‘Open Body’ (O Corpo Aberto) directed by the woman from Gijón Angeles Huerta, author of documentary film Esquece Monelos, in his first fiction feature film, with Tamar Novas as protagonist an approach to folk terror written by the director herself together with Daniel D Garcia that It will be released in theaters on December 9 distributed by Filmax.
Folk Horror in Ourense
‘Cuerpo Abierto’ is based on a story by the writer Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín, one of the most important and representative authors of Galician literature contemporary and tells the story of a teacher who, at the beginning of the 20th century, received Lobosandaus as his first destination, a small town in the “raia seca”, on the border between Galicia and Portugal, in the Official synopsis:
1909. Miguel, a young teacher, is assigned to a small mountain town on the border between Spain and Portugal: Lobosandaus, an inhospitable village with ancestral traditions. He is a man of reason, but he cannot control his passionate desires and, as winter approaches, he feels how darkness takes over everything around him while his fascination with the enigmatic Dorinda. In a place dominated by superstition, the strange death from a neighbor of the town frees a free spirit in search of a body that allows him to continue with his existence, which will lead Miguel to question the limits between the world of the living and the dead.
The limits, the “raias” or lines that separate the world of the dead and the living, gender, identity or the evocative power of tradition and folklore They will be some of the axes that run through the film, which confronts rationalism and science as in ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and some Hammer films. The film has the soundtrack by the Galician artist Mercedes Pawn, it was shot entirely in the Xurés-Gêres region and in the province of Ourense.
‘O Corpo Aberto’ is a Spanish-Portuguese co-production in and has the support of Xunta de Galicia and will be distributed by filmax nationally and internationally. He has participated in the 60th edition of FICX- Gijón International Film Festival, the International Film Week of Valladolid- Seminciin Ourense Film Festival (OUFF) and in MotelX, Lisbon International Horror Film Festivalamong others.