« Avatar : Feu et cendres» , le troisième de la franchise, prend l’affiche aujourd’hui, à quelques jours de Noël. Le film de James Cameron promet déjà d’être un succès au box-office du temps des fêtes, malgré sa durée de 3h15. Les critiques sont mitigées, mais tous saluent la qualité des effets spéciaux et des scènes d’action. Nous en avons parlé avec Éric Falardeau, réalisateur et spécialiste des effets spéciaux.
We are proud to announce that, during its seventh edition, the Bogotá Horror Film Festival awarded Thanatomorphosea Special Mention in the Transgressive Film category.
Granted by the international jury chaired by Michael Berryman, this distinction highlights the film’s radical vision, visual power, and artistic boldness, which explore the boundaries of the body and horror through a unique and striking creative approach.
This recognition further establishes Thanatomorphose as a reference point in contemporary transgressive cinema, celebrating the strength of the genre as an extreme, symbolic, and deeply human form of artistic expression.
The MONSTRUM celebration of the 50th anniversary of the release of SHIVERS by David Cronenberg (shot in Montréal) with Éric Falardeau and Justine Smith at the Cinémathèque on Friday, October 24th @ 7:45 pm.
Célébration MONSTRUM du 50e anniversaire de la sortie de SHIVERS de David Cronenberg (tourné à Montréal) avec Éric Falardeau et Justine Smith à la Cinémathèque le vendredi 24 octobre à 19h45.
ROUNDTABLE: SCREENING SEX IN THE CLASSROOM – PEDAGOGICAL REFLECTIONS
TUESDAY 21ST OCTOBER 2025 / 6-7PM UK TIME
We are pleased to share details about our next event in the Screening Sex seminar series. Registration is now open for the October seminar and you can request a notification when registration opens for the subsequent events.
This international, cross-institutional roundtable and forum will explore pedagogical practices and challenges relating to teaching sex on screen in Higher Education. The event will feature a conversation between Professor Karen Boyle, Dr John Paul Stadler, Éric Falardeau and Polina Zelmanova that will reflect on the scholars’ various approaches to teaching and screening sex on screen, in combination with navigating national, institutional, and ethical issues. The discussion will be followed by an open forum with event participants to collaboratively explore and reflect on these issues and questions further. The event will facilitate a space for exchanging perspectives and concerns, as well as ideas and resources.
SPEAKER BIOS
Karen Boyle is Professor of Feminist Media Studies and Head of the Department of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde. She was PI on the BA/Leverhulme Project on the use of trigger warnings in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in UK HE (with Melanie McCarry and Melody House) with publications from that project in the Journal of Gender-Based Violence and forthcoming in Feminist Theory. Karen is the author of #MeToo & Feminism: Weinstein and Beyond (2024) and co-editor (with Susan Berridge) of Routledge Companion to Gender, Media & Violence and the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Gender, Violence & Popular Culture (2026).
Dr John Paul Stadler is an assistant professor of Film and Media Studies at North Carolina State University, with cross-appointments in the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media program and the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. His research and teaching centers on the role of media in shaping modern notions of gender and sexuality. His research has covered the complex desire structure of gay-for-pay pornography, the rise of phone sex during the AIDS epidemic, the relationship of porn studies as a discursive field to queer studies, and the epidemiological lessons of the porn industry for the Covid-19 pandemic. Currently, he is writing on the modern fetish of gooning, the gamification of porn in “Cock Hero” videos, and the psychogeography of space in the first AIDS film, Buddies.
Éric Falardeau is a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His dissertation, currently under review, analyzes representations of the male body in online pornographic audiovisual productions. His ongoing research focuses on the history of pornographic cinema in Quebec. Falardeau is also an accomplished filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. His first feature film, Thanatomorphose (2012), received fifteen awards at international festivals and has been distributed in more than a dozen countries. In 2019, he directed the pornographic horror film The Thing from the Lake (Adult Time).
Polina Zelmanova is a doctoral candidate in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. Their thesis explores sex in contemporary film and television in the #MeToo era. Polina is part of the Screening Sex working group and has previously published work in Porn Studies and is a co-editor of an upcoming special issue titled ‘Sex and Contemporary Media’. Outside of academia, they also work as a relationships and sex education facilitator in the charity sector, where they also support with program development.
Register for “Roundtable: Screening Sex in the Classroom” by completing the form below and a Teams link will be emailed to you 24-hours before the event. Attendee questions can be submitted in advance by emailing screeningsex@gmail.com.
The kick-off of the 58th SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is fast approaching. In addition to all the films that we have been announcing up to now, there are also new developments presented by the Industry Department, which once again this year is committed to promoting genre films through initiatives such as WomanInFan, Sitges FanPitch, and Coming Soon.
Sitges FanPitch Presents a World-Class Lineup
For the eleventh consecutive year, the Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is organizing Sitges FanPitch, its feature film and series production project pitch competition. For this year’s edition, seven feature films and five series have been selected, which will also be joined by the project selected at Sitges FanPitch Catalunya Imaginària and those coming from Sitges FanPitch’s collaborating audiovisual markets.
In the feature film format, we will have Neo Forest by Japanese director Keishi Kondo, a horror film that draws inspiration from movies such as Saint Maud, Ring, and Possessor, starring the iconic Eihi Shiina; Black Samphire by British director Catherine Joy White, an example of contemporary folk horror with an all-female leading cast; The Still Man by British director Emily Greenwood, who was among the finalists of the II WomanInFan Fantastic Residency and who presents a supernatural thriller with echoes of It Follows; 10 Mickeys by Miguel Llansó, a tragicomedy that combines 2D animation, live-action, stock footage, and found footage; Umbra by William Miller, a classic horror film shot in Catalonia that borrows from the archaeological and mythological history of its locations; Grandmonster by Norwegian director Vegard Dahle, a horror comedy about dignity and the inconvenient reality of being eaten by your grandmother; The Escape by Paul Urkijo Alijo, a visceral story about survival in its most extreme sense, and La forma animal by Spanish directors Sofia Esteve and Isa Luengo (also selected to participate in the III WomanInFan Fantastic Residency), an approach to historical memory from the fantastic genre that has been selected as the standard-bearer for the Catalunya Imaginària label.
Among the honorable mentions in the feature film format were: Starfish by Canadian director Éric Falardeau, Sun Offspring by Romanian director Octavian Saramet, Moonfish, an American project by Daniel Zvereff, Tina by Iván Serra, directed by Joseph Díaz, Salvaje by Spanish director Manuel Carballo, and Child Uninvited by Japanese director Mai Nakanishi. Under the “Catalunya Imaginària” label, the honorable mentions were El gran casino by Daniel Noblom, Intrusa by Damià Serra, and Collaret de perles by Inés Acuña de Piero and Júlia Puig.
A satirical nod to the gritty « based on true events » crime docuseries of the ’90s, « TRUE CRIME » dives into two parallel worlds that eventually collides. A loose reimagining of a local, grim true story. Somewhere between pastiche and twisted reality, the video captures the Grand-Guignolesque essence of DIRTY CHEETAH.
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We’re thrilled to announce the selected filmmakers who will be pitching and meeting with industry leaders November 17–20, 2024.
Lab Jury:
Éric Falardeau 