PROGRAM 2025

Feature Competition

EL TEMA DEL VERANO

(SUMMER HIT)
Out of Competition
Director: Pablo Stoll Ward
18+
Duration: 91 min
Year: 2024
Country: Uruguay / Argentina / Chile
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy

AWARDS
Best Director Award / Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre (BARS) Festival

NOMINATIONS
Best Film / Sitges Film Festival, Midnight X-Treme Section

SYNOPSIS
Ana (Azul Fernández), the relentless Malú (Malena Villa), and Martina (Débora Nishimoto) make a living seducing wealthy men, drugging them, and robbing them blind. This post-pandemic summer, they plan the biggest heist of their careers: stealing from Ramiro Tübingen (Gonzalo de Galiana), an eccentric millionaire and patron of dilettante artists. This time, the plan goes wrong, and instead of simply knocking out their victims, they accidentally kill them. That wouldn’t be an issue if the corpses stayed dead—but this summer, the dead won’t stay dead.

Pablo Stoll Ward

BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1974 in Montevideo, Uruguay, he is a director, screenwriter, and producer. Together with Juan Pablo Rebella, he wrote and directed 25 Watts (2001) and Whisky (2004). In 2009, he directed his first solo project, Hiroshima, followed by 3 (2012) and The Summer's Theme (2024). He is also the creator of the series Everyone Behind Momo (2018).
He is the founder of Control Z Films and has directed short films, music videos, and television programs. The Summer's Theme is his first venture into the fantasy genre. The film had its world premiere at the Sitges Film Festival 2024.