Dear friends,

We are proud to announce that for the 50th anniversary of Sitges Film Festival, the selection team has invited 5 titles from our amazing line-up 2017 : BLACK HOLLOW CAGE in the Offical Fantastic Competition and in the Noves Visions section FIRSTBORN, PURGATORYO and THE BOOK OF BIRDIE. SLASH will be part of a special event by MOVISTAR+ at the ESPACIO MOVISTAR+.

Do not miss the screenings!

Feel free to suggest a time and a date in order to schedule a meeting. We will be pleased to introduce you our newest acquisitions, most recent projects and completed features.

Attending Sitges:

Matteo LOVADINA
CEO, Acquisitions
+ 33 6 14 45 62 78 // m@reelsuspects.com

Alberto ALVAREZ AGUILERA
Head of Festivals, Sales Manager (Spanish speaking territories)
+ 33 6 95 49 65 63 // a@reelsuspects.com

The Reel Suspects Team

SCREENINGS
MONDAY 9 // 08:15 PM // TRAMUNTANA MELIA
TUESDAY 10 // 06:45 PM // AUDITORI MELIA (Official)
WEDNESDAY 11 // 08:30 AM // TRAMUNTANA MELIA

SPAIN, 2017 // 105 MINUTES // SCIENCE-FICTION - THRILLER

DIRECTED BY : Sadrac González-Perellón

CAST : Lowena Mcdonell, Julian Nicholson

SYNOPSIS : Alice, a thirteen year old girl, lives with her father, Adam, in a huge house in the woods, following a car accident in which the girl lost her mother and part of her right arm. Alice hates her father and blames him for the accident, she hates rehabilitation and she hates the new electronic arm that she has to carry and can barely handle. In addition, she has a strong bond with Beatrice, a dog that talks through an electronic translation device, whom she calls Mom. One day, Alice and Beatrice find a mysterious cubic artifact among the trees near the house. Through the cube Alice receives messages from who seems to be her future self, warning her of dire events that she must stop. In this context, Adam also carries a very different game: he finds Erika and Paul, two young brothers wounded and helpless that he hosts and protects from a mysterious pursuer, David. Alice is then prey to suspicion and mistrust; she and Beatrice are wary of the new inhabitants of the house and the unhealthy atmosphere that seems to have engulfed them all. After a terrible event, Alice, shattered and confused, wants to go back and change what happened. This time the cube could help her to alter the past.

PRODUCED BY : Asallam Films

FESTIVALS : Official Selection - Neuchatel IFF // In Competition - BIFAN // Official Selection - Fantasy FilmFest // Official Fantastic Competition - Sitges IFFF // In Competition - Raindance FF // Official Selection - TerrorMolins //Official Selection - Horror FFF // In Competition - Feratum Film Fest

AWARDS : Jury's Choice @ BIFAN

SCREENING
SATURDAY 7 // 06:30 PM // PRADO

LATVIA, 2017 // 90 MINUTES // THRILLER

DIRECTED BY : Aik Karapetian

CAST : Kaspars Znotiņš, Maija Doveika, Kaspars Zāle

SYNOPSIS : A middle-aged intellectual commits an act of unintentional homicide whilst trying to regain his dignity in the eyes of his wife, but soon after it occurs to him there is a strange connection between the victim, the sudden pregnancy of his wife and the mysterious blackmailer, who tries to force him to commit yet another awful thing.

PRODUCED BY : Locomotive Productions

FESTIVALS: In Competition - L'Étrange Festival // Official Selection - Fantastic Fest // Official Selection - Mauvais Genre // Noves Visions Competition - Sitges IFFF

SCREENINGS
THURSDAY 5 // 12:30 AM // PRADO (INAUGURATION)
FRIDAY 6 // 10:30 AM // TRAMUNTANA MELIA

PHILIPPINES, 2016 // 85 MINUTES // DRAMA - CRIME

DIRECTED BY : Derick Cabrido

CAST : Bernardo Bernardo, Kristofer King, Jess Mendoza

SYNOPSIS : "Purgatoryo" tells the story of Ilyong, a recently-dead man killed by the police, after he was caught stealing. This is the beginning of his story - his death. Soon after, he is brought into a sleazy funeral home, run by Violet, a greedy homosexual who has learned to survive by renting out the dead bodies in his funeral home to Simon. Along for the ride is Jojo, a police officer who is under the payroll of Simon and who supplies the dead bodies for Violet to take care of and make money from. Violet has two workers, On-on and Dyograd, who clean the cadavers and prepare them for the wake. On-on, for all his good looks, no longer feels alive except when he is gambling. Dyograd, on the other hand, only feels alive when he is having sex. Shortly after the arrival of Ilyong, misfortune and mayhem ensue.

PRODUCED BY : Purple Pig Inc. / Waning Crescent Arts Inc. / One Big Fight Productions

FESTIVALS: In Competition - L'Étrange Festival // In Competition - Jameson CineFest // In Competition - Split IFF // Noves Visions Competition - Sitges IFFF // Official Selection - Bogota IFF

SCREENINGS
FRIDAY 6 // 06:45 PM // TRAMUNTANA MELIA
SATURDAY 7 // 10:15 AM // TRAMUNTANA MELIA

UK, 2017 // 91 MINUTES // HORROR - FANTASY

DIRECTED BY : Elizabeth E. Schuch

CAST : Ilirida Memedovski, Suzan Crowley, Kathryn Browning

SYNOPSIS : When, Birdie, fragile teenager with an overactive imagination is placed in an isolated Midwestern convent on the brink of closure, her strange and in some cases grotesque obsessions begin to consume her attention. Outside life beckons when she meets Julia, the confident, spirited maintenance girl, inspiring a growing infatuation. But privately, Birdie can’t turn away from her fascination with the gory and whimsical hallucinations that plague her. Birdie sets off on her spiritual quest to discover if the source of her visions is something saintly or a dark heresy. The convent itself holds ghosts of nuns who’ve met untimely deaths. Are they calling Birdie to the same fate?

PRODUCED BY : Melancholy Star

FESTIVALS: Official Selection - Goteborg IFF // Official Selection - Fantaspoa IFF // Official Selection - Stranger With My Face FF // Official Selection - Full Moon FF // Noves Visions Competition - Sitges IFFF // Official Selection - Brooklyn Horror FF

SCREENING :
MONDAY 9 // ESPACIO MOVISTAR+

USA, 2016 // 100 MINUTES // COMEDY - SCIENCE-FICTION

DIRECTED BY : Clay Liford

CAST : Michael Johnston (Teen Wolf), Hannah Marks, Michael Ian Black, Missi Pyle, Jessie Ennis, Peter Vack, Sarah Ramos

SYNOPSIS : Slash stars Michael Johnston (Teen Wolf) as Neil, an introverted, questioning high school freshman whose main social outlet is the steamy fan fiction he writes about Vanguard, the brawny, galaxy-hopping hero of a popular sci-fi franchise. When his stories are exposed in class, Neil is mortified, but the slightly older, effortlessly cool Julia (Hannah Marks, Awkward) comes to his defense. An erotic fanfic writer herself, Julia leads him down the rabbit hole into the world of slash fiction, encouraging him to publish his stories on an online “adult” forum, where they quickly grab the attention of site moderator Denis (Michael Ian Black). When Neil is invited to present his work at a Comic-Con event, he has to face the fact that Denis’ interest in him may be more than simply professional, like his own feelings for Julia.

PRODUCED BY : Arts+Labor

FESTIVALS: Official Selection - SXSW Film Festival (Narrative Spotlight) // In Competition - Las Vegas FF // Official Selection - Fantasia IFF // Official Selection - Munich IFF // Official Selection - Outfest // Official Selection - Frameline // Official Selection - Seattle IFF // Official Selection - Edinburgh IFF // Official Selection - Razor Reel FF // Official Selection - Monster Fest // Official Selection - ExGround FF // Official Selection - Cork FF // In Competition - Gijon IFF // Official Selection - Las Palmas IFF // Official Selection - FebioFest

AWARDS : Best Screenplay @ Las Vegas FF

VARIETY REVIEW : HERE !!

POLAND - ITALY, 2017 // 103 MINUTES // SCIENCE FICTION - ROMANCE

DIRECTED BY : Bodo Kox

CAST : Piotr Polak, Olga Boladz, Sebastian Stankiewicz, Helena Norowicz

SYNOPSIS : In a not so distant dystopian future Adam escapes from poor part of Warsaw to the New City. With a help of a secret society Adam gets a flat in an old building and finds a job a cleaner. He falls in love with Gloria, a beautiful employee in the HR department, but she doesn’t treat him seriously. In his flat, Adam finds a radio from the 1950’s that broadcasts the beautiful music from the past. The radio also emits the Theta waves that facilitate time travel. Adam starts to experiment with the Theta waves and he gets stuck in the past. When he doesn’t show up for work, Goria - realizing that she has lost true love - starts to look for him in the past.

PRODUCED BY : Alter Ego Pictures / Vargo Films

FESTIVALS: Official Selection - Busan IFF

PHILIPPINES, 2017 // 111 MINUTES // CRIME - THRILLER - INVESTIGATION

DIRECTED BY : Raya Martin

CAST : Nonie Buencamino, Sid Lucero, Carla Humphries, Bembol Roco

SYNOPSIS : When the eviscerated body of a boy is found in the trash heaps of a thirteen hectare dumpsite, nobody cares enough to notice. A news report might pick up the story, but when the victim is nameless faceless kid from a poor community - is anybody watching? Father Gus Saenz, a forensic anthropologist and a Jesuit, finds himself caught up in the case as an alarming number of dead pre-teen boys turn up in the dumpsite. Father Gus and his colleague father Jerome have the help of the journalist Joanna Bonifacio as they investigate the murders through the cramped urban landscape of Manila.

PRODUCED BY : Tuko Film Productions Inc.

FESTIVALS: Official Selection - Busan IFF

ITALY - BELGIUM, 2016 // 85 MINUTES // FANTASY - COMING OF AGE

DIRECTED BY : Andrea De Sica

CAST : Vincenzo Crea, Ludovico Succio, Fabrizio Rongione, Yuliia Sobol, Luigi Bignone, Pietro Monfreda, Michael Plattner, Dario Cantarelli

SYNOPSIS : Giulio, a seventeen-year-old from a well-to-do family, is sent to a boarding school. In this isolated place in the Alps, where iron-clad rules limit all contact with the outside, he makes friends with Edoardo, who is rather odd. Their friendship is sealed by frequent escapes at night, when the surveillance of the students seems to lapse. They begin to frequent a nightclub hidden in the forest, which becomes a refuge for the two young men. This is where they meet Elena, a prostitute, and become fond of her. Suddenly, they discover that the transgressions they have kept hidden are actually part of the school’s educational program. And yet there must be a way for them to become truly free…

PRODUCED BY : Vivo Film / Rai Cinema / Tarantula

FESTIVALS: In Competition - Torino IFF // In Competition - Brussels International Fantastic FF // Official Selection - Burgas IFF // In Competition - Filmfestival Kitzbuhel // In Competition - Jameson CineFest // Official Selection - Raindance FF // Official Selection - Bogota IFF // In Competition - Annesy IFF // Official Selection - Hong Kong Italian FF

AWARDS: Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director @ 72nd Nastri d'Argento Ceremony

SLOVAKIA // 2017 // PREPRODUCTION // DRAME - APOCALYPSE

DIRECTED BY : Ivo Trajkov

CAST : Judith Bárdos, Attila Mokoš, Marián Geišberg, Ivan Martinka, Jana Kvantíková

SYNOPSIS : The Bishop in Banská Bystrica finds out that in the village of Piargy, which had been buried by an avalanche a few days ago, the Antichrist was born. The bishop calls on priest Baláž to know exactly what happened in Piargy.

PRODUCED BY : ARINA FILM