
The Offs

Season 2024-2025
19 June 2025: Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani)
28 November 2024: Silent Storms (Les Tempêtes, Dania Reymond-Boughenou)
29 August 2024: Veni Vidi Vici (Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann)
30 May 2024: Wake Up (RKSS)
Reflection in a Dead Diamond
After a woman in the room next door vanishes, a former spy, leading a solitary life in a luxury hotel on the French Riviera, imagines that his sworn enemies have resurfaced. In particular the daunting Serpentik, whom he failed to unmask. Oscillating between past and present, he replays his life as if it were a movie, with the risk of discovering that he may not have had the best role to play. And … that diamonds are rarely eternal.
The duo Cattet-Forzani, known for Amer, The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears and Let the Corpses Tan, still inspired by Italian exploitation cinema of the 1960s, return with an ode to European spy films (Eurospy) and adult Italian comics (fumetti neri), where once again the visual aesthetics compete in beauty with the music composed by the maestros of Italian genre cinema’s golden age.
France, Belgium – 2025 –1hr27 – in French – min. age 12
Directors: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani
Actors: Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw
In French cinemas on 25 June 2025
Where: the Star cinema
When: 19 June at 8:15pm
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Silent Storms (Les Tempêtes)
Strange yellow dust storms assail the city. Nacer, a journalist, is covering the story for his paper. Unexplainable events multiply, and his dead wife Fajar reappears. Faced with ever threatening winds and a city that seems to have fallen into madness, Nacer must untangle a past that haunts.
For this feature debut, Dania Reymond-Boughenou revisits the political past of her native Algeria, through a subtle use of the fantastic to awaken and give voice to sleeping ghosts.
France – 2024 – 1hr24 – in French
Director: Dania Reymond-Boughenou
Producers: Jérémy Forni, Camille Chandellier
Actors: Khaled Benaissa, Camélia Jordana, Shirine Boutella
When: Thursday, 28 November at 8pm
Where: the Star St-Exupéry, 18 rue du 22 Novembre, Strasbourg
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Veni Vidi Vici
The Maynards seem to live the dream life of the super-rich, at least in appearance. Its patriarch Amon is a devoted hunter, but not necessarily for animals. In spite of the many and increasingly precise accusations aimed at the family, the Maynard clan thinks that laws don’t apply to them.
The social satire Veni Vidi Vici explores the excesses of capitalism and its powerful elites, but also questions our own role in the power game. Daniel Hoesl’s fourth feature film is the second time he’s shared the director’s chair with Julia Niemann. They previously co-directed the documentary Davos in 2020. Veni Vidi Vici was produced by Ulrich Seidl, a figurehead in Austria cinema, known for his provocative style and acerbic criticisms of society.
Austria — 2024 — 1hr26 — in German, subtitled in French
Directors: Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
Producer: Ulrich Seidl
Actors: Ursina Lardi, Laurence Rupp, Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg
When: Thursday, 29 August at 8pm.
Where: the Star St-Exupéry, 18 rue du 22 Novembre, Strasbourg
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Wake Up
A group of eco-warriors breaks into a department store at night to denounce the store’s ecosidal practices. But the night watchman, already an advanced psycho, is obsessed with “primitive” hunt techniques. The situation degenerates into chaos, and the maniacal hunt begins.
Wake Up is the latest horror flick from the Canadian trio Road Kill Superstars, affectionately known as RKSS. Well-known to the Strasbourg public, the Festival screened three of their previous films – Turbo Kids, Summer of 84 and in 2023, the world premiere of We Are Zombies. This year RKSS is back with a state-of-the-art slasher of the purest kind.
Canada – 2023 – 1hr21 – in French – min. age 12, with caution
Directors: RKSS (François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell)
Actors: Turlough Convery, Benny O. Arthur, Jacqueline Moré
When: Thursday 30 May, at 8pm
Where: the Star St-Exupéry, 18 rue du 22 Novembre, Strasbourg
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