„Canibal”, special screening in Shadows section | TIFF

„Canibal”, special screening in Shadows section

23.05.2014 13:11
Two out of the 14 films in the Shadows section presented by ShortsTV will be presented as special screenings.

Canibal, one of the most awarded recent Spanish films, comes to Cluj together with its director, Manuel Martín Cuenca, and its main actress, Olimpia Melinte, whose double performance brought her a Goya nomination as Breakthrough Artist of the Year. The film tells the story of a man with a very dark secret: he feeds himself with the flesh of the women for whom he cannot have feelings. Everything changes when Nina comes along... She's a young Romanian immigrant and he falls utterly in love with her. Canibal will premiere theatrically via Transilvania Film.

Actress Anamaria Marinca returns to Europa Report, Sebastián Cordero's SciFi in which she plays an astronaut sent to look for other forms of life on one of Jupiter's moons. The film also stars Sharlto Copley, of District 9 fame. In Story of My Death, Albert Serra's Golden Leopard winner which was shot in Romania, in the Viscri village, Casanova meets Dracula, and in Takashi Miike's Cannes competition film Shield of Straw, four cops have to protect a murder suspect against a billionaire who wants him dead and, thus, set a whole country against him. Patch Town comes with a bizarre story, to say the least: in a factory, the workers collect babes from cabbages, babes who are destined to become toys for other kids.

In the experimental film A Masque of Madness, British actor Boris Karloff (1887-1969) becomes 170 different characters, thus setting in motion a schizophrenic horror trip in which he needs to confront himself. In Denis Villeneuve's Enemy, winner of the Grand Prize in Sitges, a man becomes obsessed with his double. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon and Isabella Rossellini. Last but not least, in Love Eternal, a suicidal man decides to take home the body of a young woman.