Almamula (2023)

Directed by

Sebastian Torales

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Argentina, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After a homophobic attack, a 14-year-old boy moves with his family to a conservative town. Local church leaders try to cure him of his homosexuality using a local myth about a creature that punishes the sexually impure.

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What happens

Almamula is a 2023 drama film written and directed by Juan Sebastián Torales. It stars Nicolás Díaz as Nino, a 14-year-old boy who has moved with his family to a small, conservative town in northern Argentina after suffering a violent homophobic attack in their former hometown. The town has recently suffered the disappearance of another young boy in the woods which was attributed to the almamula, a mythological creature in Argentine folklore who supposedly destroys the sexually impure; manipulated by the local church in an attempt to cure him of his homosexuality, Nino himself begins to long for the almamula to come take him away as well. It is a co-production of companies from Argentina, France and Italy. The cast also includes Martina Grimaldi, María Soldi, Cali Coronel, Luisa Lucía Paz, Beto Frágola, Tania Darchuk and Adrián Ramallo. The film premiered in the Generation 14plus stream at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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