Special cycle this year at the Festival: “Come and See. Fantasy and Horror Movies in the Forbidden Zone”

In a Glass Cage (Agustí Villaronga, 1987), A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971), Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002), Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980), A Serbian Film (2010)... Fantasy and horror films have dozens of titles which, at that moment, were capable of fixing a gaze on the unthinkable or the unbearable, they were thought harmful to the society from which they originated.

Come and See –title taken from the soviet film Come and See (1985), by Elen Klimov, who also took it from a verse of Revelation (6:1): "I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder: Come and see!"– is a complete voyage through the forbidden paths of cinema through its most extreme images and passages, those which made it great and "dangerous".

As always, the cycle will be completed with a book about the same issue, coordinated by Rubén Lardín, In it, by means of the works and names which have allowed a look at what others have not even been able to discern, Come and See locates, manages and analyzes that cinema which is considered amoral, bothersome and against the grain, while trying to answer what the prerogatives are and the obligations of the artists and if it is legitimate, from the other side, to prohibit and condemn a work of fiction.

Come and See intends to contextualize, analyse, manage and tell the story of a cinema which offers the eyes the possibility and the challenge to view the unexpected, the unthinkable or the unbearable, that which the spirit of time, society, law and moral consensus are not always willing to tolerate to be imagined or thought.

This look does not correspond exclusively to fantasy films, but it is undeniable that the genre is especially capable of it and usually prevails in these disputes, from surrealism and the Grand Guignol to cyberpunk or the pivotal new meat, passing through the exploitation films, the slasher, extreme eroticism or the most irreverent dystopias imaginable by science fiction.