The movie “Immortal”, by Fernando Spiner, Y “Vurdalak Blood”, of Santiago Fernández Calvete, are the two Argentine films that will compete in different sections of the Sitges Film Festival that began yesterday and this year celebrates its number edition 53 in hybrid modality between virtual and face-to-face due to the coronavirus pandemic.

On the occasion of the pandemic, This edition of the world's first fantastic film festival will take place between 8 and the 18 October in a hybrid way between projections and online activities and other face-to-face activities with capacity control.

In that context, “Immortal”, by Fernando Spiner (“The sleepwalker”, “Aballay”, “The buoy”), performed by Belén Blanco, Daniel Fanego and Diego Velázquez addresses the story of Ana who returns to Buenos Aires from Italy due to a family matter and comes into contact with a scientist who tries to convince her that he discovered the door to a parallel dimension where she could visit her dead father.

he films, it will be screened in the official competition next 18 October.

Meanwhile, “Vurdalak Blood”, of Santiago Fernández Calvete, co-production by Aramos Cine, Check Content and 108 Media, It is an adaptation of The Vurdalak Family, tale of vampires written in 1939 por Aleksey Tólstoi, about a man who after killing a vampire, come home at magic hour, Between day and night, and his family doesn't know if he's still human or if he's turned into a monster.

he films, headed by Germán Palacios, Uruguayan actress Alfonsina Carrocio, Tomás Lizzio Carullo and Naiara Awada, among others, who got his first prize at the Blood Window Lab Festival 2018, el premio Film Dub Factory 2019 on that same holiday, and the Chemistry Laboratorios de México award will compete next 14 October in the Official Fantástic Panorama Section.