Anthony Bajon in the movie Teddy.
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Les Bookmakers / The Jokers
The Covid-19 will not have the skin of the Gérardmer Festival.
Fans of horrific and fantastic cinema will not meet in the Vosges for the 2021 edition since it will take place online (see box) from January 27 to 31.
This Thursday, the organizers unveiled some of the selected films.
On the side of the feature film competition, France will be represented by
Teddy
, a werewolf story directed by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma.
It will also be necessary to watch
Possessor
by Canadian Brandon Cronenberg (son of David), while
The Cursed Lesson
, by Kim Ji-han and Juhn Jai-hong, originally from South Korea, is for the time being the only Asian work that can claim to a price.
Also in the running are
Anything for Jackson
by Justin Dyck,
Boys From County Hell
by Chris Baugh,
Host
by Rob Savage,
Sleep
by Michael Venus,
Sweet River
by Justin McMillan,
The Other Side
by Tord Danielsson & Oskar Mellander and
The Stylist
by Jill Gevargizian.
Juries chaired by Bertrand Bonnello and Pio Marmaï
On the out-of-competition side, festival-goers will be able to see two Russian films,
Sputnik
and
Superdeep
, as well as
Impetigore
, by the often interesting Indonesian director Joko Anwar.
Frenchman Baptiste Rouveuvre will present his
Anonymous Animals
and South Korean Cho Kyung-hun his
Beauty Water
.
North American films will be in force with the Canadian
Butchers
and
Come True
and the Americans
The Dark & The Wicked
and
The Mortuary Collection
.
The British
Archive
and
Ghosts of War
will also be on the menu.
The organization will soon announce the feature films that will complete this 2021 program. We should also know in the coming days the names of the members of the feature and short film juries, who will be chaired respectively by Bertrand Bonnello and Pio Marmaï.
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