La Sirena
2017 · 24m · USA
Directed by Rosita Lama Muvdi
A woman finds a mysterious figure with a hook in her ribcage washed ashore — a psychosexual mermaid myth.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
AFI thesis queer psychosexual mermaid horror with a hook in her ribcage. 27 million views on ALTER and age-restricted — that's not nothing. Tentatively curious.
An AFI thesis playing as queer psychosexual mermaid myth with body-horror skeleton — the ambition is the right one, and ALTER's 27M views confirm the genre placement. The festival pedigree is lighter than the conceit warrants, but the lineage to The Lure is honestly held.
ALTER upload, 27M views, age-gated — AFI thesis film by Muvdi with no description on the page, so I'm trusting the audience footprint and the ALTER curation rather than verifiable craft markers. The psychosexual-mermaid-myth pitch is exactly the kind of subgenre territory I look at carefully.
Festivals
- Dances with Films 2017