Viva La Muerte
Viva La Muerte's hero (Mahdi Chauch), a young boy named Fando, and its story closely parallels the early life history of Fernando Arrabal, whose mother betrayed her leftist husband to the Fascists during the Spanish civil war-and who taught her son that his father was dead, whereas in fact he was miserably imprisoned. Fando searches for his father and never finds him, as Arrabal never found his, but he remembers him and imagines his fate-and in a series of harsh monochrome fantasy passages, memory and imagination largely define the unique life of the film.