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1° EDITO
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2° PROGRAMMING/FILMS
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° OPENING / CLOSING
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° PREMIERES
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° INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
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° MELIES COMPETITION
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° THRILLER COMPETITION
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° 7th ORBIT COMPETITION
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° SHORT FILM COMPETITION
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° MIDNIGHT X-TREMES
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° FANTASTIC NIGHT
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° OUT OF COMPETITION
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° WORKSHOP
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3° GUESTS
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4° KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF THE RAVEN
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5° GUEST OF HONOUR
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6° OFF
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° TAIWANESE EVENING
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° FESTIV'ART
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° VAMPIRE’S BALL
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° ZOMBIFFF DAY & NIGHT
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° BELGIAN FILM DAY
° BODY PAINTING CONTEST & MAKE UP
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° JAPANIMATION DAY
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° MONSTER !
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° BABIFFF SITTING
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° WHO IS DAVID P. ?
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° COMIC STAND
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° ANIMATIONS & OFF
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7° PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS
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8° PRESS CONTACTS
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9° SPONSORING
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10° FESTIVALPARTNERS
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EDITO
Even since its appearance, the fantastic genre has never ceased to look for inspiration in
myths and popular beliefs. From Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People over Richard Fleischer’s
Soylent Green to Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, the large majority of these films had
one point in common: an extraordinary intervention from outside.
This disruptive element could manifest itself in various ways: aliens, zombies, a virus,
monsters, insects… Humanity’s entire bestiary went through the fantastic mill!
Unfortunately, the well seems to have dried up. In recent years, movie screens have been
saturated to the point of indigestion with remakes of the classics. The icing on the cake
might be different, to the viewer it all tastes the same.
But while the mainstream was endlessly recycling itself, the avant-garde of the fantastic
genre understood the necessity to change and to adapt. And we can say that this mutation
has been successful, as the genre now enters a new era: the age of introspection.
The selection of the 29th BIFFF is just bursting with these new topics; where we are our
own worst enemy and where the extraordinary comes from the inside. It’s as if we’ve
discovered a goldmine somewhere deep in the abysses of our grotesquely underused
brains.
Schizophrenia, deviant psychology, alienation… In brief, all these pathologies of the mind
that used to play second fiddle, are now firmly taking center stage.
While this trend is obvious, everybody has their own way to translate this into images. The
Asians are torn between poetical modesty (One Day, Ayu) and anarchical neurotic
explosions (Hell Driver, Tetsuo), while the Scandinavians leave their legendary reserve in
the closet to smash their folklore into pieces (Troll Hunter, Rare Exports). But the biggest
surprise this year comes from Eastern Europe with hermetic features that delve into the
deepest recesses of our subconscious (Strayed, The Temptation of St Tony).
With such a menu, there’s no need to say that the BIFFF has put a heavy load on its
shoulders. How will we be able to surpass this for our 30th anniversary edition!? Does
anybody know if there’s a place available on Dr. Melfi’s couch?
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PROGRAMMIN
PROGRAMMING - FILMS
OPENING
A SAD TRUMPET BALLAD (Alex de la Iglesia/Spain-France)
An Alex de la Iglesia film
Screenplay: Alex de la Iglesia
Cast: Carolina Bang, Santiago Segura, Antonio de la Torre, Alejandro Tejeria, Carlos Areces, Fernando Guillen Cuervo,Raul Arevalo,
Raphael, Sancho Gracia, Francisco Franco, Terele Pavez, Fofito, Joaquin Climent, Enrique Villen, Javier Botet, Fran Perea
Running time : 110 min
1937, the Spanish Republic is starting to loose the battle
against Franco’s troops. The Republican army forces the
artists of a touring circus to help them fend off an attack. In
the ensuing fight, one of the clowns distinguishes himself by
cutting down dozens of fascists with a machete. After the war,
he ends up in a forced labor camp. He tells his son Javier that
he will only know love by taking revenge. When Javier follows
his advice and bombards the camp, his father dies and the
camp commander gets mutilated, which gives Javier an
enemy for life. 1973, Javier is a sad, obese clown, working in
a circus run by the sadistic Sergio. When both fall in love with
the beautiful trapeze artist Natalia, a rapidly escalating orgy of
violence ensues, in which Javier will come face to face with
his past.
Alex De La Iglesia (The Day of the Beast, Commonwealth, The Oxford Murders) is in
terrific shape. He comes to the BIFFF with his magnum opus. A Sad Trumped Ballad is not
only a cinematographical tour-de-force, with numerous unforgettable scenes; it also
contains some very significant symbolism. With Javier the republican, Sergio the fascist
and Natalia as lady Spain herself, you have two sides fighting for the soul of a country and
hereby causing irreparable damage. The result is as highly entertaining as it is sobering.
De La Iglesia wraps his angry fist in layers of black humor, but this will not stop A Sad
Trumpet Ballad from knocking you out.
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CLOSING
MONSTERS (Gareth Edwards/UK)
A Gareth Edwards film
Screenplay: Gareth Edwards
Cast: Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy
Running time: 94 min.
The near future after an alien invasion. Six years ago the Earth
received some unexpected visitors. The aliens were finally
pushed back and contained. The infected zone, closed off by
enormous fences, now covers the entire border region between
the US and Mexico. Photographer Andrew is ordered by the big
boss to get his daughter Samantha out of Mexico, which is still
ravaged by the invasion. When they miss the last boat to the
States, Andrew and Samantha have to fork out their remaining
dollars and buy passage through the zone along with a few
hired guides. The two grow closer and closer on their dangerous
journey through this strange and mysteries area.
Director-scriptwriter Gareth Edwards wanted to start his long
feature debut where most alien invasion movies end. The look
of Monsters is incredibly detailed. It looks like a big budget
spectacle, but is actually a small independent production, where all visual effects were
created on Edwards’ laptop. Just like in any other good genre pic, it’s not about monsters
but about the relation between the two leads, played by talented newcomers Scott
McNairy and Whitney Able, and the unique, unusual situation in which they find
themselves. Monsters is proof again that you don’t need heaps of money to create a
completely original viewing experience that thwarts all genre conventions.
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PREMIERES
WORLDWIDE
EATERS Marco Ristori & Luca Boni/Italy
KARMINSKY GRAD Jean-Jacques Rousseau/Belgium
SPEAK (THE) Anthony Pierce/USA
INTERNATIONAL
CHILD’S EYE Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang/Hong Kong
HORNY HOUSE OF HORROR Jun Tsugita/Japan
KEEPSAKE Paul Moore/USA
LA PROIE Eric Valette/France
LUSTER Adam Mason/USA
MIDNIGHT SON Scott Leberecht/USA
MIRAGES Talal Selhami/France-Morocco
NEON FLESH Paco Cabezas/Spain
PROWL Patrick Syversen/USA
REJECTION Vladimir Lert/Ukraine
RETRIBUTION Mukanda Dewil/ South Africa
SECOND APART Antonio Negret/USA
URBAN EXPLORER Andy Fetscher/Germany
WAKE WOOD David Keating/Ireland-UK-Sweden
YELLOWBRICKROAD Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton/USA
EUROPEAN
BESTSELLER Jeong-ho Lee/South Korea
FEROZZ : THE WILD RIDING HOOD Jorge Molina/Costa Rica-Cuba
MIDNIGHT FM Sang-Man Kim/South Korea
MILOCRORZE Yoshimasa Ishibashi/Japan
SIREN Andrew Hull/UK
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INTERNATIONALCOMPETITION
international Jury
Enzo G. Castellari
Italian Director, but also writer, actor, editor and producer, Enzo G.
Castellari is famous for his « Spaghetti Westerns » such as Go Kill and
Come Back, A Few Dollars for Django or Go Kill Everybody and Come
Back Alone. He directed in 77 the original Inglorious Basterds that
Quentin Tarantino remade in 2009 : Quentin paid tribute to Castellari by
offering him a cameo as a nazi general.Il a d’ailleurs réalisé en 1977
Inglorious Basterds que Tarantino a repris en 2009 : il y joue d’ailleurs un
général nazi.
Filmo
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1996 : Le retour de Sandokan
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1987 : Striker
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1982 : The Bronx Warriors
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1977 : Inglorious Basterds
Jake West
Jake West is an English director known for his successful Razor Blade
Smile. Thanks to his work as an editor for the English Television, he
develops a unique dynamic kind of horror movies. Jake alsready came
in 2006 at the Bifff to present his hilarious Evil aliens.
Filmo
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2009 : Doghouse
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2006 : Evil Aliens
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2006 : Pumpkin head
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1998 : Razor Blade Smile
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Simon Boswell
Simon Boswell is the english version of John Williams with more than 80
genre films. He composed for Dario Argento, Clive Barker, Danny Boyle,
Tim Roth or Richard Stantley.
Simon is actually working on My zinc bed’s music, tv serie with Uma
Thurman and Jonathan Pryce.
Filmo
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2005 : The River King
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1997 : Perdita Durango
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1995 : Hackers
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1995 : Lord of Illusions
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1992 : Dust Devil de Richard Stanley
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1986 : Demons 2 de Dario Argento
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1985 : Phenomena
Tony Todd
« Candyman, Candyman, Candy… » Everyone has once tried to call his
name. And here he is, joining this year our International Jury. Charismatic
actor, Tony Todd played in a lot of classique genre movies such as Night of
the Living Dead by Tom Savini, The Crow by Alex Proyas, The Rock by
Michael Bay, Wishmaster by Robert Krutzman or Final Destination by James
Wong.
Filmo
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2000 : Final destination
2000 : The secret
1996 : The rock
1994 : The crow
1992 : Candyman
1990 : Night of the living dead
1989 : Lean on me
1988 : Bird
1986 : Platoon
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Nicolas Gob
Nicolas Gob is a young Belgian actor who begins his carrier in the
theater. He is famous for his role in the french tv serie Les Bleus. He
played the leading part in Cannibal in 2009. Loving playing an inspector,
he decides to play the TV serie Un Village Français, as a tough
inspector.Nicolas Gob is a young Belgian actor who begins his carrier in
the theater. He is famous for his role in the french tv serie Les Bleus. He
played the leading part in Cannibal in 2009. Loving playing an inspector,
he decides to play the tv serie Un Village Français, as a tough inspector.
Filmo
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2010 : Camping 2
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2009 : Noir Océan
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2009 : Cannibal
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2007 : Home Sweet Home
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2006 : Les Bleus
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2006 : Mes copines
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2004 : Hotdogs
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2003 : Des plumes dans la tête
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FILMS IN
IN COMPETITION
BESTSELLER (Jeong-ho Lee/South Korea)
A Jeong-Ho Lee film
Screenplay: Jeong-Ho Lee
Cast: Jeong-Hwa Eom, Kang-Hee Choi, Jin-Woong Jo, Hwa-Yeong Kim, Do-Gyung Lee, Sung-Min Lee, Yong-Nyeo Lee, Sa-Rang
Park, Seung-Yong Ryoo
The fourth book of bestselling author Hee-soo is once again an instant success. The
media’s requests come thick and fast, to the great pleasure of her publisher. Suddenly
a writer’s worst nightmare rears its ugly head: the accusation of plagiarism. Two years
later, Hee-soo is still recovering and hasn’t written a single word since her anathema.
She decides to leave for the countryside with her daughter in order to get things
moving again. In terms of inspiration, her house is as perfect as Norman Bates’ motel.
And with her daughter talking to her imaginary friend, her creative juices are soon
flowing again. Hee-soo will take this opportunity to finish her book and regain her
success! And plagiarism, again…
Bestseller, the feature film debut of Jeong-Ho Lee, is a well-oiled thrill machine which
will have you biting your nails from beginning till end. This frightening ghost thriller,
midway between Hitchcock and Nakata, never loosens its grip. Starring Jeong-Hwa Eom (Princess Aurora,
Tidal Wave) as tortured writer Hee-Soo.
CHILD’S EYE (Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang/Hong Kong)
An Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang film
Screenplay: Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang & Thomas Pang
Cast: Shawn Yue, Ka Tung Lam, Jo Kuk, Lawrence Chou, Elanne Kwong, Rainie Yang
Six friends from Hong Kong are on holiday in Thailand. Unfortunately, the country is
going through a turbulent period of political unrest. They pack their bags in a hurry,
only to find the airport being occupied by protesters. The friends are forced to seek
refuge in a run down hotel. They soon sense that something is not right about the
place. A little girl and her dog are able to see monstrous apparitions in the hotel
corridors. Then people start disappearing and soon there are only three left. The key to
the mystery lies somewhere in the murderous past of the hotel, but the owner refuses
to give anything away. If the remaining friends won’t find some answers soon, they all
risk to exchange the world of the living for the world of the dead.
When the Pang brothers (Bangkok Dangerous, Re-Cycle, The Detective) make a
movie with “eye” in the title, you know what you’re going to get : hair-raising tension, accompanied by
unhealthy portions of audio and visual shock effects. The Child’s Eye does not surpass their groundbreaking
The Eye (Bifff 2003) or the same-named Hollywood remake (Bifff 2008), but it will guarantee solid Asian
ghost horror fun. With some fine young talent from Hong Kong in the leads : Shawn Yue (Reign of
Assassins), Jo Kuk (The Detective) and Raini Yang (Spider Lillies).
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DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME (Tsui Hark/China)
A Tsui Hark Film
Screenplay : Zhang Jialu, based upon an original story written by Robert Van Gulik
Cast: Andy Lau, Carina Lau Ka Ling, Li Bingbing, Deng Chao, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jean-Michel Casanova, Teddy Robin , Kwan,
Jinshan Liu, Richard Ng, Lu Yao
Running Time: 122 min.
689AD, at the eve of the inauguration of Empress Wu, the first and only female
ruler in Chinese history. A number of imperial officials spontaneously combust
into flames, one even inside the giant Buddha that’s being built in front of the
imperial palace. Wu follows the advice of her most trusted councilor and orders
the release of the renowned investigative judge Dee Renjie from the jail in which
she threw him herself eight years ago because he dared to question her
ascendancy to the throne. Dee is ordered to investigate the mysterious murders
and find out who’s behind the plot to stop the coronation of the empress. He can
count on the help of Wu’s beloved protégé Jing’er, the impulsive albino justice
officer Pei and his old friend Shatuo, the architect of the giant Buddha.
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame marks a return to form for
the legendary Hong Kong action director and producer Tsui Hark (Zu Warriors,
Once upon A Time In China). His latest epic is a highly intoxicating mix of
supernatural mystery, historical pulp, dazzling fighting scenes and fantasy, all
wrapped up in a breathtaking cinematic adventure of two hours. Inventive and
impressive production design and the cream of the crop of the Hong Kong acting guild - Andy Lau (Infernal
Affairs, House of Flying Daggers) as Detective Dee, Carina Lau (Ashes of Time, Infernal Affairs II) as
Empress Wu and Tony Leung Ka-fai (Election, Double Vision) as Shatuo – are the sugar on the cake.
I SAW THE DEVIL (Ji-Woon Kim/South Korea…
A Ji-Woon Kim film
Screenplay: Hoon-Jung Park
Cast: Byung-Hun Lee, Gook-Hwan Jeon, Ho-Jin Jeon, San-Ha Oh, Yoon-Seo Kim
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed
several heinous serial murders in ways you cannot even begin to imagine, with
his victims ranging from young women to even children. The police have been
chasing him for a long time, but are unable to catch him. One day, Ju-yeon,
daughter of a retired police chief, becomes his prey and is found horribly
murdered. Her fiancé Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the
murderer himself. He vows to do everything in his power to take bloody
vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster
himself to get his hands on Kyung-chul.
He brought you A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and The Good, The Bad, The Weird
(2008). This year, director Ji-woon Kim is back with a film that has already made
many viewers around the world very uncomfortable. Needless to say, Asian
extreme movie standards are pretty high, but I Saw the Devil has gone one step
further: graphically brilliant and disturbing, the film was initially banned from
public theatres in Korea due to issues about “human values”. That said, sit back and enjoy this cat-andmouse game with Byung-hun Lee (his third film together with Ji-woon Kim) and Min-sih Choi (Lady
Vengeance, Old Boy). There’s no reason you won’t see the devil too…
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MIDNIGHT SON (Scott Leberecht/USA)
A Scott Leberecht film
Screenplay: Scott Leberecht
Cast: Tracey Walter, Arlen Escarpeta, Larry Cedar, Juanita Jennings, Kevin McCorkle,Shawn-Caulin Young, Zak Kilberg, Austin Mincks,
Maya Parish, Billy Louviere, Jo D. Jonz, Tony Norris, Jeff Campbell, Sarah Raeke, Bonnie Jean, Junius Dion jr
Running time: 88 min
A strange skin disease forces Jacob to avoid every exposition to sunlight. He
spends his life at night, while the rest of the world is asleep. Luckily there are still a
few bars open to break his lonely routine. In one of these taverns, he falls head
over heels in love with bartender Mary. Their romance soon starts to suffer from
Jacob’s worsening condition. While he struggles to control his increasingly more
violent impulses, the local police start targeting him as a suspect in a series of
grisly murders.
If vampires were as numerous in real life as they are now on the big and small
screen, mankind would already be long gone. But just when you think you’ve had
it with those bloodsucking fiends, a director comes along who makes you feel like
sharpening your fangs again. Scott Leberecht’s Midnight Son is a breath of fresh
blood in the worn out vampire genre. It’s a gritty, very realistic and claustrophobic
viewing experience, which almost makes you feel Jacob’s torture. Add to that some solid acting from its
leads and a creepy soundtrack, and you get a very smart, intense and unpredictable vampire movie.
REIGN OF ASSASSINS (Chao-Bin Su & John Woo/China-Taiwan)
A Chao-Bin Su & John Woo film
Screenplay: Chao-Bin Su
Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Woo-Sung Jung, Kelly Lin, Shawn Yue, Barbie Hsu, Xueqi Wang, Pace Wu, Xiaodong Guo, Leon Dai, Hee Ching
Paw, Yiyan Jiang, Calvin Li, Angeles Woo
Being part of a notorious band of assassins does not do wonders with one s social
life. Especially not when you betray them and run away with the mystical mummified
remains of an Indian monk. After another bloody job, Drizzle - a lethal and very
attractive hired killer - decides to turn her back on the Dark Stone gang. It s easier
said than done, because her boss Wheel King immediately puts a price on her
head. Drizzle opts for some radical face-changing surgery and takes on the identity
of a dead woman. She starts a new life as a fabrics trader in a small town and even
falls in love with a guy called Ah-sheng. Her new found happiness will not last long
though, because Drizzle s turbulent past is hot on her heels.
Reign of Assassins is one of the best martial arts movies in recent years with all the
right elements in the right place : dazzling swordfights, characters with hidden
motives and a mystical weapon that everybody wants. Taiwanese director-scripwriter Chao-pin Su is not
unknown to the festival. His Double Vision (Bifff 2003) and Silk (Bifff 2007) got a warm reception here. And
we certainly don t need to introduce co-director and producer John Woo. Add to this Asian superstar Michelle
Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tomorrow Never Dies, Sunshine) as Drizzle, Korean heartthrob
Woo-sung Jung (The Warrior, The Good, The Bad, The Weird) a Ah-Sheng and Chinese veteran Xueqi
Wang (Bodyguards and Assassins) as Wheel King and you get one hell of a wuxia !
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SECOND APART (Antonio Negret/USA)
An Antonio Negret film
Screenplay : George Richards
Cast : Orlando Jones, Gary Entin, Edmund Entin, Samantha Droke, Monica Acosta, Shanna Forrestall, Marc Macaulay,Beau Brasso,
David Jensen, J.D. Evermore, James DuMont, Gabe Begneaud, Kent Jude Bernard, Louis Herthum, Courtney J. Clark, Amber Gaiennie
Running time: 89 minutes
Seth and Jonah are murderous twins who share an evil kinship. Damned from
the moment of their births, the brothers possess a gruesome talent for
telekinesis – a power they use in the most horrific ways imaginable. As their
fellow students meet gory fates, the local law enforcement officers begin to
suspect the twins’ connection to the depraved murders. What started as a
jealous rage escalates into a supernatural showdown – pitting brother against
brother, evil against evil.
The second long feature screened at the BIFFF – after Prowl – to be produced
by After Dark, Seconds Apart is handled by the Colombian director Antonio
Negret (Towards Darkness and the upcoming remake of Mute Witness) who,
at barely thirty years old, has been ranked among the 'Top Ten Latino
Directors to Watch' in 2008 by the Hollywood Reporter. Using the effective plot
device of evil twins –exploited remarkably in De Palma’s Raising Cane -,
Seconds Apart also gives Orlando Jones (Evolution, Bedazzled, Cirque du
Freak: the Vampire’s Assistant) the opportunity to explore darker territory.
STRAYED (Akan Satayev-Kazakhstan)
An Akan Satayev film
Screenplay : Timur Zhaxylykov
Cast: Tyngishbay Al-Tarazi, Andrey Merzlikin, Alma Rulas, Aiganym Sadykova, Igor Gorshkov, Ilyas Sadyrov
Goddammit! The Bifff’s been warning you for 29 years now: avoid shortcuts
when you’re in the middle of nowhere! Otherwise, you’ll end up in the same
shit as our friend here, who gets lost with his family in the Kazakh steppe.
First he has to deal with numerous “I warned you!”s from his beloved wife
and the overactive bladder of his son. Then the engine dies and tempers
flare up to unbearable heights. In the end, our dear friend decides to take a
nap. But when he wakes up, his wife and son have mysteriously
disappeared. Not a single word, nothing, nada! While searching for his
family, he comes across a datcha with two enigmatic inhabitants: a grey
haired wise man and his daughter. Slowly but surely, our friend will be
swallowed up by darkness, madness and schizophrenia.
Good news: Kazakhstan has something else to offer besides Borat! As
proof, this Faustian tale has been chosen as the Kazakh representative for
the 2011 Oscars. Starting with a very simple pitch, Akan Satayev shows a
very gifted command of cinematic paranoia and gives Andrey Merzlikin
(Bummer, The Inhabited Island) the opportunity to deliver a dazzling
performance.
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STAKE LAND (Jim Mickle/USA)
A Jim Mickle film
Screenplay: Nick Damici & Jim Mickle
Cast: Danielle Harris, Kelly McGillis, Connor Paolo, Bonnie Dennison, Michael Cerveris, Sean Nelson, Chance Kelly, Adam Scarimbolo,
Marianne Hagan, Nick Damici, Lou Sumrall, Stuart Rudin, Traci Hovel, Jean Brassard, Eilis Cahill, Brian Spears
After a virus has ravaged humanity, the world is forever changed. The night belongs to
bloodsucking zombies. During the day, those few who have survived, hurry from one
hiding place to the next. In this post-apocalyptic wasteland, young Martin is about to get
bitten by the same monster that just slaughtered his family. A well placed stake by the
enigmatic vampire hunter called Mister, saves his life. Mister takes Martin under his
wings and learns him how to survive. After they hear rumors about New Eden, a place
without monsters, they start upon a long journey north. On the way, Martin and Mister are
joined by a pregnant young woman and another young man. They will discover that
vampires are not the only thing in this world to be afraid of.
In 2007 young American genre talent Jim Mickle visited the BIFFF to introduce us to his
directing debut Mulberry Street, a finely crafted low budget horror trip with some memorable characters. We
had to wait until now for his next feature, but our patience is amply rewarded, because Stake land is simply
one of the best vampire flicks you ll see this year. The script of this existential horror western, written by
Mickle and lead actor Nick Damici (Mulberry Street), brings complex and intriguing characters to life in a
moving and socially relevant story. This strong script is translated into sensational, adrenaline-raising
images, full of risky shots and an eye for detail that firmly transcends the limited budget.
TRANSFER (Damir Lukacevic/Germany)
A Damir Lukacevic film
Screenplay: Gabi Blauert & Damir Lukacevic
B.J. Britt, Régine Nehy, Ingrid Andree, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Mehmet Kurtulus, Attila Borlan, Eric P. Caspar, Jeanette Hain, Yemyo
Klame, Michael Klammer, Stefan Lisewski, Zana Marjanovic, Viktor Pavel, Ulrich Voss
Do you feel as if the grim reaper might put its bony hand on your shoulder at
any time ? Do you have a well-stuffed bank account and a tremendous will to
live? Welcome to Menzana, a corporation that has turned death into an
illness and sells the remedy at a very high price. Like Hermann and Anna,
you can opt for a cerebral transfer and keep on partying in a fresh new body!
Supplies are inexhaustible; it just takes a few banknotes to recruit
unfortunate souls from the Third World and to convince them to abandon
their mortal coil. Their bodies are in perfect condition. You’ll be able to have
fun again between the sheets. Yes, of course, they are black. So what?
Those racial divides are behind us, aren’t they? OK, your friends might sulk a
bit when they first see you but don’t be fooled. They’re just jealous about your
fine young body. And, anyway, at their age, the wheel might still be turning
but the hamster is most probably dead. So, enjoy your new life but; and this
is the most important part, never forget to take your pills to keep control of
your mind. If not…
Here we have a movie that asks poignant ethical questions about live extension, migration, exploitation, rich
and poor, selfish profit and self-sacrifice. Anyone who dares to say that genre cinema is socially irrelevant,
should be forced to watch Transfer. And we’re not talking about punishment here, because Damir
Lukacevic’s second long feature is simply one of the strongest cinematic experiences you’ll be able to
experience at the Bifff this year.
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TROLL HUNTER (THE) (André Øvredal/Norway)
An André Øvredal film
Screenplay: André Øvredal
Cast: Otto Jespersen, Hans Morten Hansen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Johanna Morck, Knut Naerum, Robert Stoltenberg, Glenn Erland
Tosterud
Three students have dug up a juicy one-of-a-kind subject for their final research
project: the unexplained death of several bears in the Scandinavian Forests. To
be honest, it beats a cheap documentary about the procreation of jellyfish in
Iceland’s cold deep-sea. They quickly realize that poaching is not the answer,
unless you use a silent rocket launcher. They meet a mysterious guy, owner of
an old Jeep strangely scratched all over, which could scare Cujo out of his
grave. Intrigued and excited, our three students decide to track him during his
nocturnal walks into the depths of the Norwegian’s woods. It seems rather
obvious that he is not the kind that picks mushrooms and strawberries, but
while they are watching him, he rushes toward our students, screaming like a
man possessed. But what’s that he’s yelling? "Broll"? "Croll"? "Proll"? Did he
say “Troll”?
Reality horror has taken a new direction. After an endless stream of low budget
fare with shaky cameras trying to hide there’s actually nothing to see, we’re
now treated to well-written movies with solid budgets and especially… credible sfx (just think Cloverfield and
Rec). The cream of this recent crop comes from Norway and you don’t need Scandinavian roots to
appreciate how the troll mythology has been integrated into the story. Director Andre Ovredal effortlessly
blends tension and humor with a healthy dose of satire. Troll Hunter is one of those films you don’t want to
miss at this year’s BIFFF.
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EUROPEaN COMPETITION
In 2010, during the Sitges Film Festival, a brilliant movie that scared all the claustrophobic
people around the world received the Méliès d’Or: it was BURIED, by Spanish director
Rodrigo Cortès. An Award that proves once again the sure taste of the European
Federation since BURIED also won 3 Goyas at the 25th Spanish ceremony.
For 2011, several Silver Méliès are already known:
« Leeds International Film Festival »: The Last Employee (Alexander Adolph)
« Scienceplusfiction » : Rare Exports (Jalmari Helander)
« Sitges » : Rubber (Quentin Dupieux)
MELIES Jury
President of the Jury
Maud Van De Velde
Maud Van de Velde, Director of Kinepolis Film Distribution started her
in the media with the commercial television and works in distribution
and exhibition since 1992.
Kinepolis Film Distribution is a 100% daughter of the international
group Kinepolis. Kinepolis Group is a European exhibitor and known
worldwide as a trendsetter and renovator in the field of multiplexes
and megaplexes and in the digital area. As a company quoted on the
stock exchange and originally Belgian (founded by the families Bert
and Claeys), Kinepolis group welcomes 25 million visitors a year and
has theatres in 4 countries: Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland.
Kinepolis Film Distribution is an independent distributor handling theatrical distribution in
close cooperation with, among others, A-film. Over the years the strategy of KFD has
focused on local content. With this we try to reach out to the new trend in Europe where
audiences want edgy, surprising and new local movies.
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Marc-Henri Wajnberg
Writer, director, actor and producer, Marc-Henri Wajnberg has
made several documentaries, animation series, a feature film,
a few short and very short series totaling 3800 films. He has
produced a
Collection of 33 documentaries for ARTE andthe docufiction The Five Obstructons with Lars von Trier. He is
currently realizing a full-length documentary film on Kinshasa.
His achievements have won over 50 awards at
festivals worldwide and have been widely distributed.
Vincent Patar
Born in 1965, Vincent Patar is a writer and director of animated films.
In 1986, he met Stephane Aubier at School of Visual Arts of La
Cambre in Brussels. Thanks to this collaboration some characters are
born Pic Pic Pig "magik" and André, le mauvais cheval in the first
Pic Pic Andre Shoow (1988), a film studies selected and rewarded in
Annecy Festival Anima Brussels in 1989. Two years later, in 1991,
he graduated with great distinction.
Today, with his associate Stephane Aubier, better known as "Pic Pic",
they have a good reputation and public criticism in the animations’s
world.
Pierre-Yves Paque
Cine fan since his childhood, Pierre-Yves Paque is a freelance
journalist and film critic for several magazines (Télémoustique, Be tv,
Femmes d’Aujourdhui,
L’Avenir), for which he traveled passionately movies, stars and
festivals around the world since 2007.
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Micha Kapetanovic
Film critic, radio host, he was for 8 years the editor of the
monthly Brussels stand before joining the events department of the
Brussels tourist office.
For four years he has participated in this framework to organize
events like the Brussels Summer Festival, Plaisirs
d'Hiver,Bruxelles les Bains, the Iris Festival, The year of Fashion and
Design and coordinated the one devoted to comics.
Since June 2010, he joined the staff of Minister-President Charles
Piqué, where he coordinates the image of Brussels
Danny Elsen
Belgian nationality, Danny Elsen is director of photography.
A director of photography must manipulate light such as a poet
manipulates words. Danny Elsen does it with success!
Thanks to his qualities he won a lot of prices:
• 1998: European film award nominated as director of photography
• 2005 : Won Joseph Plateau award for “ Best Belgian Cinematography “ for
Buitenspel and Verlengd weekend and Vendredi ou un autre jour and Die
bluthochzeit
• 2006 : C.I.F.F. award for best D.O.P.
• 2009 : Best Photography at the Circleframe Awards Ceremony at the Gotham
screen film festival for movie Loft
Filmo
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2011 : Rosenn
2008 : Les barons
2007 : Hoe overleef ik mezelf
2007 : Tot ziens
2004 : Memory of a killer
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Pascale Devreese
Pascale Devreese, Sales Manager of Kinepolis Film
Distribution started her career in film distribution in 1991 with
independent distributor Alternative Films. She has been
working for Kinepolis Film Distribution since 1997.
Kinepolis Film Distribution is a 100% daughter of the
international group Kinepolis. Kinepolis Group is a European
exhibitor and known worldwide as a trendsetter and renovator
in the field of multiplexes and megaplexes and in the digital
area. As a company quoted on the stock exchange and
originally Belgian (founded by the families Bert and Claeys),
Kinepolis group welcomes 25 million visitors a year and has
theatres in 4 countries: Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland..
Kinepolis Film Distribution is an independent distributor handling theatrical distribution in
close cooperation with, among others, A-film. Over the years the strategy of KFD has
focused on local content. With this we try to reach out to the new trend in Europe where
audiences want edgy, surprising and new local movies.
Nel Vandevannet
Nel Vandevannet is at the head of the « Cabinet de l’Echevin du
Tourisme et du Personnel de la Ville de Bruxelles ».
Through her experience, she’s a great defender of
the fight against city’s insecurity and violence against
women. Fascinated by the fantastic, she is also a big fan of
BIFFF.
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FILMS IN
IN COMPETITION
DARK SOULS (César Ducasse & Mathieu Peteul/Norway-France)
A César Ducasse & Mathieu Peteul
Screenplay : César Ducasse & Mathieu Peteul
Cast: Morten Ruda, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Ida Elise Broch, Johanna Gustavsson, Christopher Angus Campbell, Espen Eckbo,
Caroline Stoyva Eriksen, Frank Aron Gardso, Jan Harstad, Gustav-Adolf Hegh, Kristian Holter, Mikkel Lodding, Todd Mathiesen,
Kristian Odegard
Running time : 95 min.
Johanna is jogging in the woods, when she’s suddenly attacked by a man in an orange
jumpsuit. Her assailant drills a hole in her skull and leaves her for dead. When the police
call Johanna’s father Morten to ask him to come over and identify his daughter’s body in
the morgue, he tells them that she has just walked in and is sitting in front of her pc. But
there’s something wrong with Johanna. Black oil is flowing from her eyes and the only
message she’s able to type on her screen is one long cry for help. And she’s not alone.
All over town, people are attacked by men in orange jumpsuits with electrical drills. The
victims all suffer from the same symptoms, with their bodies slowly disintegrating in front
of their loved ones. The authorities are baffled. Morten can no longer bear to see
Johanna’s suffering and decides to find those who did this to his little girl.
Dark Souls is an original zombie movie from Norway, directed by two French genre
freaks : Mathieu Petuel and César Ducasse. The duo clearly knows how to build up tension. They allow their
disturbing story to slowly unfold and center everything around their very unusual protagonist : an ordinary,
middle-aged single father; a fine performance by Morten Ruda (O’Horten). Besides lots of body horror,
Petuel and Ducasse even manage to give an ecological dimension to their debut feature. Dark Souls is one
very dark movie that slowly creeps under your skin… just like the oil in Johanna’s body.
EATERS (Marco Ristori & Luca Boni/Italy)
A Luca Boni & Marco Ristori film
Screenplay: Marco Ristori & Germano Tarricone
Cast: Rosella Elmi, Guglielmo Favilla, Alex Lucchiesi, Claudio Marmugi, Fabiano Lioi, Elisa Ferretti, Francesco Malcom,Roberto
Mariotti, Riccardo Floris, Steve Sylvester
Devastated by the Great Epidemic, the world is governed by hordes of the
living dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of the dead, and a
scientist, Gyno - try to find an answer to what has happened to the human
race. Alen and Igor leave for two days of hunting to find new “guinea-pigs” for
Gyno and meet the most varied characters: a crazy painter, neo-Nazis and a
mysterious girl, daughter of the feared Plague-Spreader, supposed craftsman
of the epidemic... Does this sound nasty enough to you? Welcome home, son
of a BIFFF!
Distributed by Uwe Boll, this first long feature from Lucas Boni and Marco
Ristori is clearly 90 minutes of genuine pleasure for a generation raised on
Romero’s classics. Having earned their spurs in commercials and video clips,
our two chaps clearly know how to cook up a visual bombshell with an
astonishing apocalyptic aesthetic. The care taken on the make-up and look of
the infamous zombies is just amazing. And the onscreen result is closer to Danny Boyle and Zack Snyder
than to Lucio Fulci’s and Umberto Lenzi’s flicks.
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IT’S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE (Gurinder Chadha/UK)
A Gurinder Chadha film
Screenplay: Paul Mayeda Berges & Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Steve Morphew, Steve Jones, Jamie Sives, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Mark Addy, Shabana Azmi, Goldy Notay,
Sacha Shilov, Teghvir Gujral, Harry Rance, Ray Panthaki, Jack Gordon, Shaheen Khan, Lalita Ahmed,Saraj Chaudhry
Mrs Sethi, a widow, can't bear the thought of her daughter being alone and
unhappy. Okay, she's a little plump and opinionated...but she would make
a great wife for some lucky man, if only she were given a chance. When
Mrs Sethi can no longer stomach the rudeness of families who refuse her
daughter, she takes matters into her own hands in the only way she knows.
Suddenly a police hunt begins for a serial murderer who cooks a killer
curry. Mrs Sethi doesn't feel too guilty until the spirits of her victims come
back to haunt her, as they can't be reincarnated until their murderer dies.
Mrs Sethi has no qualms about killing herself -she'll get to see her dead
husband again- but how can she go before her daughter is married? The
spirits realize that helping Mrs Sethi's daughter find a suitable husband
before the police catch her is their only chance of a wonderful afterlife.
Acclaimed director Gurinder Chadha, who brought us Bend it Like Beckham – with the future sex symbol
Keira Knightley – and Jane Austen’s revisited Bride and Prejudice, is back on screens with this horrific
comedy. Don’t look for a rebooted version of Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, the script being a confrontation
between Indian and British traditions, a matter Chadha knows pretty well. Using the Masala genre instead of
a social drama, she gets the opportunity to deal with ghosts, poisoned vindaloo chicken breasts and colourful
characters like Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins.
JULIA’S EYES (Guillem Morales/Spain)
A Guillem Morales film
Screenplay: Guillem Morales & Oriol Paulo
Cast: Belen Rueda, Lluis Homar, Pablo Derqui, Francesc Orella, Joan Dalmau, Boris Ruiz, Daniel Grao, Clara Segura, Andrea
Hermosa, Julia Gutierrez Caba, Mia Esteve, Jordi Llordella
Julia returns to Bellevue with her husband to visit her sister Sarah, who is near blind
due to a degenerative illness for which she has unsuccessfully undergone surgery.
When they arrive, Julia finds that Sarah has taken her own life and none of her
mysterious neighbors seem to be at all surprised. Julia has to confront not only the loss
of her sister, but also the loss of all hope of halting her own impending blindness, as she
suffers from the same illness and would appear to be destined for the same end as her
sister.
Expectations are high when you have a producer like Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s
Labyrinth, Hellboy, The Devil’s Backbone) and the creative team behind A.J. Bayona’s
massive hit The Orphanage (2007) attached to your film. Director Guillem Morales,
whose first long feature was the Sitges prize winning The Uncertain Guest (2004), presents us with a tense
and sadistic thriller that reminds you of an Italian giallo or even Terence Young’s Wait Until Dark (1967).
Needless to say, the strong performance given by Belen Rueda (The Orphanage) and the cold, composed
images of cinematographer Oscar Faura (The Machinist, The Abandoned) only add to the appeal of this
Spanish terror flick.
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PREY (Antoine Blossier/France)
An Antoine Blossier film
Screenplay : Antoine Blossier & Erich Vogel
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Grégoire Colin, François Levantal, Joseph Malerba, Fred Ulysse, Isabelle Renauld
Nathan is visiting his fiancée Claire at her family s estate. When mutilated
animals are found on the terrain, Claire s grandfather, her father and her
brother decide to form a hunting party. They set of into the woods with future
son-in-law Nathan trudging along. A wild boar seems to be the main suspect
for the carnage, but there s something far more dangerous afoot. The family
also owns a chemical factory and a leak in a tank with an experimental type of
fertilizer has infected the surrounding wildlife. The pollution has started a
mutation in the local population of boars, who aggressively attack anything that
breathes, including themselves. The family members start bickering with each
other, poor Nathan is stuck in between and the boars have tasted blood.
Prey is another fine addition to the subgenre of wildlife gone mad. Illustrious
examples like Razorback, Black Sheep and Tremors show what fun you can
have with this when it s done right. And with Prey, young debuting director
Antoine Bloissier has done the right thing indeed ! This is one very stylishly filmed horror trip. The foaming
beasties steal the show, but the ones who tear each other apart the most are those animals walking on two
legs. So it gives you lots of pleasure to see how these not very sympathetic characters end us mangled and
mutilated in boar stomachs.
RED NIGHTS (Julien Carbon & Laurent Courtiaud/France-Hong Kong)
A Julien Carbon & Laurent Courtiaud film
Screenplay: Julien Carbon & Laurent Courtiaud
Frédérique Bel, Carrie Ng, Carole Brana, Stephen Wong Cheung-Hing, Kotone Amamiya, Maria Chen, Jack Kao
It looks strangely like a lethal version of the US game show Deal or no Deal :
everybody wants to know what’s in the box. There is also a large sum of money at
stake but, on the other hand, the contestants have a lot to lose. Basically, if you
lose, you die. The contestants of this game are as honest as a leaky condom and
won’t stop giving each other a hard time through the streets of Hong Kong. The
story goes like this : After she betrays her lover for the box, the mysterious
Catherine gets double-crossed by Sandrine and Flora, who fall into the hands of
Carrie; an S&M art dealer and a Chinese Freddy Krueger look-alike. But
Catherine, who has more than one betrayal up her sleeve, is going to use
Sandrine to get rid of Carrie, even if it means betraying Mister Ko, the real owner
of the box. Not too hard to follow ? Now, there’s just one question left : what’s in
that goddamn box ?
It’s no coincidence that Julien Carbon and Laurant Courtiaud were attracted to the
streets of Hong Kong for their long feature directing debut. The twosome are skilled screenwriters, having
delivered scripts for Asian action masters like Johnnie To (Running Out Of Time), Tsui Hark (Black Mask 2)
and Peter Pau (The Touch). Their Asian giallo contains some torture scenes that could have come straight
out of Takashi Miike’s twisted mind. Regarding casting, there’s finally something new for Frédérique Bel (A
Very Long Engagement), who plays a lethal vamp and there’s the comeback of the venomous Carrie Ng
(Sex and Zen, Naked Killer). And with a soundtrack by Seppuku Paradigm – guilty for Martyrs and Eden Log
– one thing is certain : it’s going to be a very bloody night…
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TRANSFER (Damir Lukacevic/Germany)
A Damir Lukacevic film
Screenplay: Gabi Blauert & Damir Lukacevic
B.J. Britt, Régine Nehy, Ingrid Andree, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Mehmet Kurtulus, Attila Borlan, Eric P. Caspar, Jeanette Hain, Yemyo
Klame, Michael Klammer, Stefan Lisewski, Zana Marjanovic, Viktor Pavel, Ulrich Voss
Do you feel as if the grim reaper might put its bony hand on your shoulder at
any time ? Do you have a ll-stuffed bank account and a tremendous will to
live? Welcome to Menzana, a corporation that has turned death into an
illness and sells the remedy at a very high price. Like Hermann and Anna,
you can opt for a cerebral transfer and keep on partying in a fresh new body!
Supplies are inexhaustible; it just takes a few banknotes to recruit
unfortunate souls from the Third World and to convince them to abandon
their mortal coil. Their bodies are in perfect condition. You’ll be able to have
fun again between the sheets. Yes, of course, they are black. So what?
Those racial divides are behind us, aren’t they? OK, your friends might sulk a
bit when they first see you but don’t be fooled. They’re just jealous about your
fine young body. And, anyway, at their age, the wheel might still be turning
but the hamster is most probably dead. So, enjoy your new life but; and this
is the most important part, never forget to take your pills to keep control of
your mind. If not …
Here we have a movie that asks poignant ethical questions about live extension, migration, exploitation, rich
and poor, selfish profit and self-sacrifice. Anyone who dares to say that genre cinema is socially irrelevant,
should be forced to watch Transfer. And we’re not talking about punishment here, because Damir
Lukacevic’s second long feature is simply one of the strongest cinematic experiences you’ll be able to
experience at the Bifff this year.
TROLL HUNTER (THE) (André Øvredal/Norway)
An André Øvredal film
Screenplay: André Øvredal
Cast: Otto Jespersen, Hans Morten Hansen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Johanna Morck, Knut Naerum, Robert Stoltenberg, Glenn Erland
Tosterud
Three students have dug up a juicy one-of-a-kind subject for their final research
project: the unexplained death of several bears in the Scandinavian Forests. To
be honest, it beats a cheap documentary about the procreation of jellyfish in
Iceland’s cold deep-sea. They quickly realize that poaching is not the answer,
unless you use a silent rocket launcher. They meet a mysterious guy, owner of
an old Jeep strangely scratched all over, which could scare Cujo out of his
grave. Intrigued and excited, our three students decide to track him during his
nocturnal walks into the depths of the Norwegian’s woods. It seems rather
obvious that he is not the kind that picks mushrooms and strawberries, but
while they are watching him, he rushes toward our students, screaming like a
man possessed. But what’s that he’s yelling? "Broll"? "Croll"? "Proll"? Did he
say “Troll”?
Reality horror has taken a new direction. After an endless stream of low budget
fare with shaky cameras trying to hide there’s actually nothing to see, we’re
now treated to well-written movies with solid budgets and especially… credible sfx (just think Cloverfield and
Rec). The cream of this recent crop comes from Norway and you don’t need Scandinavian roots to
appreciate how the troll mythology has been integrated into the story. Director Andre Ovredal effortlessly
blends tension and humor with a healthy dose of satire. Troll Hunter is one of those films you don’t want to
miss at this year’s BIFFF.
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URBAN EXPLORER (Andy Fetscher/Germany)
An Andy Fetscher film
Screenplay: Andy Fetscher
Cast: Nathalie Kelley, Andreas Wisniewski, Nick Eversman, Max Riemelt, Brenda Koo, Catherine de Léan, Johannes Klaussner, Kai
Michael Wolter, Adolfo Assor, Klaus Stiglmeier
Insatiably curious to explore the world beneath their feet, four young tourists Korean Juna, French Marie, American Denis and his Venezuelan girlfriend Lucia engage the services of Kris, a local guide, to lead them through the maze of tunnels,
bunkers, cavernous spaces and others WO II remains underneath Berlin. When Kris
falls into a shaft and breaks his leg, Juna and Marie try to trace their way back to find
help. Denis and Lucia stay with Kris. Suddenly Armin shows up. The former East
German border guard knows his way around and proposes to carry Kris to his
shelter, where they can contact the authorities. Soon it becomes clear that our urban
explorers have made the mistake of their life.
Urban explorers are hot ! All over the world, these amateur speleologists explore the
hidden and often forbidden world under our big cities. Fertile feeding ground for a
new subgenre, you’d say. And it’s young German film talent Andy Fetscher, whose
directing debut Bukarest Fleisch was shown at the Bifff in 2008, who dives first into the abyss. Nail biting
tension and terror are assured, because Fetscher uses his claustrophobic and creepy sets to maximum
advantage. And he’s certainly not stingy with blood, gore and gruesome situations best not viewed upon with
a full stomach.
WAKE WOOD (David Keating/Ireland-UK-Sweden)
A David Keating film
Screenplay: David Keating & Brendan McCarthy
Cast: Eva Birthistle, Ella Connolly, Timothy Spall, Aidan Gillen, Brian Gleeson, Dan Gordon, Ruth McCabe, Amelia Crowley
Alice, the young daughter of veterinarian Patrick and his wife Louise, is bitten to
death by a rabid dog. The grieving couple moves from the big city to the small,
rural village of Wake Wood. Its name is aptly chosen, because the forests
around Wake Wood have the power to bring back the recently deceased; but
this only for three days. With the help of village elder Arthur, Patrick and Louise
use the magic of Wake Wood to revive Alice. Soon the villagers sense that
there’s something not right with the girl. They demand for her to be returned
back into the earth. But Alice has other plans.
How far would you go to spend some precious time with someone who was
brutally taken away from you ? Wake Wood is one of those solid horror pics
where the director takes his time to create a bond between the audience and
the characters – among whom Aiden Gillen (Tommy Carcetti from The Wire) as
Patrick, Eva Birthistle (Breakfast on Pluto, The Children) as Louise and Timothy Spall (Secrets and Lies,
Harry Potter, Sweeny Todd) as Arthur – after which you will be enthralled by the carefully crafted mounting
tension and suspense until the very end. Wake Wood is also the first production of the revived Hammer
Studios, the legendary house of horror from the fifties, sixties and seventies.
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THRILLER COMPETITION
Thriller Jury
PRESIDENT of the Jury
Jean Van Hamme
Jean Van Hamme began writing, in 1968,
his first comic scenarios for
Paul Cuvelier: the erotic "Epoxy" and the penultimate (avantdernière) adventure of"Corey". In 1976, became one of the most
writers of Franco-Belgian comics, he devoted himself exclusively to
writing. Thanks to his meeting with Grzegorz Rosinski the bestselling
seriesThorgal is born. And then nothing stops:
• In 1977, with Danny, he launched Arlequin
• In 1984, he published SOS Bonheur
• In 1990, he adapted his series of novels Largo Winch
Winner of nearly 40 Price, Jean Van Hamme received in 2005, the insignia of Officer of
Arts and Letters. In 2011 he was knighted Commander of Arts and Letters of the Republic
at the “Angoulême” Festival. He is the first writer formally honored by Commander
of Arts and Letters of the Republic at the “Angoulême” Festival.
Hughes Hausman
Hugues Hausman is a actor, director, writer and cartoonist. As
he says “ Life is too short to do one thing”. He played in some
theatre and movies such as Hombres Complicados, Lisa,
Resistance, Pas si grave, Taxi 4,… In 2009, he directed his first
feature : Bonne Année Quand Même ! for RTL-TVI. He is
preparing his next comedy feature !
Romain Roll
Born in 1964 in Luxembourg, Romain Roll was fascinated by movies
since he was very young and started his movie career already in
school by organizing a “Ciné Club”. Later he worked as a film critic,
before founding together with the BIFFF, the Luxembourg
International Film Festival Cinénygma. He was the director of the
festival specialized in the fantastic genre during 10 years. Romain is
still the coordinator of the European Fantastic Film Festival
Federation (EFFFF), the organizer of the “Méliès d’Or”, the annual
prize of the best European fantastic film. He also works as an
independent in film production. Credits as an executive producer are:
DUST, PIDO PERDON and WE ALL MIGHT FAIL. He is as well an
EAVE (European audiovisual entrepreneurs) graduate.
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FILMS IN
IN COMPETITION
COMPETITION
CAPTIFS (Yann Gozlan/France)
A Yann Gozlan Film
Screenplay: Yann Gozlan & Guillaume Lemans
Zoé Félix, Eric Savin, Arié Elmaleh, Ivan Franek, Igor Skreblin, Philippe Krhajac, Margaux Guenier, Goran Kostic, Jana Bittnerova,
Sacha Mijovic, Clara Barbosa, Typhaine Hilaire, Thaïs Fischer, Eric Kailey, Loïc Risser, Evelyn Biecher
Somewhere in Eastern Europe, Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group
that has finished its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues
are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared for and kept
alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners are soon horrified to
discover what their kidnappers really have in store for them...
First-timer Yann Gozlan finally switches from short to long after realising two acclaimed
short features (Pellis and Echo). With Captifs aka Caged, Gozlan wanted to test his
own relationship with violence and anxiety. In other words, he tried to find a personal
way as a director of transmitting those two harsh feelings to the audience, without
falling into the usual trap of increasing the level of violence. Very comfortable with the
archetypal conventions of the genre, Gozlan’s main inspiration for this movie was Franju’s The Eyes Without
a Face (1959). He displays masterful sobriety in dealing with a topic subject to an increasing amount of
media coverage these days: organ trafficking. Starring Zoé Félix (Welcome to the Sticks, Déjà Mort), Arié
Elmaleh (Persepolis, Chouchou) and Eric Savin (also in Mirages, screened at the BIFFF).
ESSENTIAL KILLING (Jerzy Skolymowski/Hungary-Ireland-Norway-Poland)
A Jerzy Skolymowski film
Screenplay: Ewa Piaskowska & Jerzy Skolimowski
Cast: Vincent Gallo,Emmanuelle Seigner, David Price, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Stig Frode Henriksen, Zach Cohen, Iftach Ophir, Tracy
Spencer Shipp, Klaudia Kaca, Dariusz Juzyszyn, Robert Mazurkiewicz, Lars Markus Verpeide Bakke, Even Loken Bergan,Thomas
Berg, Eirik Daleng, Morten Enger
Captured by US Special Forces in Afghanistan, Mohammed is transported to a
secret military black site. When the army convoy plummets off a steep hill,
Mohammed finds himself free and on the run behind enemy lines. A hostile, snowblanketed forest gradually turns out to be an Eastern European wilderness.
Relentlessly pursued by his captors, Mohammed constantly confronts the need to
kill in order to survive.
Legendary filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski, who – let’s be chauvinistic for once –
won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for the Belgian shot The Departure
(1967), is far from self-indulgent when it comes to his work. But with Essential
Killing, he is in no doubt: it’s his best film! Intentionally vague on the main
character (a civilian caught in the wrong place at the wrong moment or a fierce
Taliban fighter?), Skolimowski’s main point is more about a struggle of a man
against the wilderness than a political metaphor. From this perspective, he has also skipped superfluous
dialogue and the names of the protagonists, apart from the two main characters (Vincent Gallo and
Emmanuelle Seigner – who happens to be the wife of his fellow countryman Roman Polanski!). At the 2010
Venice Film Festival, Essential Killing won the best actor award for Vincent Gallo and the Special Jury Prize
for Skolimowski.
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KIDNAPPED (Miguel Angel Vivas/Spain)
A Miguel Angel Vivas film
Screenplay : Miguel Angel Vivas & Javier Garcia
Cast : Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Fernando Cayo, Cesar Diaz, Martijn Kuiper, Manuela Velles, Ana Wagener, Xoel Yanez
Running time : 90 minutes
A wireless alarm system costs between 50 and 900 Euro; a door code can be as
much as 200 Euro; a steel security door might cost up to 5000 Euro. It’s expensive,
but 80% of breaking and entering takes place through the front door. A 500,000 volt
taser could be found for less than 100 Euro on the Internet, the price of a “new or
second-hand” (sic) Rottweiler fluctuates between 200 and 800 Euros and feeds
itself mostly with the poodles of the neighbourhood. Life, on the other hand, is
priceless…
That’s what a family from Madrid will discover when they are held prisoner in their
new house by three criminals: a robber, a rapist and a killerThey are there for the
money, but they don’t know the easy way and turn violence into a language of its
own
The producers of “Cell 211” are definitely astute at striking a decisive blow! The
second full-length feature from Miguel Angel Vivas, “Kidnapped” hits the ground running with an opening
sequence that is nothing less than a pure rush of adrenalin. Inspired by several news items full of unbearable
violence, this cinematographic tour de force was completed in twelve shots, refusing to fictionalize the story
or reassuring the viewer: Angel Vivas forces the audience to be the witness of an everyday nightmare.
Check the doors when you come home…
LA PROIE (Eric Valette/France)
An Eric Valette film
Screenplay: Luc Bossi & Laurent Turner
Cast: Albert Dupontel, Stéphane Debac, Natacha Régnier, Sergi Lopez, Alice Taglioni, Olivier Schneider,
Zinedine Soualem, Jean-Marie Winling, Stéphane Girondeaud, François Hatt, Caterina Murino
Serge Hazanavicius,
Burglar Franck has ended up in jail because his accomplice snitched on him and
got away with the loot. He still has a few months to go before he can see his wife
and child again and get some payback from the bastard. But the guy’s taken his
precautions and sends him a picture of his wife and kid. The message is clear.
Franck asks his cellmate Maurel, a small-time crook who’s soon going to be
released because of a judicial error, to warn his family. Big mistake ! The man
turns out to be a notorious serial killer. Franck has no other choice but to escape.
But once he’s outside, there’s no trace to be found of his wife and kid. And Maurel
makes sure that Franck gets the blame for all his heinous crimes. To prove his
innocence, he has to find the killer while France’s entire police force is hot on his
heels.
French director Eric Valette has been quite busy since we presented his long
feature debut Maléfique at the BIFFF 2003. After an excursion to Hollywood with the J-Horror remake One
Missed Call, he realized the French political thriller Une affaire d’état and the monster pic Hybrid. Now he’s
back in Brussels with an explosive action thriller. La Proie (the prey), somewhere half-between Cell 211 and
The Fugitive, is overflowing with testosterone and is mercilessly efficient. Albert Dupontel (Irreversible,
Chrysalis) stars as public enemy number one. Stéphane Debac (Stranded, Fashion Victim) is the diabolic
Maurel. They’re supported by Alice Taglioni (The Valet), Sergi Lopez (Harry Is Here To Help) and our very
own Natacha Régnier (The Dreamlife of Angels).
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MIDNIGHT FM (Sang-Man Kim/South Korea)
A Sang-Man Kim film
Screenplay: Kim Hwi & Sang-Man Kim
Cast: Soo-Ae, Ji-Tae Yoo, Dong-Seok Ma, Man-Sik Jeong, Song-Hyeon Choi, Min-Gyoo Kim
Sun-young is a popular radio DJ with a big fan base for a cinema music
programme that is aired live at midnight. She is a perfectionist who has built a
successful career for the past 5 years, but when her young daughter needs
surgery overseas, the single mum decides to quit. She prepares for her final
show, from song selections down to the smallest details, but during the show,
she receives a call from a listener named Dong-soo. He tells her that she
must follow his orders while she hosts her live radio show and not tell
anyone, or her family's lives will be at stake. Without knowing what he wants
or why this is happening to her, she continues with her 2-hour radio
programme as things start to get worse.
Here it is: the edgy thriller that exploded at the Korean box-office, trampling
over the usual blockbusters from the U.S.! Banking on a very tense cat-andmouse game that made films such as Speed a success, director Sang Man
Kim knows exactly how to tease your ticker, helped by his main actors: SuAe, usually seen in romances and dramas (Sunny, Wedding Campaign), finally gets the opportunity to hit
some jaws, while Ji-tae Yu – from Into the Mirror (which got its US remake by Alexandre Aja) and, of course,
Old Boy – plays the insane fan.
NEON FLESH (Paco Cabezas/Spain)
A Paco Cabezas film
Screenplay : Paco Cabezas
Cast : Mario Casas, Vicente Romero, Macarena Gomez, Dario Grandinetti, Damaso Conde, Angela Molina, Blanca Suarez,Luciano
Caceres, Antonio de la Torre, Vanessa Oliveira, Juan Carlos Vellido
As a child of the theatre, Ricky is not the kind that hits a whore with his pole.
And he has a very good reason : his mother has 20 years of experience
between her legs. The only hitch is that mama is in jail and Ricky has to learn
how to survive alone in Barcelona’s most disreputable streets at an age
when most teenagers are raving in Ibiza. But Ricky has a plan. With the help
of his two buddies, Angelito and El Niño, he’ll open the hottest whorehouse in
town. This will certainly surprise his mother on her release from prison. Ricky
starts recruiting girls and finds the perfect name for his sex bombs’ nest:
Hiroshima. The problem is that Chino, the biggest pimp in the
neighbourhood, strongly disapproves of his young competitor’s arrival and is
going to make him understand that he has to pay him, unless he wants to
end up in little pieces.
Five years after his eponymous short film, Paco Cabezas strikes back with
this long version. With the collaboration of Miguel Marti (writer of Sexykiller –
Audience Choice at the BIFFF 2009) and Juan Gordon (producer of Cell 211
- Thriller Award at the BIFFF 2011), Paco gives us a Spanish Snatch, with a
powerful cast, such as the beautiful Macarena “sexykiller” Gomez, and Antonio de la Torre (Che, Volver)
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RETRIBUTION (Mukanda Dewil/ South Africa)
A Mukanda Dewil film
Screenplay : Mukanda Dewil
Cast : Joe Mafela, Jeremy Crutchley
Running time : 88 minutes
After thirty years in the judiciary, a retired judge, at the prompting of his family,
takes some time out to write his memoirs. Not wanting any distractions, he goes
to the Overberg Mountains to stay in an isolated cabin to begin work on the book.
The cabin is remote – a three-hour 4x4 drive from the nearest civilization. One
day the retired judge sees someone, a hiker, out in the middle of nowhere. It turns
out the guy’s lost. The judge could do with a little company and invites him to his
place. It soon becomes clear that something is not quite right with the stranger.
And he has some unfinished business with the judge, which starts with killing his
dog.
With Retribution, acclaimed commercials director Mukunda Dewill makes his
theatrical debut. “I really wanted to tell a story with a central theme that deals with
the natural order of things upset by human error”. Inspired by tightly contained
thrillers such as Misery and Lumet’s Deathtrap, this on-screen struggle produced
by Moonlighting Films (Eastwood’s Invictus) owes a lot to the two main actors,
Joe Mafela and Jeremy Crutchley (Lord of War, Doomsday).
THE REEF (Andrew Traucki/Australia)
An Andrew Traucki film
Screenplay: Andrew Traucki
Cast: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley,
Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Mark Simpson
A bunch of friends decide to sail along Queensland’s tropical shores:
turquoise water, white sand, palm trees, sun lotion with protection factor
50… Paradise! After their yacht hits a reef and overturns, our cheerful
fellows are a bit less enthusiastic as they find themselves adrift,
heading towards the big blue. Luke, the brightest of the bunch,
suggests swimming to the nearest island to avoid getting grilled by the
hammering sun. According to him, sharks rarely attack humans. So,
don’t panic! But what they don’t know is that an 18feet long great white
shark wants to be the exception to this rule.
You really need some cohones to make a shark movie after Jaws or the
more recent Open Water. It certainly didn’t frighten Andrew Traucki. The
fact that he scared us into the trees three years ago with Black Water,
starring a giant crocodile with an insatiable appetite, might have had
something to do with it. And it has to be said. Traucki has succeeded in
scaring us out of the water. The Reef is beautifully shot, with effective
editing and a haunting soundtrack boosting the tension meter into the red. By the way, the movie’s based on
actual events. Party poopers who want to know who survived, may now surf to wikipedia, the others are
welcome to get their thrills at the Bifff.
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TERRITORIES (Olivier Abbou/Canada-France)
An Olivier Abbou film
Screenplay: Olivier Abbou & Thibault Lang Willar
Cast: Roc La Fortune, Sean Devine, Nicole Leroux, Cristina Rosato, Michael Mando, Alex Weiner, Stephen Shellen, Tim Rozon, Lena
Kleine, Caroline Redekopp
Running time:110 min
Canada, near the US border. Jalil, Leslie, Michelle, Gab and Tom are driving back home after a wedding. A
car blocks the road, forcing them to stop. It's the border police. The officers check their ID. They seem
suspicious. Their questioning slowly intensifies. They seem particularly intrigued by Jalil and question his
identity. As good citizens, the group stays calm. After all, they've done nothing wrong...Except for that broken
light... And the marijuana found in the car... The tension rises. Leslie tries to get Tom's medication from the
car, but the officers prevent her. The police check turns nasty and the group is cuffed. Leslie protests, only to
be tied to a post and given an “intimate” body search in front of her friends. The officers then suspect their
little dog to be a drug mule... and rip it open with a knife! The situation spirals out of control. Someone is
shot. The group is dragged off to a special jail in the heart of the forest. Stuffed into cages, along with
questions, they'll need to find answers. Or a way out.
A first long feature film for French director and writer Olivier Abbou, Territoires is a real bombshell. The way
he treats his prisoners is nothing else but Guantanamo Bay at the Canadian border, which is sure to provoke
some controversy in the US. Produced by Capture the Flag (The Horde) and simultaneously shot in French
and English for a broader distribution, Territoires can also rely on safe bets, such as cinematographer Karim
Hussain (Hobo with a Shotgun, Walled In), actor Sean Devine (The Whole Nine Yards) and Nicole Leroux
(The Core).
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7th orbit COMPETITION
7th orbit Jury
Cédryc Ruth
Christpohe Bohn
Journalist, Cedryc Ruth realizes, in July 2004, Mortelle
impasse, his first short film released in 2005 at “Le Palais des BeauxArts” in Brussels.
Therefore, he joined the Kino and directed several short films with the
constraint to write, shoot and edit in less than 48 hours. After come back to
university, he took the pen and camera to begin the production of
feature films. Currently he hosts two radio shows on Radio Alma.
Christoph Bohn lives now in Brussels. His job as director guides
him through commercials and documentaries. The world is
changing and the film follows unconditionally change.
His new documentary, The Boy Is Gone released during this
summer. The film is a mixture of animation and film
footage. A Flemish, Francophone, Dutch and German coproduction that tell the years 30-40 of a boy who wants to become
a pilot and who is trapped by the 3. Reich.
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François Stassens
François Stassens was born in 1979. He studied communication at
IHECS where he was graduated in 2003. In November 2004 he was hired
by the Belgian Society of authors,composers and publishers (SABAM) in
the "Audiovisual Communication". He attended since
then various juries, and many festivals AV throughout the year. He has
also recently participated in the pre-selection of Fiction Short Films for the
inaugural Cinema Magritte last February.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian film director, Born in
Courcelles after the Second World War. Thus, if we know he was
born in Courcelles, his date of birth is completely unknown.
He defends a film made of limited budgets (2000 to
2500 €/film), with non-professional actors because J.J. because
Rousseau has an obvious lack of funds, he is a workermason. His pay is barely enough to ensure the daily. But he is
tenacious! He got "owned" by the cinema from an early age,
and movie after movie (Rock Mendès (2006), Un colonial chez les Celtes
(2010), Karminsky-Grad (2011),…), he created its own language both
singular and universal. In order to prevent his image from the
media, Jean-Jacques Rousseau carefully hides all that relates to
privacy. Likewise, it still appears in
public with a hood considering the revelation of his identity as an
end in itself.
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FILMS IN
IN COMPETITION
AYU (Chun-Yu Lai/Taiwan)
A Chun-Yu Lai Film
Screenplay: Chia-Ying Lee
Cast: Tian Ming, Chia-Ying Lee, Shiao Yao, Lu-Hao Chu
Ayu is a 16-year-old senior high school student. She wakes up one day and
finds herself leading a life which feels familiar but somehow strange to her.
Her home has been turned into a clinic and her family have disappeared! After
stumbling into a series of bewildering incidents, she comes to the conclusion
that, just like Alice in Wonderland, she has landed in a fantasy world, where
only an old and lonely failed businessman will talk to her. Moreover, the old
man takes her home to keep her warm and looks after her with love and care.
In Ayu's dream, neither time nor space feels coherent. Nothing in this world
seems connected with reality. It has such a strange impact on Ayu that she
begins to behave bizarrely: she goes to the bathroom but forgets to have a
shower; she gets lost while chasing after an imaginary figure; she can't
remember the things she has done and she falsely accuses their maid of
stealing. The old man tolerates all of this erratic behaviour, but still having no
one to share his burden, he is becoming overwhelmed by feelings of
desperation. Ayu feels the distant memories hidden inside her and tries every means of retrieving them.
Known for his experimental animations and unique visual style, Lai Chunyu made his directorial debut with
Dying Away (2004). After a best visual effects award in 2005 for Silk (Chao-bin Su), Chunyu returns as the
director of Ayu, a feature with a very specific subject matter: “It’s so easy for us to take our daily life for
granted, and only when we loose what we had in the past will we begin to appreciate it (…)”.
CONTACT HIGH (Michael Glawogger/ Austria/Germany/Luxembourg/Poland)
A Michael Glawogger film
Screenplay: Michael Glawogger & Michael Ostrowski
Cast: Michael Ostrowski,Raimund Wallisch,Detlev Buck, Georg Friedrich, Pia Hierzegger, Hilde Dalik, Alina Polzi,Helmut Kopping, Victor
Varnado, Jeremy Strong, Alexis Santiago Hernandez, Michael-Joachim Heiss,Martin Ehrlich, Rafal Sawicki, Anna Frances dioso, Masza
Bauman
Spanish gangster Carlos has lost a mysterious bag in Poland and wants his Austrian
colleague Harry to get it back for him. But Harry doesn’t want to get his hands dirty and
calls in a favour from the Viennese small-time crook Schorsch. He just wants to sit around
and watch car races all day, so he passes the job to Mao. She has no time either, having
to babysit her friend’s daughter, and turns to hot dog stand owners Hans Wurst and Max
Durst. This results in a crazy chase for the bag all across Eastern Europe.
Austrian writer and director Michael Glawogger (Workingman's Death, Slumming) delivers
a psychedelic road movie filled with slapstick humour, absurd situations and
misunderstandings. His heroes Max and Hans are dropped in a mind-expanding trip
facing colourful flying swordfish, hotel walls closing in on them, go-go girls with the heads of German
shepherds… Hallucinations and confusion rule supreme ! Contact High, which might as well be called The
Good, The Bad And The Bag, is a weird and funny movie with a great soundtrack featuring Element Of
Crime, Tiefschwarz, Calexico, Get Well Soon and Roxy Music. You’ll be crying illustrated tears, and when
you leave the film theatre you’ll probably find everything running backwards.
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FEROZZ: THE WILD RED RIDING HOOD (Jorge Molina/Costa Rica-Cuba)
A Jorge Molina film
Screenplay: Alain Jimenez, Jorge Molina & Edgar Soberon Torchia, based upon Charles Perrault: Little Red Riding Hood
Cast: Dayana Legra, Roberto Perdomo, Ana Silva Machado, Francisco Garcia, Raul Capote, Waldo Franco, Rosalia Roque, Belkis
Estenoz
Grandmother is a real pain in the ass. She’s always giving her daughter-in-law
Dolores a hart time, even getting her son Lucio to rape her on the dining table . All of
this in front of Miranda, her granddaughter, and retarded Dully, the incestuous sideeffect of Lucio mistaking his mother for his wife. Two years later, Lucio has kicked the
bucket, Grandmother has been exiled to a hut in the middle of the jungle and Dolores
can finally live in peace with daughter Miranda and uncle Innocencio; the only other
psychologically stable family member, if we leave his Satan worship aside. Time goes
by peacefully. Dully relieves himself on a regular basis in front of bathing nymphets
and Miranda secretly cultivates her nymphomaniac neurosis. Then Dolores decides to
send her to Grandmother’s place with a basket full of food. Miranda unwillingly dons
her red hot riding hood and sets off alone in the forest.
If Charles Perrault had read Nabokov’s Lolita before writing his Red Riding Hood, the
odds are that Jorge Molina and he would have been as thick as thieves! Molina, a
cinema teacher in Cuba and diehard fan of horror flicks, injects this universal tale with
a severe dose of symbolism and eroticism which would have surely pleased Walerian Borowczyk, the
legendary x- rated movie troublemaker. With Ferozz he has created a fierce and disturbing piece of art.
MILOCRORZE (Yoshimasa Ishibashi-Japan)
A Yoshimasa Ishibashi film
Screenplay : Yoshimasa Ishibashi
Cast: Takayuki Yamada, Maiko
Running time: 90 min..
1) The routine existence of the childlike man Ovreneli Vreneligari is turned completely upside down when he
sets eyes for the first time on the stunningly beautiful Milocroze. His obsessive love for her makes him loose
himself. 2) Kumagai Besson is a foul mouthed youth counselor with a strange hairdo and a sexy entourage.
Accompanied by song and dance, he deals out original love advice to hopeless adolescents. 3) The oneeyed ronin Tamon discovers that the dices are fixed in a gambling den and gets involved in a heroic fight
against dozens of sword wielding gangsters. The true reason for his presence is that he hopes to find his
beloved Yori here, who, many years ago, was kidnapped in front of his very eyes.
Last year we unleashed Hitoshi Matsumoto’s Symbol on our unsuspecting audience, a completely unique
picture that defied classification. This year, Yoshimasa Ishibashi’s directing debut Milocrorze will play the part
of that wacky, weird and original surprise which you’re only able to see at the BIFFF. Milocrorze is an insane
mix of colors and styles, effortlessly switching from one genre to another in seconds. It’s a fairytale, it’s
bloody, dramatic, absurd, melodious, kitschy and genre bending at the same time. In short, an ideal
candidate for our 7th Orbit Section.
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MIRAGES (Talal Selhami/France-Morocco)
A Talal Selhami film
Screenplay : Christophe Mordellet
Cast : Karim Saïdi, Omar Lotfi, Meryem Raoui, Mostafa El Houari, Aissam Bouali, Eric Savin, Laila Fadili, Mohamed Choubi, Mohamed
Aouragh, Chaouki El Ofir
Five individuals with contrasting profiles compete for a position within Matsuika , a
multinational corporation recently set up in Morocco. Following an interview with the
CEO, they are advised to undertake a mysterious test in a secret location to
determine who will hold the position. All five applicants accept and are led into a
distressing bus with no windows. After endless driving, an accident occurs, leaving
the candidates trapped in the wreck. Through a joint effort, they manage to evacuate
the bus only to find themselves lost in the desert with their driver nowhere to be
found. They start to wander, questioning the nature of the accident. Is it part of the
test? Despite their will to survive and an urge to find clues, mirages of their most
intimate fears start to haunt them...
A diehard fan of the genre, Talal Selhami was rocked as a kid by the Tales from the
Crypt. With that kind of background, it was obvious that he would end up doing a supernatural thriller such as
Mirages. After the success of his short film Sinistra, Selhami was approached by director and producer Nabil
Ayouch about directing this first long feature. Won over by the script, he has jumped at the opportunity and
brought five talented performers into the middle of Ouarzazate s desert for a hell of a ride!
ONE DAY (Chi-Jan Hou/Taiwan)
A Chi-Jan Hou film
Screenplay: Chi-Jan Hou
Cast: Bryan Shu-Hao Chang, Nikki Hsin-Ying Hsieh, Gwen Yao
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” No, this is not one of
Leo Di Caprio’s lines from “Inception”. It’s Edgar Allan Poe who came up with
this quote and director Hou Chi-jan has applied it to his film.
“One Day” is none other than a shorter version of “One day, my Prince will
come”, but with a lot less sugar on top. Young Singing works on a ferry that
shuttles between a Taiwanese city and the isles. One night, though the ship is
supposed to be as crowded as the London tube at rush hour, Singing finds
herself alone on board. Well, almost. A very angry Hindu seems to chase her
through the deserted corridors and Singing ends up locked in a closet with
Tsung, a young soldier.Tsung has some amazing news for Singing. First, she’s
in the middle of a nightmare. Second, he claims to be her future lover…
New blood for Taiwanese cinema! One Day is the first full-length feature and
the first screenplay for Hou Chi-jan, whose experimental shorts have already
won him lots of prizes throughout the globe. His debut, produced by movie
veteran Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is a genuine love poem in which he transcends
loneliness with imaginary bridges between dream and reality. He neatly fits his mystical puzzle together in a
way that reminds you of a certain David Lynch.
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REJECTION (Vladimir Lert/Ukraine)
A Vladimir Lert film
Screenplay: Vladimi Lert, adapted from Andrei Solomin’s novel “G”
Cast: Sergey Babkin, Bogdan Stupka, Agnia Ditkovskite, Alexander Bashirov
Did Andrey unknowingly lick a stamp dipped in LSD ? When he wakes up, it
seems like the world has ended. The streets of his megalopolis are empty and,
instead of good old rusty Lada’s, he discovers smoking tanks and cars burnt to
a cinder. Even worse, the sky seems to have been completely chlorinated and
Andrey fears that he will have to watch the stars through a layer of green toilet
bowl cleaner for the rest of his life. What really happened? A nuclear war ? An
extra (terrestrial and ordinary) invasion ? A bad trip ? While attempting to get out
of the city with his neighbour Ivan, Andrey soon realises that all three
hypotheses are possible and that they’d better escape from this apocalyptic
enigma. Add to the worldwide downfall a mysterious twilight encounter with an
unconscious ballet dancing beauty and constant reminders of the guy whose
number is 666 and you start to get an idea of the nightmare that Andrey is living.
“I want the two extremes: I want the audience to either love or hate my movie!”.
Vladimir Lert certainly doesn’t want you to remain indifferent to his apocalyptic love story. After learning the
craft at a few Hollywood film schools, Lert returned to his native Ukraine with lots of know-how and some
imaginative ideas, which he impressively transformed into moving images with this ambitious adaptation of
Andrei Solomin’s novel “G”.
SNOW QUEEN (THE) (Marko Raat/Estonia)
A Marko Raat film
Screenplay: Marko Raat, based upon Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale
Cast: Helena Merzin, Artur Tedremagi, Toomas Suuman, Egon Nuter, Kertu Raja, Anni Kreem, Liisa Ratassepp, Peeter Raudsepp,
Janek Sarapson, Kristo Viiding, Kulli Reinumagi, Epp Eespaev, Regina Evert, Tiina Makarov
Naine is a terrific vamp who easily attracts male attention, but lately she hasn’t been feeling that well. Her
complexion has started to look alarmingly like Bukowski’s liver; her appetite is as ravenous as an anorexic in
front of a juicy quarter pounder and she feels depressed as hell. Naine decides to build an ice palace for
herself in the middle of nowhere – an attempt at do-it-yourself cryogenics, in short – and will lure Jasper, a
clumsy young boy, into her gloomy freezer. The hold of his new queen of hearts is going to be so powerful
that Jasper will slowly lose himself in a freezing fog, incapable of finding his way back to reality. No matter
how hard he tries to break the ice of the palace or around Naine’s heart (make your choice), he still remains
caught between desire and repulsion, never being able to get his Mr Freeze out of its wrapping. Frustrating,
isn’t it?
While previous adaptations of H.C. Andersen’s fairytale (Lev Atamanov’s animated film from 1957 or David
Wu’s long feature from 2002) might have been faithful to the original story, Estonian director Marko Raat has
spiced up his contemporary update by showing us the action inside the ice palace between the two
characters (which barely gets a few lines in Andersen’s tale). Shot in extreme conditions – minus twenty
degrees on the set, an ice-cream warehouse, and oxygen masks for the crew to avoid steam on the screen , The Snow Queen is definitely a fairytale for grown-ups, dealing with the inevitable bond between love and
death.
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TEMPTATION OF ST TONY (THE) (Veikko Ounpuu/Estonia-Finland-Sweden)
A Veikko Ounpuu film
Screenplay: Veikko Ounpuu
Cast: Taavi Eelmaa, Ravshana Kurkova, Tiina Tauraite, Sten Ljunggren, Denis Lavant, Hendrik Toompere jr, Katarina Lauk, Harri
Korvits, Taavi Teplenkov, Marika Barabanstsikova, Rain Tolk,Liis Lepik, Valeri Fjodorov, Evald Aavik, Tarmo Mitt, Raivo E. Tamm
Tony is completely stuck in a mid-life existential crisis since his father died. He
watches the world around him and notices a slight smell of the apocalypse. His
fellow men seem to be bored stiff and pass the time by organizing nihilistic orgies
or by metaphysically giving the same importance to questions like “Give me some
salt” and “Who am I?” So Tony takes stock of the values that govern his life and
tries to find a satisfying answer in seven chapters, which just happens to be the
same number as the Deadly Sins or the circles in Dante’s Inferno. From religious
decay over the illusion of love to the erosion of social intercourse, Tony will slowly
but surely reach the conclusion that life is useless.Tony will have to face some very
unpleasant answers in order to survive. Who am I ? A loser. Where am I ? In deep
shit. Where am I going ? Straight against the wall, Tony. Straight against the wall…
This poetic requiem – the Estonian candidate at this year’s Oscars – confirms
Veikko Ounpuu’s talent, director of the award winning Autumn Ball. Inspired by
Dante’s Divine Comedy and Hieronymus Bosch’s The Temptation of St Anthony, “St Tony” also salutes the
movies of Roy Andersson, with its dry sense of humour, sweats Kafkaesque absurdity from each frame, and
takes its metaphysical surrealism straight from Tarkovsky and Bunuel. The Temptation of St. Tony is heavy
but very enjoyable stuff without a shred of indigestible pretentiousness.
TETSUO : THE BULLET MAN (Shinya Tsukamoto/Japan)
A Shinya Tsukamoto film
Screenplay: Shinya Tsukamoto & Hisakatsu Kuroki
Cast: Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Yuko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain, Shinya Tsukamoto, Michael
Duncan, Alan Koji, Sou Fujita, Markus Wambsganss, Hajime Izuki, Dwayne Lawler, Aldo La Riviere, Yutaka Mishima, Getto
Office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother,
lives in Tokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony’s
mother died of cancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for their
health and rigidly subjects Anthony and Tom to monthly physicals. Walking
home, Tom is killed in a hit and run before Anthony’s eyes. Losing their boy
pushes Yuriko over the edge and triggers violent emotions in Anthony, whose
body begins to transform. Little by little, his cells turn to iron. When the driver
who killed Tom reappears and Anthony learns the truth about his father’s past
experiments on human guinea pigs and about his mother’s death, Anthony
mutates into a mass of metal – a human weapon fuelled by an uncontrollable
rage.
The BIFFF was the first festival in the world to screen Tetsuo (1989); which
has since become the cult gem we all know. So it would have been awkward
to end this twenty-year adventure without showing the last episode of Tsukamoto’s trilogy. And our chap
hasn’t lost an ounce of his talent: edgy editing, mystical inserts, sexualisation of the mechanical –
reminiscent in some ways of Cronenberg’s Crash (or is it the opposite?) –, industrial themes for the score
(thanks to Chu Ishikawa) and Trent “Nine Inch Nails” Reznor for the soundtrack.
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YELLOWBRICKROAD (Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton/USA)
A Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton film
Screenplay: Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton
Cast: Cassidy Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Laura Heisler, Clark Freeman, Lee Wilkof, Alex Draper, Michael Laurino, Tara Giordano, Sam
Elmore
In 1940, a strange thing happened to the entire population of
Friar, New Hampshire. One day, for an unknown reason, they
all abandoned their homes and walked up an ancient trail.
They were never seen alive again. For over 70 years, their fate
has been a mystery. Now a team of researchers and filmmakers, along with a guide and a psychologist, decide to
follow the path to find out what happened once and for all.
Yellowbrickroad tells the story of this expedition. A trek into the
wilderness filled with danger, adventure, shifting loyalties and
paranormal activity.
This impressive new indie horror flick is a well-shot, multidimensional horror story. Debut directors Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland have combined their love for horror
movies with character-driven stories. The movie was digitally shot on location in the isolated wilderness of
the Northern New Hampshire woods. This authentic location definitely pays off, making the film very pure
and realistic. Yellowbrickroad was also filmed in sequential order, allowing tension to build up frame by frame
and bringing out the increasingly difficult physical and emotional journey of the characters.
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Short film COMPETITION
Short film Jury
Christian Bontinckx (Psychologist)
Benedicte Bourgeois (RTBF)
Odile De Scheemaeker (Décorator)
Michel Devillers (Artist)
Alain Galand (Subscriber)
Guy Triffin (French community of Belgium)
The jurors will have to choose la crème de la crème among the 10 short movies of the
competition.
SHORT IN
IN COMPETITION
Post Mortem (Mathieu Harford)
Condamné à vie (Hannah Letaïf & Vincent Carrétey)
Une dernière fois (Barney Frydman)
L'oeil du paon (Gerlando Infuso)
Love of the dead (Sharnasky Brothers)
Le concile lunatique (Arnaud Demuynck & Christophe Gautry)
La femme à cordes (Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka)
La fin du monde (Michael Havenith)
Point de fuite (Benjamin d’Aoust)
Route 66 (Romuald Voye)
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MIDNIGHT XX-TREMES
ALIEN VS NINJA (Seiji Chiba/Japan)
A Seiji Chiba Film
Screenplay : Seiji Chiba
Cast : Mika Hijii, Ben Hiura, Shuji Kashiwabara, Masanori Mimoto, Yuki Ogoe, Donpei Tsuchihira
Calm down, everybody ! Would you kindly read this little presentation before rushing
like madmen to Tour & Taxis. 0ne thing is obvious, if you want to know what this
movie is about, you just have to look at the title. Yamata, Jinnai, Nezumi and a few
other ninjas who won’t survive long enough to deserve a name, are tracking down a
mysterious fireball that landed in the woods. And guess what was inside the rock
from outer space? Aliens, of course ! On the menu of this interstellar sushi and
sashimi plate : gut-wrenching tentacles, alien meat cutting ninja blades, green blood
fountains and a continuous shower of severed limbs. In brief; the very latest in close
encounters of the bloody kind.
Get ready for some new craziness coming straight from the Sushi Typhoon /
Nikkatsu production company (also guilty for Helldriver and Karate Robo Zaborgar).
AVN is a hilarious and jubilant little nightmare on film. This unclassifiable gem is
somewhere halfway between thrash therapy for its writer and director, Seiji Chiba, and a haemoglobin
infused joke that wildly embraces its wacky concept. So, just sit down and keep an eye on the score, OK?
CONTACT HIGH (Michael Glawogger/ Austria-Germany-Luxembourg-Poland)
A Michael Glawogger film
Screenplay: Michael Glawogger & Michael Ostrowski
Cast: Michael Ostrowski,Raimund Wallisch,Detlev Buck, Georg Friedrich, Pia Hierzegger, Hilde Dalik, Alina Polzi,Helmut Kopping, Victor
Varnado, Jeremy Strong, Alexis Santiago Hernandez, Michael-Joachim Heiss,Martin Ehrlich, Rafal Sawicki, Anna Frances dioso, Masza
Bauman
Spanish gangster Carlos has lost a mysterious bag in Poland and wants his Austrian
colleague Harry to get it back for him. But Harry doesn’t want to get his hands dirty and
calls in a favour from the Viennese small-time crook Schorsch. He just wants to sit
around and watch car races all day, so he passes the job to Mao. She has no time either,
having to babysit her friend’s daughter, and turns to hot dog stand owners Hans Wurst
and Max Durst. This results in a crazy chase for the bag all across Eastern Europe.
Austrian writer and director Michael Glawogger (Workingman's Death, Slumming)
delivers a psychedelic road movie filled with slapstick humour, absurd situations and
misunderstandings. His heroes Max and Hans are dropped in a mind-expanding trip
facing colourful flying swordfish, hotel walls closing in on them, go-go girls with the heads
of German shepherds… Hallucinations and confusion rule supreme ! Contact High, which might as well be
called The Good, The Bad And The Bag, is a weird and funny movie with a great soundtrack featuring
Element Of Crime, Tiefschwarz, Calexico, Get Well Soon and Roxy Music. You’ll be crying illustrated tears,
and when you leave the film theatre you’ll probably find everything running backwards
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FEROZZ: THE WILD RED RIDING HOOD (Jorge Molina/Costa Rica-Cuba)
A Jorge Molina film
Screenplay: Alain Jimenez, Jorge Molina & Edgar Soberon Torchia, based upon Charles Perrault: Little Red Riding Hood
Cast: Dayana Legra, Roberto Perdomo, Ana Silva Machado, Francisco Garcia, Raul Capote, Waldo Franco, Rosalia Roque, Belkis
Estenoz
Grandmother is a real pain in the ass. She’s always giving her daughter-in-law
Dolores a hart time, even getting her son Lucio to rape her on the dining table . All of
this in front of Miranda, her granddaughter, and retarded Dully, the incestuous sideeffect of Lucio mistaking his mother for his wife. Two years later, Lucio has kicked the
bucket, Grandmother has been exiled to a hut in the middle of the jungle and Dolores
can finally live in peace with daughter Miranda and uncle Innocencio; the only other
psychologically stable family member, if we leave his Satan worship aside. Time goes
by peacefully. Dully relieves himself on a regular basis in front of bathing nymphets
and Miranda secretly cultivates her nymphomaniac neurosis. Then Dolores decides to
send her to Grandmother’s place with a basket full of food. Miranda unwillingly dons
her red hot riding hood and sets off alone in the forest.
If Charles Perrault had read Nabokov’s Lolita before writing his Red Riding Hood, the
odds are that Jorge Molina and he would have been as thick as thieves! Molina, a
cinema teacher in Cuba and diehard fan of horror flicks, injects this universal tale with a severe dose of
symbolism and eroticism which would have surely pleased Walerian Borowczyk, the legendary x- rated
movie troublemaker. With Ferozz he has created a fierce and disturbing piece of art.
HELL DRIVER (Yoshihiro Nishimura/Japan)
A Yoshihiro Nishimura film
Screenplay: Daichi Nagisa & Yoshihiro Nishimura
Cast: Asami, Yukihide Benny, Norman England, Yasuhiko Fukuda, Yumiko Hara, Cay Izumi, Kentaro Kishi, Mizuki Kuzumi, Maki Mizui,
Yui Murata, Kazuki Namioka, Eihi Shiina, Shijimi, Gadarukanaru Taka, Demo Tanaka, Minoru Torihada
An alien-spawned, mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan, transforming
those who inhale it into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies hell-bent on devouring the
surviving human population. Plunged into chaos, Japan is torn in two – the southern
half of the country, where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas, lives
behind a heavily-fortified wall, while the northern half is a lawless, zombie-infected
wasteland. Political forces are locked in a stalemate over whether the living dead
should remain protected as family members or exterminated like a plague. The
economy withers away, and all hope seems lost for the people and the nation of
Japan. Hope arrives in the form of Kika, a beautiful high school girl armed with a
chainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart. Recruited by the government, Kika
leads a ragtag group of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infected
wilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka and put an end to the plague of the living
dead. But the road is fraught with a thriving zombie culture that, with its own designs on the living half of
Japan, refuses to lay down and die.
Anybody who’s familiar with the movies of special effects wizard and splatter godfather Yoshihiro Nishimura,
will not be surprised when we say that the above synopsis is merely the beginning of the movie. Nishimura
astounded everybody in 2008 with Tokyo Gore Police and is almost solely responsible for all the bloody sfx
mayhem in the genre (Machine Girl, Robogeisha, Hard Revenge Millie…). Last year, we had a bloody good
riot with Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl. But this year Nishimura himself will introduce us to his most
ambitious project to date. Helldriver is a non-stop splatter opera, a true endurance test for the senses, with
record breaking quantities of blood, flying limbs and legions of zombies.
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HORNY HOUSE OF HORROR (Jun Tsugita/Japan)
A Jun Tsugita film
Screenplay : Jun Tsugita
Cast : Asami, Mint Sizuki, Saori Hara
After some solid baseball training, Toshida and Uno drag their recently engaged friend
Nakazu to one of the many brothels in Japan disguised as massage parlors. Nakazu
has never paid for sex, nor does he intend to begin with it before his betrothed will put
a permanent lock on his pants. His friends should have listened to him, because this
particular house of ill repute in which they find themselves has made a pact with the
devil. The girls specialize in sexually torturing their unfortunate clients. And their
imagination truly knows no bounds. A vagina with razor-sharp teeth, the sushi-penis
special and a samurai sword are one of the many means with which they separate
man from his only best friend. Luckily Nakazu has chosen a prostitute with a
conscience. But will this be enough to escape from the Horny House of Horror ?
Many Japanese film directors (Takasi Miike to name just one) learned the tricks of their trade on the set of a
“pinku” aka a Japanese softporn movie. It has even saved many from dying of poverty during hard times !
Now young talent Jun Tsugita surprises us with the very first pinku horror. Horny House of Horror is definitely
not advised to men with castration anxiety, because the extremely graphic special effects are courtesy of the
omnipresent Yoshihiro Nishimura (Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl, Helldriver, Mutant Girls Squad).
Shamelessly funny and horribly titillating Midnight Movie fare !
KARATE ROBO ZABORGAR (Noboru Iguchi/Japan)
A Noboru Iguchi film
Screenplay:
Cast: Itsuji Itao, Asami, Akira Emoto, Yasuhisa Furuhara, Yuya Ishikawa, Hiroaki Murakami, Yui Murata, Sakichi Sato , Aimi Satsukawa,
Kentaro Shimazu, Naoto Takenaka, Demo Tanaka, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Mami Yamasaki
Secret police office Daimon inherits a mighty robot warrior named “Zaborgar”
from his father, a scientist killed by Sigma, an evil organization bent on world
domination. Realizing Zaborgar’s potential, Daimon vows to use the robot as a
force for good in the fight against Sigma. During the course of their adventures,
Daimon meets and falls in love with a beautiful female cyborg named Ms. Borg.
Unfortunately, Ms. Borg becomes an enemy of both Daimon and Zaborgar, a
development that creates a deep rift between the crime fighting pair. Just when
things couldn't get any worse, Daimon discovers that his own department at the
police force has lost its will to fight for righteousness. Disappointed with life,
Daimon quits crime fighting, drops out of society, and becomes a recluse. But
years later, as Sigma makes its final move to take control of the nations of the
Earth, there is no one but Daimon and Zaborgar to stand in their way. Making their
return in true 1970s Japanese “tokusatsu” hero style, Daimon and Zaborgar
reunite to suppress the forces of evil once and for all!
Director Noboru – The Machine Girl – Iguchi recreates the Japanese TV super hero from the seventies,
surfing with obvious delight between some crazy special effects – helped by a very comfortable budget – and
a tacky retro look.
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PREY (Antoine Blossier/France)
An Antoine Blossier film
Screenplay : Antoine Blossier & Erich Vogel
Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Grégoire Colin,
François Levantal, Joseph Malerba, Fred Ulysse, Isabelle Renauld
Nathan is visiting his fiancée Claire at her family s estate. When mutilated
animals are found on the terrain, Claire s grandfather, her father and her
brother decide to form a hunting party. They set of into the woods with future
son-in-law Nathan trudging along. A wild boar seems to be the main suspect
for the carnage, but there s something far more dangerous afoot. The family
also owns a chemical factory and a leak in a tank with an experimental type of
fertilizer has infected the surrounding wildlife. The pollution has started a
mutation in the local population of boars, who aggressively attack anything that
breathes, including themselves. The family members start bickering with each
other, poor Nathan is stuck in between and the boars have tasted blood.
Prey is another fine addition to the subgenre of wildlife gone mad. Illustrious
examples like Razorback, Black Sheep and Tremors show what fun you can
have with this when it s done right. And with Prey, young debuting director
Antoine Bloissier has done the right thing indeed ! This is one very stylishly filmed horror trip. The foaming
beasties steal the show, but the ones who tear each other apart the most are those animals walking on two
legs. So it gives you lots of pleasure to see how these not very sympathetic characters end us mangled and
mutilated in boar stomachs.
SIREN (Andrew Hull/UK)
An Andrew Hull film
Screenplay: Geoffrey Gunn & Andrew Hull
Cast: Eoin Macken, Anna Skellern, Tereza Srbova, Anthony Jabre
Escaping the city for a weekend away, company man Ken and his girlfriend Rachel
meet up with an old friend, the exotic and worldly Marco. Their plan is simple –
cruise the Greek isles for a relaxing weekend. Things hit a snag when Marco spots a
beautiful young girl, the sultry and seductive Silka, waving for help off the shore of
one of the many secluded islands. But if anyone needs help now, it’s them...
With strong allusions to classics such as The Descent, Dead Calm and Open Water,
Siren is probably one of the most eagerly awaited Brit-thrillers of the year. Shot in
Tunisia, this horror flick is a terrifying tale about lust and revenge. It’s a familiar topic
for director Andrew Hull, who has a solid background as art director on films such as
P2, Romero’s Bruiser and Absolon. For his first long feature, our fellow Hull must
have had some very pleasant moments with the female cast: Anna Skellern (The
Descent: part two, and the upcoming W.E. directed by Madonna) and Tereza Srbova (Inkheart and
Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises) are as cute as they are dangerous.
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TETSUO : THE BULLET MAN (Shinya Tsukamoto/Japan)
A Shinya Tsukamoto film
Screenplay: Shinya Tsukamoto & Hisakatsu Kuroki
Cast: Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Yuko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain, Shinya Tsukamoto, Michael
Duncan, Alan Koji, Sou Fujita, Markus Wambsganss, Hajime Izuki, Dwayne Lawler, Aldo La Riviere, Yutaka Mishima, Getto
Office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother, lives in
Tokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony’s mother died of
cancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for their health and rigidly subjects
Anthony and Tom to monthly physicals. Walking home, Tom is killed in a hit and run
before Anthony’s eyes. Losing their boy pushes Yuriko over the edge and triggers
violent emotions in Anthony, whose body begins to transform. Little by little, his cells
turn to iron. When the driver who killed Tom reappears and Anthony learns the truth
about his father’s past experiments on human guinea pigs and about his mother’s
death, Anthony mutates into a mass of metal – a human weapon fuelled by an
uncontrollable rage.
The BIFFF was the first festival in the world to screen Tetsuo (1989); which has since
become the cult gem we all know. So it would have been awkward to end this twentyyear adventure without showing the last episode of Tsukamoto’s trilogy. And our chap hasn’t lost an ounce of
his talent: edgy editing, mystical inserts, sexualisation of the mechanical – reminiscent in some ways of
Cronenberg’s Crash (or is it the opposite?) –, industrial themes for the score (thanks to Chu Ishikawa) and
Trent “Nine Inch Nails” Reznor for the soundtrack.
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FANTASTIC NIGHT
MOTHER’S DAY (Darren Lynn Bousman/USA)
A Darren Lyn Bousman film
Screenplay: Scott Milam, based upon Charles Kaufman and Warren Leight's 1980 screenplay
Cast: Deborah Ann Woll, Shawn Ashmore, Lisa Marcos, Patrick Flueger, Frank Grillo, Jaime King, Tony Nappo, Rebecca De Mornay,
Warren Kole, Matt O'Leary, Briana Evigan, Lyriq Bent, Jessie Rusu, Alexa Vega, J. LaRose, Stan Lesk
After a bank robbery gone wrong, three brothers head for home… only to discover
that their mother has lost the house in a foreclosure. The new owners and their
guests, gathered for an ill-timed birthday party, become the brothers’ unwitting
hostages. Their mother and sister arrive, and it soon becomes obvious that Mother
will do absolutely anything to protect her children. In one terrifying evening, Mother
brilliantly takes control of the situation and masterminds her sons’ escape. Sides will
be taken, secrets revealed, and sins punished as the hostages struggle to make it
through the night.
A false remake that only borrows the coating of Troma’s original movie from 1980 –
directed by Charles Kaufman (yes, brother of…) – Mother’s Day is above all a horrific
gem rebooted by Darren Lynn Bousman. Does this name sound familiar to you? He’s
the guy behind Saw II, III, IV and Repo! The Genetic Opera. At this hardcore housewarming party, you will
surely notice Frank Grillo (Minority Report, My Soul to Take), Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine, Sin City) and,
last but not least, Rebecca De Mornay, whose hand rocked the cradle a bit longer that we thought…
BEDEVILLED (Cheol-So Jang/South Korea)
A Cheol-So Jang film
Screenplay: Gwan-You Choi
Cast: Min-Ho Hwang, Min Je, Ji-Eun-I Lee, Jeong-Hak Park, Yeong-Hee Seo, Sung-Won Ji
Hae-won is a beautiful single woman in her thirties who works at a bank in Seoul city.
She leads a busy life until she becomes a witness in an attempted murder case and,
at the same time, things get complicated at work. When matters get out of hand, she
is forced to take a vacation and heads for 'Moo-do' Island, a small undeveloped spot
where she had once visited her grandparents. And where she had befriended a girl
named, Bok-nam, who still writes to Hae-won asking her to visit despite the fact that
Hae-won never bothers to reply. On reaching the island, Hae-won is shocked to see
everyone treating Bok-nam like a slave. As the only young woman on the island, she
is a plaything for all the men and a free labourer for the women. Sick of all this
inhumane treatment, Bok-nam has tried to escape the island several times in the
past, but failed. She begs Hae-won to help her get away, but Hae-won remains indifferent, not wanting to get
involved in complicated situations. When Bok-nam realizes that her own daughter will end up like her, she
tries to flee the island with her, but her daughter gets killed in the process. And having lost the only thing that
had kept her going due to Hae-won's negligence, Bok-nam takes a sickle in her hand for her revenge.
The first long feature from Jang Cheol-soo, Kim Ki-duk’s former assistant, is an instantaneous cult gem!
There’s a subgenre in Korean cinema and literature where women have to suffer terrible ordeals from men,
but bear everything with dignity and stoic heroism. Bedevilled firmly sticks up its middle finger to all that. The
way in which Bok-nam takes her revenge will fill you both with horror and sympathy.
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KEEPSAKE (Paul Moore/USA)
A Paul Moore film
Screenplay : Paul Moore
Cast: Robert Pralgo, Sunny La Rose, Anna Tulou, Courtney Hogan, Jeffrey Schmidt, Barry Ellenberger
Young photographer Janine is a woman with a troubled past who wants to give her
life a new start. The traditional car engine trouble on a deserted highway is the
introduction to this new beginning, but certainly not the one she would have wanted.
A lift from a psychopathic trucker will take her on a trip straight to hell. The man
throws her in a dungeon and gives her thirty days to live. Janine now has to face the
demons from her past as well as the dangers of the present. Bodies are starting to
pile up, blood is flowing freely. The true nature of her precarious situation reveals
itself. Janine is stuck in a grisly game with only one purpose
staying alive !
There was a time when scary movies gave you plenty of escapism, followed by a
liberating catharsis. The (un)human monsters were defeated and the survivors
walked home, hand in hand towards the sunset. With the world around us becoming a very unpleasant
place, a new generation of genre directors genre has stood up to give the middle finger to this traditional
happy end. One of them is Paul Moore. Keepsake spares us no detail of the brutal degradation of the main
character. The label torture porn is a perfect fit for this terror trip.
REEF (THE) (Andrew Traucki/Australia)
An Andrew Traucki film
Screenplay: Andrew Traucki
Cast: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley,
Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Mark Simpson
A bunch of friends decide to sail along Queensland’s tropical shores:
turquoise water, white sand, palm trees, sun lotion with protection factor
50… Paradise ! After their yacht hits a reef and overturns, our cheerful
fellows are a bit less enthusiastic as they find themselves adrift,
heading towards the big blue. Luke, the brightest of the bunch,
suggests swimming to the nearest island to avoid getting grilled by the
hammering sun. According to him, sharks rarely attack humans. So,
don’t panic! But what they don’t know is that an 18feet long great white
shark wants to be the exception to this rule.
You really need some cohones to make a shark movie after Jaws or the
more recent Open Water. It certainly didn’t frighten Andrew Traucki. The
fact that he scared us into the trees three years ago with Black Water,
starring a giant crocodile with an insatiable appetite, might have had
something to do with it. And it has to be said. Traucki has succeeded in
scaring us out of the water. The Reef is beautifully shot, with effective
editing and a haunting soundtrack boosting the tension meter into the red. By the way, the movie’s based on
actual events. Party poopers who want to know who survived, may now surf to wikipedia, the others are
welcome to get their thrills at the Bifff.
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Out of COMPETITION
AFRO SAMURAI RESSURRECTION (Fuminori Kizaki/Japan-USA)
A Fuminori Kizaki Film
Screenplay: Eric S. Calderon, Leo Chu, Eric Garcia, Yasuyuki Muto & Takashi Okazaki
Voices: Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu, Mark Hamill,Grey DeLisle, Dave Wittenberg, Liam O'Brien, Zachary Gordon, Yuri Lowenthal, Jeff
Bennett, Steve Blum S. Scott Bullock ,Greg Eagles, Phil LaMarr, Kevin Michael Richardson, the Rza, Ariel Winter
After Afro Samurai had finally avenged his father’s murder, he was given the chance
to carry the number one headband, the symbol for the world’s best swordfighter. But
Afro renounced the title and retreated to a quiet place to reflect upon a life filled with
vengeance and battle. No rest for the wicked though. Afro gets a visit from the
current number one, the luscious Lady Sio. Her hatred for him is fierce and more
than justified. He has destroyed everything she ever loved. Through a combination of
bizarre medical technology, alchemy and black magic, she resurrects Afro’s father. If
he doesn’t take up the sword again to conquer the number two headband, with which
he can challenge her, Sio will horribly torture his maker. Afro has no other choice
then to wreck bloody carnage once again, so that the soul of his dad can finally rest
in peace.
Fans of visually dazzling anime will get plenty of kicks from Afro Samurai :
Resurrection. There’s no need to have seen the first film to enjoy the adventures of our ultra nihilistic antihero, once again voiced by Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Star Wars). Afro spares no man,
woman or child in his quest, which makes you automatically root for Lady Sio, voiced by Lucy Liu (Kill Bill,
Charlie’s Angels). The cool-meter reaches further heights by the soundtrack of former Wu Tang clansman
The RZA (Ghost Dog : The Way of the Samurai, Kill Bill, Repo Men).
AKIRA (Katsuhiro Otomo/ Japan)
A Katsuhiro Otomo film
Screenplay : Izo Hashimoto & Katsuhiro Otomo, based upon Katsuhiro Otomo's graphic novel
Voices: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tetsusho Genda, Hiroshi Otake, Koichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, Yuriko
Fuchizaki, Masaaki Okura, Taro Arakawa,
Takeshi Kusao, Kazumi Tanaka, Masayuki Kato, Yosuke Akimoto, Masato Hirano,
Yukimasa Kishino
On 16 July 1988 Tokyo is destroyed in a nuclear explosion, which is also
the start of World War 3. 31 years later a new metropolis, Neo-Tokyo,
has risen from the ashes on an artificial island in the bay. The city is torn
apart by political rivalries, terrorism and gang violence. Kaneda is the
leader of the Capsules, a motor gang which is battling for territory with a
rival gang called the Clowns. When Kaneda and his best friend Tetsuo
are pursuing some Clowns on the highway, Tetsuo almost runs over a
child with the face of an old man and crashes his bike. Everybody on the
scene is arrested, but Tetsuo and the child are transferred to the care of
Colonel Shikishima and Doctor Onishi, the responsibles of an ultrasecret government project. It turn out that Tetsuo has the same mental
powers as Akira, a child with immense telepathic force, who caused the
explosion of 1988.
Is it still necessary to present Akira, the animated movie from 1988 which
led to the international breakthrough of anime and which paved the way
for authors such as Mamoru Oshii (Ghost In The Shell), Satoshi Kon
(Paprika), Mamoru Hosada (Summer Wars) and of course director Katsuhiro Otomo himself !? The film,
adapted from Otomo s popular manga, dealt with themes like the corruptive nature of power, rebellious
youth, the fear for a nuclear holocaust and the psyche of post-war Japan, but made a lasting impression
because of its breathtaking production design and fluid animation. Everybody who was never able to see this
legendary classic on the big screen, will now get the chance to see a brand new, remasterized version at the
BIFFF.
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BURKE AND HARE (John Landis/UK)
A John Landis Film
Screenplay: Piers Ashcroft & Nick Moorcroft
Cast: Simon Pegg, Isla Fischer, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson, Jenny Agutter,
Jessica
Hynes,Hugh
Bonneville, Stephen Merchant, Georgia King,
Bill Bailey, David Schofield, Allan Corduner, John Woodvine, Pollyana McIntosh
Running Time: 93 min.
In 1827, Edinburgh wasn’t yet renowned for being the cradle of such
celebrities as Sean Connery or J.K Rowling. Its 19th century pride came
more from anatomy lectures and public dissections at the Medical
College. The Bloody Code, which established the death penalty as a
national sport – the hangman’s rope for the slightest theft -, offered a
constant renewal of raw material for those wielding the scalpel. But when
the Code got repealed and fresh corpses became as rare as a legal
Wikileak, a profitable black market for the recently deceased sprung up
overnight. Burke and Hare, two morons specializing in cock-eyed plans,
stumble upon this goldmine when they sell the corpse of a senile lodger
to doctor Knox, a renowned college butcher. Pitchforked as Knox’s unofficial suppliers, Burke and Hare start
hunting down the dying in every corner of the city. But demand quickly exceeds supply, and our two Victorian
bastards are left with no choice but to help death a little.
John Landis (Blues Brothers, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, An American Werewolf in London) is back with a
macabre tale based on true events. Burke and Hare is a departure from other big screen adaptations due to
its dark humor and a first-rate cast: Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as the Laurel and Hardy of serial killers
and an anthology of RKO and Hammer cameos (Christopher Lee and Ray Harryhausen for example). A
must for diehard fans!
KARMINSKY GRAD (Jean-Jacques Rousseau/Belgium)
A Jean-Jacques Rousseau film
Screenplay : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cast : Noël Godin, André Stas, Léon Stone, Vladimir Kamenev, Pierre S., Tommy Gun, Béla Olâh, Rémy S. Legrand, Olga S., Francis
Somville, Martine Tonon, Fanchon Daemers, Eric Tilmant, Maria Ventura, Ronald Leclercq
Convinced Stalinist Bolshevik Igor Yaboutich prepares the most daring coup ever:
destroying the Christian West. He decides to use the most powerful weapon of
mass destruction there is: the atomic bomb! We are in Charleroi, renamed
Karminsky-Grad, the city where he'll work out this dark plan. In the nuclear arms
factory, the sinister bosses Vladimir Karminsky and Reinhard Heydrich rule with
an iron fist. They ruthlessly suppress their employees. This results in a workers
revolt, followed by the killing of their oppressors. Chaos rapidly grows. The
situation gets out of hands and seems beyond control for the Chinese, Arab,
Russian and German leaders, whom are all united against the Americans. Only
Igor Yaboutich survives in this city of madness. Will he start a new World War?
The Belgian self-proclaimed filmmaker of the absurd, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
has done it again ! His Karminsky Grad is a sequel to his own movie The Gulag of
Terror, in which we first meet the character of Igor Yaboutich. Rousseau has
always dreamed of making a movie about the conflict between Russians and Americans, especially during
the Reagan years, when two demented old men held their trembling fingers over a big red button. What
better place than Charleroi, world champion of industrial decline, to realize this dream. Journalist Noël Godin,
notorious for throwing cakes in the faces of the world's finest, has a big part in the film, so hold on to your
seats, boys and girls !
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LUSTER (Adam Mason/USA)
An Adam Mason film
Screenplay: Simon Boves & Adam Mason
Cast : Tommy Flanagan, Billy Burke, Holly Valance, Xander Berkeley, Matthew Rhys, Tara Summers, Zelda Williams, Andrew Howard,
Pollyanna Rose, Guy Burnet, Tess Panzer, Ian Ducan, Thang, Kyoko Okazaki, Robert Hooven, Sarah Essex
Thomas Luster is a self made businessman with a tidy little life, a charming
wife… and recurring insomnia. One fine day, he starts receiving some
strange notes. He initially suspects his neighbor, a formed child star, who
ogles his beloved wife like a turkey ready for stuffing. But the notes keep on
coming and Thomas, who’s getting ever more paranoid, is now convinced
that an intruder is paying them a visit during the night. Without a glimpse of
hesitation, he installs CCTV at home, ready to host his very own Big Brother
show. But when he watches the tapes, a vivid nightmare replaces his
insomnia. Thomas meets Luster, his Machiavellian alter ego who doesn’t
mind getting blood on his hands.
After Blood River, shown last year at the BIFFF, Adam Mason is back in
Brussels with Luster, a Hitchockian dive in a dazed subconscious that
borrows simultaneously from the Swedish “Sleepwalker’ and the classic
Jekyll/Hyde dilemma. On the screen, apart from the brilliant Andrew Howard
(The Devil’s Chair, Blood River) as Luster, are some impressive newcomers:
Billy Burke (Twilight) and Tommy Flanagan (Sons of Anarchy, Gladiator). A
brilliant bit of casting for a movie called “Luster”. Could that be a premonition?
MEANT TO BE (Paul Breuls/Belgium)
A Paul Breuls film
Screenplay: Kara Holden
Cast: Kelly Reilly, Mia Maestro, Kris Marshall, Santiago Cabrera, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Marisé Alvarez, Jessenia Da Silva Rios, Rafael
Christian, Norman Grant, Leonardo Castro, Jose Oyola, Elmer Tollinchi Ruiz, Brian Tester
When the Big Boss tells guardian angel Will that he no longer has to watch over the
beautiful young architect Amanda, someone he has protected her entire life, he gets this
strange feeling, a feeling he cannot let go, a feeling that mortals call “love”. Convinced
that he and Amanda are destined for one another, Will convinces his best friend Archie
to help him with his rebellious mission. He abandons his wings and is transformed into
flesh and blood. Will has seven days to win Amanda’s heart and put aside his love rival,
the charming Puerto Rican Ben. While Will is wrestling with what it all means to be
mortal, he discovers that it’s not that easy to change fate. Some things are just meant to
be.
Paul Breuls is known as one of Belgium’s most active producers, having worked with
Hugo Claus (The Sacrament, Closure), Dominic Deruddere (Suite 16) and Eric Van Looy
(Shades). In recent years he has gone international, having produced films by John Daly (The Box
Collector), Lee Tamahori (The Devil’s Double) and John McTiernan’s latest (Shrapnel, 2012). He switched
sides in 2009 by directing his first feature The Hessen Affair. This experience gave him a taste for filmmaking
and led to his second long feature, Meant To Be, a heartwarming romantic comedy with a touch of magic.
Julian Rhind-Tutt (The River King, Stardust) plays the angel who falls head over heels for the lovely Amanda,
a part by Kelly Reilly (Eden Lake, Sherlock Holmes).
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MUTANTS (David Morley/France)
A David Morley film
Screenplay : Louis-Paul Desanges & David Morlet
Cast : Hélène de Fougerolles,Francis Renaud, Dida, Marie-Sohna Condé, Nicolas Briançon, Luz Mando,Driss Ramdi,Grégory
Givernaud, Justine Bruneau de la Salle, Jérémy Loth, Sébastien Rouquette, Frédéric Troussier, Cyril Hipaux, Nicolas Leprêtre, Cécile
Corsalan, Emmanuel Lanzi
Running time : 85 min
Marco and his pregnant wife Sonia have a promising future ahead until a virus
transforms the majority of humanity into bloodthirsty zombie mutants. They have to run
if they don't want to get infected themselves. They try to fight their way to Noah, a
military base where they are working on finding a cure. On this trip, Marco gets bitten
during an attack. But not all hope is lost. Sonia seems to be immune to the virus, having
been bitten earlier. She takes her husband to a giant abandoned facility and tries to deal
with Marco’s transformation. Meanwhile she also has to fend off other mutants. The
pregnant Sonia realises that she must now fight the worst possible enemy : the man she
loves.
Just until recently, France seemed to specialize in extremely brutal horror films. With Mutants, writer-director
David Morlet shows that love is possible in a zombie setting. He has crafted a beautiful love story that will
appeal to a wide audience. Unlike most traditional genre movies, Marco's transformation doesn’t happen in a
wink. His metamorphosis is slow, haunting and disturbingly painful! Morlet was obviously inspired by Danny
Boyle’s 28 Days Later, but he also manages to throw some Cronenberg-like body horror among the zombie
chases. Starring Hélène de Fougerolles and Dida Diafat, who'll show you how far you can go to save a loved
one.
PROWL (Patrick Syversen/USA)
A Patrick Syversen film
Screenplay : Tim Tori
Cast : Ruta Gedmintas, Courtney Hope, Bruce Payne, Joshua Bowman, George Oliver, Velizar Peev, Elitsa Rajeva, Saxon Trainor,
Perdita Weeks, Jamie Blackley
Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friends
to accompany her to find an apartment in the big city. When their transportation
breaks down, she and her friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a truck.
But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is hundreds of
cartons of blood, they panic. Their panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges
them into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to
hunt on human prey, which, the friends realize, is what they now are.
The first long feature in the series produced by After Dark (distributor of
Skinwalker, Mulberry Street and ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, among
others), Prowl has all the ingredients for a terrific horror cocktail: the Norwegian
director, Patrick Syversen, undoubtedly made a very strong impression with his
homemade slasher Manhunt and is now given the chance to slaughter some
aspiring young actors in the US. Courtney Hope, the new Texan scream queen,
plays hide and seek with a bunch of frightful bastards. And British actor Bruce
Payne (Passenger 57, Highlander: Endgame) gets the part of the vicious
flunkey. On your marks, ready… Run for your life!
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PHASE 7 (Nicolas Goldbart/Argentina)
A Nicolas Goldbart film
Screenplay: Nicolas Goldbart
Daniel Hendler, Jazmin Stuart, Yayo Guridi, Carlos Bermejo, Abian Vainstein, Sung Kim Chang, Patricia Gutierrez,Federico Luppi
Just when Coco and his seven months pregnant wife Pipi have settled in their new flat,
the authorities hermetically seal the building. One of their neighbors seems to have
been infected with the latest killer virus. The emergency phone number doesn’t work
and the inhabitants are left to fend on their own. It doesn’t take long before the situation
spirals out of control. Their neighbors turn into enemies and Coco is forced to forge an
alliance with the unstable and paranoid, but extremely well armed Horacio to protect his
wife and the contents of his fridge. Meanwhile outside the building, the world as we
know it, is rapidly disappearing.
Luckily there are also films where you can have a good laugh with the end of all things.
Phase 7, hailing from Argentina, presents us with the lighter and funnier side of the
Apocalypse. Director Nicolas Goldbart has found an original way to show the usual disintegration of society.
Just when you think you know where the story is heading, he twists and turns it into a completely different
direction. The humor is as absurd as it is outrageous, but it all remains perfectly credible. Federico Lupi
(Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone) is outstanding as Horacio, an elderly Rambo with a very itchy trigger finger.
RAMMBOCK (Marvin Kren/Germany)
A Marvin Kren film
Screenplay: Benjamin Hessler
Cast: Michael Fuith,Anka Graczy, Theo Trebs, Melanie Berke, Sabrina Caramanna, Emily Cox, Carsten Behrendt, Mila Gach, Harald
Geil, Sebastian Achilles,Jörn Hentschel, Arno Kölker, Brigitte Kren, Nenad Lucic, Steffen Münster, Ingrid Beerbaum
A bunch of zombies is invading the German capital. Some survivors are stuck in
an apartment complex which is surrounded by the raging hordes. One of them is
Michael, who got the stupid idea of putting the pieces back together with his ex
girlfriend. But there’s a snag; anxiety makes you hungry. And when the fridge is
empty, while you yourself are on the menu of those folks downstairs, you have to
do something, even if that means swapping with the neighbours; – food for
medication, for instance. Michael and the other inhabitants do their utmost to
respect this new mantra: eat or be eaten and trying to survive this nightmare in
one piece, of course.
Rammbock, a huge surprise at the last Cannes Film Market, offers a fresh
approach to genre cinema. Marvin Kren, best known for his short movies
(among which the multi-awarded Shautag), wraps up his feature in 64 minutes,
by cutting through the flesh and going straight to the bone, with a story and
characters that are more related to Danny Boyle and Zack Snyder than George
A. Romero.
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RARE EXPORTS (Jalmari Helander/Finland-France-Norway)
A Jalmari Helander film
Screenplay: Jalmari Helander
Cast: Onni Tommila, Jorma Tommila, Tommi Korpela, Rauno Juvonen, Jonathan Hutchings, Ilmari Jarvenpaa,
Peeter Jakobi,
Per Christian Ellefsen,
Risto Salmi, Jens Sivertsen, Sigmund Boe, Olav Pedersen, Nils M. Iselvmo,
Steinar Skogstad, Nils
Nymo, Hjalmar Iselvmo
In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies Christmas’s most
closely-guarded secret ever. But the time has come to dig it up! Way up north in
Finland, right on the border with Russia, lies one of Santa Claus’s supposed homes.
For the last couple of months, an international team of “archaeologists,” working for
Subzero Inc. and led by a weird Brit, has been mysteriously digging away at a large
hill, wreaking havoc on the environment. The locals, mostly Samis and Laplanders,
are furious. The annual reindeer round-up, which happens a few days before
Christmas, has been ruined, dealing a devastating blow to the local economy.
Especially annoyed is Rauno, a single father who’s struggling to make ends meet and
deal with his imaginative, physically underdeveloped son, Pietari. Though he doesn’t
totally fit in with the community, Pietari is insatiably curious and notices things that
others don’t. Specifically, he’s realized that the dig is somehow related to Santa Claus,
but this isn’t exactly the Santa from animated Christmas specials or nineteenth-century American doggerel.
This Santa is, to put it mildly, a little harsher.
Only a Finnish film would have the guts to mistreat the legendary Santa Claus, whose official address is in
Lapland (Northern Finland). Jalmari Helander already gave it a shot in 2003, with his short Rare Exports Inc.;
but this time, it’s on the big screen and, along with Troll Hunter, it’s creating one of Scandinavia’s biggest
buzzes of the year!
SPEAK (THE) (Anthony Pierce/USA)
An Anthony Pierce film
Screenplay: Brett Donowho, Lamont Magee, Anthony Pierce & Martin Wiley
Cast: Kristina Anapau, Tom Sizemore, Tina Casciani, Brett Donowho, Steven Nelson, Michael Klinger, Una Jo Blade
Director Shelly isn’t really known for making high brow art. This documentary
film maker with inflated ego earns a living with voyeurism and sensation. For
his latest project, he wants to spend the night with his crew in the worst
haunted hotel of the US. His presenter, Malia, is also a medium and is
supposed to get as many ectoplasmic entities in front of the camera as
possible. The crew try to get things going with a spiritual séance in which they
evoke the ghostly inhabitants of the hotel. The problem for Shelly and Malia is
that their response is so enthusiastic that it’s doubtful they will ever let them
go.
Just before the financial crisis broke out in the US, real estate broker Anthony
Pierce decided to say goodbye to the housing market to devote himself to his
true passion, which was cinema of course, otherwise we wouldn’t even talk
about him here. He also wrote the script for his first long feature, The Speak,
and showed himself to be a risk taker, as he set foot on the overcrowded field
of reality horror. Mission Accomplished nevertheless, thanks to the inventive form of The Speak, consisting of
webisodes of 12 minutes; in which we are forced to share the horrifying ordeal of Shelly and his crew.
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SUPER (James Gunn/USA)
A James Gunn film
Screenplay : James Gunn
Cast: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, Nathan Fillion, Linda Cardellini, Lloyd Kaufman
Frank D’Arbo, a deeply religious cook, watches in anguish how his stunningly
beautiful wife Sarah leaves him for the slick drug dealing strip club owner Jacques.
He sinks away in a deep depression in front of the television. In a feverish dream,
he gets a message from God : “Thou shalt fight the scum of the Earth with thine
wrench.”. A reborn Frank stitches a brightly colored spandex suit together and
departs on a one-man crusade against petty thieves, pedophiles, junkies and each
and every law breaking citizen he can hit with his wrench. His antics inspire cute
comic-strip clerk Libby, who enthusiastically joins him as his sidekick Boltie. The
two kick, fight and scratch their way to Frank’s ultimate goal : liberating Sarah from
Jacques’ clutches.
James Gunn, scriptwriter of Dawn of the Dead and director of Slither, must have
been mad as hell when last year’s Kick-Ass started to… well, kick ass. Gunn had
already been working for years on a movie about an ordinary guy with a superhero complex. But Super is
anything but a copy of our 2010 closing film. The violence is a lot more extreme, the humor is grimmer and
the story is more dramatic. His “Troma-roots” (Lloyd Kaufman has a cameo!) are also clearly visible in his
style, a fusion between horror and satire. And the cast is to die for : Rainn Wilson (Galaxy Quest) as Frank
aka Crimson Bolt, Lyv Tyler (Armaggedon, Lord of the Rings) as Sarah, Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Mystic River)
as Jacques and Ellen Page (Hard Candy, Juno) as sidekick Boltie.
TRIGUN : BADLANDS RUMBLE (Satoshi Nishimura/Japan)
A Satoshi Nishimura film
Screenplay : Yasuko Kobayashi, based upon Yasuhiro Nightow's manga
Voices : Sho Hayami, Tsutomu Isobe, Masaya Onosaka, Maaya Sakamoto, Hiromi Tsuru, Satsuki Yukino
Makka is a prosperous desert town surrounded by quicksand. Its busy
streets are alive with disturbing rumors that the notorious robber Gasback
has set his eyes on the city. Mayor Kepler does not want to take any chances
and recruits an entire legion of bounty hunters, which isn t that difficult, with
Gasback having an astronomical bounty on his head. Insurance agents
Meryl and Milly are also in town. To their horror, they discover that if the giant
statue of Mayor Kepler would fall prey to Gasback s fury, their company
would go bankrupt in paying out the insurance. That another notorious
troublemaker, Vash The Stampede, has also decided to pay a visit, only
helps to complicate things even further.
Fans of the popular manga and television series will not be disappointed.
Trigun : Badlands Rumble, five years in the works, contains all the elements
in which it excels : hilarious situations, kinetic combat and dramatic story
lines, but this time presented in a visually and technically impressive long
feature. Those who are not familiar with the series, shouldn t be afraid. The
story is smart enough to familiarize yourself with the typical atmosphere and characters of the Trigun
universe. The production was handled by the reputed Madhouse Studios (Satoshi Kon s Paprika, Mamoru
Hosada s Summer Wars
).
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THIRTEEN ASSASSINS (Takashi Miike/Japan-UK)
A Takashi Miike film
Screenplay : Daisuke Tengan, based upon Kaneo Ikegami's screenplay
Cast : Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Masachika Ichimura, Mikijiro Hira, Hiroki
Matsukata, Ikki Sawamura, Arata Furuta, Masataka Kubota, Sosuke Takaoka, Seiji Rokkaku, Yuma Ishigaki, Koen Kondo,Ikki Namioka
Japan, the middle of the 19th century. After more than two centuries of peace, the
Shogunate has become a shadow of itself. The samurai are bored to death and
spend their time drinking and gambling. Lord Naritsugu, the sadistic brother of the
Shogun, murders and rapes without fear of being punished. He’s just a heartbeat
away from the throne. Because of Naritsugu’s status, the honorable chamberlain
Doi can not openly attack him. He asks Shinzaemon, one of the last true samurai, to
assemble a team of 13 warriors for a suicide mission. To kill Naritsugu, you have to
get pasts hundreds of bodyguards, who’re being led by an old friend of
Shinzaemon. The thirteen manage to lead Naritsugu’s convoy to a small village
where they have prepared an ambush. An explosive, bloody and hopeless
confrontation lies ahead.
Takashi Miike (The Audition, Ichi The Killer, Zebraman) is probably Japan’s most
versatile director. With 13 Assassins, he has pulled of a magnificent mix somewhere in between Akira
Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen. Do not expect an ironic genre homage
like his Sukiyaki Western Django. 13 Assassins is one very serious samurai movie indeed, where honor is all
that matters and where it’s better to chop off one more head just to be sure. The formidable Koji Yakusho
(Cure, Eureka, Babel) would even give Toshiro Mifune a run for his money with his interpretation of
Shinzaemon, the fearless leader of the 13 Assassins.
TRUE BLOOD (Daniel Minahant & Scott Winant/USA)
A Daniel Minahant & Scott Winant film
Screenplay: Brian Buckner & Raelle Tucker, based upon Charlaine Harris’ novels, an Alan Ball creation
Cast: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Marshall Allman, Chris Bauer, Kristin Bauer Van
Straten, Nelsan Ellis, Todd Lowe, Jim Parrack, Carrie Preston, William Sanderson,
Alexander Skarsgard, Deborah Ann Woll,
Evan Rachel Wood
Running time:
After Japanese scientists invented a synthetic form of
blood called “Tru Blood”, vampires were finally able to
“come out of the coffin” and start integrating themselves in
human society. Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in the
small Southern town of Bon Temps. She’s always felt
isolated because of her ability to hear other people’s
thoughts. But when Bill Compton, a handsome, twohundred year old vampire walks into the bar, she discovers
that she cannot hear what he thinks. A stormy, passionate
romance ensues between the two of them. In the first
season, Bill and Sookie have to find the killer of several
women in Bon Temps, whom are all related to Sookies
older brother Jason. The second season centers on the
search for Eldric, a 2000 year old vampire. The Fellowship of the Sun, a Dallas-based Church who
vehemently opposes vampire integration, might have something to do with this. At the beginning of the third
season, Sookie has accepted Bill’s proposal to marry her. But he’s nowhere to be found.
Being at a film festival, you would almost forget that some of the best contemporary genre fiction can be
seen on the little screen. The Bifff, in collaboration with Be.TV gives you an exclusive preview to the third
season of True Blood, the acclaimed TV series by Allan Ball (Six Feet Under), based on The Southern
Vampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris. The show soon became the most watched HBO series since
the Sopranos. True Blood has been wildly praised for its enticing blend of fantasy, horror, mystery, humor and
eroticism, while some critics also found an allegory in the vampires fight for recognition with the civil rights
movement and the struggle for gay and lesbian rights. Another major draw is that the on-screen passion
between star crossed lovers Sookie and Bill, played by Anna Paquin (The Piano, X-Men) and Stephen Moyer
(Quills, Priest), is as real as can be, as they became a couple while shooting the series.
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THE WALKING DEAD: Season 1: episode 1
Director : Frank Darabont
Screenplay: Charlie Adlard, Frank Darabont, Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore
Cast: Andrew Lincoln, John Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden
Running time: 66 minutes
The Walking Dead tells the story of the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. It
follows a small group of survivors, traveling across the desolate United
States in search of a new home away from the shuffling hordes of the
undead. The group is led by Rick Grimes, who was a sheriff’s deputy in a
small Georgia town before the zombie outbreak. As their situation grows
more precarious, the group's desperation to survive pushes them to the
brink of insanity. At every turn they are faced with the unspeakable horrors
that come from having the dead walk again, as well as facing hostility from
the scattered remains of a struggling human populace who are focused on
their own survival, now that the structures of society have collapsed.
When rumors were confirmed that director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank
Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist) was working with producer Gale
Anne Hurd (The Terminator movies) on an television adaptation of the
bestselling zombie comics by Robert Kirkman, the series soon became one
of the most anticipated shows in TV history. And you will not be
disappointed. The first season of The Walking Dead was hailed by critics
not as one of the best horror series in recent years but simply as one of the
best TV series in recent years, period ! Darabont has captured Kirkman’s
oppressive world in breathtaking detail and with a cinematic and emotional scope that far exceeds the little
screen. Now the Bifff, in collaboration with Be.Tv, will give you an exclusive preview by screening the pilot
episode of season one. Do not miss this unique opportunity !
THE WARD
A John Carpenter film
Screenplay : Michael & Shawn RasmussenCast : Amber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca,Danielle Panabaker, Jared Harris, Mamie Gummer,
Mika Boorem, Sydney Sweeney, Laura Leigh, Milos Milicevic, Sean Cook, Jillian Kramer, Sali Sayler, D.R. Anderson, R.J. Hampton,
Susanna Burney, Tracy Schornick
1966. Kristen, a scantily clad young woman, runs through the woods, with the
police hot on her heels. She manages to reach an abandoned farmhouse, which
she promptly torches before the cops can arrest her. She wakes up in a psychiatric
hospital without any memories of how she got there. Kristen is put under the care
of Dr. Stringer, who places her with a group of four other traumatized girls and
subjects them to a new kind of therapy. Of course they’re supposed to get better,
but the thing is that no one has ever left the ward; at least not officially, because
many former residents simply vanished without a trace.
The Ward is Master of Horror John Carpenter’s first feature since 2001’s Ghosts of
Mars and it looks like the director of Halloween, The Thing and Escape From New
York is still capable of delivering the goods. It even feels like a relief to see an
atmospheric horror flic of the kind they used to make in the 70ties, but provided
with top notch contemporary camerawork and sound design. And Carpenter
demonstrates that he can still use his considerable arsenal of horror and shock effects to maximum effect.
With scream queen Amber Heard (All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, Drive Angry) as Kristen and Jared Harris
(Tv’s Mad Men and The Fringe) as the sinister Dr. Stringer.
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WORKSHOP 2011
You might be born as a movie lover and you might even be a diehard genre fan, but to
become a genuine moviemaker, you’ll undoubtedly need some training. That’s why every
year the BIFFF organizes its Workshop “Fantastic Brussels”. This unique experience
allows students of two Brussels based film schools (RITS and INSAS) to direct two short
movies under the supervision of an experienced and renowned foreign film director.
For this 16th edition, the big boss is Jake West, English
filmmaker with some heavy stuff on his CV: Razor Blade Smile,
Evil Aliens (presented at the BIFFF in 2006), and his latest, the
anti macho zombie flick Doghouse.
Practically speaking, the shooting will take place on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of March. The
editing and the post-production will go on from March 25th until March 30th. And the official
screening will, off course, take place at the BIFFF during its Belgian Fantastic Film Day !
And there are also some Prizes to be attributed. One lucky student will receive the EyeLite Award (2500€ of lightning equipment for a next project). The BIFFF will also award
some students with two prizes for those who distinguished themselves during the entire
production process.
Let us seize the opportunity to warmly thank the Flemish Community Commission of the
Brussels Capital Region and our professional partners Eye-Lite, Maquillages S.A., E.S.
Broadcast & Media, TV Connections and Le Site for their indispensable support.
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GuestS
GuestS
Olivier Abbou
Between 1998 and 2004, he produced a series of short films all broadcast
on Canal+, TPS, France 3 and won awards in several festivals. In 2007,
he directed for Canal+ mini-series Madame Hollywood, co-written by
Bertholon Delphine and performed by Delphine Chanéac and Liza Manilli.
In 2009, he directed Territories, a psychological thriller co-produced with
Canada. In 2011, he produced for Arte a comedy adventure fiction Yes
We Can!.
Filmo
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1997 : Un jour de plus (CM)
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1999 : Clin d'œil (CM)
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2000 : Le Tombeur (CM)
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2003 : Manon (CM)
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2007 : Madame Hollywood (série télévisée)
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2010 : Territories
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2011 : Yes We can ! (téléfilm)
Paco Cabezas
In the Eighties, Paco Cabezas worked in the video libraries and spent his time looking
at films of Scorsese, Raimi and of Álex de la Iglesia. Thereafter, he leaves the shop
and writes a scenario entitled Sexykiller (which he will obtain the Price of the Public
with the BIFFF in 2009). In 2007, he directed his first feature film: The Appeared. And
due to the accumulation of awards for his short film Neon Flesh in 2005, he now
presents the feature version where he mixes comedy and thriller.
Filmo
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2010 : Neon Flesh
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2007 : The Appeared
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2005 : Neon Flesh (short)
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2000 : Invasion Travesti (short)
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Hou Chi Jan
After his studies and his military service on an isolated island near Taiwan,
Hou Chi Jan produced a series of short films between 2003 and 2007 before
embarking on the creation of his first feature film One Day. This film reflects his
experience and memories of his youth, his studies, military service and travel
by boat to go to the island of Kinmen.
Filmo
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2010 : One Day
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2007 : Shopping Cart Boy (short)
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2005 : Taiwan Black Movies (documentary)
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2005 : My 747 (DigiBeta) (short)
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2003 : Stardust (experimental short)
Zoé Félix
After various stages of drama and comedy and two years at the Beaux-Arts, Zoé Félix
appeared for the first time on screen in 1998 with the drama Déjà Mort by Olivier Dahan,
for which she won the award for Best Actress Award at the Festival Young Comedians of
Beziers. Short films later, the actress seduced Michaël Youn in the comedy La Beuze.
Incorporating castings comedies Le Coeur des hommes by Marc Esposito and
L’Anniversaire by Diane Kurys, she attracted Titoff and Frederic Diefenthal in L’incruste.
Denying some movies, Zoé Félix plays again under the guidance of director Marc
Esposito in the adaptation of his novel Toute la beauté du monde. In 2008, she played
the wife of Kad Merad in the film Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis of Dany Boon and she
succeeded Mélanie Doutey in the second season of Clara Sheller.
Filmo
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2008 : Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis
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2006 : Toute la beauté du monde
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2005 : L'Anniversaire
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2004 : L'Incruste
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2003 : Le Cœur des hommes
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2003 : La Beuze
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2000 : Pour l'amour du ciel
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1998 : Déjà mort
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Andy Fetscher
After high school graduation Andy Fetscher worked as a free photographer for a stock
photography agency in Germany. From 2001 to 2007 he studied cinematography and
directing at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg, where he began to make a name for
himself with a number of short movies such as Bucharest Fish and Kingdom of the
Youth. Finally he debuted with the full long horror feature Bucharest Flesh that has
been invited to a numerous of festivals; including Brussels International Fantastic Film
Festival 2008. Urban Explorer is his first co-production with America.
Filmo
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2011 : Urban Explorer (post-production)
2007 : Bucharest Flesch
2005 : Kingdom of the Youth (short)
2004 : Bucharest Fish (short)
Yann Gozlan
It is the psychological thriller that Yann Gozlan began his career in short films.
For the company Les Films au long cours, the young director directs two: Pellis,
Price of Jury at the Festival of Villeurbanne, which tells the anguish of a doctor in
dermatology suddenly faced with medical traumatic events. He continues with
Echo, which incorporates the theme of paranoia and pays special attention to
the soundscape. The plot centers around a pregnant woman suffering from
anxiety and original treatment earned him the Grand Prize Short Film Festival of
Gerardmer. These cards open him the doors of feature film. And in 2010, he
directed Captifs, a extremely dark thriller about organ trafficking in Eastern
Europe, with Zoe Felix, Arie Elmaleh and Eric Savin.
Filmo
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2010 : Captifs
2007 : Echo (CM)
2004 : Pellis (CM)
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David Morley
Revealed by his short film Organik that petrified spectators at movie theaters
Gerardmer, David Morley made his first feature film with zombies soberly called
Mutants. A cross between 28 Weeks Later and the remake of The Fly by Cronenberg
where Helen de Fougerolles, Francis Renaud and boxer Dida Diafat try to survive
Filmo
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2008 : Mutants (présentation Hors-Compétition au Festival de Gérardmer en 2009)
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2007 : Morsure (CM)
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2005 : Organik (CM récompensé au Festival de Gérardmer en 2005)
Patrick Quinet
After studying directing at the INSAS (1987-1991), he began working as assistant
stage manager, production manager and especially the first assistant director. In
1992, he founded Artemis Media, became Artemis Productions in 1994. Since
2001, Patrick Quinet is President of the Union of French Film Producers (UPFF). In
this case, in close collaboration with the Belgian Minister of Finance (Didier
Reynders), he worked to create a "Tax-Shelter" Belgian whose the legislation is
applicable since April 2003. In March 2003, Patrick Quinet created the production
company LIAISON CINEMATOGRAPHIQUE sarl, majority owned by Artemis
Productions, but the ownership is shared with companies Samsa Film
(Luxembourg) NORTHWEST PRODUCTION (France), ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUP
(Belgium).
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2010 : L'âge De Raison (Producteur Associé) de Yann Samuell
2009 : La Régate (Producteur) de Bernard Bellefroid
2008 : Le Jour Où Dieu Est Parti En Voyage (Producteur, Coproducteur) de Philippe Van Leeuw
2008 : Diamant 13 (Producteur, Acteur, Producteur Délégué) de Gilles Béhat
2007 : Où Est La Main De L'Homme Sans Tête ? (Coproducteur) de Guillaume Malandrin et de
Stéphane Malandrin
2007 : Jcvd (Coproducteur) de Mabrouk El Mechri
2007 : Le Premier Venu (Producteur, Producteur Délégué) de Jacques Doillon
2006 : La Couleur Des Mots (Acteur)de Philippe Blasband
2006 : J'Aurais Voulu être Un Danseur (Producteur) de Alain Berliner
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Talal Selhami
Selhami
He made his directing and writing debut in the world of theatre, aged 18, with two
farcical plays in collaboration with the 'Centre Culturel Français' in Casablanca. A
cinema enthusiast, he thrives on genre movies' and shoots his fourth short film
Sinistra in 2006, which is awarded numerous prizes and shown in prestigious
festivals. In 2007, Arte (a pan-European TV channel), La Ligue contre le cancer (a
French cancer charity) and the French Department of Health give his movie Partir en
fumée a prize for best commercial film for the prevention of cancer. In 2009 he
shoots for Ali'N Productions his first feature film Mirages, a single-set movie in the
Moroccan desert, produced by famous director Nabil Ayouch. He is currently
working on Carnival of Illusions, a French/Spanish co-production for which he is also
scriptwriter, and hard boiled/horror film called The Oasis, which is a
French/Moroccan production
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2006 : Partir en Fumée (CM)
2006 : Sinistra (CM)
2005 : Conséquence d’un casse (sans grandes incidences) (CM)
2004 : La victime du passé (CM)
2004 : Etrange ? (CM)
2003 : Patient X (CM)
Miguel Angel Vivas
Miguel Angel Vivas is a Spanish director and screenwriter. After having directed two
short films he made in 2002 his first feature film Reflections for PRODUCTIONS
DREAM. Then he wrote and directed the short film I'll see you in my dreams in Portugal
for which he won the award for Best Short Film at the Fantasia Festival in 2004 and the
Silver Méliès for Best European Short Film at Fantasporto. In 2010, he introduced the
movie Kidnapped.
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Frédérique Bel
She studied modern literature at the University of Strasbourg where she
graduated. But she is known for her portrayal of Dorothy Doll, the stereotype of a
blonde in the sequence entitled La Minute Blonde on Canal+. At the same time,
she made several appearances in cinema. Including its small role of Miss France
in comedy Un ticket pour l'espace by Eric Lartigau alongside Kad Merad and
Olivier Barroux. Then she plays a first role in the romantic comedy of Emmanuel
Mouret: Changement d'adresse. She has also a second important role in Vilaine
in 2008. The actress also plays alongside Kad Merad in the film Safari released
in 2009. She continues to make appearances in the series Le Groupe, in Un gars, une fille and in Livre VI of
the series Kaamelott. In 2010, it is especially the poster of Adèle Blanc-Sec, directed by Luc Besson
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2010 : Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec
2009 : Safari
2008 : Vilaine
2008 : Les Dents de la nuit
2007 : Un baiser s'il vous plaît
2006 : Changement d'adresse
2006 : Camping
2006 : Un ticket pour l'espace
2006 : Petits meurtres en famille
2005 : Imposture
2004 : Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Julien Carbon et Laurent Courtiaud
Successively classical musician, journalist and film critic for Julien Carbon, audiovisual director, writer and
journalist for Laurent Courtiaud it is through their passion for Asian
cinema that the two men met in Paris in 1990. They will join first to
Butterfly Warriors, a luxurious fanzine on film from Asia. In 1996 they
sold their first screenplay to director Tsui Hark, who invites them to
join. They include the Film Workshop as writers for whom they develop
several scenarios. At the end of their contract, they begin their own
experience and they became known in 1998 with Running Out of Time.
They go to Vancouver to participate in shooting of Black Door Kit
Wong, whom they signed the scenario. Then they engaged in the
history of Black Mask 2 and write the screenplay for The Talisman for Michelle Yeoh. They are assistants to
write several works of Wong Kar-wai, as In the Mood for Love. In 2007, they founded their production
company Red East Pictures in collaboration with director Wong Kit, to make their own films. In 2009, the duo
made their first film Red Nights.
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2002 : Black Mask 2: City of Masks (Hak hap 2)
2000 : Black Door
1999 : Running Out of Time (Aau chin)
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Alex de la Iglesia
Álex de la Iglesia is a director, screenwriter and film producer born in 1965 in Bilbao.
Student of the "big school" film clubs, designer and art director on movie and
television sets, he started directing in the early 90s with his first feature, Mutant
Action, a satirical comedy flirting with gore. Thus begin an international reputation
and success for a work spot to date nine feature films (El día de la bestia, La
Comunidad, Perdita Durango, 800 balas, La Habitación del niño, Crimen Ferpecto,
The Oxford Murders, ...), which are expressed a baroque style and a taste for black
humor.
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2008 : Crimes à Oxford (The Oxford Murders)
2006 : La Chambre de l’enfant (La Habitación del niño)
2004 : Le Crime farpait (Crimen Ferpecto)
2002 : 800 balles (800 balas)
2000 : Mes chers voisins (La Comunidad)
1997 : Perdita Durango
Stéphane Debac
He made his debut at 16 at the Conservatory of Lyon in presenting a sketch of
Coluche. At 18, he joined the company Skénée for a tour of festivals of street
theater. In 1995, the apprentice actor left Lyon for Paris. There, he was
selected to Cnet, a show of sketches broadcast on Canal+. In 1998, he writes
and performs his own sketches for theater and broadcast on France 3. In
1999, he made his debut in a Korean feature titled Interview. Follows an
alternation of roles on television (Dans la tête du tueur, Engrenage) and
cinema (L'Incruste, L'Ivresse du pouvoir, Mr. Bean’s Holiday). In 2005, Raoul
Peck gave him his first major role, that of judge Lambert, in L'Affaire Villemin.
Since, he continues the shootings: La Fille coupée en deux, Modern Love, The
Happening or Faubourg 36, where he played an inspector alongside Gerard Jugnot.
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2008 : The Happening
2008 : Modern Love
2007 : La fille coupée en deux
2007 : Mr. Bean's Holiday
2006 : L'affaire Villemin (TV mini-series)
2006 : L'ivresse du pouvoir
2004 : L'incruste
2000 : Interview
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James Gunn
Gunn began his filmmaking career with Troma Entertainment, for whom he wrote and
co-directed Tromeo and Juliet. After contributing to several other Troma films, Gunn
wrote, produced and performed in his own superhero comedy, The Specials. Gunn's
first major Hollywood screenplay was Scooby-Doo in 2002. In 2004, he wrote the initial
screenplay for the remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, but left the
project early to work on Scooby-Doo 2. That same year he also executive produced,
and appeared in the mockumentary LolliLove.
His directorial film debut was Slither, a comedy horror motion picture which bore a
strong similarity with the similarly themed horror comedy Night of the Creeps. Gunn's
newest projects include the comedy short film Humanzee! which was originally
intended exclusively for the Xbox Live's Horror Meets Comedy series of short comedy films by horror
directors, it was replaced with Sparky and Mikaela. Gunn also has a short form web series for Spike.com
titled James Gunn's PG Porn.
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2008 : Sparky and Mikaela
2008 : James Gunn's PG Porn
2006 : Slither
2004 : LolliLove
2004 : Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
2004 : Dawn of the Dead
2004 : Tube
2002 : Scooby-Doo
2000 : The Specials
1996 : Tromeo and Juliet
David Keating
He has directed for film, theatre documentaries, TV drama and music videos. His most
recent feature film Wake Wood. This film is produced by Brendan McCarthy and John
McDonnell of Fantastic Films, in co-production with Magnus Paulsson of Solid
Entertainment, Sweden, and is due for release in early 2011.
In 1996 David directed and adapted the screenplay for his critically acclaimed debut
feature film The Last of the High Kings, starring Jared Leto, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Rea
and Christina Ricci. It was an international success and David received a nominated as
‘Best Newcomer’ in the London Evening Standard Film Awards. David has also directed
the cinema documentary KM64: Birth of a Skatepark, which tells the story of how one of
the world’s most extreme skateparks was built in a chilli field in Mexico. His screenwriting
includes work for Columbia /Sony Pictures and a writing credit for Jim Sheridan’s script of
Mike Newell’s Into the West.
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2007 : KM64: Birth of a Skatepark (documentary
1997 : Where Do I Begin (documentary)
1996 : The Last of the High Kings
1992 : Into the West
1991 : I Dreamt I Woke Up (short)
1986 : The End of the World Man
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Chun Yu Lai
Lai Chun Yu is known for his experimental animations and unique visual style. His
directorial debut, Dying away, vividly portrays the loneliness of old war veterans in Taipei. In
this award-winning short film, he took a poetic humane approach to the subject and cleverly
integrated computer-generated imagery with it. In 2005, Lai worked as a visual effects
assistant in Silk (directed by Chao-bin Su), which was awarded Best Visual Effects at the
2006 Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards. He further demonstrated his talent by becoming the
visual effects director of Secret (directed by Jay Chou) which won him a Golden Horse for
Best Visual Effects in 2007.
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2004 : Dying away
Jeong-Ho Lee
Jeong Ho Lee is a young Korean director and screenwriter. He began his career in
2004 as assistant director for the film Dead Friend. Thereafter he will chain to other
films as an assistant. In 2010 he wrote and directed the film Best Seller.
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2008 : A Man who was Superman
2007 : Shim's Family
2006 : Vampire Cop Ricky
2004 : Dead Friend
Guillem Morales
Graduated from film school in Catalonia Guillem Morales made his debut in
directing with the short films such as Back Room and Upside Down. In 2004 he
continued with feature films with The Uncertain Guest, a game of hide and seek
horrific. After a meeting with Guillermo Del Toro, in London, the project of Morales
is produced by the director of The Devil's Backbone. Julia's Eyes is the result of
the collaboration between them. The feature tells the investigation of a young
woman to understand the murder of her blind sister.
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2005 : The Uncertain Guest (El habitante incierto)
2002 : Upside Down
1999 : Back Room
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Yoshihiro Nishimura
Born in Tokyo in 1967, Yoshihiro Nishimura taught himself to do special effects,
and went on to found one of the busiest special effects makeup companies in
Japan, Nishi-Eizo, which has practically created a genre unto itself, with work on
films ranging from Suicide Club to L: Change the World to Gothic and Lolita
Psycho. He began making short films in high school and college, and directed his
first short feature, Anatomia Extinction, in 1995, providing the template for his later
Tokyo Gore Police, which debuted in 2008 at film festivals around the world.
Nishimura has also been closely associated with the work of Sion Sono,
contributing effects and production design to Suicide Club, Exte and many others.
After Tokyo Gore Police, Nishimura co-directed Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (with Naoyuki
Tomomatsu), and made Mutant Girls Squad for Sushi Typhoon with Noboru Iguchi and Tak Sakaguchi. One
of the busiest creative forces in the low-budget Japanese film industry, he has several projects lined up for
later in 2010, the most significant being his first solo directorial feature since TGP, the massive zombie road
movie epic Helldriver, part of The Sushi Typhoon.
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2010 : Helldriver
2010 : Mutant Girls Squad
2009 : RoboGeisha
2009 : Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
2009 : Samurai Princess
2009 : Stop the Bitch Campaign
2008 : Tokyo Gore Police
2008 : The Machine Girl
2008 : Death Note: L Change the World
2007 : Meatball Machine: Reject of Death (video short)
2005 : Meatball Machine
2001 : Suicide Club
1995 : Anatomia Extinction
Belen Rueda
Belen Rueda is a Spanish actress, born in 1965 in Madrid. She began working as a
commercial and a model before becoming a TV presenter. Finally, she became an
actress for television and film in 1997. She starts with appearances in the Spanish
series Medico De Familia. However, the actress succeeds as an actress in film in
2004 and 2005 in films Retruc and Mar Adentro. Two films that reveal the good
karma of the actress. For Mar Adentro, she also won the Goya Award for Best
Actress in 2005. In 2007, she played in the feature long The Orphanage by Juan
Antonio Bayona where he offered her the star in its scary movie. The following year,
the actress is on two movies : 8 Citas and El Mal Ajeno by Oskar Santos Gómez.
And in 2010, she played a young woman who investigates the murder of her blind
sister in Julia's Eyes.
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2007 : Savage Grace
2007 : The Orphanage (El Orfanato)
2005 : Retruc (short)
2004 : The Sea Inside (Mar adentro)
2002 : Periodistas (série TV)
2001 : 7 vidas (série TV)
1997 : Médico de familia (série TV)
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Timothy Spall
Teenager, he started his passion for theater. At 21, he is a first important role
on stage and made his film debut in The Life Story of Baal. The following year,
he played a projectionist in Quadrophenia. In 1982 he met Mike Leigh, a
decisive encounter for his career. The two men worked on the TV movie Home
Sweet Home in which he plays a main character. Subsequently the filmmaker
offered the most memorable roles of his career in Life Is Sweet, Secrets and
Lies and Topsy-Turvy. He multiplies the roles with the adaptation of literary
classics with Oliver Twist, with the comedy Dutch Girls, with the horror The
dream demon and with the drama Le Complot. He also appeared in White
Hunter, Black heart of Clint Eastwood, Tea in the Sahara of Bernardo
Bertolucci and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. In 2000, he found his passion for
theater, lends his voice to Nick rats in Chicken Run and Patrice Chéreau uses
him for the film Intimacy. The following year, he played with Tom Cruise in
Vanilla Sky, and then in 2003 he found the actor for The Last Samurai. He
continues whit Harry Potter in which he plays the servant of Lord Voldemort.
More recently, we have found in Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland by
Tim Burton.
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2010 : Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort
2010 : My Angel
2010 : Alice au pays des merveilles
2009 : The Damned United
2009 : Harry Potter et le Prince de sang-mêlé
2007 : Oliver Twist
2007 : Sweeney Todd : Le Diabolique Barbier de Fleet Street
2007 : Il était une fois
2005 : Harry Potter et la Coupe de feu
2004 : Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban
2004 : Les Désastreuses Aventures des orphelins Baudelaire
2003 : Le Dernier Samouraï
2001 : Vanilla Sky
2001 : Intimité
1999 : Topsy-Turvy
1990 : Un thé au Sahara
1979 : Quadrophenia
Chao Bin Su
Taiwan director Su Chao-bin receives the Best Director award in the movie Reign
of Assassins from Hong Kong director Johnny To during the Hong Kong Film
Critics Society Awards presentation in Hong Kong (2011)
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2008 : The Forbidden Kingdom
2006 : Silk (Guisi)
2002 : Twenty Something Taipei (Toi bak man 9 chiu 5)
2002 : Double Vision (Shuang Tong)
2002 : 3 Extremes II
2002 : Better Than Sex (Ai qing ling yao)
2000 : The Cabbie (Yun zhuan shou zhi lian)
2000 : A Chance to Die (Xiang si chen xianzai)
Alice Taglioni
Before wanting to be actress, Alice Taglioni first began as a pianist formation to the
Music Conservatory of Paris. To overcome her shyness, she takes theater courses
and quickly catches the virus of comedy. She begins her film career in 2001 in the
La bande du Drugstore and Quatre copains (TV). She obtains one of the principal
roles of Brocéliande, plays in Le pharmacien de garde and Grande école. The film
Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités... in 2003 gave her the recognition of the
public. Alice next embarked on more prestigious productions of the year 2005. She
was a pilot in Les chevaliers du ciel, then acted in Le cactus and also acted with
Gad Elmaleh in La doublure by Francis Veber.
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2008 : Ca$h
2007 : L'Île aux trésors
2006 : La Doublure
2006 : La Panthère rose (The Pink Panther)
2005 : Le Cactus
2005 : Les Chevaliers du ciel
2004 : Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités
2004 : Grande École
2003 : Le Pharmacien de garde
2002 : Brocéliande
2002 : La Bande du drugstore
1994 : Hélène et les garçons (TV)
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Jun Tsugita
Tsugita is a Japanese screenwriter and director. Love horror films, he has written
several screenplays for film and Japanese magazines, including The Ancient Dogoo
Girl: Special Edition Movie, Mutant Girls Squad of Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura
and Tak Sakaguchi and Naoto Takenaka Yamagata Scream . Horny House of Horror is
the first feature film written and directed by Tsugita.
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2010 : Horny House of Horror (Fasshon heru)
2010 : Mutant Girls Squad (Sentô shôjo: Chi no tekkamen densetsu)
2010 : The Ancient Dogoo Girl: Special Movie Edition
2009 : Saikin rettô (screenplay)
2009 : Yamagata Scream
Eric Valette
After a Master of Science and Technology of audiovisual communication in
1991, Eric Valette directed several short films, including Saturday, Sunday and
Monday too, noticed the Cognac Festival (1999) where he won the Great
Award, Il est difficile de tuer quelqu'un, même un lundi and Dégustation.
Meanwhile, Eric Valette signs several clips and features many sketches of the
Guignols for Canal+.
In 2002 he headed Clovis Cornillac and Gérald Laroche in his first feature film,
Evil, which won the Jury Prize of the 10th Festival Fantastic Arts of Gerardmer. The filmmaker goes to the
United States. There he writes a U.S. version of the horror thriller One Missed Call by Takashi Miike. This
remake is interpreted by Edward Burns and Shannyn Sossamon. In the same time, Eric Valette signs the
achievement of the B series Hybrid before making his return to France with Une affaire d'Etat (2009) and La
Proie (2011).
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2009 : Une affaire d'Etat
2008 : One Missed Call
2003 : Maléfique
2001 : Dégustation (short)
2000 : Il est difficile de tuer quelqu'un, même un lundi.
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Lysette Anthony
Lysette Anthony is an English actress born 26 September 1963 in London.
She was a famous model before becoming a famous actress at the age of
20 years. She was first made known in the famous movie Krull by Peter
Yates. But it is also known for his roles in Husbands and Wives by Woody
Allen, Three Up, Two Down, Dracula: Dead and Loving It by Mel Brooks,
Tale of the Mummy by Russell Mulcahy. In addition to her many roles, she is
also known for his work in film and television as a producer.
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1985-1989 : Three Up, Two Down
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1992 : Husbands and WIfes (Woody Allen)
1995 : Dracula: Dead and Loving It de Mel Brooks
1998 : Tale of the Mummy de Russel Mulcahy
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Knights Of The Order Of The Raven
The idea came up during a round-table. The quest started with a sip of wine from the Holy
Grail: how could we possibly salute the essential contribution of creation craftsmen to the
movie industry without the poisoned gift of the retrospective, which would sound as if they
were heading for an early grave? By knighting them, of course! The best way for the
BIFFF to thank them is seeing how these stable boys become proud knights during a
ceremony with lots of humor and zero pretence.
Laureates
2005
Larry Cohen (screenwriter) : Maniac Cop, Le retour des sept, Captivity, Phone Game.
Dario Argento (director/screenwriter) : Profondo Rosso, Suspiria, Stendhal Syndrome.
2007
Christopher Lloyd (actor) : Retour vers le futur I, II, III, La famille Adams I, II.
Lloyd Kaufman (actor/director) : Tromeo et Juliette, The Toxic Avenger.
2008
Jurgen Prochnow (actor) : Das Boot, Dune, In the mouth of madness, Air force one.
Stuart Gordon (director/screenwriter): Re-animator, Fortress, the Dentist, Stuck.
2010
Harry Kumel (director/screenwriter): Malpertuis, Les Lèvres Rouges
Luc Besson (director/screenwriter) : Le Grand Bleu, Léon, Le Cinquième Element
2011
Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Aja begins at the BIFFF with Furia in 1999, following by
impressive successes with High Tension in 2003, The Hills Have Eyes
and lately Piranha 3D. As a french director, he definitely made his
marks.
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Director, actor, film producer and screenwriter American, born in 1950 in
Chicago, John Landis quickly integrates the movie business working as a
courier to Fox. In 1973 he wrote his first screenplay and managed to raise
enough money to do Schlock (a parody of King Kong) for which he won
several awards. Following this success, he produced comedies such as
Hamburger Film Sandwich and American College. Then he attacked the
blockbuster: Blues Brothers. Thereafter, he continued successes, including
An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places in 1983. The same year
he also carries the famous clip of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Finally, he
realized in 1985, Into the Night and then in 1986 Three Amigos!, Coming to
America in 1988, Beverly Hills Cop 3 in 1993. Meanwhile, in 1991, he made
another clip of Michael Jackson: Black or White. Landis has also been active in television as a
producer and often director. Moreover, he inaugurated the series Masters of Horror in 2005. In
2010, the feature film Burke and Hare marks the return of film director after Susan's Plan in 1998.
John Landis
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2005-2006 : Masters of Horror (TV series)
1996 : The Stupids
1993 : Beverly Hills Cop 3
1992 : Innocent Blood
1991 : Black or White (video short)
1991 : Oscar
1988 : Coming to America
1985 : Into the Night
1983 : Thriller (TV short)
1981 : An American Werewolf in London
1980 : The Blues Brothers
1973 : Schlock
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Guest OF HONOUR
Renny Harlin
Famous finish director, Renny Harlin is the masters of the
nineties’ action movies, directing stars such as Burce Willis in Die
Hard 2, Stallone in Cliffhanger, Samuel L. Jackson in The Long
Kiss Goodnight, Geena Davis in Cutthroat Island or Val Kilmer
and Christian Slater in Mindhunters. He also directed some
fantastic features such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Exorcist:
The Beginning and The Covenant. He is actually working on a
sequel of The Long Kiss Goodnight.
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TaiwanESE EVENING
Small island that everybody knows but hard to locate on a map by most of us, Taiwan is
especially renowned for its economic growth and its high level of technological
development, sheltering various and breathtaking landscapes, and marking a
reinforcement of the cooperation and the mutual trust with continental China.
But the diehard movie-lovers have their own way to define Taiwan, using proper names
like Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang or even a promising rookie named
Ang Lee.
For the centennial of the Republic of China (Taiwan), the BIFFF decided to point its
spotlights on this country and its thousand treasures during the Taiwanese evening, which
will take place on Monday April 11th at 5 PM:
the lion dance
The ancestral martial arts of Kung Fu are not only used in combat.
Its basic positions can also be found in the lion dance, a symbolic
practice whose demonstrations, organized by Kung Fu schools,
are very common at new year’s eve and during other celebrations.
The animal has two distinct parts: a head made of bamboo,
decorated with paper and tissues, and the body linked to the tail.
Each of these parts is independent and controlled by a dancer.
The lion is also surrounded by six musicians, giving the rhythm but
also guiding the dancers inside the lion.
The choice of the lion for this tradition is due to the fact that – in
China – it is considered to be a mythical beast, present in
numerous sculptures and statues. The lion is a sign of prosperity, but also symbolizes
strength and kindness.
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The bubble tea
Since the early nineties, Bubble Tea has litteraly been adapted by
the Taiwanese. The concept is very simple: tapioca pearls plunged
at the bottom of a milk-shake look alike; which is in fact a mix of hot
or cold tea and milk. With the help of a huge straw, you can enjoy
your bubble tea while gulping down the pearls.
Bubble Tea is a huge success in Asia and the recipe starts to export
very well in North America and in Europe. Belgium hasn’t fallen for it
yet, but that is just a matter of time…
the puppets
puppets
In Taiwan, movies are not the only way to tell stories. Puppets are also a renowned
medium to start a fantastic journey:
Fan Li Hua – Xue Ding Shan
Xue Ding Shan is a young, famous general of the
Tang Dynasty. He is handsome and very brave in
battle. The hostile young female general (Fan Li
Hua), falls in love with him at first sight. They
meet on the battlefield, slowly fall in love and
finally decide to marry. The legendary couple
stick together through thick and thin, manage to
expel a foreign invasion and successfully
accomplish the westward military mission. As a
result, the Emperor promotes both of them to the
rank of nobility and they live together happily ever
after.
Newlyweds
May the lovers always be united under the heavenly skies
In Taiwan, at the end of every puppet show the bride and bridegroom
usually appear on stage to symbolize the happy ending of the play
and to bless the audience.
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Zhang Fei
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Zhang Fei is one of the most popular characters in
Taiwanese traditional drama. He is a bold and reckless
figure, well known for his impulsiveness and rash action.
The audience loves his clumsy exuberance and martial
bravery. Chang Fei is also known for his sense of humor
and charm.
Guan Gong
Martial Sages
Guan Gong is a historical figure known to every household in
Taiwan. Due to his outstanding loyalty, justice, and bravery, he is
a popular hero and admired by the ruling classes from generation
to generation.
Shi Yan Wen
The scholar / Swordsman
The character of Shi Yan Wen is legendary in Taiwan. The
exciting travels and adventures of this hero, known for his brave
and just character, were so successful with audiences that
Taiwanese television made a popular programme around the
character.
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Chung K’uei
Guarding the Home that brings Wealth and Riches
Chung K’uei is a mythical figure familiar to almost every Taiwanese. The story of “Chung
K’uei, the Demon Queller” has a long history in folklore. Legend has it that he was a
scholar, who was said to have been ugly enough to scare demons.
He wanted to become an official but he reportedly failed due to his looks. In a fit of
frustration, he condemned himself to death at the palace halls. The King of Hades then
took pity on this virtuous but unfulfilled scholar and appointed him “Generalissimo of Quell
Demon.”
He has since been venerated by all, from emperors to common folk, as a controller of
demons. Through the ages, the figure and legend of Chung K’uei has been the subject of
artists and story tellers and when Chinese people seek spiritual protection, such as during
the New Year and Dragon Boat Festivals, they always display pictures of him.
CINEMA
The Taiwanese cinema will also be present at the BIFFF during the whole festival with the
following screenings:
ONE DAY
AYU
REIGN OF ASSASSINS
Ayu
Reign of Assassins
And don’t forget the Ang Lee retrospective at the
Brussels CINEMATEK from March 30th to April 28th!
(www.cinematek.be)
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FESTIV'ART
Squid Lab presents :
the “CREATURE” exhibition
The "Squid Lab" team takes you to an amazing universe of international
artists gathered around the theme of the “CREATURE".
Sculptures, paintings, art dolls and other art works, from the smallest to the
most monumental!
More on: www.squidlab.be
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26th VAMPIRE’s
VAMPIRE’s BALL
Everybody knows the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the flute player who hypnotized
children with his music to take a plunge in the river. What if we told you that, since 26
years, this is no longer a legend !? Okay, we’ve worked a bit on this medieval formula,
because a flute playing tempter of kiddies is not exactly kosher nowadays, but the concept
has stayed the same. Our Satanic hypnotizers are called DJ Raven, DJ Volkan and DJ O.
Every year, these gents manage to put thousands of followers into a collective trance,
dancing from dusk till dawn. This unique event, of which only the mention of the name is
enough to get the attention of every party animal in the capital, is none other than the 26th
VAMPIRE BALL of the BIFFF…
Live video : 24 FRAMES and Ko Ax
Sets and installations : Dom’s Dister and Manufactor
Practical Info
16 April 2011
86 Avenue du Port - 1000 Brussel
Tour & Taxis MUSIC ROOM
Opening : 11pm
Closing : 7am (so you can still make it to your coffin before sunrise…)
Advance sales : 10€
On the spot : 15€
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ZOMBIFFF DAY & NIGHT
09.04.2011
ZOMBIE PARADE
The zombies are among us ! Once
more, they’re ready to invade the
streets of Brussels during the 4th
Zombie Parade.
There were with more than 500
during the last edition. This year
they will advance again upon the
city
centre
on
Saturday
9 April 2011.
The parade is a huge role playing
game in which you can surprise
unsuspecting
passers-by
and
entertain numerous tourists.
All those rookies who missed their
chance last year will be able to join the ranks of the hundreds of participants to the Zombie
Parade. You can even get made-up as one of the Undead at the BIFFF. Also on the
program: a tribute to Manneken Pis, who’ll be dressed up as count Dracula for the
occasion.
The Zombie Parade is organized in collaboration with the 5th Zombie Day, Make-Up-ForEver (www.makeupforever.be) and Fardel Cosmetics (www.fardel.com).
Practical Info
29th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
Tour & Taxis, avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Brussels
Zombie Parade : Saturday 9 April 2011
Make-up from 12am till 3pm at the BIFFF – Limited number of places
Departure from the BIFFF : around 3pm heading downtown
Rounding-up : at 3.30pm at place de l’Albertine
Visit to Drakulen-Pis at 4pm
Back to the BIFFF around 6pm
For the latest info : www.zombieday.net (Raphaël Wenric)
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ZOMBIFFF FILM
To keep your rotting limbs shivering, the BIFFF presents :
EATERS at 18.00 - see page : 21
Practical Info
29th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
Tour & Taxis, avenue du Port 86C, 1000 Brussels
Check www.bifff.net for rates and latest info
ZOMBIFFF NIGHT
And to top it all off, like a rotten cherry on a maggot infested cake, you’ll be able to attend
a concert night in Magasin 4, organized by the young Brussels independent label Cheap
Satanism Record.
Cheap Satanism Records will rock your remaining limbs with an eye-popping bunch of
gigs : Zombie Zombie and Cercueil. Zombie Zombie wil present the Brussels première of
its cover project of musical themes from the films of John Carpenter (Halloween, The
Thing, New York 1997…). Also appearing : Philippe Petit (live & a dj set), Agent Palmer
(DJ set) and also all the house bands Keiki, Trike, Joy As A Toy (for a new project on the
films of Dario Argento), Baby Fire and Vitas Gerulaïtis.
Practical info
Magasin 4 (opposite Tour & Taxis)
Avenue du Port 51B, 1000 Brussels
ZomBIFFF Night: Saturday 9 April 2011 starting from 7pm.
Advance sales : 14 € at the FNAC store
On the night itself : 17€ (14 € for those who are made-up or dressed up as
zombies AND for holders of a BIFFF film ticket of 09.04.2011)
Surf to www.cheapsatanism.com or www.magasin4.com for practical info and
details about the program.
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BELGIAN FILM DAY
April 15th 2011
9.30AM – 11.30AM: TAX SHELTER CONFERENCE
With the participation of Diana Elbaum (Entre Chien et Loup), producer of Patrice
Leconte’s next film, THE SUICIDE SHOP, adapted from Jean Teulé’s novel.
Since its introduction in 2003, the tax shelter has become a very important tool for the
funding of audiovisual projects in the French Community.
The most effective method to keep the system going is to make it as transparent as
possible. That’s why the Middle Class Union (UCM) is organising a seminar where
audiovisual and financial professionals can clearly and legally exchange information about
the ‘’tax shelter’’.
Thanks to its dynamic organisation and its importance in the French Community and in
Brussels, the BIFFF is the ideal partner to bring those professionals together.
In the presence of federal and regional political representatives, professionals and artists
of the French Community, the seminar will include a detailed explanation of the
advantages and the financial mechanism of the system, and other practical information;
but also a presentation about the particularities of the film industry. A technical dossier will
be handed to all the participants and will later be available to all members of the UCM.
Please note that entrance is free, but candidates are kindly requested to subscribe at the
festival’s box office before April 12th, or to contact the Middle Class Union UCM
(www.cafeconseils.be).
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12PM – 1.30PM : VIDEO CONTEST « YAPAKA »
Our children are watching us, what kind of
example do we give them?
Children observe and copy everything what we say
and do; which is quite fortunate, because by imitating
us, they learn how to talk, to sing, to walk, to love, to
take care of others...
It’s quite a responsibility to be a role model…
And whether we want it or not, we are all, at a certain
moment in our lives, the example, the reference… Our children are what we transmit to
them. They develop themselves according to what they get from their parents and the
social environment that surrounds them. But what kind of example do we give them?
With this topic, Yapaka, a mistreatment prevention program created at the initiative of the
Ministry of The French Community, launched the campaign “Our children are watching us,
what kind of example do we give them?” in collaboration with the Community’s cinema
center. Part of this campaign is the organization of a free contest (for amateurs,
professionals, film school students,…) that invites the participants to shoot a short video
clip that fits the campaign’s theme “We are the example”.
At the occasion of the Belgian Film Day, selected clips will be screened at the BIFFF on
Friday 15 April 2011 at 12pm in presence of the jury, consisting of personalities such as
Marion Hänsel, Stéphane Aubier, Bernard Bellefroid, Joachim Lafosse, Frédéric Dumont
… The winners will be announced on the same day around 5pm at Tour & Taxis.
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1.45PM – 4.30PM: BELGIAN SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
See page : 40
4.30PM – 5PM: WORKSHOP
See page : 57
5PM – 5.30PM: AWARDS
1) Workshop
2) Children are watching us
3) Belgian short films
6PM : Screening of MEANT TO BE (Paul Breuls – Belgium)
A coproduction helped by the tax shelter – See page : 50
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24th International Body Painting Contest
Organized in collaboration with
FARDEL Cosmetics (www.fardel.com)
EVA AIR (www.evaair.com)
Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium (www.taiwanembassy.org/BE/)
Every year, this renowned festival event gathers more and more international success.
The contest takes place every night from 8 till 17 April 2011.
During 4 hours, the participants will realize their creations at the Body Painting stand at the
Festival, letting their imagination run wild around the themes of fantasy, science-fiction,
horror and fairytales.
You can admire them every day (free entry) between 5.30 pm and 9.30 pm, followed by a
parade on the Body Painting stage just before the 10.00pm film.
Every photographed Body Painting will be submitted to a jury of professionals.
Body Painting Contest at the 29th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival Tour & Taxis.
From Friday 8 till Sunday 17 April 2011, between 5.30pm and 9.30pm : free entry.
Attribution of prizes on Monday 18 April 2011 at 9pm.
Info : www.bifff.net – Events – Body Painting
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Prize List
1st Prize :
FARDEL Cosmetics
A box with FARDEL Cosmetics for a value of +/- 1.000 €
EVA AIR
A plane ticket Amsterdam-Taipei-Amsterdam (taxes not included)
BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL
An original autographed silk-screen print of the poster of the "29th BIFFF" offered
by the Festival
2nd Prize :
FARDEL Cosmetics
A box with FARDEL Cosmetics for a value of +/- 500 €
by the Festival
3rd Prize :
FARDEL Cosmetics
A box with FARDEL Cosmetics for a value of +/- 400 €
by the Festival
Other Prizes :
Every body painter will receive on the evening of the contest :
A degree of participation
A case of FARDEL Cosmetics with a value of +/- 250 € to 300 €.
Other prizes can still be added to this list...
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28th MakeMake-Up Contest
Free make-up contest : open to everyone.
Beginners, amateurs or semi-professionals, join us and let your imagination loose on
themes such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror and fairytales at the 28th Make-Up Contest.
Transform human faces into beautiful or divine creatures or have fun with special effects.
Register yourself for one of the 3 categories : amateur, semi-pro, special fx (special
effects).
Registration is possible on the night itself at the make-up stand. Products will be put at
your disposal, but you’re advised to bring your own material : brushes, sponges, latex,
prostheses,…
The jury will choose the winners based on pictures taken during the contest, on Monday
18 April 2011. Be at the Festival at 9pm to pick up your award.
Make-up Contest.
At the make-up stand of the 29th Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film –
Tour & Taxis, av. du Port 86C, 1000 Brussels.
From Friday 8th April until Sunday 17th April 2011, from 5.30pm until 10.30pm.
Attribution of prizes on Monday 18th April 2011 at 9pm.
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JAPANIMATION DAY
On the morning of April 17th, the site of Tour & Taxis will still bear the traces of one crazy night;
the Vampire Ball. But another huge event will start at the BIFFF : the 8th JAPANIMATION
DAY. Free entry for fans and curious passers-by who want to attend the COSPLAY or browse
among the stands of the Scy-Fi, Fantasy & Manga Market !
5th Cosplay
Inspired by American conventions where diehard genre fans put
on customized pyjamas (Star Trek), a fleece of hairy ferret or
donuts in the hair (Chewbacca and Princess Leïa), the Japanese
cosplay celebrates its manga and videogame heroes. A huge
institution in the land of the rising sun, this tribute quickly caught
on with many people in Europe. The aficionados are growing in
numbers and are ever more inventive, trying to outdo each other in
creativity and dressing themselves up in costumes that are far
from the Lycra capes and the red underpants we used to wear as
kids. A genuine parade of freaks and wonders, life-sized souvenirs
of the heroes who monopolized our Saturday mornings, this 3rd
Cosplay Edition is from now on what the anti-flea collar is to the
werewolf : indispensable !
BUT, this year, the cosplay contest will be
competitive for the first time : the winner will
have the opportunity to go to Paris to take
part in the European Cosplay Competition!
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Fantasy & manga market
For the 4th time, there’ll be a market at the BIFFF for lovers of fantasy,
sci-fi and manga. Whether you’re a fan, a collector or just curious,
come and browse through a dozen stands with accessories,
merchandising, figurines, DVD’s, comic books… in short everything
that is part of our favourite universe.
Anime tv series
KANA HOME VIDEO
Black Butler (season 2)
The second season, adapted from Yana Toboso’s manga, focuses on
Alois Trancy, a young aristocrat living in England during the
nineteenth century. He’s pretentious and sometimes sadistic with his
servants, among whom Claude. He’s a very special employee, since
he’s a demon…
DYBEX S.A., one of the European pioneers and leaders in releasing Japanese animation,
in particular in the Benelux and France, will presents 3 series :
Time of Eve
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGOqSoyRF4
Rin/Mnemosyne
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7THj6DVLin0
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Highschool of the Dead
Highschool of the Dead a bloody adaptation of Daisuke Sato’s manga,
centers on Takashi’s unusual school day. He’ll have to struggle without
something else than a quick nap during his courses. You see, his
schoolmates have turned into flesh eaters. He will have to team up with
other survivors with one common purpose: staying alive.
KAZÉ NEO
Ghost Hound
Ghost Hound, directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura (Serial Experiments Lain),
takes us to the little town of Suiten, where strange things are happening.
Tarô, Masayuki and Makoto, three traumatised schoolmates, will enter a
parallel world and try to solve the mystery surrounding Suiten’s strange
phenomena.
No Longer Human
This series of 4 episodes, adaptated from Osamu Dazai’s classic, benefits
from the talents of character designer Takashi Obata (Death Note) and
director Morio Asaka (Gunslinger Girl, Chobits). Enter Yozo’s tortured
world, a child of a rich and wealthy family, who lives his life day by day,
slowly descending into decadence and debauchery.
Claymore
Claymore, adapted from Yana Toboso’s manga, tells us the story of
the struggle of the Claymores, half demon and half human warriors,
against bloodthirsty beasts…
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Acht, Abattoir Fermé and Potemkino
with the support of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF)
and in collaboration with the 29tht BIFFF & the Beursschouwburg
present
MONSTER!
Tragicomichorrordramedyzombienaziblaxploitationschlockfestorgy,
made in Flanders!
A horribly funny sitcom in sex parts about an overambitious film director who
manages to churn out “masterpiece” after “masterpiece” despite a chronic lack of
means.
Meet Ad-Harry Shredder, a self-declared genius filmmaker who constantly
struggles to separate reality from fiction. His ambition is only equaled by his
inflated ego, but his limited talent and means do not stop him from shooting a new
movie every week.
He can count on his regular cast and crew, who are as enthusiastic as they are
untalented. And even though they bring all their numerous personal problems to
the set, at least they’re dirt cheap.
There’s nothing better to get the creative juices flowing than a nonexisting budget. And every time Harry and his acolytes succeed in
the most improbable stars to the set, shoot some impressive
scenes and pull of a “monster production”.
luring
Screenplay and direction : Stef Lernous en Jonas Govaerts
With: Pepijn Caudron, Tine Van den Wyngaert, Chiel van Berkel,
Stef
Lernous, Kirsten Pieters, Matthijs Scheepers, Lotte Diependaele,
Kevin
Trappeniers & special guests: Isabelle A, Gène Bervoets, Roos Van Acker, Kevin Janssens, Sandy Tura,
Nathalie Meskens, Eveline Hoste, Jaak Van Assche, Joke Van De Velde, Jelle Cleymans, Clara Cleymans,
Paul Ricour, Frank Dingenen, Alice Toen, Mark Verstraete, Johny Voners, Marc Reynebeau
MONSTER! marathon at the BIFFF 2011
Saturday 16 April 2011 at 8.30pm
Duration : 6 x 30’
Location: BEURSSCHOUWBURG, Rue A.Ortsstraat 20—28, B – 1000 Brussels
TICKETS:
€ 5 (advance sales) / € 7 (on the spot)
Through the Beursschouwburg: [email protected] or tel. +32 (0)2 550 03 50
Free for Bifff subscribers, but with the number of seats being limited, please reserve in
advance at [email protected].
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BABIFFF SITTING
© BIFFF / DAVID P
You’re no longer able to come to the BIFFF as often as you’d like ?
But it’s so much fun there ! Yeah well, it’s not that simple anymore
when you got kids. You need them to be taken care of, you have to
pay the babysitter, you can’t come home too late… Sometimes it’s a
real juggling act when you want to attend the BIFFF as a parent.
That’s why the BIFFF has found a solution : during the screening you
can entrust your children to the BABIFFF SITTING (the BIFFF Baby
Sitting !)
Where ? : At the festival site in Tour & Taxis, from 8 till 18 April 2011.
Practically : Child nursery from 5 till 12 years old.
Opening hours :
during the week : from 5.30 pm till 10 pm (screenings of 6pm
and 8pm).
during the weekend : from 3.30pm till 10pm (screenings of 4pm,
6pm and 8pm).
The BIFFF nursery is free, on presentation of a film ticket for which you’d like your kids to
be taken care of.
With the number of places being limited, please reserve in advance.
Starting from 21 March 2011 on : 02/204.00.13.
Proposed activities : Movies & TV series, hobby room, painting
workshop & reading space. With some possible extra activities to be
added such as comic strip workshops, make-up…
Your hosts : Véronique Simon (psychometrician and ergotherapist),
Lydie Bossaert (ergotherapist), Sébastien Delvaux and Tiziana Rizzo,
entertainers with MiniMayFair (www.cscmayfair.be).
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WHO IS DAVID P. ?
Drawer, illustrator, painter, sculptor and writer, David
P. is an autodidact artist. He succeeds in a few
strokes of his pen dipped in Indian ink on white
paper, enhanced by blood red stains, to portray the
suspicious atmosphere and almost attractive, of
History’s darkest hours. Needless to say that the
Babifff-Sitting will kick ass!
With the first volume of BEURK (éditions Jourdan Jeunesse),
David P. showed a new facette of his artcraft, proposing an
educationnal and funny book that will delight kids and elder
fans as well. Good news, the second volume of Beurk is
about to be published!
More info : www.beurk.info
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Comic Stand
The eldest European comics’ library, THE SKULL, is back this year at
the BIFFF! Mangas, imports, comics, silk-screen printings, movie books,
everything you’ve ever looked for will be within reach…
THE SKULL will also bring some friends for public meetings with the
audience. Among them:
LORENZO MATTOTTI
Lorenzo Mattoti is considered as one of the major figures of the comic strip, numerous of
his books being translated throughout the world. During his career, started in the early
seventies, his work has always been very coherent but Mattoti dared to innovate, a
boldness that brought him many prizes. Besides the comic strip, he also worked in various
fields, such as fashion and commercials, and designed the poster of the 53rd Cannes Film
Festival in 2000. The BIFFF is proud to announce his presence at the festival on April 9TH
and 10th for a Q&A and the dedication of “The Crow”, co-written with singer Lou Reed.
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BUT ALSO :
Gihef
Steven Dupré
Lionel Marty
Philippe Delaby (designer of the 2011 BIFFF poster)
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Festiv’Art 2011
ANIMATIONS & OFF
Fly Tox Symphony (Opening and Closing show)
http://www.magicland-theatre.com/
The galactic pollution didn’t spare the constellation of Orion where colonies of expats from
earth have been living for ages. Numerous genetic mutations transformed our distant
cousins into hybrid beings and frightening creatures. The strange procession coming
towards us is an innocent cultural delegation. Yet, since they left Orion to warn the
inhabitants of the other planets of the great danger that threatens them – the imminence of
an ecological disaster -, their journey hasn’t been always easy. How to establish the
contact with the earthmen? This strange delegation multiplies the processions, the music
hall shows, the songs and the folkloric dances but endures the worst difficulties to
convince the human beings, way too Cartesian to get the message… The Great
Ambassador leads with an iron hand termites and prelates in an exuberant symphony.
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FREEEKS FACTORY
SoBRE (Station orbitale Belge Relais Extra-terrestre)
21st century, worldwide cataclysms are devastating earth,
Flying cars don’t exist.
Regretting the tightly-fitting boiler suits and the tinted glasses,
Always at the cutting edge of its technology and even worse,The Freeeks Factory
launches:
SoBRE
(Station orbitale Belge Relais Extra-Terrestre)
"It' a far, far better thing i do than i have ever done before.
A far better resting place that i go to than i've ever know"
James.T.kirk
http://www.freeeks-factory.be
DOLLE PRET
MonSTARS
www.dollepret.be
Two completely insane trolls with crooked legs jump and dance around
in search of fun. They can jump no less than 2 meters hight! Their
fluorescent green and red hair can be seen by anyone and as soon as
these loony gents pass by you instantly become cheerful.
Here is the movie of our animation at the 2010 BIFFF:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGUKkuy0AM
Pictures here: http://www.dollepret.be/foto/mon/
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www.outrerue.be
ORBILYS
Overhanging the crowd, with a self-assured and slow walk, the Orbilys never
stop questioning the world’s moods. These curious humanoids watch
everything and talk with the eye.
If you’re there, it’s because they’ve already seen you!
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PRAcTIcal
PRAcTIcal INFOrmation
INFOrmationS
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MOBILITY
BY CAR
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PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACCESS
BUS
14 : stop TOUR&TAXIS
57 : stop Steamers
(near the entry place des Armateurs)
89 : stop Picard (5 minutes by foot)
20 : stop Simonis (15 minutes by foot)
De Lijn : line 245, stop TOUR&TAXIS.
TRAM
51 : stop Sainctelette (7 minutes by foot)
METRO
Ligne 2 : stop Ribaucourt (10 minutes by foot) ;
stop Yser (15 minutes by foot)
Ligne 6 : stop Belgica (15 minutes by foot)
TRAIN
The North Station is close to the site (20 minutes by foot).
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PRESS CONTACTs
Public informations: 02/204.00.13 or www.bifff.net
Presse: Jonathan Lenaerts, Marie-France Dupagne
8 rue de la Comtesse de Flandre, 1020 Bruxelles
tel: 02/204.00.14. ; fax: 02/201.14.69.
e-mail: [email protected] ou [email protected]
From April 7th to 19th 2011: Tour & Taxis Magasin 3
86c avenue du Port
1000 Bruxelles.
PHOTOS FROM THE PRESS FILE HAVE A COPYRIGHT
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SPONSORing
SPONSORing
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festivalpartners
festivalpartners
Avec le soutien de – Met de steun van :
pour la REGION DE BRUXELLES-CAPITALE,
voor het BRUSSELS HOOFDSTEDELIJK GEWEST:
M. Charles PICQUE, Ministre-Président, Minister-Voorzitter,
Dhr. Jean-Luc VANRAES, Minister van Externe Betrekkingen, Ministre des Relations Extérieures,
pour la COMMUNAUTE WALLONIE BRUXELLES :
Mme Fadila LAANAN, Ministre de l’Audiovisuel et de la Culture ;
voor de VLAAMSE GEMEENSCHAP :
Mvr. Joke SCHAUVLIEGE, Vlaams Minister van Leefmilieu, Natuur en Cultuur;
pour la COMMISSION COMMUNAUTAIRE FRANCAISE de la Région de Bruxelles Capitale:
M. Emir KIR, Ministre de la Culture ;
voor de VLAAMSE GEMEENSCHAPSCOMMISSIE van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest:
Dhr. Jean-Luc VANRAES, Collegelid bevoegd voor Onderwijs, Vorming en Begroting;
Dhr. Bruno DE LILLE, Collegelid bevoegd voor Cultuur, Jeugd, Sport en Ambtenarenzaken;
pour la VILLE DE BRUXELLES / voor de STAD BRUSSEL:
Echevinat de la Culture / Schepenambt voor Cultuur
M. Freddy THIELEMANS, Bourgmestre / Burgemeester
M. FASSI-FIHRI, Echevin de la Culture / Schepen bevoegd voor Cultuur ;
M. Philippe CLOSE, Echevin du Tourisme / Schepen bevoegd voor Toerisme ;
pour WALLONIE BRUXELLES INTERNATIONAL
M. Rudy DEMOTTE, Ministre-président, chargé des Relations Internationales ;
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Le Ministère de l’Emploi de la Région Bruxelles-Capitale, het Ministerie van Tewerkstelling
van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest,
Le Service général de l’Audiovisuel et des Multimédias de la Communauté française de
Belgique,
Le Service Général de la Culture de la Communauté française de Belgique,
Le Fonds Maribel Social des secteurs Socio-culturels et Sportifs des Communautés
française et germanophone,
La Loterie Nationale / De Nationale Loterij
Le Centre de prêt de matériel de la Communauté française de Belgique
Le Centre de prêt de matériel de la Commission communautaire française de la Région de
Bruxelles-Capitale
De Gemeentelijke Uitrustingsdienst van de stad Brussel – service Outdoor & Indoor
Le Centre de prêt de matériel de la Ville de Bruxelles – service Outdoor & Indoor
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Merci à - Met dank aan
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Toutes les firmes qui nous ont aidés pour cette 29 édition
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Alle bedrijven die hebben meegewerkt aan deze 29 editie
LES FIRMES DE DISTRIBUTION ET DE PRODUCTION DE FILMS EN BELGIQUE /
AAN ALLE VERDELERS EN PRODUCTIEHUIZEN IN BELGIE :
CNC, Kinepolis Film Distribution, UPI, A-Film, Cinéart, Victory, Independent, Starway Film
Distribution, Dybex.
ET LES FIRMES DE DISTRIBUTION A L'ETRANGER /
EN IN HET BUITENLAND.
Avec l’aide des ambassades – Met de steun van de ambassades van
Corée et / en KOFIC, Danemark, Maroc, Estonie, Argentine, Japon et / en Japan Foundation,
l’Office Culturel et Economique de Taipei et / en GIO.
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