1978

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During the 1978 FIFA World Cup Final between Argentina and the Netherlands, at the height of the military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and abducts young people, taking them to a clandestine detention centre.

What begins as a brutal interrogation soon turns into a nightmare—the captors have chosen the wrong victims. The abducted individuals belong to a dark cult controlled by an unknown supernatural force. The secret detention center will become a true hell on Earth…

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Sitges 2024
Tallinn Black Nights 2024
Telluride Horror Show 2024
ScreamFest 2024
Panic Fest 2025

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Brothers Luciano and Nicolás Onetti are Argentinian filmmakers. Luciano Onetti is known for his features DEEP SLEEP (2013) and ABRAKADABRA (2018); in addition to directing and writing, he also composes film scores. Nicolás Onetti is known for WHAT THE WATERS LEFT BEHIND (2017) and ANONYMOUS ANIMALS (2020), directing, writing and producing films. 1978 (2024), which they directed and wrote together, is their latest feature film.