The Shape of Water
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Winner of the Golden Lion, 2017 Venice International Film Festival
Winner of four Academy Awards in 2018, including Best Picture and Best Director
United States, 1960s. A mute janitor falls in love with an amphibious man held captive in a laboratory and hatches a plan to help him escape.
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican filmmaker, screenwriter, author, and producer. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales, gothicism and horror often blending the genres, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. Known for pioneering dark fantasy in the film industry and for his use of insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, and celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting. Throughout his career, del Toro has shifted between Spanish-language films—such as Cronos (1993), The Devil's Backbone (2001), and Pan's Labyrinth (2006)—and English-language films, including Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004) and its sequel (2008), Pacific Rim (2013), and The Shape of Water (2017). As a producer or writer, he worked on films such as The Hobbit film series (2012–2014), Mama (2013), and The Witches (2020). In 2022, he created the Netflix anthology horror series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring a collection of classical horror stories. He is close friends with fellow Mexican filmmakers Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and they are collectively known as "The Three Amigos of Mexican Cinema". He has received several awards including three Academy Awards, three BAFTAs, two Golden Globes, and a Golden Lion.
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