A dozen films, to be shown from the 28th of March to the 5th of April, are part of the cycle that the second edition of FICLO – Olhão International Film and Literature Festival dedicates to Tropical Gothic.
The festival brings together titles from Colombian directors, Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina, from the Cali group, and other productions from Latin America that share its ethics and aesthetics.
The story emerges from a conversation between writer Álvaro Mutis and Luis Buñuel. Mutis wanted to write a gothic novel in hot lands. Buñuel was completely skeptical of this company. The result: the film “La Mansión de Araucaima”, a story that is inscribed within the anthropology of evil with a tropical landscape as a backdrop.
In Olhão, the festival will show some of the titles of the surprising tropical gothic genre.
Since “Agarrando Pueblo” (Carlos Mayolo and Luis Ospina, 1977), a false documentary that satirizes and uncovers the porno-misery as the commodification of poverty by miserable cinema, “Carne de tu carne” (Carlos Mayolo, 1983), passing through “Pura sangre” (Luis Ospina, 1982), based on real cases and inspired by the mythological universe of series B, to “ La Mansión de Araucaima” (Carlos Mayolo, 1986).
The program of the Gothic Tropical Cycle also includes “Zombi Child” (2019), a film that takes up the figure of the Zombie from its critical genesis, the Zombie as a slave subjected to colonial exploitation; with some variations of the figure and the feminist Zombie from “Los que Vuelven” (2019) by Argentine Laura Casabé, the gothic comedy “Juan de los muertos” (2011) that returns to Zombie in a post-colonial Cuban context.
There is also the Mexican film La Región Salvaje (2016) by Amat Escalante, with a powerful critique of conservative, corrupt, homophobic and patriarchal society.
FICLO – Olhão International Film and Literature Festival, which is part of the 365Algarve, it had also already announced a retrospective of Albert Serra's filmography and a seminar with the Spanish director to take place between 4 and 6 March. The festival will announce more programming in the coming weeks.
Tropical Gothic Cycle Programming
Grabbing Pueblo (The Vampires of Poverty), Luis Ospina, Carlos Mayolo, Colombia, doc, 1977, 28'
Pura Sangre (Pure Blood), Luis Ospina, Colombia, fic, 1982, 90'
Flesh of your Flesh, Carlos Mayolo, Colombia, fic, 1983, 94'
La Mansión de Araucaima (The Manor of Araucaima), Carlos Mayolo, Colombia, fic, 1986, 85'
Vampires in Habana!, Juan Padrón, Cuba, Ani, 1985, 69'
Juan de los Muertos (Juan of the Dead), Alejandro Brugués, Cuba, fic, 2012, 92'
La Región Salvaje (The Untamed), Amat Escalante, Mexico, fic, 2016, 98'
Zombi Child, Bertrand Bonello, France, fic, 2019, 103'
Los que Vuelven (The Returned), Laura Casabé, Argentina, fic, 2019, 93
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