The Phenomena Festival is back in its fourth edition, and we've prepared a special schedule for you, with award-winning feature films unreleased in Brazil, documentaries, short films and animations for all tastes. Always focused on technical and artistic excellence, we reaffirm our mission to enrich the exhibition circuit with previous opportunities and experiences, old to new generations of movie lovers, and at the same time promoting premieres of the youngest and most talented in the world. We believe in the power of the seventh art to bring to light important, contemporary, cultural and philosophical issues through our metaphors and mythology, with fantasy cinema being perhaps one of the most relevant catalysts of social and individual transformations in the world. Come blow your minds and freak out on the most surreal narratives we've chosen for you. Expect the unexpected!
CINESALA
DECEMBER 6th
2021 | Fantasy, Horror | Germany | 73 min
A couple spend eternity in a castle until their reality starts to shift, as the unknown moves into their lives.
CENTRO CULTURAL SÃO PAULO (CCSP)
FROM DECEMBER 7th UNTIL DECEMBER 12th
2004 | Horror, Comedy | USA | 97min
A family vacation is turned into a nightmare when they are abducted by a family of deranged killers in this "Texas Chainsaw" style comedy sci-fi horror thriller romantic drama.
2021 | Horror | Mexico | 8min
A man trapped in a public bathroom is struggling between a fierce diarrhea and being caught by zombies.
2021 | Fantasy, Family Film | Japan, China, Hong Kong | 111min
One summer vacation, Ruka meets two boys, "Umi" and "Sora," whose upbringing contains strange and wonderful secrets. Drawn to their beautiful swimming, almost more like flying, Ruka and the adults who know them are intertwined in a complex mesh... Meanwhile, an unexplained anomaly is occurring all over the world: fish are disappearing. Thus begins a marine adventure of boys and girls to captivate all the senses!
2021 | Animation, Horror | France | 83min
A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.
2021 | Horror, Comedy, Gore, Splatter | Norway | 25min
Chaos breaks out at the hospital, when a mutant dumpster troll is accidentally brought to life, as a result of shoddy waste management, by the shuffle dancing young man Rasmus.
2021 | Animated Shorts | Various | 150min
A session with the best animated shorts from all across the globe.
2021 | Sci-Fi, Fantasy | France | 127 min
A chimeric future on After Blue, a planet from another galaxy, a virgin planet where only women can survive in the midst of harmless flora and fauna. The story is of a punitive expedition.
2021 | Experimental, Short | Sweden | 18 min
A creature is out on the countryside collecting valuables. But are these valuables really only valuable to them? Or is there others that find value in these things? Others who see the power that is contained within these small trinkets. The road turns out to not be as safe and easy as one would hope. Other creatures lurk along its path, but are they friends or foe?
1981 | Drama, Horror | France, West Germany | 124 min
A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister. New Remaster Copy in 4K, 40th anniversary.
2021 | Short | Australia | 14 min
Two sisters from a broken family chant a summoning ritual in the hope it might improve their bleak lives, but they do not anticipate the irreversible consequences of what they summon.
1981 | Horror | USA | 91 min
After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they look like. New Remaster copy in 4K - 40th Anniversary.
2020 | Horror | Netherlands | 14 min
A heavily overworked nurse is being stalked by a mysterious figure during her night shift in the nursing home. While trying to tend to everyone’s needs, she also has to deal with her stalker and pushes herself to extremes.
2021 | Fantasy, Horror, Arthouse | USA | 91 min
Stoney Claire McKenzie used to run with the pack. She could have filled her insides with all the meat rot in the world. But she gave it all up and caged herself deep, burying the Wolf. Now Claire makes her way through the half-world, trying to carve out a human existence in the city of Wulver’s Stane. She dreams of a heart of gold but the memory of blood has its own power. It is only a matter of time before the Wolf is loose in Wulver’s Stane.
2021 | Absurdist, Drama, Psychological Thriller | USA | 9 min
Seemingly terrified of her own bed, Madeline locks herself in her room for weeks in an attempt to confront her fears. But what begins as an absurd, domestic quest turns into a genuine fight for redemption and revenge.
2019 | Documentary | USA | 100 min
Examines the infamous homoerotic subtext and the special place the film holds in the Nightmare franchise as well as the gay film canon. Partly in thanks to evolving social mores, Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - which was considered controversial at the time of its release - is now being looked back upon with a new appreciation and fondness by horror aficionados and fans of the series.
2021 | Short, Drama, Mystery | Brazil | 14 min
A forgotten house is re-inhabited while a strange presence approaches.
2021 | Documentary | USA | 100 min
A documentary that explores the history of heavy metal and horror, and how the two genres merged over time. Hosted by Michael Berryman, and featuring Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Kirk Hammett, John Carpenter, Tom Savini, Dave Mustaine, Jonathan Davis, Corey Taylor, and many more.
2021 | Horror | Brazil | 11 min
After a dream, the Pious Man is faced with a dilemma: going after treasure or relying upon hoping for better days to come. Inspired by the traditional tales from the Northeast of Brazil, "A Botija, Beato and A Besta-Fera" takes us on a unveiling hermetic journey throught the fantastic brazilian hinterland.
2021 | Animation, Drama, Action | Japan | 154 min
The fourth and final part of Rebuild of Evangelion. Misato and her anti-Nerv Wille group arrive in Paris, a city now red from choreization. After losing the will to live, Shinji Ikari is reborn and learns the meaning of hope.
2021 | Sci-fi, Comedy | USA | 69 min
JTRO and Fam embark on their most dangerous mission yet: Forcing them to battle foes from the past in order to save their future from a calamity that threatens to wipe humanity off the mo' suckin' face of the Earf...4 EVZ.
2021 | Short | France | 24 min
Two police officers interrupt a secret ceremony: a woman is disembowelled in a back garden to unleash her inner beauty. A variety of situations are offered and all possibilities explored.