During the first Lockdown, after the pandemic in 2020, two flatmates, Adel and Flávia, who had been coping with precarious neoliberalism in Vienna, decided to make a film in their attic. They had to transform into the characters they’d created, as the new-born monstrous who would retaliate. The hole production was shot while their were isolated in the house and had no contact to the world outside, which led into a surrealistic performance of the producers and the cast.

The psychological thriller film “HOWL 2020” takes current political issues such as isolation, mental health and anti-fascism, and depicts them within a surreal performative narrative. In a sealed-off attic, the story of an encounter between two people, both outcasts, unfolds in a constant lurch between terror, cohesion, love, exploitation and violence. “HOWL 2020” is an antropophagic fairy tale, an act of symbolic revenge that nevertheless finds reconciliatory moments despite its bitterness.