STORIES OF DISENCHANTMENT (HISTORIAS DEL DESENCANTO) Latin Cinema Series

Demons and schoolgirls collide in this outrageous and innovative phantasmagoria from director Alejandro Valle. Using (GI and live action, this film tells the story of two children who stumble into a world filled with demons and drugs that doesn’t resemble anything ever seen before on screen.

Ximena leads her young friend Diego into a warehouse filled with strange objects. The woman who lives there, Ainda, returns home while the two kids are still inside. When the two school kids learn Ainda’s secret, they are plunged headlong into her strange life. She leads the two children into the very adult world of drugs and sexual experimentation, but that’s only where their journey begins.

Filled with unbelievable and gorgeous images, this film is reminiscent of the insane cinematic visions of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Mashing up Catholic iconography with Mexican cinematic surrealism, this daring work of art is something that simply could not get made in America right now. It must be seen to be believed.