Edition 2000
They could tell you whatever they want. They could tell you that the Festival, relying on the intelligence and the adventurous spirit of its audience, explores Fantasy – through some 100 long features (of which 70 first screenings) and some 30 short features – in all its expressions and that, with its 7th Orbit section, it makes excursions beyond the borders of the genre. They could tell you that the Festival attracts more than 60.000 fans and that it clearly satisfies a need. It has created a strong image with which its audience can clearly indentify. They could tell you that the Festival will spread its tentacles all over Brussels, starting from the Passage 44 and moving on to Cinema Nova, passing through the Old Ice Cellars of St.Gilles and the Maison Bis-Art-Bizarre, through the Maison du Livre and the Cultural Centre Jacques Franck (for Imaginaire 2000), through the Media Library of the French Community, the Free University of Brussels and finally through the Actor’s Studio for a TroMarathon. They could also tell you that the Festival will gobble up Antwerp, Ghent, Hasselt, Leuven, Ostend, La Louvière, Namur and Liège, where the 6th Nights of Fantasy Films and the First Marathon of Fantasy Films will take place; without forgetting the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg that will organise the 4th edition of our little brother-festival : Cinénygma. They could still tell you that the Festival will not only explore the imagination of filmmakers all over the globe, but also that of sculptors, painters, writer, actors, make-up artists, fashion designers, comic-strip artists,… They could tell you that the Festival has succeeded in composing a program of quality without losing an ounce of its popularity. They could finally tell you that the Festival has become a reference in the genre and that, each year, it offers a world-wide panorama of the very best in Fantasy. They could go on and on and on… And they still wouldn’t have told you anything. They would have told you nothing about the party that will go on for 16 days, or about the catharsis that the audience will enjoy during this celebration of cinema. And they would have told you nothing about the magic that takes place between our walls, which is not something you can describe but something that you have to experience for yourself.
European Short Film Competition
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ABUELITOS
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BLACK XXX-MAS
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BRUSHING SUE HELENE
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DE LA CONFITURE AUX COCHONS
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DESSERTS
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FAUSSES ALERTES
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GREEN FINGERS
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HARRY RENTS A ROOM
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L’ANGE ET LA MARIONNETTE
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L’APPEL DE LA CAVE
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LA CHOISIE
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LA PEUR DU VIDE
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LES TROIS PETITS POPOTINS
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MISTER MAC ABBE
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NEMO
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OUT OF CONTROL
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PIC PIC ANDRE SHOOW 4 – 1
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POR QUE E QUE NAO DISSE NADA
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QUAND ON EST AMOUREUX, C’EST MERVEILLEUX
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QUI EST-CE?
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RUFINO
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THANATOS
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THE ADVENTURE OF DENCHU KOZO
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THE BUILDING
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THE PHANTOM OF REGULAR SIZE
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TIMPE TE
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UN NOEL DE CHIEN
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UN PASSE PAS SI SIMPLE
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WEE THREE
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WILLIAM WILSON
Retrospective Shinya Tsukamoto
MOVIES
VR MOVIES
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Adrienne Barbeau
Adrienne Barbeau is an attractive and remarkable appearance in Escape From New Y...
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Alex De La Iglesia
Alex de la Iglesia is without a doubt the most prominent Spanish genre cinema di...
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Alexandre Aja
In 1999, young French director Alexandre Aja, come to the Bifff with his long fe...
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Annie Girardot
Annie Girardot (Paris, 1931) starts her professional acting career with the cele...
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Asia Argento
Asia is not only the daughter of Giallograndmaster Dario Argento, she is also he...
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Debbie Rochon
Contrary to other bikiniclad starlets, Debbie Rochon didn’t walk up and down t...
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Dick Maas
Dutch director Dick Maas has been a BIFFF-regular from the start. In 1985 he was...
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Harry Cleven
After having studied Drama at the Conservatory in Liège, Harry Cleven leaves fo...
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James B. Harris
As the producer of The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957) and Lolita (1962), ...
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Jaume Balaguero
Together with Alex de la Iglesia, Jaume Balaguero is probably the most famous am...
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Lloyd Kaufman
In 1971, Kaufman met his future partner Michael Herz at Yale. The Troma Universe...
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Myriam Mézières
Talented French actress Myriam Mézières has worked with a lot of big names lik...
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Richard Anconina
In 1980 Richard Anconina got noticed for the first time when he talked back to C...
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Shinya Tsukamoto
For many years now, director-actor-screenwriter Shinya Tsukamoto has been at the...
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Udo Kier
Considered a giant of global cinema, Udo Kier is a real chameleon who slides thr...
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Alexandra Guillot
Alexandra Guillot organises the promotion campaigns for the subscribers of Canal...
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Alexandre Arcady
As the official biographer of the pied noir’s, French director Alexandre Arcad...
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Anders Rønnow Klarlund
Anders Ronnow-Klarlund was born in 1971 in Fodt, Denmark. At first he worked at ...
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Ben Hopkins
Ben Hopkins is a graduate of the Royal College of Arts in Londen. His three shor...
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Caroline Sury
“Paquito Boli no and Caroline Sury don’t just run any print- i n g – offic...
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Charly Cantor
14 years ago, Charly Cantor started his career in the film industry by working i...
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Christiane Louwet
After obtaining a degree in Litterature and Philosophy at the University of Ghen...
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Claudio Simonetti
Without Claudio Simonetti’s music, the movies of Dario Argento would be a lot ...
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Dani Klein
Before Vaya Con Dios, there was Dani Klein’s extraordinary voice, which could ...
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Elina Löwensohn
In 1981, the family of Elina Löwensohn (Bucharest, 1967°) escaped the Ceausecu...
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Emmanuel Salinger
French actor Emmanuel Salinger has already appeared in numerous films and televi...
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Erik Engelen
Those of you who attended the festival from the very beginning, might still reme...
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Jack Stevenson
Jack Stevenson is the archivist of the Ed Woods of this world, the masters of ba...
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Jean-Henri Compere
For 15 years now, Jean-Henri Compère has played an active part in Belgian cinem...
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Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
With much fire Jean-Pierre Bouyxou defends his love for trash and cultmovies in ...
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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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John Duigan
John Duigan was born in England, but grew up in Australia. After studying philos...
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Jos stelling
In 1974 Dutch director Jos Stelling (1945°) made his debut with Mariken van Nie...
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Massimo Costa
No deposit, No Return, is Massimo Costa’s second long feature in ten years. Hi...
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Mathias Ledoux
Nostalgic thirtysomethings might still remember Mathias Ledoux from the time whe...
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Michael Pas
Since his debut in 1986 in Dominique Deruddere’s Crazy Love, Michael Pas has b...
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Micheline Hardy
In a career that has spanned some 25 years, Micheline Hardy has seen a lot of th...
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Mike Mendez
At the age of 10, this L.A. native started destroying his parents’ backyard to...
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Paquito Bolino
“Paquito Boli no and Caroline Sury don’t just run any print- i n g – offic...
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Sabrina Leurquin
We first met Belgian actress Sabrina Leurquin in 1988 when she had to deal with ...
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Santiago Segura
We became familiar with actor-director Santiago Segura through the movies of Ale...
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Simon Hunter
Young British director Simon Hunter comes to the festival with Lighthouse, his f...
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Stephan Elliott
In 1993, this Australian writer-director made his debut with the very original F...
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Stéphane Blanquet
Stéphane Blanquet’s satirical drawings weren’t only published in the newspa...
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Thomas Lesoeur
Thomas Lesoeur inherited a production company from his father and his uncle: Eur...
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Veit Helmer
Young German director Veit Helmer has been making films since he was 14. He stud...
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Vicky Harris
If you’re born in the States and you yearn to shine on the big screen, you aut...
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Willy Perelstejn
Willy Perelzstejn is the founder and manager of the non profit organisation Les ...
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Yvan Lemoine
After angelic studies at the seminary, Yvan Lemoine starts small : farmer, tinke...