Una película de miedo | Closing Ceremony

Filmmaker Sergio Oksman writes a story together with his son, Nuno. In O Futebol —2015—, he went to Brazil in search of his father. This time, he is travelling to Portugal to share a tender, beautiful holiday with his boy — a holiday with the perfect balance between childhood and adolescence. They choose a strange place to spend the summer  — an old, dusty, empty hotel, yet perfect for one of the teenage boy’s dreams, to direct a chilling horror film. A sealed-off location that echoes other old, familiar places: A Story for the Modlins —2012—. The film will be haunted by no small number of spectres, ranging from old friends to serial killers. This unusual holiday proposal will allow the filmmaker to wander through his grandparents’ film archives, reflect on his separation, and contemplate Nuno's future plans — all while the present is consumed with recreating horror-movie clichés. Una película de miedo constructs an ingenious device that unfolds and compares the paths of life journeys — ghostly diary pages alongside the blank sheets still waiting to be written.

Miquel Martí Freixas