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Call them Calgary’s weird little cinematic orphans.

The selections for the Calgary Underground Film Festival’s Off the CUFF year-round programming are generally cult films that for one reason or another didn’t fit into CUFF’s main festival, which runs from April 22 to 29 this year, or its CUFF. Docs festival, which ran from Nov. 28 to Dec. 2.

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“There are always films that we get pretty excited about programming or that we see at other festivals or heard about and they just don’t fit timing-wise,” says CUFF director and co-founder Brenda Lieberman. “Yeah, I wish we could even go back in time and do more that we missed out on.”

So Off the CUFF will offer similar types of underground cinema throughout the year. For now, festival programmers are hoping to book two films a month.

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For January, that means fans of offbeat cinema can catch the 2018 horror-thriller Lords of Chaos at the Globe Cinema on Jan. 11. The film, which stars Rory Culkin, tells the true-life tale of blood and mayhem surrounding the black metal scene in Oslo, Norway. CUFF programmers caught the film at Sundance this year.