The main Blood Window work runs within the film production and sales market in Ventana Sur, Argentina and for these Cannes selections the Blood Window team calls on the program expertise of the genre film community around the world with each of Sitges, Morbido, Fantastic Fest's Fantastic Market, Bifan and the Frontieres co-production market each selecting one title to be presented to buyers in Cannes, either completed or as a work in progress. And lining up for this year are:
May 15th
18:00hs Olympia 5
Intimate Witness (Testigo íntimo)
Direction: Santiago Fernández Calvete
94 min
Plot
Facundo is a lawyer and he's having an affair with Violeta, his brother Rafa's girlfriend. When Rafa finds Violeta dead in their apartment, Facundo has to help him get rid of the body. The night turns into a perverse game of spite, violence, revenge and death.
Presented by
Blood Window Latin American Fantastic Film Festival Market
Jose Luis Rebordinos - Director of San Sebastian Film Festival
May 16th
18:00hs Olympia 4
Scherzo Diabolico (Scherzo Diabólico)
Direction: Adrian García Bogliano
90 minPlot
Aram is immersed in the dullness of his life. He decides to turn things around and kidnaps a teenage girl. He doesn't know his plan has a flaw and the joke will be on him.Presented by
Morbido Film Festival & Fantastic Fest
Pablo Guisa Koestinger , Tim LeagueMay 17th
18:00hs Olympia 4
Santiso Report (El expediente Santiso)
Direction: Brian Maya
90 minPlot
A superstar reporter goes mad after the losing his daughter in an international rescue mission. Upon his release from the mental asylum, he must get his life back together, including his marriage. But investigating his daughter's disappearance will jeopardize his sanity or the truth.
Presented by
Bifan - Bucheon international Film Festival Korea
Danny Sangho RheeMay 18th
18:00hs Olympia 4
The Corpse of Ana Fritz (El Cadaver de Ana Fritz)
Direction: Hèctor Hernández Vicens
76 minPlot
Anna Fritz is a very famous and beautiful actress, considered one of the most desired women in the world. Suddenly, she dies.
Pau works as an orderly at the hospital where Anna Fritz was taken to. Pau is a shy and introverted youth. Often, when the body of a young woman is brought to the morgue, he can't resist watching her. When he enters the morgue with the corpse of Anna Fritz, he takes a picture of her naked body and sends it to his friend Ivan.
Ivan and Javi are Pau's only friends, and go visit him at the hospital. They are a little drunk and Ivan wants to see the naked body of Anna Fritz. She is there... They can't lose this opportunity.Presented by
Sitges Catalonia Fantastic Film Festival
Angel Sala , Mike HostenchMay 19th
18:00hs Olympia 4
The Rotten Link (El eslabón podrido)
Direction: Javier Diment
74 minIn a small isolated village lives Raulo, a mentally handicaped lumberjack, with Ercilia, his senile witch doctor mother, and Roberta, his sister, the town's young and favourite prostitute. They unconditionally love and take care of each other. But when Ercilia feels the closeness of death she insistently threatens Roberta: if she ever has sexual intercourse with all the men in town, the town will discard her, dismiss her, and she will die. And there is only one man in town she has not been with: Sicilio, the other prostitute's husband, who is deeply in love with Roberta, but if his wife finds out he has been with her, she won't hesitate in killing him.
Presented by
Frontieres International Co-production Market
Lindsay Peters, Guy Delmote
Speaking to the value of these events, it's worth noting that Bogliano's Scherzo Diabolico - recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival - was helped along the path to production by participating in the Fantastic Market last year.