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Driven wild by an inexplicable itch, a desperate man seeks relief in a city’s seedy underbelly.
Lucas wakes up one night with an itch so terrible he’ll brave any grimy underworld den in Lima – and do anything! – to soothe it. Screening at Sitges 2025 and Sundance 2026, Alex Fischman Cárdenas’s magnetic, uncategorisably strange short hurtles its existentially tormented protagonist forward with Safdie-like pace and tension, ratcheting up Lucas’s predicament to an audacious final scene you absolutely won’t see coming.
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