Edition 2013
Get ready for the big leap ahead ! At the end of April 2012, with Jim Morrisson singing The End through our earphones, we threw one last moist-eyed glance at Tour & Taxis. All those unforgettable moments we’ve had there ! A place like that was the ideal playground for a bunch of inspired troublemakers like us ! Then why are we moving ? First and for all, for practical reasons. The seats, which we retrieved from about everywhere – Brussels, Paris and beyond – and that we moved each year from cave to attic and from attic to cave, started to loose their shape. Those seats were threatening to let us down ! Their end was written in the stars. What could we have done without them at Tour & Taxis ? That’s why the 31st edition of the BIFFF will take place at the Center for Fine Arts ( CFA ) : three theatres with everything already installed ( big sigh of relief ! ). But it’s a place that needs a thorough makeover to create that famous atmosphere that makes the BIFFF so special. The Center for Fine Arts is a respectable old lady of almost one hundred years, where the young and feisty BIFFF, with its thirty summers, will have to adapt itself. It’s a place with which the BIFFF will have to fuse. This classified, even sacred monument, has to be approached with tact before it’ll be transformed by the weird and wacky event that we are. It’s especially a place that has to be adopted by our audience. We’re already getting flooded with anguished messages : will we be able to find our beloved BIFFF in the maze of the CFA ? Will you still feel at home there ? We’re keeping our fingers crossed… because with the program that we’re presenting you, you will not be able to stand still for one second !!! 13 world and international premières, 16 European premières, 66 Belgian premières… Run to your pharmacist and buy that extra dose of vitamins ! Have a fantastic festival !
- DATES :
02/04 until 13/04/2013 - LOCATION : BOZAR
- # movies : 115
- # short : 21
- # previews : 92
- # tickets : 64.400
Opening
Closing
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7th Orbit Competition-7th Orbit Award
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International Thriller Competition-Thriller
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International Competition-Golden Raven
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-Audience Award
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European Méliès Competition-Silver Méliès
European Méliès Competition
International Competition
7th Orbit Competition
Belgian Short Film Competition
International Thriller Competition
Opening
Closing
31st Fantastic Night
The Classic Monsters From Universal
Irish Focus
BELGIAN SHORT FILM OUT OF COMPETITION
MOVIES
VR MOVIES
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Dario Argento
Genre icon Dario Argento has given us many timeless classics. It all started whe...
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François Schuiten
François who ? You really don’t know who François Schuiten is ; THE very ver...
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Frédéric Fonteyne
Frederic Fonteyne, an IAD graduate, started directing short features more than 2...
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Neil Jordan
Starting from his debut feature, the political thriller Angel ( 1982 ), this tal...
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Patrick Ridremont
Patrick Ridremont reached the top with the Belgian improvisation league, with wh...
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Roland Joffé
In 1984, Roland Joffé directs his first feature film, The Killing Fields, about...
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Stephan Streker
It was written in the stars that Stephan Streker would end up making fi lms. Fas...
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Tak Sakaguchi
Spotted by filmmaker Ryuhei Kitamura ( who saw him at work as a street fighter )...
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Adrian Politowski
Adrian Politowski is CEO and co-founder of uMedia. Adrian is passionate about ci...
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Alain Galand "Tom Pouce"
This die-hard fan has been a BIFFF-regular since the 2nd edition. He’s crazy e...
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Alan Brennan
Alan Brennan, a graduate from the Dublin Institute of Technology, started his ca...
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Andy Muschietti
After a collection of award winning shorts (Rosendo, Nostalgia en la Mesa 8) And...
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Bénédicte Bourgois
Since 2006 she’s been the head of RTBF Short Film Acquisitions. After the RTBF...
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Benoît Polvêche
Benoit was born in 1972 in France. He became creatively aware when his family mo...
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Charles Tatum Jr.
Charles Tatum JR. lives in Schaerbeek. He’s a self-taught critic, historian, e...
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Christophe Bourdon
Christophe Bourdon is a journalist, columnist, writer, and manufactures small bo...
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Conor McMahon
Conor McMahon became obsessed with genre cinema after seeing Evil Dead 2. From t...
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Craig Viveiros
Craig Viveiros began his career by working his way up through the camera and ele...
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Crispian Mills
Crispian Mills was first known as frontman of the psychedelic indie band Kula Sh...
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Danny Elsen
Like a poet plays with words, a DOP plays with light and Danny Elsen has done th...
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David de Graef
DAVID DE GRAEF’S VISIONARY CREATIONS This painter, who prefers disturbance to ...
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David Mathy
In 1996, David Mathy graduated from the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège...
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Didier Stiers
This familiar face at the festival has been covering the BIFFF for many years no...
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Eric Godon
The Belgian actor Eric Godon, a self-taught polyglot, is ever-present on the set...
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François Stassens
François Stassens is the head of Sabam’s audiovisual department. He’s also ...
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Gauthier Keyaerts
Some people in life have all the luck, and Gauthier Keyaerts is without a doubt ...
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Gilles Réunis
He is head of acquisitions at Betv-VOO and is in charge of broadcasting, selecti...
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Giorgio Serafini
He was born in Brussels, Belgium from Italian parents and lives in Los Angeles w...
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Gökhan Kulak
He was performing as an extra in several short films and TV series. Gökhan is r...
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Hye-sun Ku
South-Korean actress and filmmaker Hye-Sun Ku became known online as an Ulzzang,...
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Ian Softley
Back in 1994, Iain Softley directed his debut feature Backbeat, which traced the...
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Jason Ford
Jason started out as an actor in the early 90’s, appearing in many mainstream ...
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Javier Ruiz Caldera
Very few show such a natural talent for comedy as this director from Barcelona, ...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the self-declared Belgian grandmaster of absurd cinema, w...
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Jean-Michel Vovk
Born in Algiers in 1961, Jean-Michel Vovk is a comedian, a teacher, a director a...
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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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Jef Bertels
I have drawn and painted with great passion all my life. Science fiction, and th...
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Joan Urgell
Catalan Joan Urgell ( 1982° ) realizes at a very young age that he prefers draw...
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John Engel
Screenwriter and producer John Engel was a production manager for the cult movie...
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John Hough
This versatile filmmaker has seen it all. From horror films – The Legend of He...
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Julian Richards
His debut feature DARKLANDS won the 1997 Melies D’Argent for Best European Fan...
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Jurga Jugaite
Lithuanian actress Jurga Jutaite had already played in several shorts when she l...
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Keisuke Makino
Keisuke Makino ( born January 6, 1980 ) is a film and television screenwriter, a...
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Kristina Buozyte
Kristina Buozyte, one of the youngest and most talented Lithuanian filmmakers, p...
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Lieven Demunter
The artist and his sculptures Clay, plaster, wax and bronze are the materials wi...
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Lucile Desamory
Lucile Desamory ( Brussels, 1977° ) started making films in 1997 with the short...
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Manu Dacosse
At the age of 16 Manu Dacosse received his first camera. He has never stopped si...
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Marco Manetti
The Manetti Bros. set themselves apart in the contemporary Italian film scene fo...
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Marie-Hélène Dozo
This talented editor is a genuine citizen of Brussels. This graduate from the In...
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Marifey
Marifey (1962°) lives and works in Gingelom, located in the south of the Belgia...
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Marina Anna Eich
Since 1994 she has played in several films as an actress and a dancer, among whi...
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Martin Villeneuve
Martin Villeneuve, a native of Trois-Rivières in Quebec, made a reputation for ...
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Michel Devillers
Born in Tournai on June 20th 1950, a painter and a sculptor, he is one of these ...
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Miguel Larraya
Miguel Larraya has written and directed for television and has realized several ...
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Myriam Leroy
Myriam Leroy, 31 years old, lives in Brussels. This freelance reporter writes fo...
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Nathalie Lebel
Since 2006, head of Sales and Acquisitions at the short films Agency, in Paris....
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Olivier Imfeld
Olivier Imfeld, born in Switzerland from a Swiss mother and a Dutch father, left...
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Olivier Merckx
After studying at the film school in Brussels, he had his first introduction wit...
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Oscar Aibar
Oscar Aibar started his career as a comic-strip artist and honed his filmmaking ...
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Patrice Baudinet
Belgian producer and filmmaker. Born on the 27th of May 1969 in Liège. He is ma...
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Patricio Lagos
Chilean Patricio Lagos studied at the Fine Arts Academy, took courses in scenogr...
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Paul Cleave
Paul Cleave is currently dividing his time between his home city of Christchurch...
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Paul Hough
English director Paul Hough is the son of veteran filmmaker John Hough. His docu...
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Pauline Duclaud-Lacoste
Pauline Duclaud Lacoste attended her fi rst BIFFF in 1996. Back then, she was on...
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Pierre Alary
Pierre Alary ( aka Stanley ) is a graduate of the prestigious graphic school les...
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Richard Raaphorst
Dutch director Richard Raaphorst started out in the film industry as a conceptua...
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Stephane Crety
Self-taught Stéphane Créty has always nourished a secret passion for the comic...
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Stuart Urban
At the tender age of 13, Stuart Urban was the youngest director ever to particip...
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Thomas Gilbert
After a year spent at the School of Fine Arts in Paris and 3 years at Saint-Luc ...
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Yudai Yamaguchi
Yudai Yamaguchi was born in 1971 and attended the Japan Academy of Moving Images...
