Corin Hardy, who has been defined by Screen International as “the star of tomorrow”, is in Turin at the 33rd edition of the Torino Film Festival as a juror of the main competition and as the director of his first film THE HALLOW, which he presented in the After Hour section.
Since he was a kid, Hardy has always been fascinated by monsters and their human insight so when he finally got the chance of portraying and creating, he gave them something that can be felt like a soul, a reason (though despicable) to behave badly.
The monsters of THE HALLOW want to restore their euilibrium, they would even want a community, a family somehow. The film also deals with the horrific thought of not being able to trust our own instict. Corin Hardy calls even into question the maternal instict.
THE HALLOW: An environmental conservationist from London moves to Ireland with his wife and infant son to patrol a stretch of forest, which local superstition considers hallowed ground. His presence inevitably stirs up a series of demonic creatures that do not like to be disturbed and have no intention of leaving their home.
For the first time in its history, the Cannes Film Festival reveals two official posters for its 78th edition, inspired by Claude Lelouch’s 1966 Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece A Man and a Woman.
Alice Rohrwacher has been appointed President of the Caméra d’or Jury at Cannes 2025. Known for her poetic and visionary cinema, Rohrwacher will award the best first feature at the festival’s closing ceremony on May 24.