FANTASTIC FUTURES – JOSÉPHINE DARCY HOPKINS
Joséphine Darcy Hopkins is a Franco-British director and screenwriter member of the collective “Les Films de la Mouche”. She directed numerous award-winning short films and recently co-wrote Fabrice du Welz’s new feature film Inexorable. She is currently in the process of financing a new short film as well as finishing the script of her first feature film. Putting a spotlight on three of her short films–coming-of-age body horror Margaux (co-directed by Rémy Barbe and Joseph Bouquin as “Les Films de la Mouche“; Jury’s Prize at Paris International Fantastic Film Festival), sensitive creature feature The Day My Mother Became a Monster (Méliès d’Argent at the Razor Reel Film Festival), and Cloud, a fantastical road trip that confronts the specter of death (Audience Award at the L’Étrange Festival of Paris)–this program showcases Joséphine Darcy Hopkins’ unique style and clear vision as a writer and director.
In attendance of Joséphine Darcy Hopkins
Margaux, a young teenage girl, discovers her power of seduction and the beginning of her sexuality, as she tries to escape a nightmarish creature that appears to get increasingly closer to her.
A young girl with divorced parents struggles with the changes to her mother’s personality, attitude, and ultimately, her body.
As a gigantic cloud of ashes blows across France, Eugénie hits the road with Capucine and her sick mother in order to escape it.
