Hurricane Season

When a group of teenagers discovers a corpse floating in the canal, the brutal reality behind the evil crime reveals a hidden secret of a town. This Netflix film, adapted from the novel of the same name by Mexican author Fernanda Melchor, tells the story of a witch's murder case that occurred in the small Mexican village of Matosa. Through the narrative of the murder case, the author strives to present the tragic consequences of deep-rooted issues such as violence and machismo in Mexican society, using a raw, dark, psychedelic, and surging language style. Since its first publication in 2017, the novel has been translated into nearly twenty languages, won the Berlin International Literary Award in Germany, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Dublin Literary Award, and has emerged as a remarkable contemporary classic in Mexican and Spanish literature. Elisa Miller, the first Mexican director to win the Cannes Short Film Palme d'Or, will direct the film and participate in the screenplay creation. When discussing the adaptation of this novel into a film, she said, 'Hurricane Season is the most important book for me and my peers. Adapting it into a film will come with huge challenges and responsibilities, but it will also yield great joy. I want to apologize to the readers of the novel—because you know, the movie can only present a certain imagined version of the novel, and this film can only be my version.'