L’Étrange Festival unveils the program for its 30th edition

The festival will return to the Forum des Images from September 3 to 15.

This year is not quite like the others: The Strange Festival celebrates its thirtieth anniversary and celebration of cinema outside the norms:

“The Strange Festival had the privilege of arriving between two pivotal periods of the golden age of marginal cinema and a certain future of images.”

Paying homage to the surrealist writer, Annie Le Brun, and the director and producer of monsters and B series, Roger Cormana selection of his cult works will be screened – like the Masque of the Red Death.

For its pearl wedding, this alternative festival, offering a place to astonishing, atypical productions and those on the border of genres, puts twelve feature films in competition, most of them presented in preview. We find Swimming Home by Justin Anderson with the cast Mackenzie Davis, visible in Terminator Dark Fate and soon in Speak No Evil, Exhumation by Jang Jae-Hyeon with Lee Do-hyun (Sweet Home), And Peg O’My Heartdirected by actor Nick Cheung and starring Terrence Lau Chun-him (City of Darkness) And Fala Chen (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings). Also screened: The Young Woman with the Needle by Magnus Von Horn, which was in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival to win the Palme d’Or.

All are competing to be awarded the Grand Prix Nouveau Genre.

City of darkness: Hell fight! (critical)

At the same time, a large selection of short films from around the world will be shown in the theater. As for the carte blanche, offering cinema personalities the opportunity to introduce the public to their reference films, Carolie Fargeat And Noémie Merlant will try this exercise. The first, a mistress of female body horror, won the Screenplay Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year with The SubstanceThe second, presented out of competition on the Croisette Women on the Balconyand will soon embody the new Emmanuelle in the eponymous film by Audrey Diwan.

As a preview, the Étrange Festival offers to discover Memoirs of a Snail, by Adam Elliot, awarded the Cristal for Best Feature Film at the Annecy Festival, and telling the daily life of Grace Puddle, a solitary collector of ornamental snails who lives in Canberra.

In partnership with Canal+, viewers will be able to preview certain films before they are broadcast on MyCanal – notably Late Night with the Devila horror film based on the genre found footagestarring in the lead role David Dastmalchian (Prisoners, Oppenheimer, The Dark-Night: The Dark Knight).

On the musical side, Nosferatu, the vampirethe 1922 horror classic, will be screened as a live concert with piano and percussion pieces performed live.

The Strange Festival will take place from September 3 to 15.

The selection:

Sayarafrom Can Evrenol

Exhumationby Jang Jae-Hyeon

The Young Woman with the Needleby Magnus Von Horn

Kill, Nikhil Nagesh Bhat

Escape From the 21st CenturyYang Li

Clean Soulsby Anja Kreis

Gold Boyby Shûsuke Kaneko

House of Sayuriby Kôji Shiraishi

Peg O’My Heartby Nick Cheung

The Devil’s Bathby Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz