Festivals - Gerardmer ; Discover the poster of the 30th edition while waiting for the program

By Mulder, 25 october 2022

This year will mark thirty years of horror, fright, mystery and open windows on the world's imaginations. Thirty years that have allowed the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival to establish itself as the Convention of the genre, consecrating trends and anticipations, federating a faithful, committed and passionate public, and every year, newcomers, warmly welcomed by the volunteers. This anniversary is an opportunity to look back at the past of this festival to question the future of fantasy creation.

Before the digital era, the Belgian film Thomas est amoureux by Pierre-Paul Renders triumphed and anticipated the era of videoconferencing. Wes Craven's masks and Dario Argento's giallo terrorized us. The New Zealand director Peter Jackson, before directing The Lord of the Rings, won the hearts of festival-goers with Heavenly Creatures, and the Korean Kim Jee-woon did his training in the Vosges before triumphing with his Two Sisters. Guillermo del Toro, Álex de la Iglesia, Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, J.A. Bayona, Hideo Nakata, Eli Roth grew up with us and opened the secret doors of their deepest nightmares... 

We even discovered in Gérardmer that there was poetry in vampires (Morse by Tomas Alfredson) and that fantasy had elegance and grace (It Follows by David Robert Mitchell) without forgetting the raw horror of the new Anglo-Saxon guard led by Andrés Muschietti, Jennifer Kent, Alex Garland, Rose Glass or Brandon Cronenberg and the French genre cinema with Christophe Gans, Alexandre Aja, Xavier Gens, Pascal Laugier, Lucile Hadzihalilovic or Julia Ducournau.

Gérardmer is betting on the next thirty years, taking into account the multiplication of screens, their shape, their brightness, and their ability to interpret the fantasies of filmmakers from all over the world.

So that tomorrow is fantastic!

(Source: press release)