feature expansion on Sánchez Acosta’s fest fave short. A sci-fi thriller – a relative rarity in Latin America – from Giménez Gili, director of “Camila’s Awakening,” seen at the Montreal World Fest’s first fiction films competition.

She finally encounters a scientific explanation. An iris scan reveals an identity unknown to her. Anna shows up in shock and amnesia on a jungle mountain.

La reina de Panamá by Gonzalo Fernández