THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL (2018)

Hungary-Poland-Turkey-India-USA-Austria-Germany-Greece. Direction: Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Lee Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Peter Strickland, Yannis Veslemes. Production: Ant Timpson, Tim League / Timpson Films, Fantastic Fest, Faliro House, Visionchaos Productions, Legion M. Screenplay: Robert Bolesto, Elif Domanic, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Reeder, Peter Strickland, Yannis Veslemes, Silvia Wolkan. Photography: Tyler Lee Cushing, Martin Gschlacht, Márk Györi, Christos Karamanis, Jakub Kijowski, Avijit Mukul Kishore, Moritz Schultheiß, Meryem Yavuz. Music: Volkan Akaalp, Jeremy Barnes, Nicholas Brawley, Wojciech Makowski, Wolfgang Mitterer, Yannis Veslemes, Stefan Will, Zuzanna Wrońska. Edition: Ashim Ahluwalia, Christoph Brunner, Mátyás Fekete, Jarosław Kamiński, Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Buzz Pierce, Vishwendra Singh, Sandra Trostel. Cast: Claude Duhamel, Sarah Navratil, Marlene Hauser, Birgit Minichmayr, Kannon Hicks, Vangelis Mourikis, Lili Epply, Andrzej Konopka, Urszula Zerek, Naz Sayiner, Kannon Hicks, Jilon VanOver. Running time: 117 min

LANGUAGE: English, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Polish, Turkish / SUBTITLES: Spanish

Nine directors in a state of diabolical grace, protected by the producers of The ABCs of Death (2012) and swathed in credits of Mephistophelian illustration tell us tales older than our own species. About mice and goats, carriers of Evil. About spirits who punish those who love with forbidden intimacy or that wander among humans, hungry, on Christmas nights. Stories of kids who eat their parents. Greek, Indian, Central European, Turkish stories. About kings and peasants. In filtered black and white or murky colour. Among the authors, the Strickland who left San Sebastian’s official selection shaking in its socks with In Fabric (2018). They use Kodachrome from the 60s to tell us about a shoemaker and a princess...