Frédéric Jardin’s Survive was one of many films that played during this year’s 25th anniversary of Pigeon Shrine FrightFest. The film kicked off events of the main screen on the Saturday morning and had the audience enrapt with its rather strange survival set-up that saw the ocean and land swap places.
Julia (Émilie Dequenne) and her loving husband Tom (Andreas Pietschmann) are celebrating their son’s birthday on their yacht in the middle of the ocean. When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakens in a post-apocalyptic desert land – the Earth has undergone a tragic polarity reversal that has drained all the water from the seven seas. Danger lurks in every nook and cranny that once were hidden depths. When an unexpected tragedy strikes, Julia must save her children, Cassie (Lisa Delamar) and Ben (Lucas Ebel), in a new world where crazed humanity and hungry creatures from the abyss now hunt for human flesh.
At the heart of the story is Lisa Delamar who plays teenager Cassie. Faced with the end of the world, the young girl has to grow up quickly to help her family stay alive. Her performance is impressive, the cast clearly having been put through their paces by their director. Given the circumstances within the story, Survive looks like it was one heck of a physical ordeal to shoot, and knowing this is Lisa Delamar’s very first feature film is mind melting. After the screening at FrightFest, Lisa Delamar arrived on the FrightFest media wall to answer questions about Survive, whilst simultaneously teasing a new genre title, which is rumoured to belong to a director who was also on site attending the festival…
Survive screened at Pigeon Shrine FrightFest. Survive will be available on Digital Platforms across the UK from 30th September. Distributed by Signature Entertainment.
