NEWS

Winners 2017

Winners of the 10th edition / International Fantastic Competition / Jury: Joyce A. Nashawati, Vincent Lannoo and Billy O’Brien / Golden Octopus: Double Date by Benjamin Barfoot (UK) / Silver Melies: Laissez bronzer les cadavres by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (FR)

William Friedkin - Guest of honour
of the 10th edition of the festival

The Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival is very pleased to announce the Guest of Honour of its 10th edition: the iconic New Hollywood director, William Friedkin, known to everyone for his 1973 movie The Exorcist, one of the most frightening films of all time.

Exclusives screenings

Jaws 2, Christine Drive-in and Indiana Jones … To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Festival will be treating you to unparalleled movie experiences with three exclusive outdoor screenings.

Films and Guests

The Festival kicks off in less than a week! If you didn’t see the first wave of films that were announced, check them out under Festival 2017. Here are the new films that were recently added.

1st batch of the official selection

The first films in our official selection unveiled – the opening, the competitions, midnights and the main retrospective. The Festival will open with Andy Muschietti’s eagerly awaited It, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s eponymous bestseller, which has been terrorising its readers for decades.

Submit your video game

Submit your video game to the 5th Indie Game Contest (IGC), open to independent game developers worldwide. For the 5th year running, the Festival will host the IGCs, this year with a newly-created award for student game developers…

ABOUT US

Roger Corman

George A. Romero

Tobe Hooper

Joe Dante

Dario Argento

William Lustig

Welcome to the
Strasbourg European
Fantastic Film
Festival website

The Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival is a major French platform for fantastic cinema, and one of Europe’s most comprehensive genre events. The Festival’s main focus is on new productions of international fantastic films, but also included are sections for thrillers, noir films and black comedies, and for video games and virtual-reality cinema. The Festival also hosts multiple film revivals, a sign of its firm commitment to cinema heritage.

As an affiliated member of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation (EFFFF), Strasbourg is unique in France in organising the Silver Méliès competition for European films. Winners of this award automatically compete for the coveted Golden Méliès, which is presented every year at a designated EFFFF festival. Learn how this works at www.melies.org.

Strasbourg’s eclectic programming of independent, studio, auteur and niche cinema, plus its broad range of side events, draws large and varied audiences each year. In 2016, overall attendance reached 27 000 and the festival showed a total of 64 features and 27 short films, from 22 countries. (See sections and awards).

Annual side-events include: master classes with outstanding directors and industry experts, museum happenings, conferences, workshops, exhibits, zombie walks, and a fantastic village with activities for all ages. The Festival’s open-air screenings draw 4 000 fans each year and Strasbourg also hosts a number of innovative and fun film events, such as 2016’s projection of Jaws at the city’s Art Nouveau municipal bathhouse pool, complete with floating armchairs.

In 2012, the Festival organisers introduced a complementary strand at the city’s digital arts centre with the focus on video games, digital creation and virtual-reality experiences. Highlights are the Indie Game Contest for independent video-game developers; installations by digital creators from our artist-in-residency programme; and a VR film corner, showcasing the latest trends in the 360° world of virtual-reality cinema.

There’s something for everyone at this convivial festival, bringing together cinephiles, geeks, fan boys and girls and traditionalists, for ten celebratory days of cinematic discovery in one of the most beautiful and cinephile cities in France.

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