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Cannes’ Frontières Platform Reveals 2025 Selection, Ranging From Epic Fantasy to Indigenous Folklore and Drag Queen Horror (EXCLUSIVE)


Federation Spain, Picture Tree Intl., Collingwood Film Company and Lene Borglum behind just some of Frontières titles.

Robert Ten Eyck’s “Skin Side Up,” Sebastian McKinnon’s “The Stolen Child” and Richard Raaphorst’s “Children of the Moor” look like three potential standouts at this year’s Frontières Platform in Cannes which bids fair to prove one of the festival’s highest-caliber project showcases. “’Light Years’ expands ‘Nordic Noir’ into a rarely explored sci-fi realm, merging dark psychological depth with a character-driven, artistically ambitious story that demands attention but rewards it with an immersive, emotional experience,’ Dahle told Variety. Co-written, directed by Padial (“Dr Portuondo”), social satire and also dark comedy and psychological horror, loosely adapting Guy de Maupassant’s “Qui Sait?”, a recently separated illustrator furnishes his apartment buying second-hand pieces from an unsettling seller.

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