FERAL and THE TENANTS to Scare Audiences at This Year’s Hola Mexico Film Festival
Jonathan Barkan
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The Hola Mexico Film Festival is the largest Mexican film festival held outside of Mexico itself. Taking place annually every June in Los Angeles, the fest seeks to showcase the diverse and fascinating cinema that Mexico has to offer. After getting its start in Sydney, Australia, the fest traveled throughout the country before hitting New York and finally its current home of LA. Running from May 31 through June 8, the fest will show a wide variety of titles, but we’re here to tell you about a specific duo.
This year’s fest will see two horror films in their Nocturno slot: Andrés Kaiser’s Feral and Chava Cartas’ Inquilinos (aka The Tenants). The Nocturno program will offer titles that, “…make us scream or introduce us to a world of pain and suffering – physically or mentally.”
In Feral:
“Told through videotape diaries and interviews, this terrifying vision centers on Juan Felipe de Jesús (Héctor Illanes), a priest and psychoanalyst in the Oaxacan mountains who in 1986 documented the process of reintegrating three feral children back into civilized society. However, when a mysteriously tragic fire halts the priest’s good intentions, many unanswered questions are left behind about what really happened in the inhospitable terrain. Only the locals know the dark truth.“
Screenings:
June 1, 2019 – 3:30 PM
June 2, 2019 – 9:30 PM
In Inquilinos (aka The Tenants):
“Running away from a devastating incident that haunts them, Luzma (Danny Perea) and Demián (Erick Elias), a young couple, move to an old apartment in Guadalajara to start over and save their relationship. Their desire for normalcy and tranquility are thwarted when they discover that a supernatural force inhabits their new home. Confronted with a series of paranormal phenomena involving their worst fears, the couple drifts further apart as the malevolent presence threatens to destroy them.“
Screenings:
June 2, 2019 – 11:30 AM
June 5, 2019 – 9:30 PM
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