APOCALYPSE

France 2024 — Directed by: Benoit Méry — 15 min — Spoken languages: French, Swedish, English — Subtitles: English, French — Production Company: GREC - Groupe de Recherches et d'Essais Cinématographiques — Producer: Anne Luthaud — DoP: Louis Hanquet

Deep in Hellfest, music gradually takes possession of metalheads.

Apocalypse is a cathartic journey into the limbo of metal music. A plunge into the heart of the pogos, noise, and fury of the fans. An expressionist portrait of the Mecca of metallheads: Hellfest.  

Festivals & Awards  

Festival du film court en plein air de Grenoble (France, 2024)
Lisula CineMusica (Corsica, France, 2024) - Prix du jury
Zinebi International Film Festival (Bilbao, Spain, 2024) 
Traces de vies : rencontres du film documentaire (Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2024)
Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (France, 2025) - Mention Spéciale du Jury National
Fipadoc (Biarritz, France, 2025)
Interfilm Festival (Berlin, Germany, 2025)
San Francisco DocFest (USA, 2025)
My First Doc (Tunisia, 2025)
Short Shorts Tokyo (Japan, 2025)

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