SECTION X was born of the need to highlight the shared COUNTERCULTURAL ROOTS of both experimental filmmaking with cinematic horrors. Screenings of short, medium and features, are curated to present bold visual experiments SHAPING TODAY'S AND TOMORROW'S horror. Expect body horror, fantasy, transcendence, and hallucination—films that unsettle with TRANCE-LIKE TECHNIQUES and UNCONVENTIONAL FORMS. By breaking narrative causality and deconstructing familiar visual language, these works function as hallucinatory rituals: disorienting, poetic, and eerily primitive. The program searches the sources of these visions to reveal FRESH PERSPECTIVE OF CINEMATIC TERROR, offering a kaleidoscope of macabre poetry, occult imagery, and chromatic puzzles from leading EXPERIMENTAL INNOVATORS.

★ Motel X ★ MOTELX is Lisbon’s annual horror film festival, showcasing international and Portuguese genre cinema since 2007. It features feature and short films, retrospectives, workshops, and awards, and is recognized for promoting emerging Portuguese talent while connecting a community of filmmakers and fans.