Suspiria

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organization.

Continuing the tradition of annual anniversary retrospectives, Kino Bize dedicates its thirteenth year to the work of Dario Argento, who transformed the horror film genre, turning it into a space for aesthetic and psychological reflection. His works mark the borderline between popular genre and auteur cinema, where the experience of fear is created through plot and visual structure, space, and sound. Argento's style established the giallo genre as a visually and conceptually complex form of cinema, whose aesthetic influence is still present in the contemporary cinema.