Austrian Premiere
Too Many Beasts
L'espèce explosive | Sarah Arnold | FR 2026 | 95 Min | DCP
A bizarre invasion hits a French village: giant boars lay waste to cornfields and spark a bloody war between farmers and hunters. A year later, who should turn up in charge of the police investigation but oddball Fulda (Alexis Manenti, Les Misérables). Swiss-Italian director Sarah Arnold makes a coarse, kooky feature debut with this crime comedy, starring Ella Rumpf (Raw) and topped off with a trippy, drug-fueled escapade. (Leonie Markovics)
Sarah Arnold
(b. 1980) is a Swiss-Italian director with a degree in filmmaking from the École nationale supérieure d’audiovisuel in Toulouse. She made the short films Lesson of Darkness (2010), Totems (2014), and Parades (2017), which screened and won awards at prestigious international film festivals. Too Many Beasts (2026) is her debut feature; it premiered in Cannes in the Directors’ Fortnight program.
- Language Version
- OmeU
- Cast
- Alexis Manenti, Ella Rumpf, Vincent Dedienne, Jean-Louis Coulloc'h, Pascal Rénéric
- Writer
- Sarah Arnold, Jérémie Dubois, Olivier Seror, Romain Winkler, Mehdi Ben Attia
- Editing
- Isabelle Manquillet
- Cinematography
- Noé Bach



