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Mamántula

Saturday April 27th 2024, 9:30 pm

Streaming: April 29th - May 5th

Regal South Beach
1120 Lincoln Rd Mall, Miami Beach, FL 33139

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Film Details

Runtime: 48 Minutes

Language: In Spanish with English subtitles

Director: Ion de Sosa

Country: Spain, 2023

Genre: Gay, Horror, Narrative

Preceded By: Amoeba
Ian Fallon, 16 minutes, Ireland
After surviving a brain eating parasite, Levi, a young queer man, is invited to his secondary school crush Roan's house for the weekend. Waking from an intoxicated night of reconnecting, Levi becomes convinced Roan kissed him. As Levi seeks the truth of what happened that night, his grip on reality loosens. Amoeba is a story about the destructive power of unrequited love.

Dreadful and gory killings create panic in the queer community: a semen thirsty killer is on the loose and nobody is safe. In this humorous and provocative gem, Ion de Sosa creates an alternative present in which the surreal takes the lead to narrate yet another threat that the LGBTQIA+ community needs to face. In an alternative present of brutalist saunas, endless metro corridors and trench-coated hat-wearing detectives, each of Mamántula's lovers falls victim to his insatiable lust for blood and semen; a thread in the stellar web he's weaving to return to the dimension where he belongs. Savvily playing with genres from noir through to sci-fi, Mamántula explores cinematic queerness at its most compelling.