Edition 2021
An online version of the festival fundamentally goes against its DNA. The BIFFF wants to be a warm and generous meeting place for all lovers of genre cinema and is allergic to the “everybody on their island” mentality. This is what makes an online edition an emergency solution.
What makes the BIFFF so unique, what distinguishes it nationally and internationally from other events, besides the quality of the program, is its audience and the unique atmosphere that reigns supreme during thirteen festival days.
A boisterous, talkative and warm audience like no other.
An audience that brings the spectacle on screen to the theatre and often becomes THE spectacle.
No red carpet or smoking, no formal screenings or polite applause, but a celebration of exuberance and conviviality and a refreshing lack of discipline, which is only possible by the presence of this special audience and a relevant and contemporary program.
And it can seem strange that the BIFFF contents itself with an online edition without any physical component.
But that would be ignoring the countless hours that the team put in preparing a physical edition (which finally had to be cast aside with a heavy heart) and a virtual version of the festival at the same time.
A team that only lives and breathes for the festival, a team that gives everything for the enjoyment of its audience, but also composes a remarkable program. It would be a shame to cast that aside out of principle.
And finally, without a virtual event, filmmakers would be denied the only possibility to present their work to the audience.
So, let’s go full steam ahead for the BIFFF online… before we put all our strength and energy in our already legendary 40th edition!!!
- DATES :
06/04 until 18/04/2021 - LOCATION : Online
- # movies : 48
- # short : 60
- # previews : 98
- # tickets : 26.600 streams
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Closing
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White Raven Competion-White Raven
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Critics Selection-Critics Award
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The Infected Section 2020-The Infected Section 2020 Audience Award
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Critics Selection-Special mention press jury
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European Méliès Competition-Special Mention Silver Méliès
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European Méliès Competition-Silver Méliès
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International Competition-Silver Raven
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International Competition-Silver Raven
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International Competition-Golden Raven
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-Audience Award
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International Short Film Selection-Audience Award
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Belgian Short Film Competition-Grand Prize
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European Short Film Competition-Silver Melies
International Short Film Selection
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A Strange Calm
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A Tale Best Forgotten
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Ad Lib
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Beyond the skin
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Carmentis
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Couple Rings
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Eggshell
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Heat
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Inferno
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Last Dream Before Sunrise
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Mr James is Dead
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Narrow
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Night Bus
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Nuage
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One Left
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Pickup Artist
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Plants, monsters and rock & roll
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Red Light
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S.O.S.
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The Archivists
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The Painted
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The Recycling Man
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The Water Will Regret You
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They’re Here
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Today
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Upstairs
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Wake Up
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We Came From the Sea
European Short Film Competition
White Raven Competion
Critics Selection
The Infected Section 2020
European Méliès Competition
Belgian Short Film Competition
International Competition
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Closing
The Night
Fantastic But True
Taste Of Korea
7th Courts Mais Trash Screening
MOVIES
VR MOVIES
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Alexandre O. Philippe
Alexandre O. Philippe is a Swiss producer, writer and director. The Hitchcock fa...
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Constance Gay
She was a music journalist until she enrolled in the Classe Libre du Cours Flore...
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Daphnée Beaulieux
Daphnée Beaulieux is a costume designer and a sfx make up artist who has been a...
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David P.
David P. is a busybody who, in order to tirelessly create his paintings, sometim...
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Didier Lefèvre
Diddier Lefèvre was born on May 12th, as was a certain Jess Franco… Coinc...
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Erwan Simon
Erwan Simon is a cross-disciplinary sfx makeup artist and sculptor who has been ...
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Finotto School
School created by Jean-Pierre Finotto who collaborated with the Festival each ye...
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François Sabeau
François has a degree in public relations at the UCL and nowadays he’s both a...
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Inge Coolsaet
Inge studied history in Ghent, Fellini in Pisa and Italian neorealism in Antwerp...
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Kamal Messaoudi
Member of UPCB as well as cinema and fantasy worlds aficionado, Kamal is co-crea...
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Lars Damoiseaux
Antwerp based Dutchman Lars Damoiseaux is screenwriter and director of films, mu...
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Laurent Pecha
Long-time cinema lover Laurent Pécha is one of the pioneers of online film crit...
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Magic Land Theater
Magical Land Theater was the first company to entertain the Festival location in...
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Marion Renard
Born in 1989, Marion Renard grows up surrounded by rock music, comics and midnig...
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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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Milan Todorovic
Milan Todorovic made his entry on the international film scene with ZONE OF THE ...
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Nabwana IGG
Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey is a jack off all trades: film producer, director...
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Olivier Bonjour
Born in Brussels, he started his artistic career in 1982 at the age of 20. In 19...
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Zoé Wittock
Zoé Wittock is an award-winning screenwriter and director. Originally from Belg...
