Sanfic-Morbido Lab Announces 2024 Lineup

“El Show del Gran Luciferio,” Spain, Mexico Dir: Caye Casas Prod: Norbert Llaràs, Albert Pons

Lights, camera and depraved action, the narrative follows charismatic and macabre Lucifero, a showman who presents his audience with a devilish competition program that challenges contestants beyond their bounds for six million euros. The terror televised, the host and his fiendish following shed light on the limits of human morality. From acclaimed shock maestro Casas, the project teases, “sex, humor and death, live!”

“Loved Ones” (“Seres Queridos”), Spain, Mexico Dir: Guillermo Amoedo Prod: Hervey Grisalez

Resilient Mara and her young daughter Alicia live under an increasingly odd set of rules in order to survive otherworldly dangers in a post-apocalyptic world, where ghosts reign and the humans that remain face prosecution by the very souls of those they once loved. A comeback for revered Uruguayan writer-director Amoedo, the Eli Roth co-scribe whose last project, “The Inhabitant,” thrilled theater and streaming audiences alike.

“Silence is the Music of the Devil” (“El Silencio es la Música del Diablo”), Mexico Dir: Cremance Prod: Baño Turco Productions

A family curse that conjures the Devil leads Dalia to abandon her voice after her mother’s mysterious death. Her former therapist proposes a strange therapy, and as Dalia explores this ‘music-based therapy for psychic traumas,’ a grim objective unfurls.

According to Cremance, the project is unique as “it definitively combines the complementary concepts of music and silence, not at the soundtrack level, but as an essential part and narrative axis of the story.”

“Variable Capital” (“Capital Variable”), Uruguay, Spain. Dir: Marco Caltieri Prod: Clara Charlo

High-powered executives travel to a weathered factory on a remote island for a seemingly innocuous business meeting. Once there, the group is forced to face the outcomes of its harshest corporate policies as the victims touched by the practices close in on their comfort.

The darkly comedic thriller seeks to “reflect the contrasts between the corporate world and the industrial world, exploring consequences of deindustrialization and how its effects have endured,” remarked Charlo.

“Delivery,” Chile, México Dir: Diego Ayala Prod: Miguel Asensio Llamas

A delivery woman is separated from her son when strangers kidnap them after her shift. Desperate, she plots an escape and his rescue while slowly learning the sordid reasons for their captivity.

Written by Ayala and Anibal Herrera, the narrative “reinvents the classic premise of kidnapping in Latin America and takes us into a dark, new world we’ve rarely seen on the big screen while giving voice to immigrants who work tirelessly as food delivery drivers,” said Ayala.

“Voracious” (“Voraces”), Spain Dir: Daniel M. Caneiro Prod: Yolanda Ruiz Lara

Tony and Peter work abroad, moonlighting as fumbling grifters who steal money from powerful regional mafioso. Once they’re found out, the pair flee to the mountains only to be met by an entrenched cannibal community.