The programme of the 24th edition of theNIFFF Did we look so rich? Nothing's safer! Not to mention that your two MaG lascars are as brave as the sauna that had become the upper floor of the cinema Les Arcades at the beginning of the festival as the polar nights that followed at the Openair, renamed this year theDark Hallsa. They even dared to accept the shady kisses that bloomed the brains of the mythical Robert, who dragged his carcass through the streets of Neuchâtel. And it's great to have challenged all these dangers that they give you hereafter a complete after-session, the ultimate proof of their passage into the fief of the fantastic Swiss. We assure you that you will enjoy reading these reports as much as we have had to discover this dense programming, decidedly eclectic and, let's say, particularly qualitative! In addition to these reviews, we have concocted seven interviews in total with a cavalry rhythm between sessions. By the time the full versions come out during the release of the films this winter, we will share excerpts on our networks. Long live the NIFFF!
Awards
In International Competition
H.R. Giger price: The Ice Towerof Lucile Hadžihalilović
Mention : May my will be doneby Julia Kowalski
Imaging The Future Award :The Ice Towerof Lucile Hadžihalilović
NIFFF Award for International Criticism : Honey Bunchby Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli
Youth Prize: U are the universeof Ulaa Salim
RTS hearing award : U are the universeof Ulaa Salim
Asian competition
Public prices : RewriteDe Soi Cheang de Daigo Matsui
The reverse of the decor
There is no good festival without positioning on the state of the world. And the NIFFF did not derogate from it at its closing ceremony. If the Annecy festivalcommitted to supporting the Iranians.Following Israel's flash attack, the NIFFF, for its part, wanted to recall the progress of all-out fascism (see video below). An accelerated turn supported by the alliance of the terrible children of Silicon Valley and Capital, whose insolent weddings were warmly welcomed by the media affronted to the death ideology of the far right. A celebration that has become obscene since Donald Trump's numerous projections against what remains of the state of law across the Atlantic. This reactionary turn to international replicas commands acts of resistance everywhere, all the time. Cinema is the mirror of reality and genre films, its antechamber. During this edition, the selection reflected the concerns of our time with a much better cru than last year. Hope it lasts.
It is also impossible to ignore the backside of the decor, on a micro scale this time. First of all, thanks (again and always) to the NIFFF teams who worked hard to offer us the best production conditions for our interviews. A warm welcome and logistical support for an independent media like ours. We welcome the investment in press relations as many volunteers, despite organizational and managerial constraints which seem to have weighed heavily on employees. «Resignations, burn-out, mal-being at work» Titled the newspaperThe Coast This week. A feeling of exhaustion that we were able to measure ourselves on site and a state of affairs unfortunately too frequent in the cultural environment to be accommodated. Pierre-Yves Walder, the general and artistic director of the NIFFF did not remain indifferent and he split his first apology with the local press explaining «to be sincerely sorry [he may have] hit some collaborators ». It is now hoped that the management of the festival will react accordingly during the next edition to give the best frame to the working ankles, without which the NIFFF would not exist.
Logbook
Noise
South Korea |Release date: NC |Implementation: Kim Soo-Jin |Asian competition
For his first film,Kim Soo-jinoffers a paranoid thriller obsessed with sound. At the heart of the story is a hearing impaired young woman, disturbed by strange noises that seem to be related to the unexplained disappearance of her sister. As she sinks into the corridors of her building in search of answers, an icy certainty gradually becomes necessary: these sounds are nothing natural...
With its mysterious "noise" story, the synopsis starts at first sight directly on the side of the awesomeMemoriaWeerasethakul. The Thai filmmaker had managed to mix metaphysical narrative and true moments of stubborn oppression, which played as never before with his sound-design to take his spectator away. In other words, the expectations were high...Noiseis not a complete shipwreck (we remember trembling the terribleToxic DaughterHowever, in the last year at the NIFFF, he struggled to pass the stage of shy entertainment, immediately seen, soon forgotten. By neglecting to develop his characters, Kim Soo-jin leaves us too quickly in his cascade of rebounds borrowing much (too much?) from effects already worn out up to the rope in the genre cinema. The tension, the sensuality of this narrative, which puts a great deal on the waterfall sound and the multiplication of the clichés add even more weight to this promising story at first glance. Not angry but disappointed...
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Reflect in a dead diamond
France |Release date: in the hall |ImplementationBruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet |International competition| Interview to seeHere
Reflected in a black diamond, portrait of a dead diamond... one thing is for sure, we will have played with our feet and hands not to scratch the title of the last film by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani whose interview you will find on our Youtube channel. With its caleidoscopic narrative, this film pays tribute to theFumetti nerithe golden age of the films of spies. Taking the tone very first degrees of contemporary productions,Reflect in a dead diamondtraces the troubled memories of an old man waiting for his destiny facing the sea. A ray of sun, a bitter, bare breasts and imaginary turbine at full speed to offer us so many hallucinated scenes.
With his improbable pass trick worthy of the Gadget Inspector, the old agent resounds his moments of glory, where the fight against crime is never far from the raw desire. A confusing film that savors itself by its formal attempts pushed to the extreme, even forgets some of its characters. Whatever, each fragment is savored like a regressive pan of our unconscious film.Portrait in a black diamondis an effervescent cocktail so close to the era comics that it is hardly surprising when thumbnails appear on the screen. A film to be reserved for lovers of the genre and which should certainly convince those who had fallen under the charm of the darkDiabolik.
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A Useful Ghost
Thailand |Release date: NC |Implementation: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke |International competition
Full session forced, the mercury came up very quickly during the premiere of the filmUseful GhostThai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. If we had been told that we would have fallen under the charm of a film where a ghost reincarnated as a vacuum cleaner is looking for at all costs to get in touch with her husband, we would certainly have believed in a new delirium tremens crisis. Much more than a black comedy, Useful Ghostis unclassifiable as he explores ever more unusual narrative axes, until he slips towards politics with remarkable elegance. The stories tangle and like a polyphonic tale, told by the dead and the living,Useful Ghostis a NIFFF favourite. If ghosts haunt us, it may be because they have something to remember about our past. A burning film that heals the still gruelling wounds of the bloody red shirt repression in 2010. Funny, sensitive, burning. Must be seen on August 25, 2025 during the French release.
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Dangerous Animals
Australia |Release date: in the hall |Implementation: Sean Byrne |International competition
When a couple is invited on an Australian boat for a part of "shark cage diving", the owner of the lineer plans to feed the squales with these juicy tourists... When he goes looking for his next prey to take off to satisfy his deviant passion, he meets a young surfer (the hallucinatingHassie Harrison) that he soon embarks... But it will prove to be much tougher than expected.
IfDangerous Animalsin the genre of shark films initiated byThe Teeth of the Sea(but also a good bit of bouses), he has the audacity to completely dynamit the genre to offer his audience an ultra gripping entertainment (and not so stupid!). The feature film does not fall into the usual codes of the slasher (and its female victims quickly undressed and killed), nor in the one recently invested by Coralie Fargeat inRevengewith her heroine "mythologized" in an ultra-violent figure, mute and virilized with Rambo sauce...Dangerous Animalsoffers an intermediate path, with a clever and hargy protagonist who does not however turn to the archetype of cinematography virilization... And the same applies to bebeasts whose use goes rather in the opposite direction of what is generally found in highly marked narratives of this kind. In short, a very beautiful and entertaining surprise that should be discovered on a large screen (the film will soon be released in theaters)!
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Touch me
USA |Release date: NC |Implementation: Addison Heimann |International competition| Interview to come
And if you met an alien who invited you to drink after your barmaid service, what would you say? From the first few minutes of the film,Touch memanage to catch the audience's attention during this session at the psychiatrist where Joey, a young, unworked woman, tells this unlikely third-type night blow. Queer film in all the noblest things,Touch meis a « ovnifff » that only the festival of Neuchâtel could dare program. Addison Heimann goes beyond the simple guignolesque comedy with a tricky mix of genres that were not expected with such a messy synopsis. The director we interviewed in Neuchâtel explained to us that he was strongly inspired by the Japanese films of the 60s and 70s and the entire colour palette of the Giallos.
One of the first erotic scenes is of all beauty and it wasn't a thin deal not to turn to the caricature of a bad Hentai from dark corners of the internet. Funny, the movie is just as much. We must see this charismatic alien at the crossroads of Jesus and a Kamel Ouali from Eastern Europe embark on a hip-hop choreography in purple overwear. Invited to the villa of this narcissus never far from the guru, Joey and his friend Craig will purge their common trauma unconventionally. If the fim is scattered at times sometimes forgetting its original guiding thread, it convinces by its uncomplicated approach and who dares to show scenes of tentacular sex. Proof is, we came out a little more open than we had entered. Do tentacles win you?
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Bokshi
India |Release date: NC |Implementation: Bhargav Saikia |Asian competition
Anahita struggles to integrate into her high school. Yet his passion for history will train with a small group of students in the wake of Professor Shalini in search of an ancient site supposedly supernatural, lost in the middle of the forest. WhereBokshiWe begin to feel his will to narrate a queer story within a conservative India, while imposing a carcan ofFolk horrorwell infused narrative patterns ofMidsommar. If the first shots flirt with the kitsch without perfectly setting foot there, the rest of the feature film will not hold the road and will spread into an endless tunnel of more than two hours twenty where unfortunately there is not much to save. Ultra cheap, poorly written characters and far too many, caricature history... The feature film completely dumps us and it is not its few fulgurances (including a few rather sympathetic drawing passages) that will save this viewing. The biggest plantade in this edition!
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New Group
Japan |Release date: NC |Implementation: Yuta Shimotsu |Asian competition
A young girl tries hard to integrate into her high school, trying to blend into the masses of students. Yet when the latter begin to settle into strange human pyramids, a mysterious contagion of conformism seems to begin to ravage the whole establishment...
We have to seeNew GroupLike a fable. A kafkaian fable, absurd, that doesn't forbid anything until the worst WTF... But if the feature film first appears to be deceitfully fun, it manages to raise and question a multitude of "automatic" behaviors, integrated and imposed by society, to question them (brightly enough) on the screen. Ultra-punk and cut to the bone (duration of 1h20), it sweats from the influence of the magaka Junji Itō with its strange creatures composed of human bodies... A (very) nice surprise!
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Night Silence
Poland |Release date: NC |Implementation: Bartosz M. Kowalski |Forever Young
A grandfather (Maciej Damiecki) left for the retirement home after finding that he was becoming too burdensome for his son. If he integrates fairly quickly into this microcosm of residents all more tricky than each other, he will also quickly discover that a secret is hidden in the basements of the establishment.
Horrific thriller as tender as touching,Night Silencetestifies to a rise in rank in his director's careerBartosz Mr. Kowalski. Polish had already rewarded us with the ultra classic slasherNobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonightand here proves his attachment to the genre, although he digs a less frontal narrative, less inscribed in the codes, going rather to lorry on the side of the horror version Flanagan. Ultra licked in its special effects and in the design of its creatures, the film benefits from a twilight photograph tinted with a blue-greenish characterizing the rot that threatens each of the residents of this EHPAD. The themes are certainly heavy and should not be easy to wear by the ageing casting (the same remark made for the film).The Rule of Jenny Pen), but Kowalski manages never to be leadant and even to insert into his story real light and humorous touches. In short, a very beautiful film about the physical decrepitude and loss of his family...
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May my will be done
Poland |Release date: 19/11/2025 | Implementation: Julia Kowalski |International competition| Interview to come
After the medium filmI saw the devil's faceJulia Kowalski continues her exploration of female emancipation in a universe surrounded by men. There we find Maria Wrobel whom we met at NIFFF. If there was an actress to remember from this selection 2025 Neuchâtel, it would be her! In the literal sense of the term, the young Polish is overwhelming. It was on the shoot that she learned French and slept on the spot on this remote French farm. She plays the role of Nawojka, a young woman who lives with her father and brothers on the family farm. When Sandra, the free and sulfurous neighbour, returns to the village, Nawokka sees her desires upset. A painful film, poignant and incarnate up to the bone. Maria Wrobel accepted a very personal role as she entrusted us to Neuchâtel.
May my will be doneis an amazing dump that takes us where we never wait. Far from the too often agreed tropes ofcoming-of-ageThe film makes its own way to the apotheosis. As a necessary collective exorcism that does not leave unharmed. The captivating performance of Maria Wrobel will remain engraved in our memories, like that of Isabelle Adjani almost half a century ago already in the excellentPossession(1981). Release scheduled for November 19, 2025.
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Gibier
France |Release date: NC |Implementation: Abel Ferry |Ultra movie
Does a slasher hunter make a good slasher? When radical left activists return to search for the cameras they had hidden at the local slaughterhouse, the situation degenerates into a bloodbath with a local mayor determined to make disappear all those who get in the way of his road. If the film tries some political breakthroughs (too often carabinated), it is not well known whether it assumes its purpose perfectly. The counter-speech of deprecated hunters is equally present, which could lead to the thought that political activism is not useful, which would still be the case. Nevertheless, the film is a very good manhunt as we had not seen in the genre cinema for a long time, a fortiori French.
If one would have liked the political background to be more inclined towards a somewhat more subtle discourse than the harmful consequences of direct action and the use of violence, the film by Abel Ferry offers some memorable punches.Gibierhas an icy side. Killings give us to see a mirror of the real as this shooting scene at close range in the face of a young man immediately disfigured. A mirror image of police repression against yellow vests. This plan, in which nothing is spared, reminds us of how the LBD's recourse to civil society is now sadly trivialized.
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Obex
USA |Release date: NC |Implementation: Albert Birney |International competition| Interview to come
Already noticed at the Sundance Festival,ObexAlbert Birney is a very personal work. At the same time director and actor of his own film, Albert Birney encamps the role of Conor, a young man re-enacted in his apartment. A lonely character, closer to computers than humans. «Soon we will live in machines, even dogs» He predicts. In the early 1990s,ObexThe nostalgia of the past, that of the paper video game magazines that were coveted by the buralist and where each release of a new game was like the discovery of a treasure. To relax after a hard day of hard work, Conor sings alone in his bed in front of his 8-bit karaoke displayed on one of his monitors on his triple cathodic screen. The multitasking before the hour and which here gives this strange aspect to the film, as if the analog and digital worlds were juxtaposed.
While his dog (IRL as in fiction) is rushed into the gameObexwhich he has just received by post, Conor will do everything to recover his faithful companion. Obex's film par excellence shows a certain ingenuity to tell its story, all carried by a black and white photograph that reminds others of films likeTestsuoFor the eight-closing side, the glauque less.ObexBreathe in the good mood of strange morning and the naivety of old RPG. If you sometimes feel the limits of the device,Obexremains a curiosity to see, both touching and vibrant in sincerity.
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Hotspring Sharkattack
Japan |Release date: 04/08/2025 | Implementation: Morito Inoue |International competition| Ultra movie
A small Japanese village known for its hot springs is invaded by an army of bloody sharks. Yet, within the population, the response quickly organizes... Under his big fannyy air,Hotspring Sharkattackoffers a real Japanese comedy, super entertaining and with stakhanovist rhythm. So yes, it's stupid like a shark (completely) hammer, it's tweaked with three bits of strings and it stands by a miracle that is hardly explained. Stop! The film was able to conquer the entire public of an open-air NIFFF decidedly hilarious in front of these sharks in naughty CGI and impressive (and well named) Maccho!
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Cloud
Japan |Release date: 04/06/2025 | Implementation: Kiyoshi Kurosawa |Third Kind
A young man makes a lot of money on the Internet thanks to a very unattractive shopping-selling activity... But if his bank account fills up, he also makes quite a lot of enemies. Kiyoshi Kurosawa presented in the French rooms thisCloudat the same time as a film medium namedChemen. From this double exit, the NIFFF kept only along, in categoryThird Kindas he approaches the "gender" by tangent. And unfortunately, it's a half-flop for Japanese filmmaker past master in the art of tension... If the beginning of the film is taking place and you feel this stiffness so characteristic of its cinema, it is to evacuate (almost) totally into a single jumpscare... The end – of which we will not reveal nature – is hard to convince while the writing of the only female character poses a question...Cloud, a smoking project that can at least boast of its sublime photograph.
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The Ice Tower
France |Release date: 17/09/2025 | Implementation: Lucile Hadžihalilović |International competition| Interview to come
La Ice Towerbased in part on a modern rereading of the tale ofThe Snow Queen, story of Andersen who is the object of a cinematographic adaptation in Lucile Hadžihalilović's film. This feature film is first worn by an elegant photograph, reminiscent of that ofThe Woman of Tchaikovsky. The image is a small gem of composition; We want to slip into this artistic fugue, where a young girl Jeanne takes refuge on a film plateau after leaving an orphanage on the heights of this Alpine city. She meets the one who plays the role of ice queen Cristina, herself performed by Marion Colittard.
Despite the remarkable performance of young Clara Pacini, the film left us on the tile with the feeling of a beautiful diamond but hides a little too easily behind its flamboyant lights. Certainly Lucile Hadžihalilović can boast of beautiful sequences, but shouldn't it have given a little warmth to the film? And because of this, the film sinks into a formal exercise that its contemptors will most certainly call bourgeois cinema. Kilian came out upset, for my part I was more measured but no less disappointed at having been so close to touching something more intimate and sensitive. Remains a film with a singular atmosphere that will leave the part beautiful to interpretation for those who are not afraid of slowness.
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Opus
USA |Release date: NC |Implementation: Mark Anthony Green |International competition
Genuine pop legend, Alfred Moretti (John Malkovich) disappeared from radars for almost 30 years. However, he announces a return in big pomps for a final album to a group of journalists sorted on the track, invited to his recluse ranch to discover his latest songs in preview. Among the few happy few is the name of Ariel, a young, particularly honest critic.
This new release A24 presented at the NIFFF features a multi-genre film focused on a John Malkovich grimed pop icon. Prince's conglomerate, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, we will have to wait for his character to take the microphone for the first time before we immediately stop believing... The biggest hit of this international star of the song would be an old song passed under autothune? Deciduously ill-digested cow, as long as it is agreed to swallow... And unfortunately, it's not the only reptile thatOpusPut you under the tooth! It is therefore difficult not to abandon any consented suspension of unbelief before the film. Worse, to get lost in (many) too many directions and genres (comedy, paranoid thriller, horror, musical film...), he ends up mastering none. And that's too bad... A meagre entertainment for studio A24, which used us to much better.
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Hallow Road
England |Release date: NC |Implementation: Babak Anvari |Thrid Kind
A couple get their daughter's phone... She was driving under the influence of narcotics on the Hallow Road, almost an hour from home, when she hit a girl who was walking there. The child is lying in front of the car, inert... The whole film will follow the parents' race to join their daughter, in real time and by offering the scene of accident only her phone return. Process similar toThe Call(and probably a whole tripote of films in this subgenus of the constant out-of-field),Hallow RoadBritish director Babak Anvari takes the great Rosamund Pike as her main actress. However, it is very difficult to talk about the film without spoiler... We'll just say that tension is really on the table, even though several screenplay facilities will certainly get the viewer out of his viewing and the stress bubble he's building. Anyway, an original thriller, half-tone.
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U are the universe
Ukraine|Release date: NC |Implementation: Pavlo Ostrikov |International competition
Andriy, a space highway, is on a mission to a Jupiter moon when the Earth explodes. He prepares to become the last human in the universe when his radio sizzles... Ukrainian filmmaker Pavlo Ostrikov proposes with this first long a SF film infused with romance and humor. So don't lie, if you've read and seen a few pieces of science fiction (at random,2001 Space Odyssey), you will see approaching the script turns ofU are the Universeas clearly as a 100-metre-long asteroid. And yet, this scholarly marriage of Kubrick and Desireless shot in impressive decors easily transport its spectator through this pretty little story... For proof: the film won the youth prize and the public prize at the last NIFFF!
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Redux Redux
England |Release date: NC |Implementation: Kevin McManus & Matthew McManus |Ultra Movie
Irene Kelly takes the lead in traversing the multiverses to kill all the versions of her daughter's murderer... Offering an original multi-verse film while Marvel washed the concept, this is the bet raised hand by the McManus brothers. So yes,Redux Reduxfollows a set of scripts and will struggle to surprise us completely. But with his canon photography and the up-to-the-bouism of his scenes of violence, this feature film offered in the NIFFF Ultra Movie category will be super entertaining and spicy of a humor grinning never free. OneRevenge-movietaking and rabid who knew how to shake the festival.
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Orang Ikan
Singapore |Release date: NC |Implementation: Mike Wiluan |International competition
1942. A Japanese prisoner and a British soldier broke down on an island, a chain connecting their ankles. Forced to live together, they will discover that this piece of land is the den of a mythical creature. ReadingStrange Black Lake CreatureIn a context of world war, Mike Wiluan offers a decidedly retro monster movie. By opting forman in followingto embody his creature, he bets purely practical effects. It's sometimes kitsch, often gore and devilish entertaining! A bold choice in the age of all digital, which offers a beautiful moment of action and fear in the moisturizer of this impenetrable jungle...
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The Thing with Feathers
England |Release date: NC |Implementation: Dylan Southern |International competition
A young father with two children, a professional cartoonist, loses his wife. One night, shortly after his death, a giant raven enters his room...The Thing with Featherstries to metaphorize mourning through the monstrous prism — an idea already brilliantly (and much better) exploited by Juan Antonio Bayona inMinutes after midnight. While the feature film, an adaptation of Max Porter's novel, is generally on the road, it suffers from a poorly calibrated duration and from a central chapter entitled "Demon" that is frankly dispensable. The creature design impresses, and the performance of Benedict Cumberbatch — sober, intense — shows a clear overall picture. Alas, the film lacks cruelly daring: never radical enough to mark long-term, too shy in its use of horrific grammar to jostle. Touching at times, he will no doubt know how to move... but will be forgotten just as quickly. A fair movie — And deep down, dispensable.
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Exit 8
Japan |Release date: 03/09/2025 | ImplementationGenki Kawamura |Asian competition
Getting stuck in the aseptic corridors of a subway station, this is the basic nightmare of thisExit 8. The character will then, in a morbid game, have to find each anomaly (understand changing decor) to move on to the upper floor, until he emerges from the strange enigmatic trap.
Extract from an eponymous video game that the film adapts fairly faithfully,Exit 8is a pure concept film that brings the concept of opening space to the grand screen. Coming from the Internet, these places carry as much a confusing familiarity as a deep malaise, two adjectives that gladly accomlate to this paranoid and horrific thriller. Despite a necessarily redundant narrative, the show holds us, the tension rises every turn of a cran and finally gives birth to a work that is perhaps one of the best adaptations of video game on large screen in recent years.
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Gatillero
Argentina |Release date: NC |Implementation: Cristian Tapi Marchiori |Third Kind
Other film broke par excellence,GatilleroWe come straight from Argentina. Signed Cristian Tapia Marchiori,Gunmanof his English name is carried by a single sequence plane. A broken arm robbery in a neighborhood in the hands of the cards, the film slides into a dead body front leak. We follow the fraques of a beautiful speaker entangled in a matter of account settlements that will result in an authentic butcher shop like cartels know how to do it.
This is bold and rather effective despite the limited funds available. Unfortunately, even if the film is not inherently long, it would have gained the form of a medium film. Some kind dialogues seem to come out of nowhere, which is a bit of a challenge in the middle of the shootings. Still a penny-free film that deploys all the tricks to make us believe in this bloodbath that has become viral.
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The Home
Iceland |Release date: NC |Implementation: Mattias J.Skoglund |International competition
Adaptation of Mats Strandberg's eponymous novel,The Homeis directed by the Swedish Mattias J Skoglund. «I wanted to create a tone that would be very crude, intimate and slightly strange» explains Mattias J Skoglund. And because of this, the result is successful, all the more so for a second feature film. The story takes place in an anxious retirement home (euphemism), a theatre that is always effective for a horror movie. While her mother is caught up in senility, her son Joel has to resolve to leave her in this long-stay service, where her occupants recall those of Jack Nicholson's film. Beyond the only question of the end of life,The Homeshows how the family cocoon replicates trauma from generation to generation. WithThe HomeMattias J Skoglund looks straight into the domestic violence that haunts the victims. A little too much agreed in its conclusion, the film has sincere qualities that distinguish it from other films of the same genre.
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Eddington
USA |Release date: in the hall |Implementation: Ari Aster |Third Kind| Critique to readHere
After three films rooted in horrific folklore, his new feature film moves away from the paths of fear: Aster paints the portrait of a fractured America that no longer knows how to manage otherness. The star director of the A24 will first drown the spectator in a deluge of conspiracies of characters lacking attention no longer knowing who to believe or who to follow. From the charismatic mayor (Pedro Pascal) to the pathetic sheriff (Joachim Phoenix), everyone seeks to take the role of leader. Behind these small screens that colonized our daily lives, we think we're seeing preachers of competing sects playing elbows to control the city. Joachin Phoenix continues to explore the nuances of pathetic with an ordinary character catapulted in the frenzy of the world.
Less bright than the frescoThe sweat eastpresented at the 15th 2023 and dealing with related topics,the last product of the A24 distance from tripMidsommarlike the initiatory journey ofBeautiful is afraid,both sides of the same work. The only trait of union is paranoia.Eddington, though a little too talkative,Nevertheless, raises the only question that still stands today: plunged into a state of constant astonishment, how can we succeed in regaining control of a present at all speed? On the western model where tension rises until the gunpowder replaces the invective,EddingtonOr rather America is afraid is to be seen in the room right now.
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Sasyq
Kazakhstan |Release date: NC |Implementation: Yerden Telemissov |International competition
A homeless man, missing his suicide, discovers the existence of a strange alien whom he will try to help reach his planet... A Kazakh comedy by Yerden Telemissov, the film surprises him for his cut humour, his visual work which places him a thousand leagues in front of most French comedy with several million budgets and for the construction of characters all more hilarious than each other. If the dramaturgy follows a relatively classical set and that it will struggle to steal a spectator accustomed to this kind of story, it will propose a critique of the rather virulent Kazakh regime and several truly poignant moments. A real nugget of this international NIFFF competition and proof, after Steppenwolf, of the vitality of the cinema made in Kazakhstan.
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Sirāt
Spain |Release date: 10/09/2025| Implementation: Oliver Laxe |Third Kind| Critique to readHere
Inspired by the Sirāt Bridge, which, in Islamic tradition, becomes more and more narrow until it separates hell from paradise, the film by the French-Spanish filmmaker borrows so much fromMad MaxthanSalary of fear. Authentic flight forward with the sole instruction to never stop, Sirāt's trajectory is straight. Road movie initiation, the film starts with a crazy sequence giving to see the first moments of a rave party that will never really stop. Confounding with realism, we melt into the mass, as if we were caught ourselves by this technival that did take place for three non-stop days. Sergi Lopez that we met explained to us that it was necessary to melt into the mass. It was at the shoot to adapt to the rave and not the reverse.Sirātis a total experience.
So we follow this father played by Sergi Lopez s'engage alongside his son on a journey to find his eldest daughter, disappeared in a rave party at the gates of the Sahara. We slide with them into a universe where falling is a constant process. We came out numbly from the projection, as inhabited by the feeling of a collapse that is no longer to come, but long after us. Amazing in the literal sense of the term. It was already our favourite in Cannes and there is no doubt that it will be one of the best films of 2025. It was necessary to see the heads of festivalgoers at the exit of the film projection to convince each other of the explosive potential ofSirāt. Release scheduled for September 3, 2025, a date to mark in your calendar and to the (indelible) marker please!
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The Ugly Stepsister
Norway |Release date: NC |Implementation: Emilie Blichfeldt |International competition| Critique to readHere
Elvira wants to conquer the prince's heart at all costs, unfortunately it does not meet the criteria of beauty in force in the kingdom... His mother, who blooms in this potential marriage a hell of a jackpot, puts herself in the lead to help him conquer this much desired beauty. Reading the story ofCinderellabut from the point of view of the "bad" half-sister (if one follows the corpus imposed by Disney),The Ugly Stepsisterby Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt offers a perfectly disoriented tale. From the basic canvas, she will return everything: she injects pulp into the dusty genre of the film in suit, from the ultra-gore (sometimes barely sustainable) in the imaging impregnated by Disney vision and a good dose of sex in what should be a fairy tale. The whole thing comes to us in a form that is not without reminderThe Substance, with the same love of the monstrous and an even more powerful feminist discourse. A very nice surprise!
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Carrie
USA |Release date: 11/03/1976 | Implementation: Brian De Palma |Open Air
It was one of the other highlights of the NIFFF. DiscoverCarrieIn the open air was a real shock. Despite the half-century that separates us and makes the young public forget how much American society is mixed with religion, the film is still marked by exceptional psychological violence. Carrie White suffocates from the first few minutes of the film during this slow-moving sequence, where the bodies of the teenage girls are denuded without shade or modesty and where her comrades will make her live the martyr as she discovers her first rules. Educated in an extreme Puritan setting and maltreated by an implacable mother,CarrieHe has no space and his hopes will soon be overshadowed by his peers or rather his torturers. Blood from the first menstruation until the final hemoglobin rash. The most cruel childhood rape of the seventh Art.Carrie will have given birth to a whole generation of films on theThe InnocentstoThe Plague. A timeless classic.
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