Season 2024

30 May: Wake Up (RKSS)

29 August: Veni Vidi Vici (Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann)

28 November: Silent Storms (Les Tempêtes, Dania Reymond-Boughenou)

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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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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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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