Jorge Prado

Winner of Best Short Film at the Berlinale, Francisco Lezama’s idiosyncratic comedy sees life for what it is: absurd and mundane, with sporadic moments of serendipity. Twisting together diverse modern phenomena—dating apps, global finance—An Odd Turn is alive to the present in all its surprises.

Father Javier lives a fractured existence: on one side, he assists families who claim to have witnessed miracles, and on the other he is part of a trio of excommunicated priests who hunt the possessed down to exorcize them under their own terms: with Bibles, fire and shotguns.

In the midst of a mysterious insomnia pandemic, a couple tries to escape the chaos in their motorhome and enter a strange and dangerous world.