The Sitges Film Festival and Unifrance Renew Their Alliance to Offer the Best in French Fantastic Film

Last week we spoke to you about Julia Ducournau on the occasion of the premiere of Alpha, her latest film, which opened this year's edition of the Festival. The French director is a true reflection of the formidable state of fantastic filmmaking in her country. If Sitges continues to be a benchmark for discovering the best fantastic genre films produced in France, it is partly thanks to the renewal of our alliance with Unifrance, which has helped us bring the most outstanding French talent in the contemporary landscape.

This year, in addition to Alpha, this collaboration has made it possible to present films by the caliber of Reflection in a Dead Diamond, the exciting metatextual exercise by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani; Her Will Be Done, the terrifying feminist folk horror movie by Julia Kowalski; Dracula, the latest adaptation of the timeless classic by Luc Besson; and The Shrinking Man (L’homme qui rétrécit), a new version of the work by Richard Matheson, directed by Jan Kounen and starring Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin.

In addition to all these stellar appearances, we must also mention the visit from Dominique Pinon, the iconic face in the filmography of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, star of Delicatessen (which was screened at the Festival in 4K) and supporting actor in Amélie, Alien: Resurrection, and The City of Lost Children. In his case, he attended the Festival to collect the Méliès Career Award.