The Plague | 27th French Cinema Festival
A PRAGA | 27ª FESTA DO CINEMA FRANCÊS
Cinema 6€
Saturday 3 October · 21:45
Screening at the 27th French Cinema Festival, Sarah Arnold's black-comedy thriller, premiered at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, follows an explosive gendarme and a psychologist in crisis who reopen the investigation into the disappearance of a farmer in northeast France, where farmers and hunters wage war on wild boar.
Synopsis A Praga (L'Espèce explosive), Sarah Arnold France, Switzerland, 2026, 95', Fiction, Portuguese subtitles With: Alexis Manenti, Ella Rumpf, Vincent Dedienne, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h In northeast France, farmers and hunters wage a war against a population of wild boar that devastates the fields. When Brun, a farmer on the brink of ruin, disappears, a year later an explosive gendarme and a psychologist in crisis reopen the investigation. Premiered at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, this black-comedy thriller crosses rural noir, police investigation and psychedelia, in a delirious rollercoaster that evokes the universe of the Coen brothers. Screenplay: Sarah Arnold, Jérémie Dubois, Olivier Séror, Romain Winkler, Mehdi Ben Attia Production: 5 à 7 Films, France 3 Cinéma Distribution: Films4You Prices General - 6€ Reduced mobility - 6€ Discounts Unemployed Young people Seniors over 65