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Too Many Beasts

Sarah ARNOLD

Quinzaine 2026 | Feature film | 95 min

Film in competition for the Caméra d'Or Award | World premiere

In the French countryside, farmers and hunters are at war. Wild boars – too big and too many – are ravaging the crops. Brun, a grain farmer pushed to the brink, snaps and then vanishes. A year later, Fulda, a volatile cop, and Stéphane, a psychologist barely holding it together, start digging. What they uncover is bigger than anything they could have imagined. And so is what emerges between them.

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With

Alexis Manenti (Fulda),
Ella Rumpf (Stéphane),
Vincent Dedienne (Victor),
Jean-Louis Coulloc'h (Brun),
Pascal Rénéric (Alain),
Bertrand Belin (Marchal),
Jade Fiess (Lara),
Bernard Blancan (La Tige),
Thierry Godard (Brochier),
Mathieu Perotto (Stanislas)

Photography

Noé Bach

Production design

Gaëlle Usandivaras

Music

Florencia Di Concilio

Screenplay

Sarah Arnold,
Jérémie Dubois,
Olivier Seror,
Romain Winkler,
Mehdi Ben Attia

Sound

Jérôme Petit,
Raphaël Sohier,
Mathieu Fichet,
Marc-Olivier Brullé,
Simon Apostolou

Editing

Isabelle Manquillet

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After studying at the École Supérieure d’Audiovisuel in Toulouse, Sarah Arnold directed her first short film, Leçon de ténèbres, in 2010, which won the jury award at the Turin Film Festival. She followed it with Totems in 2014, wich premiered at the Locarno Film Festival where it received the Pardino d’Oro. Her film Store Policy, screened at Clermont-Ferrand, won the France TV Award for Best Short Film in 2021.

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Screenings in Cannes

05/17 at 12:15 - Théâtre Croisette

05/17 at 21:15 - Théâtre Croisette

05/18 at 11:30 - Cinéma Les Arcades / Salle 1

05/18 at 16:30 - Cinéma Le Raimu

05/20 at 16:30 - Cinéma Studio 13