#MacabroXVIII on Radio UNAM

We continue with pre-opening screenings ahead of our eighteenth edition. Since you can't wait any longer, we'll see you tomorrow at the Sala Julián Carrillo at Radio UNAM with a preview of what this #MacabroXVIII will bring.

Wednesday, August 14

4:00 p.m. De leyendas y ensoñaciones (Short film programme)

De leyendas y ensoñaciones. 98 min.

In forests or in your own closet live beings and stories older than your own consciousness. Passed down from generation to generation, these tales from ancient Mexico, full of fantasy, take us back to times when only the most resourceful could survive.

El bosque roto | Dir. Alfredo Uzeta | Mexico | 2018 | 19 min.

Niño doctor | Dir. Sinhué Benavides | Mexico | 2019 | 10 min.

Cuando la vela se apague | Dir. Antonio Gaehd | Mexico | 2018 | 18 min.

El encargo | Dir. Francisco Javier Espinoza Ortega | Mexico | 2018 | 14 min.

Caminante, caminante: la leyenda del Huay Chivo | Mexico | 2018 | 9 min.

Encerrada | Dir. Mateo Miranda Magis | Mexico | 2019 | 13 min.

El retorno perpetuo | Dir. José Luis Cano & Melissa Delgadillo | Mexico | 2018 | 12 min.

6:00 p.m. Antesala al desastre (Short film programme)

Antesala al desastre. 81 min.

A pervert, your classmates, the nosy neighbors, the local thugs, or even yourself… Tangible threats that can only be stopped one way: with ultra violence. The most bizarre stories in the world, conceived in the heat of a skull full of wine.

Lili | Dir. Yfke van Berckelaer | Netherlands | 2019 | 8 min.

Here There Be Monsters | Dir. Drew Macdonald | Australia | 2018 | 14 min.

Le Défi Du Rade | Dir. François Zaidi | France | 2018 | 15 min.

Reformed | Dir. Samantha Timms | Australia | 2018 | 12 min.

La Proeza | Dir. Isaac Berrocal | Spain | 2018 | 14 min.

Atomic Ed | Dir. Nicolas Hugon | France | 2018 | 18 min.

8:00 p.m. Carnival of Souls

Carnival of Souls | Directed by: Herk Harvey | United States | 84 min | 1962

Mary Henry is the victim of a car accident. Hours later, the young woman turns up alone and disoriented on a sandbar. She soon notices that the world around her has changed. The line separating the living from the dead grows increasingly blurred until she is drawn to the tent of an abandoned carnival.