GFF The Untamed (La Region Salvaje)

Earning comparisons with Under the Skin , Amat Escalante’s brooding, hypnotic curio offers a heady mixture of science-fiction, sexual obsession, self-destruction and social commentary. Alejandra (Ruth Ramos) feels trapped in a violent, loveless marriage to the suffocatingly macho Angel (Jesus Meza). Her brother Fabian (Eden Villavicencio) has his own relationship problems. A solution arrives in the shape of the mysterious Veronica (Simone Bucio), who offers them a close encounter with something that is not of this world; something that has the capacity for pleasure or pain.

This film is F-rated. Films are given an F-rating if directed by women, written by women and/or present significant female characters on screen, in their own right. f-rated.org.