Title: Las mantis
Director: Dídac Gimeno
Script: Dídac Gimeno and Marina Velázquez
Countries: Spain, Argentina
Year: 2026

Synopsis

Following her mother’s death, fourteen-year-old Aitana spends the summer at her aunt and uncle’s house in a small town. There, she meets her cousin Lope, an introverted boy obsessed with insects and ghosts, and Cecilia, a mysterious young woman with a special sensitivity to the world of the dead. Between séances, excursions into the forest, and the appearance of a mysterious deer, Aitana experiences a summer shaped by the discovery of the supernatural, grief, and the end of her childhood.