Carnal Sins

Carnal Sins (2024)

Almamula

Fleeing homophobic attacks, Nino moves to a rural house amidst a forest haunted by Almamula, a monster that takes those who commit carnal sins. In a world of whispers, unspoken desires and prayers, Nino’s curiosity and impulses rise to the surface.

Date of release
2024-02-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director
Juan Sebastian Torales

Casting

Interesting facts

Almamula is a 2023 drama film written and directed by Juan Sebastián Torales. It stars Nicolás Díaz as Nino, a 14-year-old boy who has moved with his family to a small, conservative town in northern Argentina after suffering a violent homophobic attack in their former hometown. The town has recently suffered the disappearance of another young boy in the woods which was attributed to the almamula, a mythological creature in Argentine folklore who supposedly destroys the sexually impure; manipulated by the local church in an attempt to cure him of his homosexuality, Nino himself begins to long for the almamula to come take him away as well.

Production

The film was inspired in part by Torales's own childhood experiences growing up as a gay youth in a conservative environment. According to Torales, "when I wrote the script I wanted to reinterpret this legend, dive into the background of it and understand why it was created. Like with many things invented by the Catholic church, the Almamula was created to erase everything they considered immoral or a menace.

In advance of its release, Torales won the Eurimages Development Coproduction Award in the pitch competition at the 2019 San Sebastián International Film Festival. It received a pre-release screening for distributors at the 2022 Ventana Sur film festival in Buenos Aires, where it was winner of the Cine Plus Award.

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