2001 | Color | 108:00 Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil's Backbone tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Direction: del Toro; Guillermo Script: Muñoz; David, del Toro; Guillermo, Trashorras; Antonio Cast:Lorenzo; José Manuel, Garcés; Íñigo, Tielve; Fernando, Visedo; Irene, Luppi; Federico, Noriega; Eduardo, Paredes; Marisa, Maestre; Paco Participation year at FICM: 2017
2001 | Color | 108:00 Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil's Backbone tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Direction: del Toro; Guillermo Script: Muñoz; David, del Toro; Guillermo, Trashorras; Antonio Cast:Lorenzo; José Manuel, Garcés; Íñigo, Tielve; Fernando, Visedo; Irene, Luppi; Federico, Noriega; Eduardo, Paredes; Marisa, Maestre; Paco Participation year at FICM: 2017
Pan’s Labyrinth The year is 1944. Thirteen-year-old Ofelia and her mother Carmen move to a small town due to the work of her stepfather, a cruel captain in the Francoist army whose mission is to quell republican resistance in the area. Ofelia discovers the ruins of a labyrinth and meets a faun with an extraordinary revelation for her: she is actually a princess, the last of her lineage, and her people have been awaiting her for a long time. See More
Pinocchio Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents Carlo Collodi’s classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto. This whimsical, stop-motion film follows the mischievous and disobedient adventures of Pinocchio in his pursuit of a place in the world. See More
The Shape of Water An otherworldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America in 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Eliza—who is mute—is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. But her life is changed forever when she and her co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment. See More
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