Phew, the last weekend. What’s on your menu? Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut? French folk horror? A claustrophobic thriller in a car? Or not one, but two Chinese animated films back to back?
To celebrate the feast that was Imagine 2025 together, we’d love to see you all at our closing film, No One Will Know. We will also be announcing this year’s prize winners there.
And the absolute, very last cherry on the Imagine cake is tomorrow, the final Sunday. Keep on trucking with The Best of Imagine, five festival favourites back-to-back, plus our VR programme in Hal West. And after that? Then we’ll truly be saying goodbye for now.
Today’s menu
Chinese animation: A Story About Fire & The Girl Who Stole Time
Wow, two Chinese animations in one day! Hand-animated A Story About Fire (14:00 in LAB111) follows a monkey and a dog on their search for a love. The animators behind The Girl Who Stole Time (16:30, also in LAB111) opted for advanced digital techniques for their super-charming fairytale about a girl who can manipulate time itself.
The title, Fucktoys, is already irresistible, and the film itself, starring director/screenwriter Annapurna Sriram, more than lives up to the hype. As sex worker AP, Sriram wanders through Trashtown trying to scrape together enough money to get rid of a curse. A little gem of bad taste, in the joyfully perverse tradition of John Waters and shot on 16mm. Sriram drew inspiration from an experience with a psychic who advised her to do something life-changing, which meant breaking up with a then-boyfriend. This morning at 11:30, the film will be introduced by Paul Roeland, programmer for De Roze Filmdagen.
Films of the day
Will things ever be ok for Mike, who is homeless and just can’t get his life on track? Urchin is actor Harris Dickinson’s impressive directorial debut. Equally strong is actor Frank Dillane, who was given the Best Actor award in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes this year. See his performance at 11:15 today, at de Filmhallen.
In Her Will Be Done (11:45 at de Filmhallen, for the early birds), folk horror, mysticism, and violence come together in the far-from-idyllic French countryside. A young woman seems to be possessed by the evil spirit of her deceased mother. Meanwhile, the livestock is attacked by a mysterious disease. Think: Carrie, by way of Bruno Dumont.
British-Iranian director Babak Anvari debuted in 2016 with Under the Shadow. Hallow Road is just as nerve-wracking. A claustrophobic thriller—which mainly takes place in a car—about a couple who rush to help their daughter in need. Exciting and unsettling – this afternoon at 16:20 at de Filmhallen.
Silver Scream Award update
- The Last Viking – 9,41
- Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie – 9,13
- The Forbidden City – 9,06
- Mãrama – 8,88
- Redux Redux / Find.Kill.Repeat – 8,73
- Another World – 8,66
- Cielo – 8,64
- Fucktoys – 8,60
- Wrong Husband – 8,56
- Seeds – 8,55
