Horror – The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org The American French Film Festival in Los Angeles Sat, 11 Jan 2025 03:41:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 THE BALCONETTES https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/the-balconettes-2/ https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/the-balconettes-2/#comments Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:54:08 +0000 https://theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org/?p=20054 COMING TO US THEATRES IN 2025, FOLLOWED BY A DIGITAL RELEASE.

THE BALCONETTES

| 2025 – 103′  – Horror, Comedy, Thriller.
Written by: Noémie Merlant, Céline Sciamma.
Directed by: Noémie Merlant.
Starring: Souheila Yacoub, Sanda Codreanu, Noémie Merlant, Lucas Bravo, Annie Mercier, Nadège Beausson-Diane, Henri Cohen, Christophe Montenez.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2024.
Official Competition TAFFF 2024.
In French with English subtitles.
Released byThe Forge Entertainement. |

Temperatures are soaring in Marseille. Would-be novelist Nicole sits on her balcony in search of inspiration, but her mind keeps wandering to the hunky guy lurking in his window across the street… Enter Ruby, her cam-girl roommate, fresh from a threesome and equally smitten with their handsome neighbor… Then their actress-friend Elise turns up, dressed as a Marilyn-lookalike, literally smashing into the cute guy’s car. However, things spiral out of control when the sexy neighbor invites them all over for a drink… and the bloodbath begins. Actress-turned-director Noémie Merlant‘s absurdist second feature mixes broad comedy, Asian gore and sexual politics in this gleeful takedown of toxic masculinity and gender-based violence.

 

 

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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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OXYGEN

| 2021 – 101′ – Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror.
Written by: Christie LeBlanc.
Directed by: Alexandre Aja.
Starring: Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi, Marc Saez, Laura Boujenah, Cathy Cerda, Eric Herson-Macarel, Lyah Valade, Pascal Germain.
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix release. |

 

Liz (Mélanie Laurent) wakes up in a cryogenic pod. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she ended up there. As she’s running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find a way out of her nightmare.

 

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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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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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CLIMAX

| 2019 – 95′ – Drama, Horror, Music & Dance.
Written by: Gaspar Noé.
Directed by: Gaspar Noé.
Starring: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan Maull, Giselle Palmer, Taylor Kastle,Thea Carla Schøtt.
Official Selections: Director’s Fortnight Cannes 2018 (Winner Art Cinema Award), Toronto International Film Festival 2018.
In French with English subtitles. 17+.
An A24 release. |

 

When members of a dance troupe are lured to an empty school, drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night — and find out who’s responsible — before it’s too late.

 

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THE VOURDALAK

| 2024 – 95′ – Horror, Drama, Fantasy.
Written by: Adrien Beau, Hadrien Bouvier.
Based on the Book by: Alexei Tolstoi.
Directed by: Adrien Beau.
Starring: Kacey Mottet Klein, Ariane Labed, Grégoire Colin, Vassili Schneider, Claire Duburcq, Gabriel Pavie, Erwan Ribard, Adrien Beau.
Official Selection: Venice International Film Festival 2023 (International Critics’ Week).
In French with English subtitles.
An Oscilloscope Laboratories release. |

When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as they await the imminent return of their father, Gorcha. But what begins simply as strange quickly devolves into a full-fledged nightmare when Gorcha returns, seemingly no longer himself…Adapted from a novella that predates Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ by over half a century, ‘The Vourdalak’ is an atmospheric, unexpected, sensorial experience that will leave you reeling and giddy in equal measure.

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LOCKDOWN TOWER

| 2023 – 89′ – Drama, Horror.
Written by: Guillaume Nicloux.
Directed by: Guillaume Nicloux.
Starring: Angèle Mac, Hatik, Lina-Camélia Lumbroso, Ahmed Abdel Laoui, Kylian Larmonie, Nicolas Pignon, Igor Kovalsky, Marie Rémond.
Official Selections: Rome International Film Festival 2022, Rotterdam International Film Festival 2023.
In French & Malagasy with English subtitles.
A Shudder release. |

The inhabitants of a tower block wake up one morning to find a black veil shrouding all the windows and doors of the building – a black veil which devours anything and anyone who tries to go through it… Stuck inside together, families organize themselves but time passes and nothing changes. They gradually return to their most primitive instincts and now respond to a single watchword : survival.

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CAGED

| 2016 – 84′ – Horror.
Written by: Yann Gozlan, Guillaume Lemans.
Directed by: Yann Gozlan.
Starring: Zoé Félix, Eric Savin, Arié ElmalehIvan Franěk, Igor Skreblin, Philippe Krhajac.
In French with English subtitles.
A Under the Milky Way release. |

 

 

Carole is a member of a humanitarian team whose mission in the Balkans is reaching its end. On the way home, she and her two team-mates are brutally attacked and kidnapped by criminals whose motives are unclear. Who are these kidnappers? What do they really want? The truth will turn out to be terrifying. The first film by the director of Black Box and Burn Out.

 

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