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.

History 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.

Description 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.

Grand Prize Year Title of film Director Nationality 1994 Jiang-Hu, Between Love And Glory Ronny Yu 1995 Heavenly Creatures Peter Jackson 1996 El Dia de la Bestia Alex de la Iglesia 1997 Scream Wes Craven 1998 An American Werewolf in Paris Anthony Waller , , , , 1999 Cube Vincenzo Natali 2000 Stir of Echoes David Koepp 2001 Thomas est amoureux Pierre-Paul Renders , 2002 Fausto 5.0 Isidro Ortiz, Alex Ollé et Carlos Padrissa 2003 Honogurai mizu no soko kara Hideo Nakata 2004 Janghwa, Hongryeon Kim Jee-woon 2005 Duplicity (Trouble) Harry Cleven 2006 Isolation Billy O'Brien , 2007 Norway of Life (Den brysomme mannen) Jens Lien 2008 The Orphanage (El Orfanato) Juan Antonio Bayona , 2009 Let The Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) Tomas Alfredson 2010 The Door (Die Tür) Anno Saul 2011 Bedevilled (Kim Bok-nam salinsageonui jeonmal) Jang Cheol-soo 2012 Babycall Pal Sletaune 2013 Mama Andrés Muschietti 2014 Miss Zombie SABU 2015 It Follows David Robert Mitchell 2016Bone Tomahawk S. Craig Zahler 2017 Raw Julia Ducournau , 2018 Incident in a Ghost Land Pascal Laugier , 2019 Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund 2020 Saint Maud Rose Glass 2021 Possessor Brandon Cronenberg , 2022 Hatching Hanna Bergholm , 2023 Piety Eduardo Casanova , 2024 Sleep Jason Yu 2025 In a Violent Nature Chris Nash 2026Mother's BabyJohanna Moder , , Special Prize (or Jury Prize) Year Title Director Nationality 1994 La ardilla roja Julio Medem 1995 Dellamorte Dellamore Michele Soavi , 1996 Mute Witness Anthony Waller , , 1997 Nur über meine Leiche Rainer Matsutani 1998 Gattaca Andrew Niccol 1998 Photographing Fairies Nick Willing 1999 The Wisdom of Crocodiles Po-Chih Leong 1999 Bride Of Chucky Ronny Yu 2000 Los sin nombre Jaume Balagueró 2001 Chasing Sleep Michael Walker 2002 El Espinazo del Diablo Guillermo del Toro 2003 Maléfique Éric Valette 2003 The Gathering Brian Gilbert 2004 The Happiness of the Katakuris Takashi Miike 2005 Saw James Wan 2005 The Ordeal (Calvaire) Fabrice Du Welz 2006 Fragile Jaume Balagueró 2007 Black Sheep Jonathan King 2007 Fido Andrew Currie 2008 REC Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza 2009 Grace Paul Solet , 2010 Moon Duncan Jones 2011 We Are What We Are (Somos los que hay) Jorge Michel Gra 2011 The Loved Ones Sean Byrne 2012 Beast Christoffer Boe 2012 The Awakening Nick Murphy 2013 The End Jorge Torregrossa 2013 Mama Andres Muschietti , 2014 The Babadook Jennifer Kent 2015 The Voices Marjane Satrapi , 2015 Ex Machina Alex Garland 2016 Évolution Lucile Hadžihalilović , , 2016 JeruZalem Doron Paz, Yoav Paz 2017 Under the Shadow Babak Anvari , , , 2017 They Call Me Jeeg Robot Gabriele Mainetti 2018 As Boas Maneiras Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas 2018 Les Affamés Robin Aubert 2019The Unthinkable Victor Danell / Crazy PicturesLe Point > Article "Gérardmer 2019 : Grand Prix peu glorieux pour compétition dépressive" (February 4, 2019) 2019Aniara Pella Kagerman 2020 Howling Village Takashi Shimizu 2021 Sleep Michael Venus 2021 Teddy Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma 2022 The Grandmother Paco Plaza , 2022 You Are Not My Mother Kate Dolan 2023 The Mountain Thomas Salvador 2023 Piaffe Ann Oren 2024 Amelia's Children Gabriel Abrantes 2024 For Night Will Come Céline Rouzet 2025 Exhuma Jang Jae-hyeon 2025 Rumours Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson , , , 2026The Weed EatersCallum Devlin CadetAdilkhan Yerzhanov Critics' Prize Year Title Director Nationality 1994 The Red Squirrel () Julio Medem 1995 Accumulator 1 () Jan Svěrák 1996 The Secret of Roan Inish John Sayles , 1997 Over My Dead Body () Rainer Matsutani 1998 Photographing Fairies () Nick Willing 1999 Cube Vincenzo Natali 2000 The Nameless () Jaume Balagueró 2001 Mamoru Hosi, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Masayuki Suzuki 2002 The Devil's Backbone () Guillermo del Toro , 2003 Hideo Nakata 2004 Love Object Robert Parigi 2005 Calvaire Fabrice Du Welz , , 2006 Isolation Billy O'Brien , , 2007 The Bothersome Man () Jens Lien 2008 Diary of the Dead George A. Romero 2009 Let the Right One In () Tomas Alfredson 2010 Moon Duncan Jones 2011 I Saw the Devil () Kim Jee-woon 2012 Babycall Pål Sletaune , , 2013 Berberian Sound Studio Peter Strickland 2014 The Babadook Jennifer Kent 2015 It Follows David Robert Mitchell 2016 Evolution Lucile Hadžihalilović , , 2017 Raw Julia Ducournau , 2018 Good Manners () Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas , 2019 The Unthinkable () Victor Danell / Crazy Pictures 2020 Prize not awarded - - 2021 The Swarm Just Philippot 2022 The Innocents () Eskil Vogt , , , , , 2023 Thomas Salvador 2024 When Evil Lurks Demián Rugna 2025 The Wailing Pedro Martín-Calero , , 2026CadetAdilkhan Yerzhanov

Public Prize

Year Title of film Director Nationality 2003 2009: Lost Memories Lee Si-myung 2006 Fragile Jaume Balagueró 2007 Black Sheep Jonathan King 2008 REC Jaume Balagueró et Paco Plaza 2009 The Midnight Meat Train Ryuhei Kitamura 2010 5150 Elm's Way Éric Tessier 2011 I Saw the Devil Kim Jee-woon 2012 Eva Kike Maillo 2013 Mama Andres Muschietti , 2014 The Babadook Jennifer Kent 2015 The Voices Marjane Satrapi , 2016 The Devil's Candy Sean Byrne 2017 The Girl with All the Gifts Colm McCarthy 2018 Incident in a Ghost Land Pascal Laugier , 2019 Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund 2020 1BR David Marmor 2021 La Nuée Just Philippot 2022 The Innocents (De uskyldige) Eskil Vogt , , , , , 2023 La Pietà Eduardo Casanova , 2024 When Evil Lurks Demián Rugna 2025 Oddity Damian Mc Carthy , 2026Redux ReduxKevin McManus and Matthew McManus Fantastic Novel Prize

Year Title Author Nationality 1995 Le Chien qui rit Anne Dugüel 1996 La Mécanique des ombres Benjamin Legrand 1997 La Qualité du silence Max Dorra 1998 Les Mères Noires Pascal Françaix 1999 La Maison Usher ne chutera pas Pierre Stolze 2000 Les Mémoires de l'Homme-Éléphant Xavier Mauméjean 2001 Le Templier François Angelier 2002 Wonderlandz Jean-Luc Bizien 2003 Le Cinquième Règne Maxime Chattam

See also

List of fantastic and horror film festivals

References

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