The Spiral
Southeast Asian Premiere
Paolo Strippoli Italy, France, Belgium 2026 115 min M18 (Some Homosexual Content)
When a freak accident threatens Anna’s image of a perfect family, the matriarch makes a Faustian deal that leads to a spiral of annihilation in this morality tale hinged on bourgeois anxieties.
Once an aspiring actress, Anna, now the matriarch of an enviable wealthy family, is ecstatic when she learns that her daughter Alice has been cast in a commercial. But tragedy soon strikes: Alice’s leg is nearly bitten off by a dog. To prevent her daughter from becoming a cripple, Anna strikes a deal with a mysterious woman, setting in motion a chain of deadly consequences. Twenty years later, Anna decides to tell her daughter the truth.
The Spiral is a morality thriller by one of Italy’s most promising horror filmmakers. In this Faustian tale, a woman’s ego and love for her children propel her into a whirlwind of bourgeois anxieties and entropy, powered by the inescapability of fate.
Synopsis Writer: Sasha Han
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30 Oct, Fri 9:00PM / 115 min
Golden Village Bugis+, Hall 3
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The Spiral
L'Estranea
Paolo Strippoli
Italy, France, Belgium
2026
Italian
English
115 min
M18 (Some Homosexual Content)
Southeast Asian Premiere
Paolo Strippoli
Italian writer-director Paolo Strippoli studied film direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Best known for making horror films, his features include A Classic Horror Story (2021), Flowing (2022) and The Holy Boy (2025), which premiered at Venice. The Spiral, his fourth feature, competed for the Golden Lion at the same festival.
Jasmine Trinca,
Romana Maggiora Vergano,
Adriano Giannini
Marina Marzotto,
Mattia Oddone,
Jean-Christophe Reymond,
Joseph Rouschop,
Eva Curia