Edition 1999
A persistent rumour is going around !
Brussels seems to have become the capital of Fantasy!
And as every respectable rumour, it’s based on real facts…
At the arrival of March the city of Brussels – for the 17th time already – adorns itself in the colours of the festival (red & black). This year, the Festival is expanding once more. The centre remains the Passage 44, of course, but it will also take place at Cinema Nova, at the Halles de Schaerbeek, at the KultuurKaffee of the VUB, at the Belgian Centre of the Comic-Strip, at the Old Ice cellars of Brussels, at the Media Library of the French Community, at the Maison du Livre, at the Gallery “d’Enfer” and at the Royal Belgian Film Museum.
Fantasy Brussels has always been more than just film. Besides some 130 films presented during 16 days, you will also be able to enjoy several exhibitions, the Vampire Ball, the Unusual Fashion Show, Theatre (at the Auditorium and at the Halles), Body Painting and Make-up contests, the Comic-Strip, Music, and – for the first time – literature with “Imaginary ’99”.
Fantasy in all its forms penetrates Brussels during the entire month of March (the Carpenter retrospective in the Royal Belgian Film Museum starts on the 4th of March.). But the Festival isn’t limited to Brussels. In the rest of the country, Nights of Fantasy Films will take place in Liège, Ostend, Namur, Antwerp, Ghent, La Louvière, Hasselt and Louvain. When we close our doors, the Cynénygma festival in Luxembourg will keep the fire burning from 26 March till 2 April.
Forget about rumours. we’re talking about solid facts here ! Isn’t the Brussels Fantasy Film Festival the centre of the European Federation of Fantasy Film Festivals, which consists of the festivals of Sitges (Spain), Porto (Portugal), Rome (Italy), Espoo (Finland), Lund (Sweden), Luxembourg, San Sebastian (Spain), Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Brussels.
That’s enough introduction. What will be the guiding principle of this 17th edition ?
Well, dear friends of the festival, we are going to return to “the source”.
After all, more than the feast, the originality, the efficiency, the pragmatic approach and the performance, it is friendship that strikes out as the primary characteristic of the festival.
This friendship between us and you, the audience, enables us to promote film together with the distributors, the producers, the directors, the actors and the film professionals. This friendship enables us to use the best of our abilities, together with our sponsors and the official authorities. And it is this friendship that ties together our festival team and our numerous volunteers.
The Festival is a long history of trust and solidarity in a hopelessly complicated and materialistic world that constantly balances on the edge of chaos.
Have a great festival
- DATES :
12/03 until 27/03/1999 - LOCATION : Nova, Passage 44
- # movies : 107
- # short : 29
- # previews : 27
- # tickets : 59.026
Opening
Closing
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International Competition-Silver Raven
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-Audience Award
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International Competition-Silver Raven
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International Competition-Golden Raven
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European Méliès Competition-Silver Méliès
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EYE FOR AN EYE by Emil Stang Lund
European Short Film Competition-International Television Stations Award - Grand Prize
European Short Film Competition
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1001 NIGHTS
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2 + 1 ERREUR HUMAINE
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ARTHUR
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BRUTALOS
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CASTING
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DERAPAGES
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DERNIERE INVENTION
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DIE LETZTE SEKUNDE
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DO YOU REALLY WANNA KNOW?
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EL TOPO Y EL HADA
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EYE FOR AN EYE by Emil Stang Lund
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HABEAS CORPUS
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HELL FOR LEATHER
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LA BIBLIOTHEQUE
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LE FILM DONT VOUS ETES LE HEROS
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LES BEAUX-PERES
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LOS TAXIOS
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MA VIE AVEC BAPTISTE
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MAAZ
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MON ANGE
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MOSCA SAFARI
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ON EDGE
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ONE DAY A MAN BOUGHT A HOUSE
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SHE WILL BE MINE
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THE CAIRN
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TRIGON
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TUGO TUGO
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UNE NUIT DE CAFARD
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VISIT FROM OUTER SPACE
European Méliès Competition
International Competition
Opening
Closing
17th Fantastic Night
Hommage Peter Jackson
Hommage Dario Argento
Hommage Gaspar Noe & Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Hommage Raoul Ruiz
Retrospective Edgar Allen Poe
Splatter-Movies Retrospective
Kultuurkaffee VUB
MOVIES
VR MOVIES
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Alex Proyas
You can’t say that Alex Proyas made his directing debut without being noticed....
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Andrew Divoff
We can’t help it. Once you’ve been a guest at our festival, you’re hooked ...
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Brian Yuzna
Yuzna grew up in Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, and Panama before he moved to the US in...
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Dario Argento
Genre icon Dario Argento has given us many timeless classics. It all started whe...
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Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noé is one of those gifted filmmakers that likes to confront the audienc...
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Jack Sholder
In 1994 Jack Sholder surprised us with 12:01, a dashing sci-fi adventure about t...
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Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Jean-Claude Dreyfus became known with his part as the butcher of a small communi...
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Jonathan Frakes
It was love at first sight between Star Trek and Jonathan Frakes. Ever since he ...
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Jude Law
a television soap, he quits school and starts a professional career as an actor,...
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Lucille Hadzihalilovic
You wouldn’t suspect it, when looking at her somewhat timid appearance, but Lu...
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Peter Jackson
At the age of 22, New Zealander Peter Jackson (Wellington, 1961) started working...
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Rick Baker
Rick Baker is a special make-up effects legend. He (literally) made his first st...
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Stuart Gordon
In 1985, he surprised the audiences with his first feature film Re-Animator, wit...
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Andrew Piddington
Andrew Piddington started his career at the British television. He made document...
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Angus Scrimm
American actor Angus Scrimm became a cult-celebrity in 1979 with his part as the...
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Arthur Joffe
Arthur Joffe starts his career as a long feature film director in 1985 with Hare...
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Bernard Heinsman
Managing Director of Buena Vista Belgium and vice-president of Walt Disney Belgi...
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Cécille Pallas
French actress Cécille Pallas makes her long feature film debut in 1991 with th...
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David Caffrey
After directing some remarkable shorts like Bantams, British director David Caff...
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David Djylson
Jean-Claude Van Damme and David Djylson have three things in common. They’re b...
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Dennis Paoli
For years, American screenwriter Dennis Paoli has been a faithful collaborator o...
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Feodor Atkine
Born in France in 1948, raised in Latin America and with Russian, Chinese and Br...
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Fredi M. Murer
Swiss director Fredi M. Murer (1940°) studied photography at the Institute for ...
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Henri Sonet
Is a film critic working for the Belgian French speaking radio station RTBF and ...
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Hitoshi Ozawa
Japanese actor-director Hitoshi Ozawa made his acting debut in the television se...
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Jason Freeland
The corrupt and decadent universe of James Ellroy, the self-proclaimed “demon ...
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Jean-Pierre Finotto
Jean-Pierre Finotto starts his career as a dancer for the Ballet of the XX centu...
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Jorg Buttgereit
Jörg Buttgereit loves his fellow human, especially in small, bloody pieces. Jö...
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Josef Ostyn
Studied history at the university of Ghent. In 1995 he obtains his doctor’s ti...
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Kathleen de Decker - de Bethune
General Secretary of the Brussels Audio-Visual Centre since 1979. She produced a...
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Kwang-Choon Park
Korean director-screenwriter Kwang-Choon Park studied at the prestigious Tisch S...
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Lionel Kopp
The French director-producer Lionel Kopp is a very busy man. After three success...
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Manu Gomez
Born March 14, 1956 in Belgium, Gomez is not only a painter, sculpter, decor and...
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Mark Pellington
Ever since it started, MTV has been a fertile source for upcoming talent. Mark P...
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Nacho Cerdá
If you’re a convinced short filmmaker, you cannot help being irritated by the ...
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Olaf Ittenbach
As a child, German director Olaf Ittenbach (1969°) was already fascinated by fa...
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Peter Fratzscher
In 1970, after studying German and Philosophy in Frankfurt, Peter Fratzscher (Ka...
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Peter McNamara
Peter McNamara is a specialist in the making of trailers, those summaries of com...
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Philippe Dumont
Philippe Dumont was born in 1954 in Brussels. He works for more than ten years a...
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Richard O'Brien
In 1965 Richard O’Brien enters the world of movies with a tomahawk in his hand...
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Rick Stallaerts
Co-wrote and co-directed with Robbe de Hert the documentary Henri Storck, Eyewit...
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Roshell Bissett
Canadian director Roshell Bissett (Ottawa, 1968°) studied the Fine Arts at the ...
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Rudolf Mestdagh
One of our most talented short film makers. His debut Vol-au-vent (1991) was awa...
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Sergio Gobbi
The films of French director Sergio Gobbi (1938°) are known for their attractiv...
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Tomorowo Taguchi
In a short time Japanese actor Tomorowo Taguchi has worked himself in the pictur...
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Vincent Ward
New Zealand director-scriptwriter Vincent Ward (1956°) makes an impressive feat...
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Yves Hanchar
Up till now, Yves Hanchar has only made one long feature film. But it was a rema...
