22nd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 17-27, 2025

12th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 20-24, 2024

After Blue (Dirty Paradise)

France, 2021: 127 minutes: Alberta Premiere
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In Cinema Globe Cinema
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description

A hairdresser and her teenage daughter hunt a notorious killer in this erotic sci-fi acid western from cult iconoclast Bertrand Mandico, which has picked up multiple awards on the festival circuit, including jury awards at the Locarno International Film Festival, Sitges, and Fantastic Fest.

In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed planet, a lonely teenager, Roxy (Paula Luna), releases an assassin from the sands she was buried in. As soon as she’s free, the criminal sparks death all around. Roxy and her mother Zora (Elina Löwensohn) are held accountable, banished from their community and forced to track the murderer down. They start a long journey pacing the supranatural territories of their filthy paradise.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Locarno Film Festival 2021
MOTELX - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival 2021
Toronto International Film Festival 2021
Fantastic Fest 2021
Busan International Film Festival 2021
Beyond Fest 2021
Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal 2021
Sitges Film Festival 2021

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Bertrand Mandico is a French experimental director of short films, essays, and two features including his directorial debut THE WILD BOYS, which was named the top film of 2018 by Cahiers du cinema.

press for After Blue (Dirty Paradise)

"AFTER BLUE comes on like a slow-burning fever, with a meditative abstraction that is likely to test some people's patience, and yet there are rewards for those who succumb to its dream-nightmare that sits at the edge of waking."
- Screen Anarchy
"A bedazzled, audacious dreamscape riddled with sex and violence and the ever-present spirit of high fashion."
- Film International

details

Narrative / Sci-Fi / Experimental / Fantasy / LGBTQ+

French | English Subtitles
127 minutes

credits

Director
Bertrand Mandico

Producer
Emmanuel Chaumet

Screenwriter
Bertrand Mandico

Cinematographer
Pascale Granel

Music
Pierre Desprats

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awards

Winner Jury Award Best Fantastic Feature, Fantastic Fest 2021
Winner FIPRESCI Prize, Locarno International Film Festival 2021
Winner José Luis Guarner Critic's Award Best Film, Sitges Film Festival 2021
Winner Special Prize of the Jury, Sitges Film Festival 2021

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