CF Ira Holmes International Film Series Features ‘Fantastic Planet’

The College of Central Florida Ira Holmes International Film Series will feature the classic film “Fantastic Planet” on Tuesday, Oct. 31, along with a Halloween costume contest.

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel “Fantastic Planet,” a counter culture classic and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). The 1973 French film is 72 minutes and is rated PG.

A screening will begin at 2 p.m. at the Appleton Museum of Art, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., and is free to all museum and film series members; nonmembers pay museum admission. A second screening will begin at 7 p.m. at the CF Ocala Campus, 3001 S.W. College Road, Building 8, Room 110. The screening is free and guests who attend in a Sci-Fi inspired Halloween costume will be entered to win a prize. Refreshments and giveaways will be provided by the CF Student Activities Board.

For more details, visit CF.edu/FilmSeries.