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Shiver revolves around Santi (Junio Valverde), a 16-year-old suffering from XP, a disease that makes him acutely sensitive to sunlight. Life in Barcelona becomes difficult for him and he longs to leave. Best of all would be to move to Laponia, because the sun seldom shines on this northern Swedish town, and so life there, he is convinced, would be more bearable. His mother Julia (Mar Sodupe) has different plans as she can’t afford moving to another country. She decides to move to Arrozas de Valdeon, a remote village in northern Spain, rarely penetrated by the sun’s rays on account of the high mountains that surround it.
Instead of the mountain idyll they so longed for, the two soon encounter an odd series of events. At first, animals begin to disappear – apparently by the influence of something unknown lurking in the nearby woods. And then one day a young boy is killed. Santi, who witnesses the boy’s death, soon becomes the prime suspect in the eyes of the villagers. Antonio, the local policeman, asks Julia to keep an eye on her son in order to avoid any more trouble. In the meantime, Santi begins to make friends. In order to prove his innocence, he and Angela(Blanca Suárez) decide to get to the bottom of the mystery that lies buried in the woods. They discover a wild girl whose parents died long before in tragic circumstances. And it turns out that some of the inhabitants of Arrozas de Valdeon are not as blameless as they would like to believe.
Directed by multiple-award winner Isidro Ortiz, Shiver screened at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival.
