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44 editions, from 1983 to 2026

  1. 2026 03/04 until 18/04 Edition 2026
  2. 2025 08/04 until 20/04 Edition 2025
  3. 2024 09/04 until 21/04 Edition 2024
  4. 2023 11/04 until 23/04 Edition 2023
  5. 2022 29/08 until 10/09/2022 While everybody’s getting out of quarantine, we’re locking ourselves back in for 13 days. And with the greatest pleasure! Our last physical edition took place… Edition 2022
  6. 2021 06/04 until 18/04/2021 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… Edition 2021
  7. 2020 Cancelled 1720, the Marseille Bubonic plague. 1820, the Cholera. 1920, the Spanish Flu. 2020, the Coronavirus, and the cancellation of the 38th edition of the BIFFF….… Edition 2020
  8. 2019 09/04 until 21/04/2019 It is a sociological fact that fantasy and horror cinema always enjoy a renewed interest from audiences and critics in times of social and economic… Edition 2019
  9. 2018 03/04 until 15/04/2018 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… Edition 2018
  10. 2017 04/04 til 16/04/2017 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… Edition 2017
  11. 2016 29/03 until 10/04/2016 Donald Trump’s terrorist invasions or George Bush Jr’s weapons of mass destruction in Iraq are illustrations of how storytelling has become a redoubtable weapon to… Edition 2016
  12. 2015 07/04 until 19/04/2015 Beguiling, multi-faceted, popular, sharp, professional, ambitious, loud, messy, committed, traditional, innovative… International… the Bifff represents no less than 130 films to sharpen your appetite: movies… Edition 2015
  13. 2014 08/04 until 24/04/2014 After having watched more than 1,000 films from 60 different countries, we decided to turn our 2014 selection into an exhaustive map of everything that… Edition 2014
  14. 2013 02/04 until 13/04/2013 Get ready for the big leap ahead ! At the end of April 2012, with Jim Morrisson singing The End through our earphones, we threw… Edition 2013
  15. 2012 05/04 until 17/04/2012 In somewhat less refined language, we would really love to say: what the f***, thirty years! Who could have thought that, in 1983 during the… Edition 2012
  16. 2011 07/04 until 19/04/2011 ver since its appearance, the fantastic genre has never ceased to look for inspiration in myths and popular beliefs. From Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People over… Edition 2011
  17. 2010 08/04 until 20/04/2010 Is there an army behind the BIFFF ? No ! Eleven manically obsessed film freaks who wear down one dvd drive after another, one movie theatre… Edition 2010
  18. 2009 09/04 until 21/04/2009 When we hear the latest movie news, we become a little bit nostalgic about the Festival. And the latest news ; that’s Danny Boyle and… Edition 2009
  19. 2008 05/04 until 17/04/2008 The 26th edition of the BIFFF will again take place at the Tour & Taxis site in two screening theatres, from 27 March till 8… Edition 2008
  20. 2007 05/04 until 17/04/2007 What on Earth has gotten into us ? Have decades of watching fantastic films let our imagination run wild ? Have we become completely disoriented… Edition 2007
  21. 2006 10/03 until 25/03/2006 From the 10th till the 25th of March, the long awaited High Mass of Fantastic Cinema comes to town, with a rosary of film pearls… Edition 2006
  22. 2005 11/03 until 26/03/2005 Boogeyman, The Ring Two, White Noise, Creep, Riding the Bullet, Cold and Dark, R-Point… You want big spectacles ? Casshern, Appleseed, Arahan, Night Watch… You want… Edition 2005
  23. 2004 10/03 until 25/03/2004 Ladies and Gentlemen… The Festival dish is served! The recipe? Roam the festivals and markets, gather some four to five hundred tasty looking morsels of… Edition 2004
  24. 2003 14/03 until 29/03/2003 Let's be honest: the festivities of our twentieth anniversary left us with an upset stomach and quite a headache. To cut short: one could easily… Edition 2003
  25. 2002 15/03 until 30/03/2002 This year, the BIFFF blows out 20 candles. There’s a certain pressure on us to brag, as we are perceived as cultural trench-fighting veterans. People… Edition 2002
  26. 2001 09/03 until 24/03/2001 2001, we’ve made it ! The future is now, everything would have changed but it’s not really what it’s supposed to be, this 3rd millennium… Edition 2001
  27. 2000 17/03 until 01/04/2000 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,… Edition 2000
  28. 1999 12/03 until 27/03/1999 A persistent rumour is going around ! Brussels seems to have become the capital of Fantasy! And as every respectable rumour, it’s based on real… Edition 1999
  29. 1998 13/03 til 28/03/1998 You know it. No sacrifice is too high for our team to lessen your insatiable thirst for rare cinematic jewels, surprises and new talent. Once… Edition1998
  30. 1997 07/03 until 22/03/1997 We can't help it. It's out of our hands. Round numbers make for key dates and key dates force us to contemplate the way we… Edition 1997
  31. 1996 08/03 until 28/03/1996 Our Beloved Europe... ..where no border seems to be fixed... ...with its ever growing masses of unemployed... ...with it's armies that can not enforce the… Edition 1996
  32. 1995 10/03 until 25/03/1995 Paradoxically, the true graphic nature of William Vance is that of a «Black and White painter» of Nature. He loves to draw scenes usually avoided… Edition 1995
  33. 1994 11/03 until 26/03/1994 Fascinated by History, Fantasy and the Celtic culture, François Bourgeon builds his stories and his images with the patience and the meticulousness of the most… Edition 1994
  34. 1993 12/03 until 27/03/1993 A generation later, «Canardo» is the worthy heir to Raymond Macherot’s stylish sleuth, «Chaminou». Except for the fact that Canardo’s world is infinitely blacker, gloomier… Edition 1993
  35. 1992 06/03 until 21/03/1992 Considered by all as the «pope of the clear line», much of Hergé’s stories flirt outrageously with the Fantastic and with Sciencefiction, fields that, at… Edition 1992
  36. 1991 07/03 until 19/03/1991 At ease as much in fantastic short stories as in huge, dense and visionary novels, François Boucq handles derision as the ultimate weapon at the… Edition 1991
  37. 1990 09/03 until 24/03/1990 Painter and, mainly, illustrator, he produces many book covers for the publishing houses Néo, Néo Plus, Gallimard/Folio, Presses de la Cité, Lattès, etc. Nicollet is… Edition 1990
  38. 1989 10/03 until 25/03/1989 Comic strip drawer and baroque illustrator, erotic, sensual, Régis Loisel succeeds not only producing in Heroïc Fantasy where tenderness is present, which is quite an… Edition 1989
  39. 1988 11/03 until 26/03/1988 Grzegorz Rosinski works on his comic strips as a painter doubled by a film director would, ideally d o . Before starting to draw he… Edition 1988
  40. 1987 13/03 until 28/03/1987 If there is often a cold, hot or sciencefiction war backfiring under the humour of «Spirou and Fantasio», there is indeed a May ‘68 brewing… Edition 1987
  41. 1986 14/03 until 29/03/1986 It is with the publication of Silence in 1979, in the magazine (A Suivre), that Didier Comès shows to have found his way by rediscovering… Edition 1986
  42. 1985 15/03 until 30/03/1985 Even if Jacques Tardi’s and E. P. Jacobs’ graphic styles are poles apart, Tardi’s frantic need to understand the smallest detail of a story in… Edition 1985
  43. 1984 13/03 until 28/03/1984 Illustrator, comic strip drawer and scriptwriter, graphic designer for the cinema, multimedia designer, set designer for the opera, designer of «exhibitionshows », decorator of subway… Edition 1984
  44. 1983 13/03 until 29/03/1983 His personal work, largely translated and published in France, is a splendid and moving demonstration of how relevant «the aesthetics of ugliness» are. His stories… Edition 1983