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Sitges Announces Opening film ‘Hermana Muerte’ at Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion, Reveals Poster for Upcoming Edition

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Marta Balaga The Sitges–International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia has revealed the opening film for its 56th edition at Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion: “Hermana Muerte” by Paco Plaza.

Produced by El Estudio for Netflix, it was written by Jorge Guerricaechevarría. Shot almost entirely in the Valencian monastery of San Jerónimo de Cotalba, Plaza’s seventh feature is “a horror tale with a feminine touch,” it was stated, which will take its viewers all the way back to post-Civil War Spain, when a convent is shaken up by the arrival of Narcisa, a young novice with supernatural powers. “I have been attending this festival for over 30 years now.

Most of my films have been screened there, so it’s like coming home, and sharing it all with my family and my friends,” Plaza told Variety following the announcement. “Hermana Muerte,” starring Aria Bedmar, Almudena Amor and Maru Valdivielso, is a prequel to his 2017 film “Verónica.”  “There was this secondary character and I thought there is still more to say about her.

I wanted to explore it a bit more. When we released a DVD for ‘Verónica,’ we included a comic book based on that character. It felt natural to expand that universe and go to this character’s roots,” he notes.   “We wanted to explore the light within the darkness.

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