Mamántula


Direction: Ion de Sosa
Screenplay: Mamen Díaz, Violeta Rodriguez, Ion de Sosa
Production company: Paola Álvarez Filmproduktion, Apellaniz y de Sosa, UMMM
Producer: Paola Álvarez, Manuel Escorihuela, Leire Apellaniz, Javier Tasio
Cinematography: Jorge Castrillo
Edition: Sergio Jiménez
Sound: Brendan Golden (APSA), Paciencia - José Tena & Tasio, Manuel Escorihuela
Music: Marta Peláez Corchs "Severine Beata"
Animation: Stanley Sunday
Artistic direction: Carmen Main
FX: DVEIN Teo Guillem & Carlos Pardo Ros
Cast: Lorena Iglesias, Marta Bassols, Moisés Ricart


Runtime: 47:57
Format: 16mm
Dialogues: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English, German, Spanish
Country: Germany, Spain
Year: 2023


Mamántula is the boy everyone wants, but he is also, secretly, a giant spider cross-dressed as a human, fruit of a brief encounter in a far-off paradise. In an alternative past of brutalist saunas, never-ending subway corridors and detectives in trench coats and hats, each of Mamántula's lovers succumb to the insatiable lust of blood and semen; yet another thread in the stellar spider's web he is weaving so that he can return to the dimension to which he belongs.


Festivals

International Film Festival Rotterdam | Netherlands, Jan 2024
Festival de Cine de San Sebastián | Spain, Sep 2023
Festival Internacional de Cine de Xixón/Gijón | Spain, Nov 2023
FICCI Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias | Colombia, Apr 2024 Gender Diversity Recognition Award
Premios Goya - Academia de Cine | Spain, Feb 2025 Nominated for Best Fiction Short Film
BAFICI - Buenos Aires Festival Internacional Cine Independiente | Argentina, Apr 2024 Best Film - Vanguaradia y género competition
SITGES - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya | Spain, Oct 2023
MÁRGENES - Festival internacional de cine de Madrid | Spain, Nov 2023 Audience Award
Riga International Film Festival 2ANNAS | Latvia, Apr 2024
CURTOCIRCUITO - Festival Internacional de Cine | Spain, Oct 2023 Best National Film
Olhar de Cinema - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curitiba | Brazil, Jun 2024
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival | United Kingdom, Mar 2024
D'A Film Festival Barcelona | Spain, Apr 2024
IBIZA CINEFEST - Ibiza Independent Film Festival | Spain, Feb 2024
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival - BiFan | Korea South, Jul 2024
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival | Spain, Apr 2024
BUT - B-Movie Underground & Trash FilmFestival | Netherlands, Aug 2024
Achtung Berlin Filmfestival | Germany, Apr 2024
Los trabajos y las noches - Festival de cine y procesos artísticos | Spain, Dec 2023
ALTERNA - Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Zaragoza | Spain, May 2024 Audience Award
SOMBRA - Festival de Cine Fantástico Europeo de Murcia | Spain, Mar 2024
Lima Alterna Festival Internacional de Cine | Peru, Oct 2024
Espacio Queer - Festival de cine sobre diversidad sexual y de género | Argentina, Jun 2024
FANTBOI Festival de Cinema Fantàstic de Sant Boi | Spain, Jul 2024
Festival MiX Milano - International Festival of LGBTQ + Cinema and Queer Culture | Italy, Oct 2024
Cuórum Morelia - Festival Internacional de Cine Sobre Diversidad Sexual y Géneros | Mexico, Nov 2024
Transmutación - Festival de Cine Contemporáneo | Mexico, Oct 2024
Frameline - San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival | United States, Jun 2024
Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival | Netherlands, Apr 2024
Santiago del Estero Film Festival | Argentina, Jun 2024
B-RETINA Festival de Cinema de Sèrie B de Cornellà | Spain, Sep 2024
Seattle Queer Film Festival | United States, Oct 2024