Edition 2017
In 1983 everybody thought we were completely nuts to start with a genre film festival. But we couldn’t care less. What we wanted was to share movies you couldn’t see anywhere else with our friends, movies that found themselves on the margins of the industry and were sometimes even looked down upon. But we knew better and we wanted to infect as many as possible with the fantastic virus. With already tens of thousands of visitors at the very first BIFFF, we quickly realized we had found a hole in the market. 35 years later we’re browsing through an old program brochure from 1993 and we’re surprised about what we find in there: Braindead, Fortress, Reservoir Dogs, Army of Darkness, Joe Dante’s Matinee… We think “Wow!” And then we remember how our friend Dario Argento was crawling on his hands and feet looking for a car bumper near the Botanique, how Wes Craven scribbled the idea for The People Under the Stairs on a napkin in a Brussels’ restaurant, how mad an already ambitious Luc Besson was when he didn’t win our Golden Raven with Le Dernier Combat or Peter Jackson who told us about an insane project, the adaptation of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. We could go on and on about so many others (John Landis, Terry Gilliam, Shynia Tsukamoto, Clive Barker, William Friedkin…). Anecdotes enough to saturate entire hard drives. Of course the world has changed in 2017. Cinema has changed. Fantastic film has finally gotten the recognition it deserved. But we keep on going. And with reason! The BIFFF has been an international reference for a long time and we’ll keep discovering and supporting the filmmakers of tomorrow. Just take a look at our program in 25 years and you’ll see that we were wrong to have been so modest.
- DATES :
04/04 til 16/04/2017 - LOCATION : BOZAR
- # movies : 120
- # short : 51
- # previews : 118
- # tickets : 55 000
Opening
Closing
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International Thriller Competition-Thriller Award
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International Competition-Golden Raven
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European Méliès Competition-Silver Méliès
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7th Orbit Competition-7th Orbit Award
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-Audience Award
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Critics Selection-Critics Award
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BLACK RING
European Short Film Competition-Silver Melies
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SPOOKED
Belgian Short Film Competition-Grand Prize
International Competition
Critics Selection
Belgian Short Film Competition
European Short Film Competition
International Thriller Competition
European Méliès Competition
7th Orbit Competition
Opening
Closing
35th Fantastic Night
Korean Hommage - Park Chan-Wook
Hungarian Focus
Jekino Kids Day 2017
Tromarathon
HK Retrospective
4th Mad In Belgium
3rd Courts Mais Trash Screening
International Short Film Selection
BELGIAN SHORT FILM OUT OF COMPETITION
MOVIES
VR MOVIES
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Alejandro Amenabar
With Alejandro Amenabar we welcome a real heavyweight to the BIFFF. He might hav...
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Bénédicte Philippon
After leaving the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 2007, Bénédicte explores v...
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Chan-Wook Park
Let’s first thank Hitchcock for having made Vertigo, because without this film...
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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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Eric Valette
Eric Valette is a discrete but essential player in French contemporary cinema. H...
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Euzhan Palcy
Martinique-born Euzhan Palcy, an unconditional fan of Fritz Lang and Orson Welle...
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Fabrice Du Welz
In October 1972, while the survivors of flight 571 Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya were i...
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Franck Thilliez
Writing is a passion. You might try to make it your hobby, as young engineer Fra...
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Guillaume Musso
With the sunny climate of Antibes, you should be crazy not to spend your days ou...
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Harry Cleven
After having studied Drama at the Conservatory in Liège, Harry Cleven leaves fo...
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Kadija Leclere
Kadija Leclère graduates in 1997 from the Brussels Royal Conservatory for Drama...
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Kody Kim
Kody Kim learned to make others laugh at the school playground, where he sharpen...
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Macarena Gómez
It’s a bit hard to concentrate on writing the bio of one of our favorite actre...
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Ross Noble
Geordie Stand-Up Ross has been performing since he was smuggled in to his local ...
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Stanley Tong
Stanley Tong can first be seen on movie sets as a stuntman, but it’s clear fro...
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Aaron Christensen
Aaron Christensen (aka “Dr. AC”) is a Chicago-based actor/writer who has vie...
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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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Andrea De Sica
Andrea De Sica (Rome, 1981°) graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinemato...
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Anne-Laure Guegan
Her passport might say she’s French, but after graduating in film studies at I...
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Antonio Tublen
Director, screenwriter, and composer Antonio Tublén made a series of short film...
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Arno Pluquet
Arno Pluquet (Tournai, 1986°) is a self-taught Belgian director, scriptwriter a...
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Árpád Sopsits
Arpad Sopsits graduated in adult education and library studies at the Debrecen T...
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Axelle Carolyn
Lifelong horror (and BIFFF) fan and Brussels-born director Axelle Carolyn starte...
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Ben Parker
After a 10-year career in film advertising and design, Ben Parker directed the s...
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Christian Nicolson
Artist/film maker Christian Nicolson originally studied design but after a 10-ye...
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Christina Lindberg
Avant-garde feminist Christina Lindberg provoked at an early age by posing nude ...
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David Hainaut
David Hainaut is the new chairman of Belgian Film Press Union ( UPCB ). In 2006,...
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Didier Tarquin
Didier Tarquin might share his name with an Etruscan king, he luckily doesn’t ...
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Dimitri Pichelle
Belgian visual artist Dimitri Pichelle (Namur, 1975°) a graduate of the Brussel...
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Gabriel Grieco
Still Life, the debut feature of Argentinean director Gabriel Grieco (1980°) pr...
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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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Harley Cokeliss
In 1966, Harley Cokeliss left Chicago to study at the London Film School. In the...
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Ivan Silvestrini
Ivan Silvestrini completed his directing studies at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale...
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Jacques de Pierpont
Radioman Jacques de Pierpont (1950°), known as “Ponpon”, started in 1974 wi...
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Jean-Jacques Rausin
Jean-Jacques Rausin wasn’t really keen on his philosophy and literature studie...
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Ji-Young Hong
Director Hong Ji-young made a glittering debut with the critically acclaimed The...
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Johan Vandewoestijne
In 1986, Johan Vandewoestijne, aka James Desert, produced and directed the cult ...
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Jörg Tittel
Alex and Jörg are a longstanding directing, writing and producing team based in...
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Kate Shenton
Born and raised in Staffordshire, she moved on to study politics at the Universi...
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Lawrie Brewster
The driving force behind Hex Media, Lawrie Brewster is a jack of all trades, a t...
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Lucile Poulain
Hailing from France, Lucile Poulain lives in Brussels since 2011. She was first ...
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Mar Targarona
Mar Targarona founded the production company Rodar y Rodar with her husband Joaq...
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Marc Bussens
-This year Marc Bussens became chairman of the UFK (Film Critic’s Union). He s...
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Martin Vachiéry
Born a few months after the Chernobyl accident, young Martin Vachiéry first dis...
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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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Mike Mendez
At the age of 10, this L.A. native started destroying his parents’ backyard to...
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Nadine Monfils
Born in 1953 in Brussels, Nadine Monfils is primarily known as a writer, however...
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Nathan Ambrosioni
Nathan Ambrosioni was born in Grasse, in the south of France, in 1999. And in 20...
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Norbert Keil
Norbert Keil’s credits include the hugely successful and multi-award winning B...
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Olivier Clinckart
Olivier Clinckart studies journalism at the ULB and joins the now defunct Grand ...
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Olivier Rausin
Olivier Rausin is the executive producer, producer and co-producer of 12 short f...
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Patrick Raynal
Patrick Raynal gets hooked on literature by plundering his mother’s bookcase. ...
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Patrick Van Craenenbroeck
Patrick spent his youth in the region of Liedekerke and Affligem, on the outskir...
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Riton Liebman
Riton Liebman, a native of Brussels, first got noticed when he was cast in Bertr...
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Rob Taylor
Co-writer, director, co-editor, and visual effects supervisor, Rob Taylor has be...
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Rodrigo Grande
Rodrigo Grande was born in the city of Rosario, Argentina, in the year 1974. He ...
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Sarah Daly
Sarah Daly is a prolific Irish musician and screenwriter whose work has been per...
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Soo-Yeon Lee
Korean director Lee Soo-yeon has already built a firm reputation at a whole rang...
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Sport Doen
We are fond of visual violence, but every once in a while our ears also crave fo...
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Stéphane Bourgoin
It all started with a tragedy : the savage murder of Stéphane Bourgoin’s part...
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Steve De Roover
De Roover has been a movie critic for a wide array of written and online publica...
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Steven Kastrissios
Born in Australia in 1982, Steven Kastrissios began making films in his early te...
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Sylvain Goldberg
Sylvain Goldberg is a multi-talented artist: author, pianist, composer, interpre...
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Thibault Feron
“I create for pleasure and give birth to a series of creatures to make the vie...
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Thomas Gunzig
Thomas Gunzig is a true native of Brussels, which means he can bullshit with the...
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Valentin Hitz
Valentin Hitz was born in Stuttgart, Germany, but grew up in Zurich, Switzerland...
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Xavier Seron
In 2005 his short film Rien d’insoluble was selected for the Venice Film Festi...
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Yoshihiro Nishimura
There’s no need to introduce the Japanese master of special effects, Yoshihiro...
