Nouvelles

22 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Gerardmer 2021 : PG Psycho goreman on the program of the shifted night

    Psycho Goreman is a Canadian science fiction horror comedy written and directed by Steven Kostanski. It stars Nita-Josee Hanna and Owen Myre as a younger sister and brother who involuntarily resurrect a former alien lord (played by Matt Ninaber). Psycho Goreman was originally scheduled to premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2020, but the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was screened later in the year as part of Beyond...

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22 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Gerardmer 2021 : Sputnik will be screened

    Sputnik is a 2020 Russian science fiction horror film directed by Egor Abramenko for his directorial debut. It stars Oksana Akinshina, a young doctor recruited by the army to evaluate a cosmonaut who survived a mysterious space accident and returned to Earth with a dangerous organism living inside him. Alongside Akinshina, the film has Pyotr Fyodorov and Fyodor Bondarchuk in its cast. Sputnik was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in...

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22 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Gerardmer 2021 : Sleep will be screened in official competition

    Tormented by horrible nightmares that she believes to be real, Marlene (Sandra Hüller) decides to collect her dreamlike visions. Assembling nightmarish sketches, bewildering notes and memories gathered throughout the year, she goes to a remote hotel in the peaceful village of Stainbach. There, the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place and she falls into a nervous breakdown. Worried about her mother's condition, her 19-year-old daughter Mona (Gro Swantje...

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22 january 2021

  • Festivals

    Gerardmer 2021 : Slaxx in the program of the shifted night

    "Slaxx is above all a movie about killer pants! This totally crazy idea came to Patricia Gomez Zlatar and me in a flash. Before we even knew it would be a criticism of the fast fashion industry, we wanted to see killer pants!" - Elza Kephart Launched as part of Fantasia's Frontiers co-production market in 2017, Slaxx is the newest and most eccentric film by Fantasia festival regular Elza Kephart (Graveyard alive, Fantasia 2003). Satisfying the kind of trendy...

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21 january 2021

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    Gerardmer 2021: Impetigore will be screened

    Impetigore is a 2019 Indonesian horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film stars Tara Basro, Marissa Anita, Christine Hakim, Asmara Abigail and Ario Bayu. Impetigore was released in Indonesia on October 17, 2019, screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020 and was released in the United States on July 23, 2020 with Shudder, and was selected as the Indonesian entry for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy...

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