Escape from the 21st Century + Azrael

2024

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Azrael © Gabriela Urm
Main Theatre
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Saturday, 2024 October 26 / 22:30 / 203' 7,50 € Tickets

Language: Spanish / Mandarin Chinese / Without dialogues

Subtitle: Spanish

Martarella (2024). M. B. Montes & Miguel Guirado. Spain. 20 min

Madrid, 2069. Martarella has to say goodbye to her partner, a leading astronaut who has been assigned to an important mission on Mars. To keep their passion alive, they decide to remain connected at long distance via a technological device.

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Escape from the 21st Century (2024). China. 98 min

  • Direction: Li Yang.
  • Production: Hu Lizhou / Scity Films, Beijing Scity Films.
  • Executive production: Wang Hongwei.
  • Screenplay: Li Yang.
  • Photography: Saba Mazloum.
  • Music: Hu Xiaoou.
  • Edition: Huang Shang.
  • Cast: Zhang Ruoyun, Zhong Chuxi, Song Yang, Li Chenhao, Wu Xiaoliang, Zhu Yanmanzi, Wen Zhengrong.

As dumb and crazy as it is existentialist, those in the know (such as Ricardo Gallegos of La Estatuilla) say that it has sparks of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Kung Fu Hustle (2004) and the films of Junta Yamaguchi, director of Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020). We join up with a gang of teenage bikers, who climb water towers and fight against their rival gang (with an imposing leader, a dwarf ruffian with a wonderful toupee). They have also been given the power of time travel, and so easily: all they have to do is sneeze. Oh, we aren't on Earth, but on Planet K. But how come it looks so much like our world?

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Azrael (2024). USA. 85 min

  • Direction: E. L. Katz.
  • Production: Dan Kagan, Simon Barrett, Dave Caplan / C2 Motion Picture Group.
  • Executive production: Jason Cloth, Samuel Hall, Katrin Kissa, Suraj Maraboyina, Michael Rothstein.
  • Screenplay: Simon Barrett.
  • Photography: Mart Taniel.
  • Music: Tóti Guðnason.
  • Edition: Ben Baudhuin.
  • Cast: Samara Weaving, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Vic Carmen Sonne, Vincent Willestrand, Sebastian Bull.

A good name for a girl who will prove hard to finish off when the members of the sect she has escaped from capture her, and plan to sacrifice her to appease the malign spirit that dwells in the woodlands. Azrael is not only a heavy metal band, but also one of the fifteen Angels of Death named in the Kabbalah. Directed by E. L. Katz, who knows that dying doesn't mean disappearing (The Haunting of Bly Manor, 2020). Produced by IFC Shudder, with a soundtrack from Iceland's Tóti Guðnason, who worked with Hildur Guðnadóttir on Joker (2019). The very essence of folk horror, and a bloody survival movie.

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