The Étrange Festival 2023 at the Forum des Images: dates and program

The Étrange Festival returns for its 29th edition at the Forum des Images, from September 6 to 18, 2022. If you're in the mood for a (very) rock'n'roll back-to-school season, under the banner of bizarre cinema, get out your diaries!

The 29th edition of theÉtrange Festival promises to be even more memorable than the last! Every year, this"discoverer of the margins of world cinema" makes the back-to-school season more fun, with a selection of international films whose only common denominator is their total originality in the cinematic landscape.

See you at the Forum des Images from September 5 to 17, 2023. As usual, there will be plenty of surprises, talent and guests for this new edition, full of discoveries and cinematic novelties, but not only. In addition to the various competitions, there will also be cartes blanches for Olympe de Gê, Gareth Evans, Kirill Serebrennikov and Chaos Reign.

Étrange Festival 2023 program

Opening

- The Childe by Park Hoon-Jung, European premiere

Closing

- The Wandering Earth 2 by Frant Gwo & Erlendur Sveinsson, European premiere

International Feature Film Competition

- Don't Buy The Seller by Hee-Kon Park, international premiere

- Mad Fate by Soi Cheang, French premiere

- Hit Big by Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, French premiere

- Concrete Utopia by Tae-Hwa Eom, European premiere

- Sympathy For The Devil by Yuval Adler, French premiere

- The Sweet East by Sean P.Williams, preview, in the presence of the director

- Kennedy by Anurag Kashyap, unpublished, in the presence of the director

- Moon Garden by Ryan Stevens Harris, French premiere

- You'll Never Find Me by Josiah Allen & Indiana Bell, European premiere

- The Theory Of Everything by Tim Kroëger, French premiere

- Embryo Larva Butterfly by Kyros Papavassiliou, French premiere

- The Childe by Park Hoon-Jung, European premiere

Special screenings

- The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazern, preview

- Caligula, The Ultimate cut by Tinto Brass, preview

- David Cronenberg's Le Festin Nu, new 4k master, preview

- The Begotten Cycle by E. Elias Merhige, French premiere, in the presence of the director

- A Way To Die (work in progress) by Maxime Lachaud & Reivaks Timeless, world premiere, in the presence of the directors

- Autour de Conann: Rainer by Bertrand Mandico, French premiere + Nous, les Barbares by Bertrand Mandico, world premiere, in the presence of the crew

- Vermines by Sébastien Vanicek, French premiere, in the presence of the team

- Un Mois chez les filles by Audrey Gourdon + surprises! world premiere, with the director present.

Mondo Vision

- Goliath by adilkhan Yerzhanov, never screened before

- Club Zero by Jessica Hausner, preview, in the presence of the director.

- Quarxx's Pandemonium, French premiere, in the presence of the crew

- Scud's Body Shop, French premiere

- 2551.02- The Orgy of the Damned by Norbert Pfaffenbichler, unreleased

- On The Line by Gok & Sun Kim, French premiere

- The Round-Up: no way out by Sang-Yong Lee, French premiere

- The Survival of Kindness by Rolf De Heer, preview

New Talent

- Vincent doit Mourir (Vincent must die ) by Stephan Castang, preview, in the presence of the cast and crew

- The End (fragments artificiels de L'espèce Humaine) by Aurélien & Olivier Héraud, world premiere, in the presence of the directors

- Comme un Lundi by Ryota Takebayashi, preview

Documentaries

- Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) by Anton Corbijn, preview

- Scala!!! by Ali Catterall & Jane Giles, French premiere, in the presence of the director

- Beyond Bizarre, the life & art of John Willie by Charlotte Grondin & Guillaume Pin, world premiere, in the presence of the directors