Edition 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 have been discouraged.
But the quality of the products that have caught our eyes, kicked us back into gear. And here we are, on the verge of a Festival we think is even better and, to be honest, maybe the most beautiful of all the ones we could have organised.
For a trend has become heavily obvious. A trend we haven't seen for a long time: two of the most emblematical sub genres of Fantasy Film, Horror and Science Fiction, are making a strong come-back. Almost half of the whole selection belongs to these categories. Do we have before us a barely deformed mirror of our daily fears ? Is this a reflection of the current gloomy mood on our planet ? We certainly aren't complaining about it.
The other trend of this year, maybe less spectacular, but nonetheless worthy of being revealed, is a quality extension of the Fantastic genre on the global film map. Chile (Sangre Eterna), Thailand (Body Jumper, Killer Tattoo, The Eye), Indonesia (The Uninvited) and even India (Patalghar) rejoin the circle, that is finally taking on the shape of the FPC (Fantastic Producing Countries). And we top it off with a bunch of French flicks, not ashamed to knock on the doors of the big ones (four movies in our selection this year).
Finally, even though we are the ones to point out the phenomenon, it is always good to remind the fact that Spain has become one of the centres of Fantasy gravity. Through the focus dedicated to the Filmax International production house (4 movies in our program) we pay homage to one of the most prolific providers of genre cinema. A house that, let's not forget this, has managed to attract overseas directors who found, under the Barcelona sun, the conditions they couldn't find anymore in a Hollywood only concerned with mega-budgets.
To end, just some figures : 21 feature films will be presented in world or international premiere, 16 in European premiere. Once again, almost half our program. We told you, there's no reason to complain.

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 have been discouraged. But the quality of the products that have caught our eyes, kicked us back into gear. And here we are, on the verge of a Festival we think is even better and, to be honest, maybe the most beautiful of all the ones we could have organised. For a trend has become heavily obvious. A trend we haven’t seen for a long time: two of the most emblematical sub genres of Fantasy Film, Horror and Science Fiction, are making a strong come-back. Almost half of the whole selection belongs to these categories. Do we have before us a barely deformed mirror of our daily fears ? Is this a reflection of the current gloomy mood on our planet ? We certainly aren’t complaining about it. The other trend of this year, maybe less spectacular, but nonetheless worthy of being revealed, is a quality extension of the Fantastic genre on the global film map. Chile (Sangre Eterna), Thailand (Body Jumper, Killer Tattoo, The Eye), Indonesia (The Uninvited) and even India (Patalghar) rejoin the circle, that is finally taking on the shape of the FPC (Fantastic Producing Countries). And we top it off with a bunch of French flicks, not ashamed to knock on the doors of the big ones (four movies in our selection this year). Finally, even though we are the ones to point out the phenomenon, it is always good to remind the fact that Spain has become one of the centres of Fantasy gravity. Through the focus dedicated to the Filmax International production house (4 movies in our program) we pay homage to one of the most prolific providers of genre cinema. A house that, let’s not forget this, has managed to attract overseas directors who found, under the Barcelona sun, the conditions they couldn’t find anymore in a Hollywood only concerned with mega-budgets. To end, just some figures : 21 feature films will be presented in world or international premiere, 16 in European premiere. Once again, almost half our program. We told you, there’s no reason to complain.

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