The 32nd edition of the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival will take place from January 29 to February 2, 2025.
Here is the press release:
In 2025, Gérardmer summons spirits and wandering souls, Korean gwishin, dybbuks, djinns, zombies, ghosts of all kinds from here and elsewhere.
It is no coincidence that the specter, being of the depths, of the darkness and of the unconscious, a wandering figure on the borders of the visible and the invisible, is one of the motifs of choice of fantastic cinema and of cinema in general.
The 7th Art, by nature that of chemistry and revelation, has not only declined the motif of the ghost from its origins, from its primitive whiteness to the most contemporary colorful imaginations, but its figure haunts all cultures and all cultures. eras. Incarnation of fears, still open wounds and bleeding memories, resurrection of the dead who do not want to die and which the most diverse folklores seize, from the white sheet, with red eyes, invisible presences or horrific creatures, ghosts defy the separation of the realm of life and death, of the feminine and the masculine, of corporeality itself. They come back, often take revenge, sometimes console, awaken with their presence individual or collective emotions and traumas, thus irrigating the films with their unreal substance and their rebellious nature.
The theme of ghosts will haunt the entire program for this 2025 edition, with a Special Specters Selection, presented by enthusiasts of the genre.
The poster for this edition poetically reminds us of the power of ghosts to defy the laws of representation and to slip between two worlds.
F.Méline with press release
