The Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer , formerly known as Fantastica and then Fantastic'Arts , is an annual international film festival of horror and science fiction films .
Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer Location Gérardmer , FranceFounded 1994; 30 years ago (1994 ) Festival date last week of January Website festival-gerardmer
The film festival has been held each year since 1994 in Gérardmer in the Vosges , France towards the end of January. It replaced an earlier film festival which was held in Avoriaz for 20 years, from 1973 until 1993.
Originally, the festival was called Fantastica, then Fantastic'Arts, to stress the artistic as well as the fantastique side of the festival. In 2008 the festival was renamed Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer.
Each year, several celebrities form a jury to judge the competing films. Some also present their own work, including the writer Bernard Werber , who comes each year to Place du Tilleul at the centre of the town.
Year Title of film Director Nationality 1994 Jiang-Hu, Between Love And Glory Ronny Yu Hong Kong 1995 Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson New Zealand 1996 El Dia de la Bestia Alex de la Iglesia Spain 1997 Scream Wes Craven United States 1998 An American Werewolf in Paris Anthony Waller United States , United Kingdom , Luxembourg , Netherlands , France 1999 Cube Vincenzo Natali Canada 2000 Stir of Echoes David Koepp United States 2001 Thomas est amoureux Pierre-Paul Renders Belgium , France 2002 Fausto 5.0 Isidro Ortiz , Alex Ollé et Carlos Padrissa Spain 2003 Honogurai mizu no soko kara Hideo Nakata Japan 2004 Janghwa, Hongryeon Kim Jee-woon South Korea 2005 Duplicity (Trouble) Harry Cleven Belgium 2006 Isolation Billy O'Brien Republic of Ireland , United Kingdom 2007 Norway of Life Den brysomme mannen )Jens Lien Norway 2008 The Orphanage El Orfanato )Juan Antonio Bayona Spain , Mexico 2009 Let The Right One In Låt den rätte komma in )Tomas Alfredson Sweden 2010 The Door Die Tür )Anno Saul Germany 2011 Bedevilled Kim Bok-nam salinsageonui jeonmal )Jang Cheol-soo South Korea 2012 Babycall Pal Sletaune Norway 2013 Mama Andrés Muschietti Spain 2014 Miss Zombie SABU Japan 2015 It Follows David Robert Mitchell United States 2016 Bone Tomahawk S. Craig Zahler United States 2017 Raw Julia Ducournau France , Belgium 2018 Incident in a Ghost Land Pascal Laugier France , Canada 2019 Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund United States 2020 Saint Maud Rose Glass United Kingdom 2021 Possessor Brandon Cronenberg United Kingdom ,Canada
edit Year Title Director Nationality 1994 La ardilla roja Julio Medem Spain 1995 Dellamorte Dellamore Michele Soavi Italy , France 1996 Mute Witness Anthony Waller Germany , Russia , United Kingdom 1997 Nur über meine Leiche Rainer Matsutani Germany 1998 Gattaca Andrew Niccol United States 1998 Photographing Fairies Nick Willing United Kingdom 1999 The Wisdom of Crocodiles Po-Chih Leong United Kingdom 1999 Bride Of Chucky Ronny Yu United States 2000 Los sin nombre Jaume Balagueró Spain 2001 Chasing Sleep Michael Walker United States 2002 El Espinazo del Diablo Guillermo del Toro Spain 2003 Maléfique Éric Valette France 2003 The Gathering Brian Gilbert United Kingdom 2004 The Happiness of the Katakuris Takashi Miike Japan 2005 Saw James Wan United States 2005 The Ordeal Calvaire )Fabrice Du Welz Belgium 2006 Fragile Jaume Balagueró Spain 2007 Black Sheep Jonathan King New Zealand 2007 Fido Andrew Currie Canada 2008 REC Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza Spain 2009 Grace Paul Solet United States , Canada 2010 Moon Duncan Jones United Kingdom 2011 We Are What We Are Somos los que hay )Jorge Michel Gra Mexico 2011 The Loved Ones Sean Byrne Australia 2012 Beast Christoffer Boe Denmark 2012 The Awakening Nick Murphy United Kingdom 2013 The End Jorge Torregrossa Spain 2013 Mama Andres Muschietti Spain , Canada 2014 The Babadook Jennifer Kent Australia 2015 The Voices Marjane Satrapi USA Germany 2015 Ex Machina Alex Garland United Kingdom 2016 Évolution Lucile Hadzihalilovic France , Spain , Belgium 2016 JeruZalem Doron Paz , Yoav Paz Israel 2017 Under the Shadow Babak Anvari United Kingdom , Qatar , Jordan , Iran 2017 They Call Me Jeeg Robot Gabriele Mainetti Italia 2018 As Boas Maneiras Marco Dutra , Juliana Rojas Brasil 2018 Les Affamés Robin Aubert Canada 2019 The Unthinkable Victor Danell / Crazy Pictures[1] Sweden 2019 Aniara Pella Kagerman Sweden
Fantastic Novel Prize edit 
