PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Luis Mandoki, director of the film Presencias.
At the 40th Torino Film Festival, in the Out of competition section Crazies, Luis Mandoki, director of Hollywood rom-coms such as Born Yesterday, Message in a Bottle and Angel Eyes talks about his first horror film, set in Mexico, Presencias, starring Academy Oscar nominee Oscar Yalitza Aparicio.
Presencias: Follows a man whose pregnant wife gets murdered and despite the police investigation, the truth is unknown. He tries to find what happened, which confronts him with situations of suspense and terror.
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