Opening Night Film: The Beasts
Antoine and Olga are a French couple who settled long ago in a village in the interior of Galicia. There they lead a quiet life, growing vegetables and remodeling abandoned houses, although their coexistence with the locals is not as idyllic as they wish. Their refusal to install a wind farm will accentuate the disagreement, especially with siblings Xan and Lorenzo, leading their possibilities of coexistence to a point of no return. Hailed among the 10 best-rated films by critics at Cannes 2022, THE BEASTS is Oscar-nominated director Rodrigo Sorogoyen's most international work to date. Featuring tour-de-force performances by Denis Ménochet Foïsand and multi-Cesar-Award-nominee Marina, this rural thriller will make you wonder if living in the city might be safer after all.