Actress, director and producer Julie Gayet will chair the jury of the 29th Gérardmer Festival, a major event for fantastic cinema which intends to be held in theaters again from January 26 to 30.
Popular with cinephiles, the Vosges festival had to resolve to an online edition last year, due to the pandemic.
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,
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, we will long remember the 28th Gérardmer Fantastic Festival"
With Julie Gayet, the president of the International Fantastic Film Festival, Bruno Barde, intends to
"salute daring, curiosity, talent but also the ability to push back the limits"
, according to a press release.
At 49, Julie Gayet has appeared in more than 70 films, from romantic comedy to thriller and drama, including
Delphine 1, Yvan 0
by Dominique Farrugia or
Quai d'Orsay
by Bertrand Tavernier.
She also toured extensively for television.
She has produced around twenty films including
Grave
, Grand Prix à Gérardmer in 2017, signed Julia Ducournau, filmmaker awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2021 for
Titane
.
This year, she founded a festival dedicated to music and cinema,
Soeurs twins
, which was held this summer in Rochefort.
To Gérardmer, his jury will notably have to award the Grand Prix which will succeed
Possessor
,
by Brandon Cronenberg, son of the director David Cronenberg, a film which could not be released in theaters in France, the health measures forcing its distributors to turn to the video on demand.