Orlok Films

Set in a bespoke toy shop, Imanol Ortiz López’s new short film is skin-crawling nightmare fuel bathed in vintage Kodachrome transfixion, calculated to the microsecond, honed to haunt and mortify.

Martin is divorced and his son works in a cosmetics factory. He takes obsessive care of his image and body and feels lonely. Desperate, he signs up for a seduction workshop to help him find a partner. One day he meets Marta and courting her becomes his number one goal.

They jumped on the road and were crushed under the car wheels. When she was a little girl she could see them by the car's lights on the summer nights. Now, years later, a weird revenge sensation is in her nightmares. Paula tells a psychologist of her fear of locusts while protecting her unborn child from a faceless threat.