Almamula

Almamula (2024)

Dans son quartier à Santiago del Estero, au nord de l’Argentine, le jeune Nino est régulièrement la victime d’actes homophobes parce qu’efféminé. Afin de le protéger, sa mère très croyante emmène toute la famille à la campagne pour les vacances d’été. La forêt près de la maison a la réputation d’être hantée par l’Almamula, un monstre qui, selon la légende, enlève tous tous ceux qui commettent des péchés charnels. Alors qu’il assiste aux leçons de catéchisme en préparation de sa confirmation, Nino se sent étrangement attiré par la forêt maudite.

Date de sortie
2024-02-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (12)
Durée
1 h 36 min
Genres
Drame, Fantastique, Horreur
Réalisateur
Juan Sebastian Torales

Distribution

Anecdotes

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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