With an audience of 17 000 and rising, L'Etrange Festival has been hailed by the most notorious and prestigious french newspapers including Les Cahiers du cinéma, Libération, Le Monde, L'Express, Le Figaro, Les Inrockuptibles
Created in 1993 and dedicated to feature films, documentaries, short films directed by maverick and independent-minded directors from the past and the present. Since its creation, L'ETRANGE FESTIVAL has screened more than 1000 movies from 30 different countries and paid tributes to the following directors for the first time ever in France, and for some of them for their first time ever let alone their home countries :
MIIKE Takashi
TSUKAMOTO Shinya
SUZUKI Seijun
ISHII Takashi
KERKHOF Ian
BLATTY William Peter
QUAY Stephen and Timothy
HILL Jack
MARINS Jose Mojica
FUKASAKU Kinji
MASUMURA Yasuzo
MAILER Norman
IGLESIA Eloy de
HARADA Masato
KONUMA Masaru
VAN BEBBER Jim
KIM Ki-duk
SVANKMAJER Jan
HERZ Juraj
WAKAMATSU Koji
BAVA Mario
CIPRI Daniele & MARESCO Franco
WATKINS Peter
NOE Gaspar
HADZIHALILOVIC Lucile
CARO Marc
PLYMPTON Bill
LEWIS Herschell Gordon
BUTTGEREIT Jorg
ULLOA Juanma Bajo
SCHLINGENSIEF Christoph
TERAYAMA Shuji
ZEMAN Karel
Since 2001 The Festival is also paying tributes to well-known cult actors/icons of the movie history like Barbara Steele, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sonny Chiba, John Philip Law and Udo Kier.