© SELECTED FILMS
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
Kuratiert vom QFFM—95min—18+
Curated by the QFFM
Spanish original versions with German and English subtitles
COMPETITION
Three times horror between lust and pain, blood and sperm, eroticism and death.
The category is… horror! If queerness always plays with genre conventions, our triple feature delivers an unsettling flirtation with the horrific. Infatuation and disturbance go hand in hand in these films, which tell of desire with a lot of lust — and a lot of lust for gore. If Mamántula deals with mysterious murders in the Berlin cruising scene, in which an alien giant spider thirsting for sperm could possibly not be innocent, The Martyr depicts the all-tooreal horror of a youth under the sign of the cross. And it is not only this queer youth that the Savior watches over — Transition lets his Charity flare up demonically once again in old age…
Mamántula
D/ESP 2023, 48 min; D: Ion de Sosa.
El Mártir / The Martyr
D/ESP 2023, 30 min; D: Alejandro Mathé.
Transición/Transition
ESP 2023, 16 min; D: David Velduque.
© Zoe-Dumas