Now in its 20th edition The Strange Festival, the film festival to be held in Paris from September 4 to 14, 2014 at the Forum des Images. The Festival will feature films from various genres (drama, horror, fantasy, thriller, science fiction, documentary, and crime) for a program full of surprises and excitement.
The opening films of the Festival are the short film Smart Monkey by Winshluss and Nicolas Pawlowski, followed by the feature film The Voices by Marjane Satrapi. Closing the event, however, is Il mondo di Kanako by Tetsuya Nakashima.
Below is the list of films in competition in which they also appear Hallelujah, The Canal and Over Your Dead Body. Titles belonging to the horror genre are highlighted:
- The Tribe – Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
- Queste ultime ore – Zak Hilditch
- Let us pray – Brian O’Malley
- Hallelujah – Fabrice du Welz
- A Hard Day – Kim Seong-hun
- The Canal – Ivan Kavanagh
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – Ana Lily Amirpour
- Tokyo Tribe – Sono Sion
- Killers – Mo Brothers (Kimo Stamboel & Timo Tjahjanto)
- Hyena – Gerard Johnson
- Cub – Jonas Govaerts
- iNumber number – Donovan Marsh
- Faults – Riley Stearns
- It follows – David Robert Mitchell
- Radio silence/On air – Marco Riedl and Carsten Vauth
- Wetlands – David Wnendt
- The Five – Jung Yeon-Sik
- White shadow – Noaz Deshe
- Open Windows – Nacho Vigalondo
- Over your dead body – Takashi Miike
- The Dark Valley – Andreas Prochaska
- White God – Kornél Mundruczó
Films out of competition:
- Der Unfertige/The incomplete by Jan Soldat + Pierrot Lunaire by Bruce LaBruce[WRAP=right][ATTACH=CONFIG]37045[/ATTACH][/WRAP]
- La casa alla fine del tempo by Alejandro Hidalgo
- Moebius by Kim Ki-Duk
- Perfect Garden by Mara Mattuschka & Chris Haring
- Near death experience by Delepine & Kervern
- Hwahi: A Monster Boy by Jang Joon-hwan
- Asphalt watches by Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver
- Arcana by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi
- Rampage 2 by Uwe Boll
- Mein blindes Herz/ My blind heart by Peter Brunner
- It's Hard to Be a God by Alexei German
- The Distance by Sergio Caballero
- Fièvre by Romain Basset
During the festival, several short films will also be screened, such as Mondo Cane by Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, and Franco Prosperi, as well as After Hours by Martin Scorsese, The French Connection by William Friedkin, The Honeymoon Killers by Leonard Kastle, Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike, and Rampage by Uwe Boll., Der Todesking by Jörg Buttgereit, Tetsuo: The Iron Man by Shinya Tsukamoto, Videodrome by David Cronenberg, Blastfighter by Lamberto Bava, and much more.
For the complete program, please visit the Festival's official website or Facebook page.
