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Found Alive opens Sitges with a survivor at the centre of its thriller

Found Alive opens Sitges with a survivor at the centre of its thriller
NewsMythscribe9 October 2026

Carlota Pereda’s Found Alive has opened the 59th Sitges Film Festival. The organiser’s October 9 report confirms the screening and identifies Pereda as the first Spanish woman to open the competition.

Carlota Pereda’s Found Alive has opened the 59th Sitges Film Festival. The organiser’s October 9 report confirms the screening and identifies Pereda as the first Spanish woman to open the competition. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Reeve LeClaire, a kidnapping survivor who mentors a recently rescued girl. Her account points

toward other disappearances, sending Reeve into a search for people still in danger. The film adapts Carla Norton’s The Edge of Normal. Pereda reunites with cinematographer Rita Noriega, her collaborator on Piggy. The opening programme also screened Homing, a short by Lizzie Atherton and Hansel Rodrigues, while David

Gregory received the festival’s Industry Award. Read the official source. Image: Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival; official Carlota Pereda opening report photograph.

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