The 44th TerrorMolins has hung the poster of sold out at the opening session withthe state premiere of 'Disforia', and the screening of 'Gaua', by Alabès filmmaker Paul Urkijo.
Notable presences: the 'Disforia' team, Urkijo and filmmakers from more than fifteen international short films accompanied the screenings of their works, reinforcing the global and participatory dimension of the festival.
The most supportive TerrorMolins: TerrorKids fills La Peni and raises funds for AFANOC with a new album of stickers, in collaboration with teachers and students of the Joso School.
The festival continues with the Spanish premieres of 'Kinki Chiho no Aru Basho ni Tsuite' and 'Missing Child Videotape', plus prominent guests and the closing with 'La frecuencia Kirlian', before the grand finale of the 12-hour Marathon.
Molins de Rei, November 10, 2025 — The first weekend marked the beginning of the 44th TerrorMolins program, after a dazzling opening Friday with tickets sold out of the short film Stomach Bug by Matty Crawford, and the film Dysphoria by Christopher Cartagena, accompanied by the director, the cast and other members of the team, who starred in a session with the Teatre de La Peni packed to capacity and an expectant audience.
On Saturday and Sunday, the festival maintained an intense pace and a large influx of attendees to the sessions. short films —Section C-Broken, the two sessions of the Official Section and the long awaited TerrorKids—, which was attended by numerous filmmakers from around the world. Among them, the Bulgarian Kourosh Ahari (Kukeri), the Belgian Mathieu Mortelmans (Corps étranger (Foreign Body)) or Portuguese Fernando Alle (Borbulha (Pimple)), among others. The Family Session was also held, with Sketch. Be careful with what you draw and the short film Super Z, presented by its director, Marc Dalmau.
Out-of-competition screenings offered some of the busiest moments of the weekend, with Together (Michael Shanks, 2025), starring Alison Brie i Dave Franco, and The Long Walk (La larga marcha) (Francis Lawrence, 2025), an adaptation of the novel by Stephen King. Both sessions filled the hall, with nearly 400 spectators per film. The first section of the festival culminated on Sunday evening with the screening of Gaua, the new film by the Alava filmmaker Paul Urkijo Alijo (Errementari, Irati), who visited Molins de Rei to present this folk horror fable about witchcraft and creatures of the night in 17th century Basque Country, in a completely private session. sold out.
J-Horror, the common thread of the edition. The session retrospective from Ringu (The Ring), the classic of Hideo Nakata of 1998, was one of the most anticipated moments of the weekend. The screening paid tribute to one of the most influential works of modern horror cinema and featured the presentation of Gloria Fernandez i Enrique Garcelan, founders of CinemaAsia, who contextualized the J-Horror genre and explained what this phenomenon meant and how it has endured over time. In the coming days, the festival proposes a journey through new spaces and revisions of Japanese horror with feature films such as New Group (Yuta Shimotsu, director of Best Wishes to All), Kinki Chiho no Aru Basho ni Tsuite (About a Place in the Kinki Region) (Koji Shiraishi, author of Sadako vs. Kayako) or Missing Child Videotape, which renew the spirit of the genre with stories that explore myths, social tensions and contemporary fears.
Solidarity TerrorMolins. Last Sunday morning, children of all ages filled the La Peni space, from the Pista —where they could participate in different workshops and creativity activities— to the Theater room, with the TerrorKids session. This screening, aimed at children between 6 and 12 years old, offered a selection of horror short films specially designed for audiences of this age. The session included a visit from the Latvian playwright Krista Burāne, director of two of the screened titles (Durvju burvis (Wizard of the Door) and Manai mammai nav bail (My Mommy Isn't Afraid)), who shared the keys to her work with the young viewers.
Like every year, TerrorKids has a solidarity: the profits from the session go entirely to AFANOC, the association that supports children with cancer and their families. As a notable novelty of this edition, a sticker album illustrated by students of the’Joso School, available at the festival box office. The proceeds from its sale will also go entirely to AFANOC, while children can discover the most emblematic spaces of TerrorMolins by collecting terrifying and very fun stickers.
The programming continues. The festival continues throughout the week without slowing down and until Saturday for the grand finale of the legendary 12h marathon, of which the last tickets remain. Since Monday, the program offers double and single sessions of feature films, with the Spanish premieres of Kinki Chiho no Aru Basho ni Tsuite (About a Place in the Kinki Region) and Missing Child Videotape, as well as titles such as Monkey's Magic Merry Go Round, Geomeun sunyeodeul (Dark Nuns), Marshmallow and Bramayugam.
The guest filmmaker Brandon Christensen will personally present his films Night of the Reaper and Bodycam on Thursday the 13th at 8:30 p.m., while on Friday the 14th at 5 p.m. the Catalan premiere of Clown in a Cornfield will be held.’Eli Craig, within the session TerrorYoung, presented by the Young Programmers. The closing session with the short film Confession, by Never Nakanishi,and the film The Kirlian Frequency will lead the Argentine director Christian Ponce at the festival to close the week. In addition, the week includes conferences, masterclasses, talks, sessions for schools and the pitching of the finalists in Award for the best production project for a horror short film in Catalan, whose winning project will be announced on Thursday the 13th at noon.