Film Maudit 2.0 is a film festival dedicated to outré films inspired by the legendary artist Jean Cocteau’s “1949 Festival Du Film Maudit”, which celebrated a group of films that were criminally overlooked and neglected at the time. Taking its title from the French expression meaning “cursed films,” this showcase of counter-cinema blends together narrative, documentary, and experimental films that in their style and/or subject matter, are deliberately bold, confrontational, troubling, and/or shocking. 

The Film Maudit 2.0 festival features over 125 works of cinema from 25 countries including films rarely if ever, seen in festivals: works addressing sociopolitical issues and taboo subject matter that challenges conventional artistic assumptions and sexual mores.

Film Maudit 2.0 is free and available to view online January 12 – 24