Edition 2018
The BIFFF stands for 36 years of passion, self-denial, sweat, and sometimes blood. Hundreds of hours that make you feel like your eyes will give in or that make you want to light a candle. Since 1983, the BIFFF has been a fierce defender of genre movies, a section of the cinema that is now the most popular in the world. Thanks to its co-productions and talented technicians, Belgium is increasingly asserting itself as a key player in cinematic fantasty art. This year, we are proud to present eleven Belgian films, six of which are world premieres! Internationally, Belgium is holding a set of winning co-production cards: Muse (Jaume Balagueró), I Kill Giants (co-produced by Chris Colombus of Harry Potter fame), Mandy (with Nicolas Cage), and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (Terry Gilliam). Quite something, isn’t it? All this justifies, more than ever, the BIFFF’s risky bet to create the first European genre film market in 2017. For its second edition, the BIF Market is again welcoming sellers and buyers from all over the world. We will also be launching the “Work in Progress” section and offer a perfect forum for Belgian professionals to showcase their talents in an international context. But above all, the BIFFF remains a popular festival, made for and by the public. Of all Belgian film festivals, we have the highest percentage of paying spectators. Our reputation exceeds national boundaries, which becomes evident from the number of submissions (nearly 2,000 films!) from the four corners of the globe. This year, we’re having a record number of twelve world premieres, thirteen international premieres, and nine European premieres. Thirty-five debut films will be programmed alongside work by top names such as Ryuhei Kitamura, John Cameron Mitchell, Paco Plaza, Lloyd Kaufman, Xavier Gens, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Kim Ki-duk. Genre cinema, as an uncompromising mirror of our time, addresses topical themes: from feminism via the rise of nationalism to migration. Our selection is clearly an indication of current moral and ideological tendencies. But rest assured: zombies, ghouls, vampires, monsters unknown to Merriam-Webster, time loops, zany, daring, and hardcore movies are still part and parcel of the festival’s DNA! As to novelties, it’s a real feast: an Augmented Reality exhibition (unique in Belgium), a full-fledged Virtual Reality section, our Vampire Ball (for the first time at BOZAR), a monstrous Gaming Madness Zone, and a self-evident collaboration: the second edition of the Boulevard du Polar Festival. This will take place on April 13th and 14th at BOZAR, with illustrious literary guests such as Craig Johnson and Deon Meyer. Speaking of guests, hundreds of actors and directors will once again be present at the BIFFF to celebrate genre cinema. Among them, we welcome Julia Ducournau, Stéphanie Crayencour, and Laurent Lucas to our international jury, which will be chaired this year by Lloyd Kaufman. Ah yes, one last thing: a promising young Mexican director will also appear at the BIFFF. He has just won four Oscars with The Shape of Water, including Best Film and Best Director. It’s a certain Guillermo del Toro… who will graciously be giving an exceptional master class, co-hosted by Fabrice du Welz and Jonas Govaerts.
- DATES :
03/04 until 15/04/2018 - LOCATION : BOZAR
- # movies : 105
- # short : 70
- # previews : 128
- # tickets : 58.400
Opening
Closing
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7th Orbit Competition-7th Orbit Award
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Critics Selection-Critics Award
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International Competition-Golden Raven
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International Thriller Competition-Thriller Award
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European Méliès Competition-Silver Méliès
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International Competition-Silver Raven
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-Audience Award
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European Short Film Competition-Silver Melies
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Belgian Short Film Competition-Grand Prize
International Short Film Selection
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9 STEPS
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ALFRED J HEMLOCK
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ALLEYCATS
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ANGEL CAIDO
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ATOMIC SPOT
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CHAINSAW CHARLIE
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COMPATIBLE
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CRYING FREE SEX
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DAEMONRUNNER
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EXODUS 20
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FE
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HYPOCONDRIAQUE
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IMBROGLIO
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LE COWBOY DU MONT LAURIER
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MARTA IS NOT COMING FOR DINNER
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MEMORIA INTERNA
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NOUVELLE CUISINE
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ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL
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ONE THOUSAND MYTHS
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OVERRUN
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RED ASH
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REVELATION – THE CITY OF HAZE
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REVIEW
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STAY
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THE APPOINTMENT
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THE CLEANER
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THE FOODIES
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THE MILKMAN
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THE PRANK
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THE REPLACEMENT
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TRANSMISSION
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UN LOFT AU PARADIS
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WE SUMMONED A DEMON
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WRITE OFF
European Short Film Competition
International Thriller Competition
International Competition
7th Orbit Competition
Critics Selection
European Méliès Competition
Opening
Closing
Mexican Focus
36th Fantastic Night
Korean Hommage - Jee-Woon Kim
Fantastic Kids 2018
50 Years Of Belgian Cinema
5th Mad In Belgium
4th Courts Mais Trash Screening
1st VR Screening Room
MOVIES
VR MOVIES
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Anna Mouglalis
After her 1997 debut in Francis Girod’s Terminale, Anna Mouglalis proved to be...
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Guillermo del Toro
He’s the man of the moment. The Shape of Water won 4 of those mythical statues...
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Julia Ducournau
It’s fascinating to follow Julia Ducournau’s trajectory which led to her fea...
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Laurent Lucas
After attending a one-man show in Paris, Laurent Lucas got addicted to theatre. ...
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Lloyd Kaufman
In 1971, Kaufman met his future partner Michael Herz at Yale. The Troma Universe...
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Pascal Laugier
His first shorts were adored by Christophe Gans, who gave him the direction of t...
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Shauna MacDonald
Shauna Macdonald was born in Malaysia and shortly after moved back to her family...
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Adolfo Kolmerer
Adolfo was born on October 23rd 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela. Soon after getting a...
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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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Alexandre Drouet
After a theater degree at the IAD, Alexandre Drouet starts writing and directing...
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An-Kyu Lee
Lee An-gyu is a rising director who has developed his abilities as a filmmaker t...
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Andres Goteira
Andrés Goteira hails from Galicia, Spain. He studied telecommunication engineer...
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Antoine Bours
After film studies at the IAD, Antoine Bours mainly devotes himself to writing. ...
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Arno Pluquet
Arno Pluquet (Tournai, 1986°) is a self-taught Belgian director, scriptwriter a...
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Bjorn Gabriels
Bjorn Gabriels studied languages and literature at the University of Antwerp. Th...
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Christopher Morrison
This English expat in Belgium has already had a beautiful career. He worked for ...
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Daph Nobody
Daph Nobody writes in French and English and has published fantastic and horror ...
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David Oakes
David Oakes is a British actor born in Hampshire. He studied English Literature ...
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David P.
David P. is a busybody who, in order to tirelessly create his paintings, sometim...
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Demian Rugna
Demian Rugna was born in September 1979 in Haedo, Bs As, Argentina. He is a Dire...
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Denis Labbé
Les Aventures de Bérénice et Profitroll, tomes 1 et 2 ; Projet Cornélia, tome...
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Deon Meyer
Deon Meyer used to be a journalist, a correspondent and an ad-writer before he s...
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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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Dominik Hartl
Dominik Hartl studied directing and script writing at the Vienna Film Academy Vi...
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Emilio Portes
With just 3 released films, Portes has made a small career around comedy with a ...
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Eric Van Cutsem
This independent journalist (since 1989) has always wondered whether he’s a jo...
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Follet
He was barely 14 years old when he saw the publication of his first images: a se...
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Francesco Serafini
After his latest exhibition My Vision of Japan, Francesco Serafini is back with ...
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Franck Ribière
Even though Franck Ribière is not the first producer to turn director, you can ...
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François Troukens
François Troukens’ life resembles that of a crime novel. He’s about twenty ...
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Frédéric Livyns
Les Grisommes, tomes 1, 2 et 3 ; Le Miroir du Damné ; The Dark Gates of Terror ...
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Gaetan Delferiere
Gaetan Delferiere is a scriptwriter for TV-series (Champion, Fils de, Les enfant...
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Giles Daoust
This self-taught writer, producer and director founded his own production compan...
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Gilles Paquet-Brenner
French director and screenwriter Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Paris, 1974°) is the so...
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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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Guy Astic
President of the Festival Tous Courts in Aix-en-Provence, Guy Astic teaches cine...
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Hugues Hausman
Hugues Hausman is an actor, director, writer and cartoonist. As he says so himse...
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Isaac Ezban
From an early age, Isaac Ezban was attracted to genre films. He soon became one ...
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Issa Lopez
When your movie gets the blessing from both Guillermo del Toro and Stephen King ...
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Jack Eve
At the Eves, cinema is the family trade. Jack’s first movie Death of a farmer ...
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Jay Song
Born in 1972 in Seoul, Jay SONG has studied Film at Brooks Institute of Photogra...
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Jean-Yves Roubin
Jean-Yves Roubin founded FraKas Productions in 2007. The company is active in de...
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Jesse Haaja
Jesse Haaja is an award winning director, producer and a writer. His first full ...
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Koen Monserez
Koen Monserez (1968) is a Flemish actor and director. Since February 2017 he’s...
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Koen Mortier
Despite being busy with the post-production of Angel and the pre-production of R...
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Lazar Bodroza
Lazar Bodroza is director, visual artist, founder and creative director of the i...
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Lucio Rojas
Demian Rugna was born in September 1979 in Haedo, Bs As, Argentina. He is a Dire...
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Marco Laguna
Marco Laguna, that’s the singer of 80ties cult band La Muerte, that’s Mario ...
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Marie Manzah
Born in Paris of a Spanish mother and a Cameroonian father, Marie moved to Belgi...
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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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Mathieu Mortelmans
Belgian director Mathieu Mortelmans, a graduate of the IAD film school, has dire...
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Michael Vermaercke
Michael Vermaercke is a passionate young Belgian director. After winning some aw...
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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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Michel Nabokoff
Belgian actor Michel Nabokoff (1973°) is indeed the great-nephew of Russian wri...
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Olivier Imfeld
Olivier Imfeld, born in Switzerland from a Swiss mother and a Dutch father, left...
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Pascal Vandelanoitte
Pascal Vandelanoitte is a film historian. He obtained a Ph. D. in Social Science...
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Paul Raschid
Having grown up around filmmaking under the guidance of his producer father Nevi...
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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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Philippe Logie
Since 2001, Philippe Logie has been running the Acquisitions Department of the B...
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Priscilla Grédé
Les Aventures de Bérénice et Profitroll, tomes 1 et 2 ; Petites histoires à f...
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Rémi Frechette
Remi Frechette studied film production at Concordia University before tackling h...
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Ron Carlson
After directing Tom Cool (with Mila Kunis and Clifton Collins Jr), Midgets vs Ma...
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Ryan Nelson
Hailing from Dayton Ohio, Ryan graduated from the North Carolina School of the A...
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Sebastian Cavazza
He was Born in 1973. He started to study acting in 1992 at the Academy for Theat...
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Serge Boularot
Approach My research focuses on the representation of the human body. My job as ...
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Sergio G. Sanchez
Marrowbone might be Sergio G. Sanchez feature debut, but he’s far from being a...
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Wei-Hao Cheng
Director Cheng Wei-Hao was born in 1984, and he had a master degree from Nationa...
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William James
As a kid of the eighties, William grew up at the local drive-in cinema and video...
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Xavier D’hont
Xavier D’Hont was born in the province of Liège in 1993, graduated in Public ...
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Xavier Gens
It all started for self-taught movie-buff Xavier Gens as an assistant on films s...
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Zone Geek
The conference begins with a wide array of 80s pop culture and ends with Netflix...
