The home of the Swiss watch industry on the French border always produces a timely reminder of the diversity of the fantasy genre. This year's festival runs from July 5th-13th and kicks off with Animale (2024), a French were-bull movie where a young bullfighter seeking to win the local competition in the Camargue (bullfighting is still legal in the south of France) slowly turns into one of her victims and runs amok. Animale is headed by rising star Oulaya Amamra who was also in the French TV series Vampires (2020).
The Festival offers 124 films this year from 46 countries, so it's not possible to highlight them all - but many will pop up in other festivals on the circuit before release in cinemas or moving to stream.
Ennennum (2024) is a breathtaking Malayalam movie. It translates as 'Now and Forever'. In the movie, a young couple opt to allow an implant that will make them immortal (are you reading this, Elon?). They allow it on a three-day money-back-guaranteed basis. After taking the implant, things turn out not as they'd hoped:
Comedy horror Your Monster (2024) is sure to brighten your day. A failing actress (Melissa Barrera from Abigail) arrives home to find a monster in her cupboard.
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Melissa finds a man of big proportions in her cupboard
Norwegian movie Jakt (Hunt) is being sold in Anglophone territories as Hunters on a White Field (2024). Three young competitive stockbroker types meet in the forest to hunt deer. Unable to find any, they invent a new game instead:
Japanese sci-fi comedy River (2023) will play with your brain. Imagine being trapped in a time-loop that repeats every two minutes:
There's a special screening of Three Body Problem. I confess I found the books heavy going but a Chinese friend of mine said the translation was clunky and the original was much sharper - I haven't seen the TV version yet.
Azrael (2024) makes its European début at the Festival. The world has been taken over by aliens who have banned speech. Azrael escapes from slavery and a pursuit follows. The film stars Australian actress Samara Weaving who was also in The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020), a movie I really must get round to seeing because it also stars Jenna Ortega.
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Finally, a quick mention for Taiwan's Breaking and Re-entering (2024) - not horror exactly but an adrenalin-fuelled ride in a neo-noir:
The Festival offers 124 films this year from 46 countries, so it's not possible to highlight them all - but many will pop up in other festivals on the circuit before release in cinemas or moving to stream.
Ennennum (2024) is a breathtaking Malayalam movie. It translates as 'Now and Forever'. In the movie, a young couple opt to allow an implant that will make them immortal (are you reading this, Elon?). They allow it on a three-day money-back-guaranteed basis. After taking the implant, things turn out not as they'd hoped:
Comedy horror Your Monster (2024) is sure to brighten your day. A failing actress (Melissa Barrera from Abigail) arrives home to find a monster in her cupboard.
Melissa finds a man of big proportions in her cupboard
Norwegian movie Jakt (Hunt) is being sold in Anglophone territories as Hunters on a White Field (2024). Three young competitive stockbroker types meet in the forest to hunt deer. Unable to find any, they invent a new game instead:
Japanese sci-fi comedy River (2023) will play with your brain. Imagine being trapped in a time-loop that repeats every two minutes:
There's a special screening of Three Body Problem. I confess I found the books heavy going but a Chinese friend of mine said the translation was clunky and the original was much sharper - I haven't seen the TV version yet.
Azrael (2024) makes its European début at the Festival. The world has been taken over by aliens who have banned speech. Azrael escapes from slavery and a pursuit follows. The film stars Australian actress Samara Weaving who was also in The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020), a movie I really must get round to seeing because it also stars Jenna Ortega.
Finally, a quick mention for Taiwan's Breaking and Re-entering (2024) - not horror exactly but an adrenalin-fuelled ride in a neo-noir:
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