Fantasy – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:19:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 SURVIVE https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/survive-2/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/survive-2/#respond Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:48:44 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20052

SURVIVE

| 2025 – 90′  – Horror, Adventure, Fantasy, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Matt Alexander.
Directed by: Frédéric Jardin.
Starring: Émilie Dequenne, Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Delamar, Lucas Ebel, Arben Bajraktaraj, Olivier Ho Hio Hen, Simon Rérolle.
Official Competition TAFFF 2024 (North American Premiere).
In French with English subtitles.
A Samuel Goldwyn Films release. |

Since its formation, the Earth has experienced five mass extinctions. The sixth is just beginning… when Julia, Tom and their two kids celebrate their son’s 13th birthday on a boat in the middle of the ocean. In the midst of the festivities, a brutal storm rises, nearly capsizing the boat. The family awakens to find itself on a ravaged desert landscape. It seems the Earth has undergone an inconceivable reversal of its magnetic poles, literally draining water from the oceans. Danger lurks everywhere in this post-apocalyptic world, where crazed humans and hungry creatures from the abyss forage for human flesh, and a family must fight for its survival. Because when the poles reverse again, it will be too late.

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THE RETURNED

| 2012~2015  – 16 x 52′ –  Seasons 1&2 – Series, Horror, Fantasy, Crime.
Written by: Claire Kanny, Sarah Farkas, Marine Flores-Ruimi.
Directed by: Pierre Monnard.
Starring:Clotilde Hesme, Brune Martin, Pierre Perrier, Anne Consigny, Brune Martin, Samir Guesmi, Frédéric Pierrot, Yara Pilartz, Grégory Gadebois, Céline Salette, Ana Girardot, Swann Nambotin, Jenna Thiam.
In French with English subtitles.
A Mhz Choice release. |

 

In a small Alpine village, a group of men, women and children are in a state of confusion as they try to return to their homes after years of being away. What they don’t know is that no one is expecting their arrival because they have been dead for several years. Upon returning, they realize that their friends and family have moved on to the next stages of their lives since the now-returning souls passed on. Coinciding with their reappearance is a series of murders that bears a chilling resemblance to those of a serial killer from the past.

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FAMILY PACK

| 2024 – 90′ – Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Fantasy.
Based on the Game Board by: Hervé Marly, Philippe des Pallières.
Directed by: François Uzan.
Starring: Franck Dubosc, Suzanne Clément, Jean Reno, Jonathan Lambert, Bruno Goueri, Grégory Fitoussi, Lisa Do Couto Teixeira, Raphaël Romand.
In English or in French with English subtitles.
A Netflix Original release. |

 

After discovering a mysterious Card game, a family is thrust back in time to a medieval village where they must fend off dangerous werewolves each night.  

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NATHALIE

| 2004 – 100′ – Drama, Romance.
Written by: Anne Fontaine, Jacques Fieschi, François-Olivier Rousseau, Philippe Blasband.
Directed by: Anne Fontaine.
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Gérard Depardieu,Wladimir Yordanoff, Judith Magre, Rodolphe Pauly, Evelyne Dandry, Aurore Auteuil, Ida Techer.
Official Selections: Toronto International Film Festival 2003, Rendez-vous With French Cinema in New York 2004, Chicago International Film Festival 2004.
Official Competition COLCOA 2004.
In French with English subtitles.
A Cohen Media Group release. |

 

Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, and Gérard Depardieu star in this story of an unusual love triangle. When Catherine’s husband is unfaithful, she doesn’t want revenge — she’s curious. She wants to share the experience, but in secret, so hires an elite prostitute to seduce her husband and report back to Catherine. Her desire to remain in control of the situation is soon tested by other desires.

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THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP

| 2006 – 107′ – Comedy, Fantasy, Romance.
Written by: Michel Gondry
Directed by: Michel Gondry.
Starring: Sacha Bourdo, Stéphane Metzger, Pierre Vaneck, Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou, Emma De Caunes.
Official Selections: Berlin International Film Festival 2006, Sundance International Film Festival 2006.
In English.
A Warner Independent Pictures release. |

The Science of Sleep, a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux, an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life: Stéphane  returns to Paris to work in a printing firm that makes calendars. His vivid dreams are a compensation for the dull life he leads. Before his cardboard cameras, he invents a television program about dreams. One day, he meets Stéphanie, his neighbor, and falls in love with her. Initially charmed by this astonishing young man’s strange behavior, it then scares her away and Stéphanie rejects him. Awkward at the art of seduction, Stéphane decides to find the solution to his problem in the realm where imagination is king.

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DELICATESSEN

| 2012 – 100′ – Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Classic.
Written by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, Gilles Adrien.
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro.
Starring: Dominique Pinon, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Anne-Marie Pisani, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Rufus, Chick Ortega.
Ten César Awards Nominations. Four César Awards winner including Best First Feature and Best Screenplay.
In French with English subtitles.
A Lionsgate release. |

 

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher’s daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie, The City of Lost Children) deftly combines horror, sci-fi, and humor in his first feature, Delicatessen, a morbid comedy set in a visually ravishing futuristic dystopia.

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MEANWHILE ON EARTH

| 2024 – 89′ – Drama, Sci-Fi, Fantasy.
Written by: Jérémy Clapin.
Directed by: Jérémy Clapin.
>Starring: Megan Northam, Sofia Lesaffre, Catherine Salée, Sam Louwyck, Roman Williams, Nicolas Avinée, Yoan Germain Le Mat, Yoann Thibaut Mathias.
Official Selection: Berlin International Film Festival 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
A Metrograph Pictures release. |

Meanwhile on Earth follows Elsa (Megan Northam), a young woman who is struggling to come to terms with the disappearance of her brother, an astronaut who vanished during his first mission. Stargazing one night, she is shocked to receive contact from him, but her joy is short-lived when she learns of the dark and troubling forces behind his reappearance, forcing her to confront the lengths she will go for the brother she once feared was gone forever. The  first live-action feature for Clapin after his 2019 Oscar-nominated, Netflix-acquired animated movie I Lost My Body (Also winner of the Audience Award and Critics Award at COLCOA 2019).

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THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN

| 1995 – 112′ – Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Classic.
Written by: Gilles Adrien, Marc Caro, Guillaume Laurant.
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro.
Starring: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Geneviève Brunet, Odile Mallet, Rufus, Ticky Holgado.
Official Selections: Cannes International Film Festival 2015. 4 César Awards 2016 nominations (Winner Best Production Design).
In French with English subtitles.
A Sony Pictures Classic release. |

 

Old and decrepit Krank (Daniel Emilfork) has lost his capacity for dreaming and is attempting to fight death by stealing the dreams of children. Krank’s cadre of cloned henchmen (Dominique Pinon) snatch 5-year-old Denree  to subject him to the horrific dream-retrieval process. The boy’s father, One (Ron Perlman), the hulking strongman of a traveling circus, and his precocious 9-year-old friend, Miette , join forces to defeat Krank’s minions and save Denree.

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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

| 2011 – 90′ – Drama, Fantasy.
Written by: Catherine Breillat.
Based on the Tale by: Charles Perrault.
Directed by: Catherine Breillat.
Starring: Carla Besnaïnou, Kerian Mayan, Julia Artamonov, David Chausse, Diana Rudychenko, Luna Charpentier, Rizlaine El Cohen, Jean-Philippe Tessé.
Official Selections: Venice International Film Festival 2010, Toronto International Film Festival 2010, Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in New York 2011.
Official Competition COLCOA 2011.
In French with English subtitles.
A Strand Releasing release. |

 

Based on a tale by Charles Perrault, three fairies alter a curse on a young princess who is destined to die at an early age. Instead she embarks upon a hundred-year sleep, in which she is allowed to live a full and vivid life within her dreams. She experiences a sexual awakening that reshapes her view on Prince Charming when she has no clear perception of reality.

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THE SWARM

| 2020 – 101′ – Drama, Horror, Thriller, Fantasy, Nature & Environment.
Written by: Jérôme Genevray, Franck Victor.
Directed by: Just Philippot.
Starring: Suliane Brahim, Sofian Khammes, Marie Narbonne, Raphaël Romand, Victor Bonnel, Vincent Deniard, Stephan Castang, Guillaume Bursztyn.
Official Selection Critics Week Cannes 2020. 2021 Cesar Award Nomination (First Feature Film).
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix release. |

Virginie lives on a farm with her children Laura (15) and Gaston (7) and raises locusts as a high-protein crop. Life is hard: money worries and practical problems are piling up, tensions with her kids and neighbors are running high. But everything changes when she discovers the locusts have a taste for blood.

 

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