ARCHIVES 2013

International Fantastic Competition

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Gold Octopus

Kiss of the Damned

BORGMAN-illu

Silver Meilies 

Borgman

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Jury’s special mention

Dark Touch

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Audience Award

Uma História de Amor e Fúria

Short Films Competition

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Gold Octopus

Yardbird

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Silver Meilies

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The-Hunt

Jury’s special mention

The Hunt

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Audience Award

Yardbird

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Young Jury Prize

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Prize for Best Short Film Made In France

The Things they Left Behind

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Award for Best Animated Short Film

Pryg-Skok

Indie Game Contest

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Octopix the best independent full game

Element4l

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Octopix of the best independent video game work in progress

Pathogen

Opening / Closing

We Are What We Are

Machete Kills

Fantastic International Competition

App

Bad Milo!

Big Bad Wolves

Borgman

Dark Touch

For Those in Peril

In Fear

Kiss of the Damned

Love Eternal

The Returned

The Station

Uma História de Amor e Fúria

Upstream Color

Crossovers Competition

7 Boxes

Cheap Thrills

Graceland

Our heroes are dead tonight

Proxy

Tore Tanzt

Wrong Cops

Midnight Movies

The Battery

Big Ass Spider

Frankenstein's Army

Fresh Meat

Go Goa Gone

Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles

V/H/S/2

Documentaries

I Am Divine

Journey to Planet X

We Will Live Again

Special Screenings

All Cheerleaders Die

Static

Young Audience

A Letter to Momo

Room on the Broom

International Competition

And Death Will Be Alright

Let Me Go

ESC

Intus

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Proto

The Hunt

Yardbird

Animation Competition

L'art des Thanatier

The can of sardines

Initium

Linear

The bear's night

Pryg-Skok

Life and death of the famous Grigory Efimovich Rasputin

Zombirama

Made in France Competition

Silent Night

Ecce Mulier

The woman who floated

Guys girls

Rose or the Mute Liars

The Things they Left Behind

Zygomatiques

Monkey Business

Human fascination with apes doubtless has much to do with the proliferation of films featuring giant gorillas and psychotic apes, so many films in fact that they may be categorised as a separate sub-genre, with King Kong forming the gold standard.

The beginnings of King Kong are to be found in films like Lloyd Bacon’s Stark Mad (1929) and, above  all, Harry Hoyt’s The Lost World, which already boasted the work of Willis O’Brien, who was later to be responsible for the special effects in King Kong in 1933. It was a project by Harry Hoyt and Willis O’Brien entitled Creation together with a project by Merian C. Cooper on the history of gorillas, produced by RKO, that gave birth to this film classic, which was initially to been titled The Beast and then Kong, only finally to be given the name that resonates like two fists thumping on his chest: King Kong. Shot in the middle of the Great Depression, King Kong evoked in filmgoers then, as it still does  today, an allegory of wild nature confronted by the harmful effects of“civilisation”.

With sequels, remakes or just pale copies, King Kong has left an indelible mark on cinema history. To celebrate his 80th birthday, we are pleased to offer you a retrospective of 12 films, all of them 35mm prints, on the subject of apes and forming are view of a 70-year period of the cinema, from Cooper and Schoedsack’s masterpiece to the last remake to date by Peter Jackson, with productions from Hong Kong, Japan and Italy in between.

King Kong (1933)

Mighty Joe Young

Gorilla at Large

Konga

King Kong (1976)

The Mighty Peking Man

Yeti the giant of another world

King Kong VS Godzilla

King Kong Lives

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Monkey Shines

King Kong (2005)

El Santo (1917-1984)

For over seven decades Mexico has had a love affair with luchalibre, prompting influential Mexican  writer, Carlos Monsivais, to discuss at length the Mexican need to go to wrestling arenas and cheer  or curse at their heroes or villains. One of those heroes was Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, better known as “ElSanto”. His popularity was such that the El Santo comic book series, launched in 1952, ran for 35 years. Besides a wrestling megastar, he was a bona fide matinee idol. The production values of his films may have been low by Hollywood standards, but they made for highly entertaining exploitation films with a winning formula. From the Guanajuato mummies to La Llorona or the Wailer, Santo was placed against armies of supernatural foes, many of which were autochthonous (read Mexican monster mythology); though later he would take on Hollywood’s Frankenstein, Dracula andWolfman. His film career took off in 1961 with his 3rd film, Santovs. the Zombies, and he made over 50films from 1961-82. Four of these found a niche in the United States, where they were regulars on TV’s midnight B-movie circuit, although one of his best, Santo vs. the Vampire Women, appeared as an episode on the acclaimed cult series Mystery Science Theatre 3000. By the late 1970s, his stock of monsters depleted, Santo turned to US-Mexican border foes or to Bruce Lee wannabes to choke hammer. But super-hero wrestler films were also starting to wane and Santo retired from the ring and cinema in 1982 at age 65. A genuine folk hero, his legend continues today through myriad tributes in the form of cartoon series, cinema and Santo-inspired wrestlers.

Santo vs. las mujeres vampiro

Santo el enmascardo de plata vs la invasión de los marcianos

El hombre detrás de la máscara

Centenary Peter Cushing

Bringing talent and refinement to British horror films, Peter Cushing (1913-94) was best known for his Hammer Studio roles of Baron Frankenstein, Dr Van Helsing and Sherlock Holmes. In tribute to the birth centenary of this iconic actor who defined the horror films of his times, we present a restored version of a film thought to have fallen off the edge, but which was recently found in the Sony Pictures vault.

 

 

Corruption

Indium Game Contest

Coated

Dusty Revenge

Element4l

Ethan : Meteor Hunter

Finding Teddy

The Ghost Next Door

Last Knight

Once Upon a Trap

Pathogen

Cold blood - A tale of werewolves

Conferences and Events

Retro Gaming exhibition - Quiet, we playing!

Conference - Cinema and Video Games

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Film Concert – B Movie Orchestra

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Open-air screening – Back to the Future

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Silent film concert – The Student of Prague

Meet the Jury members

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Eric Powell – Discussion forum and exhibition

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Master class – Screen credits

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Michel Landi – Discussion forum and exhibition

Guest of Honor

Lucky McKee

Features film jury

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Lucky McKee

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Carlos Areces

julien-Gester

Julien Gester

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Tómas Lemarquis

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Travis Stevens

Short films jury

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Eric Brunswick

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Julien Ditsch

valerienoirez

Valérie Noirez

philippepoirier

Philippe Poirier

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Fabien Texier

Jury Indium Game Contest

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Alexis Blanchet

geraldinefarage

Géraldine Farage

stephanhaller

Stephan Haller

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Laurence Rilly

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Alexandra Vallaude