Festivals: Neuchâtel Fantastic

Neuchâtel 2024 Review: ANIMAL Hurts Men, Women And Beasts

Last month, the 2024 edition of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival ended, so normally by now we'd have finished our coverage. But the review for Emma Benestan's Animale, internationally distributed as Animal, lived rent-free in my brain for weeks,...

Neuchâtel 2024 Interview: ENNENNUM Director Shalini Ushadevi Talks About Immortality

This year at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, several juries awarded several films. The Critic's Jury awarded their prize by unanimous decision to Ennennum, an extremely well-written science fiction drama in which Ouso and Devi, a married couple, get...

Neuchâtel 2024 Review: MEANWHILE ON EARTH Wanders Through Grief

Fantastic genres like science fiction, fantasy and horror lend themselves for hiding a message in your entertainment. Throw in monsters, aliens or revolting transformations and you can make the most difficult ethical dilemmas palatable for a larger audience. But some...

Neuchâtel 2024 Review: ETERNAL Takes Its Sweet Time Getting... Somewhere

At the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival back in 2021, several films directly tackled the subject of environmental issues (including the International Critics' Jury Winner that year). This year, the selection skewed more towards emotions of grief, loss, failed relationships....

Neuchâtel 2024: All Awards Round-up

Last Saturday saw the closing ceremony of the 23rd edition of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, followed by the Swiss première of Longlegs. In the previous eight days, the festival had been a general place of bliss to visit....

Neuchâtel 2024 Starts This Week

Tomorrow, the 23rd Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival starts, bringing nine days of horror, fantasy and science fiction films from all over the world to a beautiful Swiss location. This year, the poster and trailer point to a general theme...

Neuchatel 2023 Review: MAD FATE Intervenes in Demented Style

Soi Cheang directed the Hong Kong mystery thriller from Milkyway Image.

Neuchâtel 2023: Full Program For Swiss Genre Fest Revealed

Our friends at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, the premiere genre festival in Switzerland, have announced the full lineup for this year's festival running during the first week of July.    It is a program that boasts a lineup...

Neuchâtel 2023: Swiss International Fantastic Film Festival Unveils This Year's Poster

Our friends at Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival are busy preparing for this year's 22nd edition of their Swiss-based genre film festival. As the programming comes together the festival has unveiled this year's poster. It is a slick and shiny work...

International Genre Focused Hub 'Fantastic Pavilion' to Launch at Marche du Film at Cannes

Variety had the exclusive yesterday, an announcement of the creation of Fantastic Pavilion, "... a significant booth and exhibition space located at the Cannes Marché du Film in the Palais des Festivals".    Announced this week during Ventana Sur in...

Neuchâtel Fantastic Announces Their NIFFF ON TOUR Programme

Our friends at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival have announced the first screenings as part of their NIFF on Tour programme.   The tour kicks off at the EPFL Pavilions in Lausanne, Switzerland, with free screenings of Blaise Harrison's...

Neuchâtel 2022: Original Films Sweep Awards, Record Attendance Reported

The 2022 edition of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival draws to a close tonight with the awarding of jury prizes and the report of record attendance at Switzerland's premiere genre film event. Per the official release: "For the first...

Neuchâtel 2022 Daily: I AM WHAT I AM From China, BEAUTIFUL BEINGS From Iceland

If Saturday is alright for fighting, as Elton John once claimed, the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival suggests watching movies, instead. The festival's final day of screenings features all kinds of recommended titles, including Something in the Dirt, Maika, Freaks...

Neuchâtel 2022 Daily: Adrian Teh and THE ASSISTANT, Monia Chokri and BABYSITTER, Lee Jang-Hoon and MIRACLE

Traditionally, Friday marks the end of the working week for much of the world, to which we say: "Bah!" Here at Screen Anarchy, Friday marks the beginning of renewed cinematic opportunities to feast on genre goodness from all parts of...

Neuchâtel 2022 Daily: SISSY Plus More Promising Films

We're at the halfway point in our coverage of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland, which means we catch our collective breath and take a look around at all the gorgeous scenery that surrounds us. By which I...

Neuchâtel 2022 Review: SHIN ULTRAMAN, Old School Kaiju Meets New School Thinking

Writer Anno Hideaki and director Higuchi Shinji ('Shin Godzilla') team up again to reboot the venerable 60s television series for the modern day. It's a lot of fun.

Neuchâtel 2022 Review: LEIO, Very Hungry Mega Giant Butterfly Lizard

Directed by Chalit Krileadmongkol and Chitpol Ruanggun, the Thai monster movie stars Pichaya Nitipaisalkul, Dhanantorn Neerasingh, and Gena Desouza.

Neuchâtel 2022 Review: BAD CITY, Come for the Gangsters, Stay for the Fights

Ozawa Hitoshi stars in a Yakuka thriller, directed by Sonomura Kensuke.

Neuchâtel 2022 Daily: PUSSYCAKE, FREAKS OUT, Thai Monster, Japanese Gangsters

Reviews are popping as many people return to work (?!) today, but around Screen Anarchy headquarters, we're still obsessed with the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland, which is at its midpoint. Before we move on to today's highlights,...

Neuchâtel 2022 Review: YEAR OF THE SHARK (L'ANNÉE DU REQUIN) Resets Shark Expectations

Marina Foïs, Jean-Pascal Zadi and Christine Gautier wage maritime war against a big fish in a snappy shark feature, directed by Ludovic Boukherma and Zoran Boukherma.