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Nikki is a prostitute used to meeting unusual men in unusual situations. When she meets Devon, a high-ranking executive, she gets the impression he is a wealthy, secure man who has everything she needs. But a sinister game begins when she finds Susan, Devon’s ex-wife, locked down in his cellar and Devon’s twisted nature begins to emerge.
FilmeFobia details a fictitious movie director’s attempt (played by one of Brazil’s main film scholars, Jean-Claude Bernardet) to make a documentary about fear in contemporary society. The main belief of this character is that the only image that is authentic, real, and truthful is actually that of a human being challenged by his or her own phobia. The crew of this film-within-a-film documentary explores the limits of the psyche by exposing phobics to their greatest irrational fears. A meditation on ethics in documentary, the filming of the film-within-a-film goes awry when the 71 year-old director begins to become personally and seriously afflicted by the disturbing nature of the project. All of the phobics of FilmeFobia are actors with one surprise inclusion: Kiko Goifman, director turned actor in his own film, submits himself to his very real phobia of blood.
Carmilla is a journalism student at the university whose romantic interest in a mysterious classmate named “M” leads her to join a group of role game players who are obsessed with a game named “Sangre eterna” (Eternal Blood). What begins as a harmless game quickly turns into a nightmare when, during a party at an abandoned house, the group meets Dahmer, who initiates them into the rites of vampirism. Now, M must face his darkest fears and obliterate this evil before it’s too late.
A ten-year-old girl awakes alone in the middle of a ravaged and abandoned territory. She begins to wander around the contaminated land in search of food and people, but she discovers that she is caught in the middle of a war where military officials, patrolling the land covered in gas masks, execute people in horrible ways. The girl realizes that the only people who survive the mass executions show severe infections on their bodies so she finds her only company in other small children who share with her the recurrent dream of going to the ocean. In search of their common objective the group of children embarks on a journey to the ocean, crossing a city in ruins followed by the dangerous armed military.
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