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PREMIERESWORLDWIDEEATERS Marco Ristori & Luca Boni/ItalyKARMINSKY GRAD Jean-Jacques Rousseau/BelgiumSPEAK (THE) Anthony Pierce/USAINTERNATIONALCHILD’S EYE Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang/Hong KongHORNY HOUSE OF HORROR Jun Tsugita/JapanKEEPSAKE Paul Moore/USALA PROIE Eric Valette/FranceLUSTER Adam Mason/USAMIDNIGHT SON Scott Leberecht/USAMIRAGES Talal Selhami/France-MoroccoNEON FLESH Paco Cabezas/SpainPROWL Patrick Syversen/USAREJECTION Vladimir Lert/UkraineRETRIBUTION Mukanda Dewil/ South AfricaSECOND APART Antonio Negret/USAURBAN EXPLORER Andy Fetscher/GermanyWAKE WOOD David Keating/Ireland-UK-SwedenYELLOWBRICKROAD Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton/USAEUROPEANBESTSELLER Jeong-ho Lee/South KoreaFEROZZ : THE WILD RIDING HOOD Jorge Molina/Costa Rica-CubaMIDNIGHT FM Sang-Man Kim/South KoreaMILOCRORZE Yoshimasa Ishibashi/JapanSIREN Andrew Hull/UK7

INTERNATIONALCOMPETITIONinternational JuryEnzo G. CastellariItalian Director, but also writer, actor, editor and producer, Enzo G.Castellari is famous for his « Spaghetti Westerns » such as Go Kill andCome Back, A Few Dollars for Django or Go Kill Everybody and ComeBack Alone. He directed in 77 the original Inglorious Basterds thatQuentin Tarantino remade in 2009 : Quentin paid tribute to Castellari byoffering him a cameo as a nazi general.Il a d’ailleurs réalisé en 1977Inglorious Basterds que Tarantino a repris en 2009 : il y joue d’ailleurs ungénéral nazi.Filmo• 1996 : Le retour de Sandokan• 1987 : Striker• 1982 : The Bronx Warriors• 1977 : Inglorious BasterdsJake WestJake West is an English director known for his successful Razor BladeSmile. Thanks to his work as an editor for the English Television, hedevelops a unique dynamic kind of horror movies. Jake alsready camein 2006 at the Bifff to present his hilarious Evil aliens.Filmo• 2009 : Doghouse• 2006 : Evil Aliens• 2006 : Pumpkin head• 1998 : Razor Blade Smile8

Simon BoswellSimon Boswell is the english version of John Williams with more than 80genre films. He composed for Dario Argento, Clive Barker, Danny Boyle,Tim Roth or Richard Stantley.Simon is actually working on My zinc bed’s music, tv serie with UmaThurman and Jonathan Pryce.Filmo• 2005 : The River King• 1997 : Perdita Durango• 1995 : Hackers• 1995 : Lord of Illusions• 1992 : Dust Devil de Richard Stanley• 1986 : Demons 2 de Dario Argento• 1985 : PhenomenaTony Todd« Candyman, Candyman, Candy… » Everyone has once tried to call hisname. And here he is, joining this year our International Jury. Charismaticactor, Tony Todd played in a lot of classique genre movies such as Night ofthe Living Dead by Tom Savini, The Crow by Alex Proyas, The Rock byMichael Bay, Wishmaster by Robert Krutzman or Final Destination by JamesWong.Filmo• 2000 : Final destination• 2000 : The secret• 1996 : The rock• 1994 : The crow• 1992 : Candyman• 1990 : Night of the living dead• 1989 : Lean on me• 1988 : Bird• 1986 : Platoon9

DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME (Tsui Hark/China)A Tsui Hark FilmScreenplay : Zhang Jialu, based upon an original story written by Robert Van GulikCast: Andy Lau, Carina Lau Ka Ling, Li Bingbing, Deng Chao, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Jean-Michel Casanova, Teddy Robin , Kwan,Jinshan Liu, Richard Ng, Lu YaoRunning Time: 122 min.689AD, at the eve of the inauguration of Empress Wu, the first and only femaleruler in Chinese history. A number of imperial officials spontaneously combustinto flames, one even inside the giant Buddha that’s being built in front of theimperial palace. Wu follows the advice of her most trusted councilor and ordersthe release of the renowned investigative judge Dee Renjie from the jail in whichshe threw him herself eight years ago because he dared to question herascendancy to the throne. Dee is ordered to investigate the mysterious murdersand find out who’s behind the plot to stop the coronation of the empress. He cancount on the help of Wu’s beloved protégé Jing’er, the impulsive albino justiceofficer Pei and his old friend Shatuo, the architect of the giant Buddha.Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame marks a return to form forthe legendary Hong Kong action director and producer Tsui Hark (Zu Warriors,Once upon A Time In China). His latest epic is a highly intoxicating mix ofsupernatural mystery, historical pulp, dazzling fighting scenes and fantasy, allwrapped up in a breathtaking cinematic adventure of two hours. Inventive andimpressive production design and the cream of the crop of the Hong Kong acting guild - Andy Lau (InfernalAffairs, House of Flying Daggers) as Detective Dee, Carina Lau (Ashes of Time, Infernal Affairs II) asEmpress Wu and Tony Leung Ka-fai (Election, Double Vision) as Shatuo – are the sugar on the cake.I SAW THE DEVIL (Ji-Woon Kim/South Korea…“’)A Ji-Woon Kim filmScreenplay: Hoon-Jung ParkCast: Byung-Hun Lee, Gook-Hwan Jeon, Ho-Jin Jeon, San-Ha Oh, Yoon-Seo KimRunning time: 141 min.Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committedseveral heinous serial murders in ways you cannot even begin to imagine, withhis victims ranging from young women to even children. The police have beenchasing him for a long time, but are unable to catch him. One day, Ju-yeon,daughter of a retired police chief, becomes his prey and is found horriblymurdered. Her fiancé Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down themurderer himself. He vows to do everything in his power to take bloodyvengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monsterhimself to get his hands on Kyung-chul.He brought you A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) and The Good, The Bad, The Weird(2008). This year, director Ji-woon Kim is back with a film that has already mademany viewers around the world very uncomfortable. Needless to say, Asianextreme movie standards are pretty high, but I Saw the Devil has gone one stepfurther: graphically brilliant and disturbing, the film was initially banned frompublic theatres in Korea due to issues about “human values”. That said, sit back and enjoy this cat-andmousegame with Byung-hun Lee (his third film together with Ji-woon Kim) and Min-sih Choi (LadyVengeance, Old Boy). There’s no reason you won’t see the devil too…12

MIDNIGHT SON (Scott Leberecht/USA)A Scott Leberecht filmScreenplay: Scott LeberechtCast: Tracey Walter, Arlen Escarpeta, Larry Cedar, Juanita Jennings, Kevin McCorkle,Shawn-Caulin Young, Zak Kilberg, Austin Mincks,Maya Parish, Billy Louviere, Jo D. Jonz, Tony Norris, Jeff Campbell, Sarah Raeke, Bonnie Jean, Junius Dion jrRunning time: 88 minA strange skin disease forces Jacob to avoid every exposition to sunlight. Hespends his life at night, while the rest of the world is asleep. Luckily there are still afew bars open to break his lonely routine. In one of these taverns, he falls headover heels in love with bartender Mary. Their romance soon starts to suffer fromJacob’s worsening condition. While he struggles to control his increasingly moreviolent impulses, the local police start targeting him as a suspect in a series ofgrisly murders.If vampires were as numerous in real life as they are now on the big and smallscreen, mankind would already be long gone. But just when you think you’ve hadit with those bloodsucking fiends, a director comes along who makes you feel likesharpening your fangs again. Scott Leberecht’s Midnight Son is a breath of freshblood in the worn out vampire genre. It’s a gritty, very realistic and claustrophobicviewing experience, which almost makes you feel Jacob’s torture. Add to that some solid acting from itsleads and a creepy soundtrack, and you get a very smart, intense and unpredictable vampire movie.REIGN OF ASSASSINS (Chao-Bin Su & John Woo/China-Taiwan)A Chao-Bin Su & John Woo filmScreenplay: Chao-Bin SuCast: Michelle Yeoh, Woo-Sung Jung, Kelly Lin, Shawn Yue, Barbie Hsu, Xueqi Wang, Pace Wu, Xiaodong Guo, Leon Dai, Hee ChingPaw, Yiyan Jiang, Calvin Li, Angeles WooRunning time: 117 min.Being part of a notorious band of assassins does not do wonders with ones sociallife. Especially not when you betray them and run away with the mystical mummifiedremains of an Indian monk. After another bloody job, Drizzle - a lethal and veryattractive hired killer - decides to turn her back on the Dark Stone gang. Its easiersaid than done, because her boss Wheel King immediately puts a price on herhead. Drizzle opts for some radical face-changing surgery and takes on the identityof a dead woman. She starts a new life as a fabrics trader in a small town and evenfalls in love with a guy called Ah-sheng. Her new found happiness will not last longthough, because Drizzles turbulent past is hot on her heels.Reign of Assassins is one of the best martial arts movies in recent years with all theright elements in the right place : dazzling swordfights, characters with hiddenmotives and a mystical weapon that everybody wants. Taiwanese director-scripwriter Chao-pin Su is notunknown to the festival. His Double Vision (Bifff 2003) and Silk (Bifff 2007) got a warm reception here. Andwe certainly dont need to introduce co-director and producer John Woo. Add to this Asian superstar MichelleYeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tomorrow Never Dies, Sunshine) as Drizzle, Korean heartthrobWoo-sung Jung (The Warrior, The Good, The Bad, The Weird) a Ah-Sheng and Chinese veteran XueqiWang (Bodyguards and Assassins) as Wheel King and you get one hell of a wuxia !13

STAKE LAND (Jim Mickle/USA)A Jim Mickle filmScreenplay: Nick Damici & Jim MickleCast: Danielle Harris, Kelly McGillis, Connor Paolo, Bonnie Dennison, Michael Cerveris, Sean Nelson, Chance Kelly, Adam Scarimbolo,Marianne Hagan, Nick Damici, Lou Sumrall, Stuart Rudin, Traci Hovel, Jean Brassard, Eilis Cahill, Brian SpearsRunning time: 98 min.After a virus has ravaged humanity, the world is forever changed. The night belongs tobloodsucking zombies. During the day, those few who have survived, hurry from onehiding place to the next. In this post-apocalyptic wasteland, young Martin is about to getbitten by the same monster that just slaughtered his family. A well placed stake by theenigmatic vampire hunter called Mister, saves his life. Mister takes Martin under hiswings and learns him how to survive. After they hear rumors about New Eden, a placewithout monsters, they start upon a long journey north. On the way, Martin and Mister arejoined by a pregnant young woman and another young man. They will discover thatvampires are not the only thing in this world to be afraid of.In 2007 young American genre talent Jim Mickle visited the BIFFF to introduce us to hisdirecting debut Mulberry Street, a finely crafted low budget horror trip with some memorable characters. Wehad to wait until now for his next feature, but our patience is amply rewarded, because Stake land is simplyone of the best vampire flicks youll see this year. The script of this existential horror western, written byMickle and lead actor Nick Damici (Mulberry Street), brings complex and intriguing characters to life in amoving and socially relevant story. This strong script is translated into sensational, adrenaline-raisingimages, full of risky shots and an eye for detail that firmly transcends the limited budget.TRANSFER (Damir Lukacevic/Germany)A Damir Lukacevic filmScreenplay: Gabi Blauert & Damir LukacevicB.J. Britt, Régine Nehy, Ingrid Andree, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Mehmet Kurtulus, Attila Borlan, Eric P. Caspar, Jeanette Hain, YemyoKlame, Michael Klammer, Stefan Lisewski, Zana Marjanovic, Viktor Pavel, Ulrich VossRunning time: 91 min.Do you feel as if the grim reaper might put its bony hand on your shoulder atany time ? Do you have a well-stuffed bank account and a tremendous will tolive? Welcome to Menzana, a corporation that has turned death into anillness and sells the remedy at a very high price. Like Hermann and Anna,you can opt for a cerebral transfer and keep on partying in a fresh new body!Supplies are inexhaustible; it just takes a few banknotes to recruitunfortunate souls from the Third World and to convince them to abandontheir mortal coil. Their bodies are in perfect condition. You’ll be able to havefun again between the sheets. Yes, of course, they are black. So what?Those racial divides are behind us, aren’t they? OK, your friends might sulk abit when they first see you but don’t be fooled. They’re just jealous about yourfine young body. And, anyway, at their age, the wheel might still be turningbut the hamster is most probably dead. So, enjoy your new life but; and thisis the most important part, never forget to take your pills to keep control ofyour mind. If not…Here we have a movie that asks poignant ethical questions about live extension, migration, exploitation, richand poor, selfish profit and self-sacrifice. Anyone who dares to say that genre cinema is socially irrelevant,should be forced to watch Transfer. And we’re not talking about punishment here, because DamirLukacevic’s second long feature is simply one of the strongest cinematic experiences you’ll be able toexperience at the Bifff this year.15

TROLL HUNTER (THE) (André Øvredal/Norway)An André Øvredal filmScreenplay: André ØvredalCast: Otto Jespersen, Hans Morten Hansen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Johanna Morck, Knut Naerum, Robert Stoltenberg, Glenn ErlandTosterudRunning time: 90 min.Three students have dug up a juicy one-of-a-kind subject for their final researchproject: the unexplained death of several bears in the Scandinavian Forests. Tobe honest, it beats a cheap documentary about the procreation of jellyfish inIceland’s cold deep-sea. They quickly realize that poaching is not the answer,unless you use a silent rocket launcher. They meet a mysterious guy, owner ofan old Jeep strangely scratched all over, which could scare Cujo out of hisgrave. Intrigued and excited, our three students decide to track him during hisnocturnal walks into the depths of the Norwegian’s woods. It seems ratherobvious that he is not the kind that picks mushrooms and strawberries, butwhile they are watching him, he rushes toward our students, screaming like aman possessed. But what’s that he’s yelling? "Broll"? "Croll"? "Proll"? Did hesay “Troll”?Reality horror has taken a new direction. After an endless stream of low budgetfare with shaky cameras trying to hide there’s actually nothing to see, we’renow treated to well-written movies with solid budgets and especially… credible sfx (just think Cloverfield andRec). The cream of this recent crop comes from Norway and you don’t need Scandinavian roots toappreciate how the troll mythology has been integrated into the story. Director Andre Ovredal effortlesslyblends tension and humor with a healthy dose of satire. Troll Hunter is one of those films you don’t want tomiss at this year’s BIFFF.16

Marc-Henri WajnbergWriter, director, actor and producer, Marc-Henri Wajnberg hasmade several documentaries, animation series, a feature film,a few short and very short series totaling 3800 films. He hasproduced aCollection of 33 documentaries for ARTE andthe docufictionThe Five Obstructons with Lars von Trier. He iscurrently realizing a full-length documentary film on Kinshasa.His achievements have won over 50 awards atfestivals worldwide and have been widely distributed.Vincent PatarBorn in 1965, Vincent Patar is a writer and director of animated films.In 1986, he met Stephane Aubier at School of Visual Arts of LaCambre in Brussels. Thanks to this collaboration some characters areborn Pic Pic Pig "magik" and André, le mauvais cheval in the firstPic Pic Andre Shoow (1988), a film studies selected and rewarded inAnnecy Festival Anima Brussels in 1989. Two years later, in 1991,he graduated with great distinction.Today, with his associate Stephane Aubier, better known as "Pic Pic",they have a good reputation and public criticism in the animations’sworld.Pierre-Yves PaqueCine fan since his childhood, Pierre-Yves Paque is a freelancejournalist and film critic for several magazines (Télémoustique, Be tv,Femmes d’Aujourdhui,L’Avenir), for which he traveled passionately movies, stars andfestivals around the world since 2007.18

Micha KapetanovicFilm critic, radio host, he was for 8 years the editor of themonthly Brussels stand before joining the events department of theBrussels tourist office.For four years he has participated in this framework to organizeevents like the Brussels Summer Festival, Plaisirsd'Hiver,Bruxelles les Bains, the Iris Festival, The year of Fashion andDesign and coordinated the one devoted to comics.Since June 2010, he joined the staff of Minister-President CharlesPiqué, where he coordinates the image of BrusselsDanny ElsenBelgian nationality, Danny Elsen is director of photography.A director of photography must manipulate light such as a poetmanipulates words. Danny Elsen does it with success!Thanks to his qualities he won a lot of prices:• 1998: European film award nominated as director of photography• 2005 : Won Joseph Plateau award for “ Best Belgian Cinematography “ forBuitenspel and Verlengd weekend and Vendredi ou un autre jour and Diebluthochzeit• 2006 : C.I.F.F. award for best D.O.P.• 2009 : Best Photography at the Circleframe Awards Ceremony at the Gothamscreen film festival for movie LoftFilmo• 2011 : Rosenn• 2008 : Les barons• 2007 : Hoe overleef ik mezelf• 2007 : Tot ziens• 2004 : Memory of a killer19

Pascale DevreesePascale Devreese, Sales Manager of Kinepolis FilmDistribution started her career in film distribution in 1991 withindependent distributor Alternative Films. She has beenworking for Kinepolis Film Distribution since 1997.Kinepolis Film Distribution is a 100% daughter of theinternational group Kinepolis. Kinepolis Group is a Europeanexhibitor and known worldwide as a trendsetter and renovatorin the field of multiplexes and megaplexes and in the digitalarea. As a company quoted on the stock exchange andoriginally Belgian (founded by the families Bert and Claeys),Kinepolis group welcomes 25 million visitors a year and hastheatres in 4 countries: Belgium, France, Spain and Switzerland..Kinepolis Film Distribution is an independent distributor handling theatrical distribution inclose cooperation with, among others, A-film. Over the years the strategy of KFD hasfocused on local content. With this we try to reach out to the new trend in Europe whereaudiences want edgy, surprising and new local movies.Nel VandevannetNel Vandevannet is at the head of the « Cabinet de l’Echevin duTourisme et du Personnel de la Ville de Bruxelles ».Through her experience, she’s a great defender ofthe fight against city’s insecurity and violence againstwomen. Fascinated by the fantastic, she is also a big fan ofBIFFF.20

FILMS IN ICOMPETITIONDARK SOULS (César Ducasse & Mathieu Peteul/Norway-France)A César Ducasse & Mathieu PeteulScreenplay : César Ducasse & Mathieu PeteulCast: Morten Ruda, Kyrre Haugen Sydness, Ida Elise Broch, Johanna Gustavsson, Christopher Angus Campbell, Espen Eckbo,Caroline Stoyva Eriksen, Frank Aron Gardso, Jan Harstad, Gustav-Adolf Hegh, Kristian Holter, Mikkel Lodding, Todd Mathiesen,Kristian OdegardRunning time : 95 min.Johanna is jogging in the woods, when she’s suddenly attacked by a man in an orangejumpsuit. Her assailant drills a hole in her skull and leaves her for dead. When the policecall Johanna’s father Morten to ask him to come over and identify his daughter’s body inthe morgue, he tells them that she has just walked in and is sitting in front of her pc. Butthere’s something wrong with Johanna. Black oil is flowing from her eyes and the onlymessage she’s able to type on her screen is one long cry for help. And she’s not alone.All over town, people are attacked by men in orange jumpsuits with electrical drills. Thevictims all suffer from the same symptoms, with their bodies slowly disintegrating in frontof their loved ones. The authorities are baffled. Morten can no longer bear to seeJohanna’s suffering and decides to find those who did this to his little girl.Dark Souls is an original zombie movie from Norway, directed by two French genrefreaks : Mathieu Petuel and César Ducasse. The duo clearly knows how to build up tension. They allow theirdisturbing story to slowly unfold and center everything around their very unusual protagonist : an ordinary,middle-aged single father; a fine performance by Morten Ruda (O’Horten). Besides lots of body horror,Petuel and Ducasse even manage to give an ecological dimension to their debut feature. Dark Souls is onevery dark movie that slowly creeps under your skin… just like the oil in Johanna’s body.EATERS (Marco Ristori & Luca Boni/Italy)A Luca Boni & Marco Ristori filmScreenplay: Marco Ristori & Germano TarriconeCast: Rosella Elmi, Guglielmo Favilla, Alex Lucchiesi, Claudio Marmugi, Fabiano Lioi, Elisa Ferretti, Francesco Malcom,RobertoMariotti, Riccardo Floris, Steve SylvesterRunning time: 94 min.Devastated by the Great Epidemic, the world is governed by hordes of theliving dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of the dead, and ascientist, Gyno - try to find an answer to what has happened to the humanrace. Alen and Igor leave for two days of hunting to find new “guinea-pigs” forGyno and meet the most varied characters: a crazy painter, neo-Nazis and amysterious girl, daughter of the feared Plague-Spreader, supposed craftsmanof the epidemic... Does this sound nasty enough to you? Welcome home, sonof a BIFFF!Distributed by Uwe Boll, this first long feature from Lucas Boni and MarcoRistori is clearly 90 minutes of genuine pleasure for a generation raised onRomero’s classics. Having earned their spurs in commercials and video clips,our two chaps clearly know how to cook up a visual bombshell with anastonishing apocalyptic aesthetic. The care taken on the make-up and look ofthe infamous zombies is just amazing. And the onscreen result is closer to Danny Boyle and Zack Snyderthan to Lucio Fulci’s and Umberto Lenzi’s flicks.21

IT’S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE (Gurinder Chadha/UK)A Gurinder Chadha filmScreenplay: Paul Mayeda Berges & Gurinder ChadhaCast: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Steve Morphew, Steve Jones, Jamie Sives, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Mark Addy, Shabana Azmi, Goldy Notay,Sacha Shilov, Teghvir Gujral, Harry Rance, Ray Panthaki, Jack Gordon, Shaheen Khan, Lalita Ahmed,Saraj ChaudhryRunning time: 100 min.Mrs Sethi, a widow, can't bear the thought of her daughter being alone andunhappy. Okay, she's a little plump and opinionated...but she would makea great wife for some lucky man, if only she were given a chance. WhenMrs Sethi can no longer stomach the rudeness of families who refuse herdaughter, she takes matters into her own hands in the only way she knows.Suddenly a police hunt begins for a serial murderer who cooks a killercurry. Mrs Sethi doesn't feel too guilty until the spirits of her victims comeback to haunt her, as they can't be reincarnated until their murderer dies.Mrs Sethi has no qualms about killing herself -she'll get to see her deadhusband again- but how can she go before her daughter is married? Thespirits realize that helping Mrs Sethi's daughter find a suitable husbandbefore the police catch her is their only chance of a wonderful afterlife.Acclaimed director Gurinder Chadha, who brought us Bend it Like Beckham – with the future sex symbolKeira Knightley – and Jane Austen’s revisited Bride and Prejudice, is back on screens with this horrificcomedy. Don’t look for a rebooted version of Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, the script being a confrontationbetween Indian and British traditions, a matter Chadha knows pretty well. Using the Masala genre instead ofa social drama, she gets the opportunity to deal with ghosts, poisoned vindaloo chicken breasts and colourfulcharacters like Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins.JULIA’S EYES (Guillem Morales/Spain)A Guillem Morales filmScreenplay: Guillem Morales & Oriol PauloCast: Belen Rueda, Lluis Homar, Pablo Derqui, Francesc Orella, Joan Dalmau, Boris Ruiz, Daniel Grao, Clara Segura, AndreaHermosa, Julia Gutierrez Caba, Mia Esteve, Jordi LlordellaRunning time: 112 min.Julia returns to Bellevue with her husband to visit her sister Sarah, who is near blinddue to a degenerative illness for which she has unsuccessfully undergone surgery.When they arrive, Julia finds that Sarah has taken her own life and none of hermysterious neighbors seem to be at all surprised. Julia has to confront not only the lossof her sister, but also the loss of all hope of halting her own impending blindness, as shesuffers from the same illness and would appear to be destined for the same end as hersister.Expectations are high when you have a producer like Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’sLabyrinth, Hellboy, The Devil’s Backbone) and the creative team behind A.J. Bayona’smassive hit The Orphanage (2007) attached to your film. Director Guillem Morales,whose first long feature was the Sitges prize winning The Uncertain Guest (2004), presents us with a tenseand sadistic thriller that reminds you of an Italian giallo or even Terence Young’s Wait Until Dark (1967).Needless to say, the strong performance given by Belen Rueda (The Orphanage) and the cold, composedimages of cinematographer Oscar Faura (The Machinist, The Abandoned) only add to the appeal of thisSpanish terror flick.22

PREY (Antoine Blossier/France)An Antoine Blossier filmScreenplay : Antoine Blossier & Erich VogelCast: Bérénice Bejo, Grégoire Colin, François Levantal, Joseph Malerba, Fred Ulysse, Isabelle RenauldRunning time : 80 min.Nathan is visiting his fiancée Claire at her familys estate. When mutilatedanimals are found on the terrain, Claires grandfather, her father and herbrother decide to form a hunting party. They set of into the woods with futureson-in-law Nathan trudging along. A wild boar seems to be the main suspectfor the carnage, but theres something far more dangerous afoot. The familyalso owns a chemical factory and a leak in a tank with an experimental type offertilizer has infected the surrounding wildlife. The pollution has started amutation in the local population of boars, who aggressively attack anything thatbreathes, including themselves. The family members start bickering with eachother, poor Nathan is stuck in between and the boars have tasted blood.Prey is another fine addition to the subgenre of wildlife gone mad. Illustriousexamples like Razorback, Black Sheep and Tremors show what fun you canhave with this when its done right. And with Prey, young debuting directorAntoine Bloissier has done the right thing indeed ! This is one very stylishly filmed horror trip. The foamingbeasties steal the show, but the ones who tear each other apart the most are those animals walking on twolegs. So it gives you lots of pleasure to see how these not very sympathetic characters end us mangled andmutilated in boar stomachs.RED NIGHTS (Julien Carbon & Laurent Courtiaud/France-Hong Kong)A Julien Carbon & Laurent Courtiaud filmScreenplay: Julien Carbon & Laurent CourtiaudFrédérique Bel, Carrie Ng, Carole Brana, Stephen Wong Cheung-Hing, Kotone Amamiya, Maria Chen, Jack KaoRunning time: 98 min.It looks strangely like a lethal version of the US game show Deal or no Deal :everybody wants to know what’s in the box. There is also a large sum of money atstake but, on the other hand, the contestants have a lot to lose. Basically, if youlose, you die. The contestants of this game are as honest as a leaky condom andwon’t stop giving each other a hard time through the streets of Hong Kong. Thestory goes like this : After she betrays her lover for the box, the mysteriousCatherine gets double-crossed by Sandrine and Flora, who fall into the hands ofCarrie; an S&M art dealer and a Chinese Freddy Krueger look-alike. ButCatherine, who has more than one betrayal up her sleeve, is going to useSandrine to get rid of Carrie, even if it means betraying Mister Ko, the real ownerof the box. Not too hard to follow ? Now, there’s just one question left : what’s inthat goddamn box ?It’s no coincidence that Julien Carbon and Laurant Courtiaud were attracted to thestreets of Hong Kong for their long feature directing debut. The twosome are skilled screenwriters, havingdelivered scripts for Asian action masters like Johnnie To (Running Out Of Time), Tsui Hark (Black Mask 2)and Peter Pau (The Touch). Their Asian giallo contains some torture scenes that could have come straightout of Takashi Miike’s twisted mind. Regarding casting, there’s finally something new for Frédérique Bel (AVery Long Engagement), who plays a lethal vamp and there’s the comeback of the venomous Carrie Ng(Sex and Zen, Naked Killer). And with a soundtrack by Seppuku Paradigm – guilty for Martyrs and Eden Log– one thing is certain : it’s going to be a very bloody night…23

TRANSFER (Damir Lukacevic/Germany)A Damir Lukacevic filmScreenplay: Gabi Blauert & Damir LukacevicB.J. Britt, Régine Nehy, Ingrid Andree, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Mehmet Kurtulus, Attila Borlan, Eric P. Caspar, Jeanette Hain, YemyoKlame, Michael Klammer, Stefan Lisewski, Zana Marjanovic, Viktor Pavel, Ulrich VossRunning time: 91 min.Do you feel as if the grim reaper might put its bony hand on your shoulder atany time ? Do you have a ll-stuffed bank account and a tremendous will tolive? Welcome to Menzana, a corporation that has turned death into anillness and sells the remedy at a very high price. Like Hermann and Anna,you can opt for a cerebral transfer and keep on partying in a fresh new body!Supplies are inexhaustible; it just takes a few banknotes to recruitunfortunate souls from the Third World and to convince them to abandontheir mortal coil. Their bodies are in perfect condition. You’ll be able to havefun again between the sheets. Yes, of course, they are black. So what?Those racial divides are behind us, aren’t they? OK, your friends might sulk abit when they first see you but don’t be fooled. They’re just jealous about yourfine young body. And, anyway, at their age, the wheel might still be turningbut the hamster is most probably dead. So, enjoy your new life but; and thisis the most important part, never forget to take your pills to keep control ofyour mind. If not …Here we have a movie that asks poignant ethical questions about live extension, migration, exploitation, richand poor, selfish profit and self-sacrifice. Anyone who dares to say that genre cinema is socially irrelevant,should be forced to watch Transfer. And we’re not talking about punishment here, because DamirLukacevic’s second long feature is simply one of the strongest cinematic experiences you’ll be able toexperience at the Bifff this year.TROLL HUNTER (THE) (André Øvredal/Norway)An André Øvredal filmScreenplay: André ØvredalCast: Otto Jespersen, Hans Morten Hansen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Johanna Morck, Knut Naerum, Robert Stoltenberg, Glenn ErlandTosterudRunning time: 90 min.Three students have dug up a juicy one-of-a-kind subject for their final researchproject: the unexplained death of several bears in the Scandinavian Forests. Tobe honest, it beats a cheap documentary about the procreation of jellyfish inIceland’s cold deep-sea. They quickly realize that poaching is not the answer,unless you use a silent rocket launcher. They meet a mysterious guy, owner ofan old Jeep strangely scratched all over, which could scare Cujo out of hisgrave. Intrigued and excited, our three students decide to track him during hisnocturnal walks into the depths of the Norwegian’s woods. It seems ratherobvious that he is not the kind that picks mushrooms and strawberries, butwhile they are watching him, he rushes toward our students, screaming like aman possessed. But what’s that he’s yelling? "Broll"? "Croll"? "Proll"? Did hesay “Troll”?Reality horror has taken a new direction. After an endless stream of low budgetfare with shaky cameras trying to hide there’s actually nothing to see, we’renow treated to well-written movies with solid budgets and especially… credible sfx (just think Cloverfield andRec). The cream of this recent crop comes from Norway and you don’t need Scandinavian roots toappreciate how the troll mythology has been integrated into the story. Director Andre Ovredal effortlesslyblends tension and humor with a healthy dose of satire. Troll Hunter is one of those films you don’t want tomiss at this year’s BIFFF.24

URBAN EXPLORER (Andy Fetscher/Germany)An Andy Fetscher filmScreenplay: Andy FetscherCast: Nathalie Kelley, Andreas Wisniewski, Nick Eversman, Max Riemelt, Brenda Koo, Catherine de Léan, Johannes Klaussner, KaiMichael Wolter, Adolfo Assor, Klaus StiglmeierRunning time: 88 min.Insatiably curious to explore the world beneath their feet, four young tourists -Korean Juna, French Marie, American Denis and his Venezuelan girlfriend Lucia -engage the services of Kris, a local guide, to lead them through the maze of tunnels,bunkers, cavernous spaces and others WO II remains underneath Berlin. When Krisfalls into a shaft and breaks his leg, Juna and Marie try to trace their way back to findhelp. Denis and Lucia stay with Kris. Suddenly Armin shows up. The former EastGerman border guard knows his way around and proposes to carry Kris to hisshelter, where they can contact the authorities. Soon it becomes clear that our urbanexplorers have made the mistake of their life.Urban explorers are hot ! All over the world, these amateur speleologists explore thehidden and often forbidden world under our big cities. Fertile feeding ground for anew subgenre, you’d say. And it’s young German film talent Andy Fetscher, whosedirecting debut Bukarest Fleisch was shown at the Bifff in 2008, who dives first into the abyss. Nail bitingtension and terror are assured, because Fetscher uses his claustrophobic and creepy sets to maximumadvantage. And he’s certainly not stingy with blood, gore and gruesome situations best not viewed upon witha full stomach.WAKE WOOD (David Keating/Ireland-UK-Sweden)A David Keating filmScreenplay: David Keating & Brendan McCarthyCast: Eva Birthistle, Ella Connolly, Timothy Spall, Aidan Gillen, Brian Gleeson, Dan Gordon, Ruth McCabe, Amelia CrowleyRunning time: 91 min.Alice, the young daughter of veterinarian Patrick and his wife Louise, is bitten todeath by a rabid dog. The grieving couple moves from the big city to the small,rural village of Wake Wood. Its name is aptly chosen, because the forestsaround Wake Wood have the power to bring back the recently deceased; butthis only for three days. With the help of village elder Arthur, Patrick and Louiseuse the magic of Wake Wood to revive Alice. Soon the villagers sense thatthere’s something not right with the girl. They demand for her to be returnedback into the earth. But Alice has other plans.How far would you go to spend some precious time with someone who wasbrutally taken away from you ? Wake Wood is one of those solid horror picswhere the director takes his time to create a bond between the audience andthe characters – among whom Aiden Gillen (Tommy Carcetti from The Wire) asPatrick, Eva Birthistle (Breakfast on Pluto, The Children) as Louise and Timothy Spall (Secrets and Lies,Harry Potter, Sweeny Todd) as Arthur – after which you will be enthralled by the carefully crafted mountingtension and suspense until the very end. Wake Wood is also the first production of the revived HammerStudios, the legendary house of horror from the fifties, sixties and seventies.25

THRILLER COMPETITIONThriller JuryPRESIDENT of the JuryJean Van HammeJean Van Hamme began writing, in 1968,his first comic scenarios forPaul Cuvelier: the erotic "Epoxy" and the penultimate (avantdernière)adventure of"Corey". In 1976, became one of the mostwriters of Franco-Belgian comics, he devoted himself exclusively towriting. Thanks to his meeting with Grzegorz Rosinski the bestsellingseriesThorgal is born. And then nothing stops:• In 1977, with Danny, he launched Arlequin• In 1984, he published SOS Bonheur• In 1990, he adapted his series of novels Largo WinchWinner of nearly 40 Price, Jean Van Hamme received in 2005, the insignia of Officer ofArts and Letters. In 2011 he was knighted Commander of Arts and Letters of the Republicat the “Angoulême” Festival. He is the first writer formally honored by Commanderof Arts and Letters of the Republic at the “Angoulême” Festival.Hughes HausmanHugues Hausman is a actor, director, writer and cartoonist. Ashe says “ Life is too short to do one thing”. He played in sometheatre and movies such as Hombres Complicados, Lisa,Resistance, Pas si grave, Taxi 4,… In 2009, he directed his firstfeature : Bonne Année Quand Même ! for RTL-TVI. He ispreparing his next comedy feature !Romain RollBorn in 1964 in Luxembourg, Romain Roll was fascinated by moviessince he was very young and started his movie career already inschool by organizing a “Ciné Club”. Later he worked as a film critic,before founding together with the BIFFF, the LuxembourgInternational Film Festival Cinénygma. He was the director of thefestival specialized in the fantastic genre during 10 years. Romain isstill the coordinator of the European Fantastic Film FestivalFederation (EFFFF), the organizer of the “Méliès d’Or”, the annualprize of the best European fantastic film. He also works as anindependent in film production. Credits as an executive producer are:DUST, PIDO PERDON and WE ALL MIGHT FAIL. He is as well anEAVE (European audiovisual entrepreneurs) graduate.26

FILMS IN ICOMPETITIONCAPTIFS (Yann Gozlan/France)A Yann Gozlan FilmScreenplay: Yann Gozlan & Guillaume LemansZoé Félix, Eric Savin, Arié Elmaleh, Ivan Franek, Igor Skreblin, Philippe Krhajac, Margaux Guenier, Goran Kostic, Jana Bittnerova,Sacha Mijovic, Clara Barbosa, Typhaine Hilaire, Thaïs Fischer, Eric Kailey, Loïc Risser, Evelyn BiecherRunning time: 84 min.Somewhere in Eastern Europe, Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid groupthat has finished its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleaguesare kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared for and keptalive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners are soon horrified todiscover what their kidnappers really have in store for them...First-timer Yann Gozlan finally switches from short to long after realising two acclaimedshort features (Pellis and Echo). With Captifs aka Caged, Gozlan wanted to test hisown relationship with violence and anxiety. In other words, he tried to find a personalway as a director of transmitting those two harsh feelings to the audience, withoutfalling into the usual trap of increasing the level of violence. Very comfortable with thearchetypal conventions of the genre, Gozlan’s main inspiration for this movie was Franju’s The Eyes Withouta Face (1959). He displays masterful sobriety in dealing with a topic subject to an increasing amount ofmedia coverage these days: organ trafficking. Starring Zoé Félix (Welcome to the Sticks, Déjà Mort), AriéElmaleh (Persepolis, Chouchou) and Eric Savin (also in Mirages, screened at the BIFFF).ESSENTIAL KILLING (Jerzy Skolymowski/Hungary-Ireland-Norway-Poland)A Jerzy Skolymowski filmScreenplay: Ewa Piaskowska & Jerzy SkolimowskiCast: Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, David Price, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Stig Frode Henriksen, Zach Cohen, Iftach Ophir, TracySpencer Shipp, Klaudia Kaca, Dariusz Juzyszyn, Robert Mazurkiewicz, Lars Markus Verpeide Bakke, Even Loken Bergan,ThomasBerg, Eirik Daleng, Morten EngerRunning time: 83 min.Captured by US Special Forces in Afghanistan, Mohammed is transported to asecret military black site. When the army convoy plummets off a steep hill,Mohammed finds himself free and on the run behind enemy lines. A hostile, snowblanketedforest gradually turns out to be an Eastern European wilderness.Relentlessly pursued by his captors, Mohammed constantly confronts the need tokill in order to survive.Legendary filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski, who – let’s be chauvinistic for once –won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for the Belgian shot The Departure(1967), is far from self-indulgent when it comes to his work. But with EssentialKilling, he is in no doubt: it’s his best film! Intentionally vague on the maincharacter (a civilian caught in the wrong place at the wrong moment or a fierceTaliban fighter?), Skolimowski’s main point is more about a struggle of a managainst the wilderness than a political metaphor. From this perspective, he has also skipped superfluousdialogue and the names of the protagonists, apart from the two main characters (Vincent Gallo andEmmanuelle Seigner – who happens to be the wife of his fellow countryman Roman Polanski!). At the 2010Venice Film Festival, Essential Killing won the best actor award for Vincent Gallo and the Special Jury Prizefor Skolimowski.27

KIDNAPPED (Miguel Angel Vivas/Spain)A Miguel Angel Vivas filmScreenplay : Miguel Angel Vivas & Javier GarciaCast : Guillermo Barrientos, Dritan Biba, Fernando Cayo, Cesar Diaz, Martijn Kuiper, Manuela Velles, Ana Wagener, Xoel YanezRunning time : 90 minutesA wireless alarm system costs between 50 and 900 Euro; a door code can be asmuch as 200 Euro; a steel security door might cost up to 5000 Euro. It’s expensive,but 80% of breaking and entering takes place through the front door. A 500,000 volttaser could be found for less than 100 Euro on the Internet, the price of a “new orsecond-hand” (sic) Rottweiler fluctuates between 200 and 800 Euros and feedsitself mostly with the poodles of the neighbourhood. Life, on the other hand, ispriceless…That’s what a family from Madrid will discover when they are held prisoner in theirnew house by three criminals: a robber, a rapist and a killerThey are there for themoney, but they don’t know the easy way and turn violence into a language of itsownThe producers of “Cell 211” are definitely astute at striking a decisive blow! Thesecond full-length feature from Miguel Angel Vivas, “Kidnapped” hits the ground running with an openingsequence that is nothing less than a pure rush of adrenalin. Inspired by several news items full of unbearableviolence, this cinematographic tour de force was completed in twelve shots, refusing to fictionalize the storyor reassuring the viewer: Angel Vivas forces the audience to be the witness of an everyday nightmare.Check the doors when you come home…LA PROIE (Eric Valette/France)An Eric Valette filmScreenplay: Luc Bossi & Laurent TurnerCast: Albert Dupontel, Stéphane Debac, Natacha Régnier, Sergi Lopez, Alice Taglioni, Olivier Schneider, Serge Hazanavicius,Zinedine Soualem, Jean-Marie Winling, Stéphane Girondeaud, François Hatt, Caterina MurinoRunning time: 142 min.Burglar Franck has ended up in jail because his accomplice snitched on him andgot away with the loot. He still has a few months to go before he can see his wifeand child again and get some payback from the bastard. But the guy’s taken hisprecautions and sends him a picture of his wife and kid. The message is clear.Franck asks his cellmate Maurel, a small-time crook who’s soon going to bereleased because of a judicial error, to warn his family. Big mistake ! The manturns out to be a notorious serial killer. Franck has no other choice but to escape.But once he’s outside, there’s no trace to be found of his wife and kid. And Maurelmakes sure that Franck gets the blame for all his heinous crimes. To prove hisinnocence, he has to find the killer while France’s entire police force is hot on hisheels.French director Eric Valette has been quite busy since we presented his longfeature debut Maléfique at the BIFFF 2003. After an excursion to Hollywood with the J-Horror remake OneMissed Call, he realized the French political thriller Une affaire d’état and the monster pic Hybrid. Now he’sback in Brussels with an explosive action thriller. La Proie (the prey), somewhere half-between Cell 211 andThe Fugitive, is overflowing with testosterone and is mercilessly efficient. Albert Dupontel (Irreversible,Chrysalis) stars as public enemy number one. Stéphane Debac (Stranded, Fashion Victim) is the diabolicMaurel. They’re supported by Alice Taglioni (The Valet), Sergi Lopez (Harry Is Here To Help) and our veryown Natacha Régnier (The Dreamlife of Angels).28

MIDNIGHT FM (Sang-Man Kim/South Korea)A Sang-Man Kim filmScreenplay: Kim Hwi & Sang-Man KimCast: Soo-Ae, Ji-Tae Yoo, Dong-Seok Ma, Man-Sik Jeong, Song-Hyeon Choi, Min-Gyoo KimRunning time: 106 min.Sun-young is a popular radio DJ with a big fan base for a cinema musicprogramme that is aired live at midnight. She is a perfectionist who has built asuccessful career for the past 5 years, but when her young daughter needssurgery overseas, the single mum decides to quit. She prepares for her finalshow, from song selections down to the smallest details, but during the show,she receives a call from a listener named Dong-soo. He tells her that shemust follow his orders while she hosts her live radio show and not tellanyone, or her family's lives will be at stake. Without knowing what he wantsor why this is happening to her, she continues with her 2-hour radioprogramme as things start to get worse.Here it is: the edgy thriller that exploded at the Korean box-office, tramplingover the usual blockbusters from the U.S.! Banking on a very tense cat-andmousegame that made films such as Speed a success, director Sang ManKim knows exactly how to tease your ticker, helped by his main actors: Su-Ae, usually seen in romances and dramas (Sunny, Wedding Campaign), finally gets the opportunity to hitsome jaws, while Ji-tae Yu – from Into the Mirror (which got its US remake by Alexandre Aja) and, of course,Old Boy – plays the insane fan.NEON FLESH (Paco Cabezas/Spain)A Paco Cabezas filmScreenplay : Paco CabezasCast : Mario Casas, Vicente Romero, Macarena Gomez, Dario Grandinetti, Damaso Conde, Angela Molina, Blanca Suarez,LucianoCaceres, Antonio de la Torre, Vanessa Oliveira, Juan Carlos VellidoRunning time : 109 min.As a child of the theatre, Ricky is not the kind that hits a whore with his pole.And he has a very good reason : his mother has 20 years of experiencebetween her legs. The only hitch is that mama is in jail and Ricky has to learnhow to survive alone in Barcelona’s most disreputable streets at an agewhen most teenagers are raving in Ibiza. But Ricky has a plan. With the helpof his two buddies, Angelito and El Niño, he’ll open the hottest whorehouse intown. This will certainly surprise his mother on her release from prison. Rickystarts recruiting girls and finds the perfect name for his sex bombs’ nest:Hiroshima. The problem is that Chino, the biggest pimp in theneighbourhood, strongly disapproves of his young competitor’s arrival and isgoing to make him understand that he has to pay him, unless he wants toend up in little pieces.Five years after his eponymous short film, Paco Cabezas strikes back withthis long version. With the collaboration of Miguel Marti (writer of Sexykiller –Audience Choice at the BIFFF 2009) and Juan Gordon (producer of Cell 211- Thriller Award at the BIFFF 2011), Paco gives us a Spanish Snatch, with apowerful cast, such as the beautiful Macarena “sexykiller” Gomez, and Antonio de la Torre (Che, Volver)29

RETRIBUTION (Mukanda Dewil/ South Africa)A Mukanda Dewil filmScreenplay : Mukanda DewilCast : Joe Mafela, Jeremy CrutchleyRunning time : 88 minutesAfter thirty years in the judiciary, a retired judge, at the prompting of his family,takes some time out to write his memoirs. Not wanting any distractions, he goesto the Overberg Mountains to stay in an isolated cabin to begin work on the book.The cabin is remote – a three-hour 4x4 drive from the nearest civilization. Oneday the retired judge sees someone, a hiker, out in the middle of nowhere. It turnsout the guy’s lost. The judge could do with a little company and invites him to hisplace. It soon becomes clear that something is not quite right with the stranger.And he has some unfinished business with the judge, which starts with killing hisdog.With Retribution, acclaimed commercials director Mukunda Dewill makes histheatrical debut. “I really wanted to tell a story with a central theme that deals withthe natural order of things upset by human error”. Inspired by tightly containedthrillers such as Misery and Lumet’s Deathtrap, this on-screen struggle producedby Moonlighting Films (Eastwood’s Invictus) owes a lot to the two main actors,Joe Mafela and Jeremy Crutchley (Lord of War, Doomsday).THE REEF (Andrew Traucki/Australia)An Andrew Traucki filmScreenplay: Andrew TrauckiCast: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley,Running time: 87 min.Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Mark SimpsonA bunch of friends decide to sail along Queensland’s tropical shores:turquoise water, white sand, palm trees, sun lotion with protection factor50… Paradise! After their yacht hits a reef and overturns, our cheerfulfellows are a bit less enthusiastic as they find themselves adrift,heading towards the big blue. Luke, the brightest of the bunch,suggests swimming to the nearest island to avoid getting grilled by thehammering sun. According to him, sharks rarely attack humans. So,don’t panic! But what they don’t know is that an 18feet long great whiteshark wants to be the exception to this rule.You really need some cohones to make a shark movie after Jaws or themore recent Open Water. It certainly didn’t frighten Andrew Traucki. Thefact that he scared us into the trees three years ago with Black Water,starring a giant crocodile with an insatiable appetite, might have hadsomething to do with it. And it has to be said. Traucki has succeeded inscaring us out of the water. The Reef is beautifully shot, with effectiveediting and a haunting soundtrack boosting the tension meter into the red. By the way, the movie’s based onactual events. Party poopers who want to know who survived, may now surf to wikipedia, the others arewelcome to get their thrills at the Bifff.30

TERRITORIES (Olivier Abbou/Canada-France)An Olivier Abbou filmScreenplay: Olivier Abbou & Thibault Lang WillarCast: Roc La Fortune, Sean Devine, Nicole Leroux, Cristina Rosato, Michael Mando, Alex Weiner, Stephen Shellen, Tim Rozon, LenaKleine, Caroline RedekoppRunning time:110 minCanada, near the US border. Jalil, Leslie, Michelle, Gab and Tom are driving back home after a wedding. Acar blocks the road, forcing them to stop. It's the border police. The officers check their ID. They seemsuspicious. Their questioning slowly intensifies. They seem particularly intrigued by Jalil and question hisidentity. As good citizens, the group stays calm. After all, they've done nothing wrong...Except for that brokenlight... And the marijuana found in the car... The tension rises. Leslie tries to get Tom's medication from thecar, but the officers prevent her. The police check turns nasty and the group is cuffed. Leslie protests, only tobe tied to a post and given an “intimate” body search in front of her friends. The officers then suspect theirlittle dog to be a drug mule... and rip it open with a knife! The situation spirals out of control. Someone isshot. The group is dragged off to a special jail in the heart of the forest. Stuffed into cages, along withquestions, they'll need to find answers. Or a way out.A first long feature film for French director and writer Olivier Abbou, Territoires is a real bombshell. The wayhe treats his prisoners is nothing else but Guantanamo Bay at the Canadian border, which is sure to provokesome controversy in the US. Produced by Capture the Flag (The Horde) and simultaneously shot in Frenchand English for a broader distribution, Territoires can also rely on safe bets, such as cinematographer KarimHussain (Hobo with a Shotgun, Walled In), actor Sean Devine (The Whole Nine Yards) and Nicole Leroux(The Core).31

7 th orbit COMPETITION7th orbit JuryCédryc RuthJournalist, Cedryc Ruth realizes, in July 2004, Mortelleimpasse, his first short film released in 2005 at “Le Palais des Beaux-Arts” in Brussels.Therefore, he joined the Kino and directed several short films with theconstraint to write, shoot and edit in less than 48 hours. After come back touniversity, he took the pen and camera to begin the production offeature films. Currently he hosts two radio shows on Radio Alma.Christpohe BohnChristoph Bohn lives now in Brussels. His job as director guideshim through commercials and documentaries. The world ischanging and the film follows unconditionally change.His new documentary, The Boy Is Gone released during thissummer. The film is a mixture of animation and filmfootage. A Flemish, Francophone, Dutch and German coproductionthat tell the years 30-40 of a boy who wants to becomea pilot and who is trapped by the 3. Reich..François StassensFrançois Stassens was born in 1979. He studied communication atIHECS where he was graduated in 2003. In November 2004 he was hiredby the Belgian Society of authors,composers and publishers (SABAM) inthe "Audiovisual Communication". He attended sincethen various juries, and many festivals AV throughout the year. He hasalso recently participated in the pre-selection of Fiction Short Films for theinaugural Cinema Magritte last February.32

Jean-Jacques Rousseauend in itself.Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian film director, Born inCourcelles after the Second World War. Thus, if we know he wasborn in Courcelles, his date of birth is completely unknown.He defends a film made of limited budgets (2000 to2500 €/film), with non-professional actors because J.J. becauseRousseau has an obvious lack of funds, he is a workermason.His pay is barely enough to ensure the daily. But he istenacious! He got "owned" by the cinema from an early age,and movie after movie (Rock Mendès (2006), Un colonial chez les Celtes(2010), Karminsky-Grad (2011),…), he created its own language bothsingular and universal. In order to prevent his image from themedia, Jean-Jacques Rousseau carefully hides all that relates toprivacy. Likewise, it still appears inpublic with a hood considering the revelation of his identity as an33

FILMS IN ICOMPETITIONAYU (Chun-Yu Lai/Taiwan)A Chun-Yu Lai FilmScreenplay: Chia-Ying LeeCast: Tian Ming, Chia-Ying Lee, Shiao Yao, Lu-Hao ChuRunning time: 73 min.Ayu is a 16-year-old senior high school student. She wakes up one day andfinds herself leading a life which feels familiar but somehow strange to her.Her home has been turned into a clinic and her family have disappeared! Afterstumbling into a series of bewildering incidents, she comes to the conclusionthat, just like Alice in Wonderland, she has landed in a fantasy world, whereonly an old and lonely failed businessman will talk to her. Moreover, the oldman takes her home to keep her warm and looks after her with love and care.In Ayu's dream, neither time nor space feels coherent. Nothing in this worldseems connected with reality. It has such a strange impact on Ayu that shebegins to behave bizarrely: she goes to the bathroom but forgets to have ashower; she gets lost while chasing after an imaginary figure; she can'tremember the things she has done and she falsely accuses their maid ofstealing. The old man tolerates all of this erratic behaviour, but still having noone to share his burden, he is becoming overwhelmed by feelings ofdesperation. Ayu feels the distant memories hidden inside her and tries every means of retrieving them.Known for his experimental animations and unique visual style, Lai Chunyu made his directorial debut withDying Away (2004). After a best visual effects award in 2005 for Silk (Chao-bin Su), Chunyu returns as thedirector of Ayu, a feature with a very specific subject matter: “It’s so easy for us to take our daily life forgranted, and only when we loose what we had in the past will we begin to appreciate it (…)”.CONTACT HIGH (Michael Glawogger/ Austria/Germany/Luxembourg/Poland)A Michael Glawogger filmScreenplay: Michael Glawogger & Michael OstrowskiCast: Michael Ostrowski,Raimund Wallisch,Detlev Buck, Georg Friedrich, Pia Hierzegger, Hilde Dalik, Alina Polzi,Helmut Kopping, VictorVarnado, Jeremy Strong, Alexis Santiago Hernandez, Michael-Joachim Heiss,Martin Ehrlich, Rafal Sawicki, Anna Frances dioso, MaszaBaumanRunning time: 98 min.Spanish gangster Carlos has lost a mysterious bag in Poland and wants his Austriancolleague Harry to get it back for him. But Harry doesn’t want to get his hands dirty andcalls in a favour from the Viennese small-time crook Schorsch. He just wants to sit aroundand watch car races all day, so he passes the job to Mao. She has no time either, havingto babysit her friend’s daughter, and turns to hot dog stand owners Hans Wurst and MaxDurst. This results in a crazy chase for the bag all across Eastern Europe.Austrian writer and director Michael Glawogger (Workingman's Death, Slumming) deliversa psychedelic road movie filled with slapstick humour, absurd situations andmisunderstandings. His heroes Max and Hans are dropped in a mind-expanding tripfacing colourful flying swordfish, hotel walls closing in on them, go-go girls with the heads of Germanshepherds… Hallucinations and confusion rule supreme ! Contact High, which might as well be called TheGood, The Bad And The Bag, is a weird and funny movie with a great soundtrack featuring Element OfCrime, Tiefschwarz, Calexico, Get Well Soon and Roxy Music. You’ll be crying illustrated tears, and whenyou leave the film theatre you’ll probably find everything running backwards.34

FEROZZ: THE WILD RED RIDING HOOD (Jorge Molina/Costa Rica-Cuba)A Jorge Molina filmScreenplay: Alain Jimenez, Jorge Molina & Edgar Soberon Torchia, based upon Charles Perrault: Little Red Riding HoodCast: Dayana Legra, Roberto Perdomo, Ana Silva Machado, Francisco Garcia, Raul Capote, Waldo Franco, Rosalia Roque, BelkisEstenozRunning time: 72 min.Grandmother is a real pain in the ass. She’s always giving her daughter-in-lawDolores a hart time, even getting her son Lucio to rape her on the dining table . All ofthis in front of Miranda, her granddaughter, and retarded Dully, the incestuous sideeffectof Lucio mistaking his mother for his wife. Two years later, Lucio has kicked thebucket, Grandmother has been exiled to a hut in the middle of the jungle and Dolorescan finally live in peace with daughter Miranda and uncle Innocencio; the only otherpsychologically stable family member, if we leave his Satan worship aside. Time goesby peacefully. Dully relieves himself on a regular basis in front of bathing nymphetsand Miranda secretly cultivates her nymphomaniac neurosis. Then Dolores decides tosend her to Grandmother’s place with a basket full of food. Miranda unwillingly donsher red hot riding hood and sets off alone in the forest.If Charles Perrault had read Nabokov’s Lolita before writing his Red Riding Hood, theodds are that Jorge Molina and he would have been as thick as thieves! Molina, acinema teacher in Cuba and diehard fan of horror flicks, injects this universal tale witha severe dose of symbolism and eroticism which would have surely pleased Walerian Borowczyk, thelegendary x- rated movie troublemaker. With Ferozz he has created a fierce and disturbing piece of art.MILOCRORZE (Yoshimasa Ishibashi-Japan)A Yoshimasa Ishibashi filmScreenplay : Yoshimasa IshibashiCast: Takayuki Yamada, MaikoRunning time: 90 min..1) The routine existence of the childlike man Ovreneli Vreneligari is turned completely upside down when hesets eyes for the first time on the stunningly beautiful Milocroze. His obsessive love for her makes him loosehimself. 2) Kumagai Besson is a foul mouthed youth counselor with a strange hairdo and a sexy entourage.Accompanied by song and dance, he deals out original love advice to hopeless adolescents. 3) The oneeyedronin Tamon discovers that the dices are fixed in a gambling den and gets involved in a heroic fightagainst dozens of sword wielding gangsters. The true reason for his presence is that he hopes to find hisbeloved Yori here, who, many years ago, was kidnapped in front of his very eyes.Last year we unleashed Hitoshi Matsumoto’s Symbol on our unsuspecting audience, a completely uniquepicture that defied classification. This year, Yoshimasa Ishibashi’s directing debut Milocrorze will play the partof that wacky, weird and original surprise which you’re only able to see at the BIFFF. Milocrorze is an insanemix of colors and styles, effortlessly switching from one genre to another in seconds. It’s a fairytale, it’sbloody, dramatic, absurd, melodious, kitschy and genre bending at the same time. In short, an idealcandidate for our 7th Orbit Section.35

MIRAGES (Talal Selhami/France-Morocco)A Talal Selhami filmScreenplay : Christophe MordelletCast : Karim Saïdi, Omar Lotfi, Meryem Raoui, Mostafa El Houari, Aissam Bouali, Eric Savin, Laila Fadili, Mohamed Choubi, MohamedAouragh, Chaouki El OfirRunning time : 107 min.Five individuals with contrasting profiles compete for a position within Matsuika, amultinational corporation recently set up in Morocco. Following an interview with theCEO, they are advised to undertake a mysterious test in a secret location todetermine who will hold the position. All five applicants accept and are led into adistressing bus with no windows. After endless driving, an accident occurs, leavingthe candidates trapped in the wreck. Through a joint effort, they manage to evacuatethe bus only to find themselves lost in the desert with their driver nowhere to befound. They start to wander, questioning the nature of the accident. Is it part of thetest? Despite their will to survive and an urge to find clues, mirages of their mostintimate fears start to haunt them...A diehard fan of the genre, Talal Selhami was rocked as a kid by the Tales from theCrypt. With that kind of background, it was obvious that he would end up doing a supernatural thriller such asMirages. After the success of his short film Sinistra, Selhami was approached by director and producer NabilAyouch about directing this first long feature. Won over by the script, he has jumped at the opportunity andbrought five talented performers into the middle of Ouarzazates desert for a hell of a ride!ONE DAY (Chi-Jan Hou/Taiwan)A Chi-Jan Hou filmScreenplay: Chi-Jan HouCast: Bryan Shu-Hao Chang, Nikki Hsin-Ying Hsieh, Gwen YaoRunning time: 93 min."All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” No, this is not one ofLeo Di Caprio’s lines from “Inception”. It’s Edgar Allan Poe who came up withthis quote and director Hou Chi-jan has applied it to his film.“One Day” is none other than a shorter version of “One day, my Prince willcome”, but with a lot less sugar on top. Young Singing works on a ferry thatshuttles between a Taiwanese city and the isles. One night, though the ship issupposed to be as crowded as the London tube at rush hour, Singing findsherself alone on board. Well, almost. A very angry Hindu seems to chase herthrough the deserted corridors and Singing ends up locked in a closet withTsung, a young soldier.Tsung has some amazing news for Singing. First, she’sin the middle of a nightmare. Second, he claims to be her future lover…New blood for Taiwanese cinema! One Day is the first full-length feature andthe first screenplay for Hou Chi-jan, whose experimental shorts have alreadywon him lots of prizes throughout the globe. His debut, produced by movieveteran Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is a genuine love poem in which he transcendsloneliness with imaginary bridges between dream and reality. He neatly fits his mystical puzzle together in away that reminds you of a certain David Lynch.36

REJECTION (Vladimir Lert/Ukraine)A Vladimir Lert filmScreenplay: Vladimi Lert, adapted from Andrei Solomin’s novel “G”Cast: Sergey Babkin, Bogdan Stupka, Agnia Ditkovskite, Alexander BashirovRunning time: 90 minDid Andrey unknowingly lick a stamp dipped in LSD ? When he wakes up, itseems like the world has ended. The streets of his megalopolis are empty and,instead of good old rusty Lada’s, he discovers smoking tanks and cars burnt toa cinder. Even worse, the sky seems to have been completely chlorinated andAndrey fears that he will have to watch the stars through a layer of green toiletbowl cleaner for the rest of his life. What really happened? A nuclear war ? Anextra (terrestrial and ordinary) invasion ? A bad trip ? While attempting to get outof the city with his neighbour Ivan, Andrey soon realises that all threehypotheses are possible and that they’d better escape from this apocalypticenigma. Add to the worldwide downfall a mysterious twilight encounter with anunconscious ballet dancing beauty and constant reminders of the guy whosenumber is 666 and you start to get an idea of the nightmare that Andrey is living.“I want the two extremes: I want the audience to either love or hate my movie!”.Vladimir Lert certainly doesn’t want you to remain indifferent to his apocalyptic love story. After learning thecraft at a few Hollywood film schools, Lert returned to his native Ukraine with lots of know-how and someimaginative ideas, which he impressively transformed into moving images with this ambitious adaptation ofAndrei Solomin’s novel “G”.SNOW QUEEN (THE) (Marko Raat/Estonia)A Marko Raat filmScreenplay: Marko Raat, based upon Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytaleCast: Helena Merzin, Artur Tedremagi, Toomas Suuman, Egon Nuter, Kertu Raja, Anni Kreem, Liisa Ratassepp, Peeter Raudsepp,Janek Sarapson, Kristo Viiding, Kulli Reinumagi, Epp Eespaev, Regina Evert, Tiina MakarovRunning time: 99 min.Naine is a terrific vamp who easily attracts male attention, but lately she hasn’t been feeling that well. Hercomplexion has started to look alarmingly like Bukowski’s liver; her appetite is as ravenous as an anorexic infront of a juicy quarter pounder and she feels depressed as hell. Naine decides to build an ice palace forherself in the middle of nowhere – an attempt at do-it-yourself cryogenics, in short – and will lure Jasper, aclumsy young boy, into her gloomy freezer. The hold of his new queen of hearts is going to be so powerfulthat Jasper will slowly lose himself in a freezing fog, incapable of finding his way back to reality. No matterhow hard he tries to break the ice of the palace or around Naine’s heart (make your choice), he still remainscaught between desire and repulsion, never being able to get his Mr Freeze out of its wrapping. Frustrating,isn’t it?While previous adaptations of H.C. Andersen’s fairytale (Lev Atamanov’s animated film from 1957 or DavidWu’s long feature from 2002) might have been faithful to the original story, Estonian director Marko Raat hasspiced up his contemporary update by showing us the action inside the ice palace between the twocharacters (which barely gets a few lines in Andersen’s tale). Shot in extreme conditions – minus twentydegrees on the set, an ice-cream warehouse, and oxygen masks for the crew to avoid steam on the screen -, The Snow Queen is definitely a fairytale for grown-ups, dealing with the inevitable bond between love anddeath.37

TEMPTATION OF ST TONY (THE) (Veikko Ounpuu/Estonia-Finland-Sweden)A Veikko Ounpuu filmScreenplay: Veikko OunpuuCast: Taavi Eelmaa, Ravshana Kurkova, Tiina Tauraite, Sten Ljunggren, Denis Lavant, Hendrik Toompere jr, Katarina Lauk, HarriKorvits, Taavi Teplenkov, Marika Barabanstsikova, Rain Tolk, Liis Lepik, Valeri Fjodorov, Evald Aavik, Tarmo Mitt, Raivo E. TammRunning time: 110 min.Tony is completely stuck in a mid-life existential crisis since his father died. Hewatches the world around him and notices a slight smell of the apocalypse. Hisfellow men seem to be bored stiff and pass the time by organizing nihilistic orgiesor by metaphysically giving the same importance to questions like “Give me somesalt” and “Who am I?” So Tony takes stock of the values that govern his life andtries to find a satisfying answer in seven chapters, which just happens to be thesame number as the Deadly Sins or the circles in Dante’s Inferno. From religiousdecay over the illusion of love to the erosion of social intercourse, Tony will slowlybut surely reach the conclusion that life is useless.Tony will have to face some veryunpleasant answers in order to survive. Who am I ? A loser. Where am I ? In deepshit. Where am I going ? Straight against the wall, Tony. Straight against the wall…This poetic requiem – the Estonian candidate at this year’s Oscars – confirmsVeikko Ounpuu’s talent, director of the award winning Autumn Ball. Inspired byDante’s Divine Comedy and Hieronymus Bosch’s The Temptation of St Anthony, “St Tony” also salutes themovies of Roy Andersson, with its dry sense of humour, sweats Kafkaesque absurdity from each frame, andtakes its metaphysical surrealism straight from Tarkovsky and Bunuel. The Temptation of St. Tony is heavybut very enjoyable stuff without a shred of indigestible pretentiousness.TETSUO : THE BULLET MAN (Shinya Tsukamoto/Japan)A Shinya Tsukamoto filmScreenplay: Shinya Tsukamoto & Hisakatsu KurokiCast: Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Yuko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain, Shinya Tsukamoto, MichaelDuncan, Alan Koji, Sou Fujita, Markus Wambsganss, Hajime Izuki, Dwayne Lawler, Aldo La Riviere, Yutaka Mishima, GettoRunning time: 71 min.Office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother,lives in Tokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony’smother died of cancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for theirhealth and rigidly subjects Anthony and Tom to monthly physicals. Walkinghome, Tom is killed in a hit and run before Anthony’s eyes. Losing their boypushes Yuriko over the edge and triggers violent emotions in Anthony, whosebody begins to transform. Little by little, his cells turn to iron. When the driverwho killed Tom reappears and Anthony learns the truth about his father’s pastexperiments on human guinea pigs and about his mother’s death, Anthonymutates into a mass of metal – a human weapon fuelled by an uncontrollablerage.The BIFFF was the first festival in the world to screen Tetsuo (1989); whichhas since become the cult gem we all know. So it would have been awkwardto end this twenty-year adventure without showing the last episode of Tsukamoto’s trilogy. And our chaphasn’t lost an ounce of his talent: edgy editing, mystical inserts, sexualisation of the mechanical –reminiscent in some ways of Cronenberg’s Crash (or is it the opposite?) –, industrial themes for the score(thanks to Chu Ishikawa) and Trent “Nine Inch Nails” Reznor for the soundtrack.38

YELLOWBRICKROAD (Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton/USA)A Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton filmScreenplay: Jesse Holland & Andy MittonCast: Cassidy Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Laura Heisler, Clark Freeman, Lee Wilkof, Alex Draper, Michael Laurino, Tara Giordano, SamElmoreRunning time: 98 min.In 1940, a strange thing happened to the entire population ofFriar, New Hampshire. One day, for an unknown reason, theyall abandoned their homes and walked up an ancient trail.They were never seen alive again. For over 70 years, their fatehas been a mystery. Now a team of researchers and filmmakers,along with a guide and a psychologist, decide tofollow the path to find out what happened once and for all.Yellowbrickroad tells the story of this expedition. A trek into thewilderness filled with danger, adventure, shifting loyalties andparanormal activity.This impressive new indie horror flick is a well-shot, multidimensionalhorror story. Debut directors Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland have combined their love for horrormovies with character-driven stories. The movie was digitally shot on location in the isolated wilderness ofthe Northern New Hampshire woods. This authentic location definitely pays off, making the film very pureand realistic. Yellowbrickroad was also filmed in sequential order, allowing tension to build up frame by frameand bringing out the increasingly difficult physical and emotional journey of the characters.39

Short film COMPETITIONShort film JuryChristian Bontinckx (Psychologist)Benedicte Bourgeois (RTBF)Odile De Scheemaeker (Décorator)Michel Devillers (Artist)Alain Galand (Subscriber)Guy Triffin (French community of Belgium)The jurors will have to choose la crème de la crème among the 10 short movies of thecompetition.SHORT IN ICOMPETITIONPost Mortem (Mathieu Harford)Condamné à vie (Hannah Letaïf & Vincent Carrétey)Une dernière fois (Barney Frydman)L'oeil du paon (Gerlando Infuso)Love of the dead (Sharnasky Brothers)Le concile lunatique (Arnaud Demuynck & Christophe Gautry)La femme à cordes (Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka)La fin du monde (Michael Havenith)Point de fuite (Benjamin d’Aoust)Route 66 (Romuald Voye)40

ALIEN VS NINJA (Seiji Chiba/Japan)MIDNIGHT X-TREMESA Seiji Chiba FilmScreenplay : Seiji ChibaCast : Mika Hijii, Ben Hiura, Shuji Kashiwabara, Masanori Mimoto, Yuki Ogoe, Donpei TsuchihiraRunning time : 109 min.Calm down, everybody ! Would you kindly read this little presentation before rushinglike madmen to Tour & Taxis. 0ne thing is obvious, if you want to know what thismovie is about, you just have to look at the title. Yamata, Jinnai, Nezumi and a fewother ninjas who won’t survive long enough to deserve a name, are tracking down amysterious fireball that landed in the woods. And guess what was inside the rockfrom outer space? Aliens, of course ! On the menu of this interstellar sushi andsashimi plate : gut-wrenching tentacles, alien meat cutting ninja blades, green bloodfountains and a continuous shower of severed limbs. In brief; the very latest in closeencounters of the bloody kind.Get ready for some new craziness coming straight from the Sushi Typhoon /Nikkatsu production company (also guilty for Helldriver and Karate Robo Zaborgar).AVN is a hilarious and jubilant little nightmare on film. This unclassifiable gem issomewhere halfway between thrash therapy for its writer and director, Seiji Chiba, and a haemoglobininfused joke that wildly embraces its wacky concept. So, just sit down and keep an eye on the score, OK?CONTACT HIGH (Michael Glawogger/ Austria-Germany-Luxembourg-Poland)A Michael Glawogger filmScreenplay: Michael Glawogger & Michael OstrowskiCast: Michael Ostrowski,Raimund Wallisch,Detlev Buck, Georg Friedrich, Pia Hierzegger, Hilde Dalik, Alina Polzi,Helmut Kopping, VictorVarnado, Jeremy Strong, Alexis Santiago Hernandez, Michael-Joachim Heiss,Martin Ehrlich, Rafal Sawicki, Anna Frances dioso, MaszaBaumanRunning time: 98 min.Spanish gangster Carlos has lost a mysterious bag in Poland and wants his Austriancolleague Harry to get it back for him. But Harry doesn’t want to get his hands dirty andcalls in a favour from the Viennese small-time crook Schorsch. He just wants to sitaround and watch car races all day, so he passes the job to Mao. She has no time either,having to babysit her friend’s daughter, and turns to hot dog stand owners Hans Wurstand Max Durst. This results in a crazy chase for the bag all across Eastern Europe.Austrian writer and director Michael Glawogger (Workingman's Death, Slumming)delivers a psychedelic road movie filled with slapstick humour, absurd situations andmisunderstandings. His heroes Max and Hans are dropped in a mind-expanding tripfacing colourful flying swordfish, hotel walls closing in on them, go-go girls with the headsof German shepherds… Hallucinations and confusion rule supreme ! Contact High, which might as well becalled The Good, The Bad And The Bag, is a weird and funny movie with a great soundtrack featuringElement Of Crime, Tiefschwarz, Calexico, Get Well Soon and Roxy Music. You’ll be crying illustrated tears,and when you leave the film theatre you’ll probably find everything running backwards41

FEROZZ: THE WILD RED RIDING HOOD (Jorge Molina/Costa Rica-Cuba)A Jorge Molina filmScreenplay: Alain Jimenez, Jorge Molina & Edgar Soberon Torchia, based upon Charles Perrault: Little Red Riding HoodCast: Dayana Legra, Roberto Perdomo, Ana Silva Machado, Francisco Garcia, Raul Capote, Waldo Franco, Rosalia Roque, BelkisEstenozRunning time: 72 min.Grandmother is a real pain in the ass. She’s always giving her daughter-in-lawDolores a hart time, even getting her son Lucio to rape her on the dining table . All ofthis in front of Miranda, her granddaughter, and retarded Dully, the incestuous sideeffectof Lucio mistaking his mother for his wife. Two years later, Lucio has kicked thebucket, Grandmother has been exiled to a hut in the middle of the jungle and Dolorescan finally live in peace with daughter Miranda and uncle Innocencio; the only otherpsychologically stable family member, if we leave his Satan worship aside. Time goesby peacefully. Dully relieves himself on a regular basis in front of bathing nymphetsand Miranda secretly cultivates her nymphomaniac neurosis. Then Dolores decides tosend her to Grandmother’s place with a basket full of food. Miranda unwillingly donsher red hot riding hood and sets off alone in the forest.If Charles Perrault had read Nabokov’s Lolita before writing his Red Riding Hood, theodds are that Jorge Molina and he would have been as thick as thieves! Molina, acinema teacher in Cuba and diehard fan of horror flicks, injects this universal tale with a severe dose ofsymbolism and eroticism which would have surely pleased Walerian Borowczyk, the legendary x- ratedmovie troublemaker. With Ferozz he has created a fierce and disturbing piece of art.HELL DRIVER (Yoshihiro Nishimura/Japan)A Yoshihiro Nishimura filmScreenplay: Daichi Nagisa & Yoshihiro NishimuraCast: Asami, Yukihide Benny, Norman England, Yasuhiko Fukuda, Yumiko Hara, Cay Izumi, Kentaro Kishi, Mizuki Kuzumi, Maki Mizui,Yui Murata, Kazuki Namioka, Eihi Shiina, Shijimi, Gadarukanaru Taka, Demo Tanaka, Minoru TorihadaRunning time: 106 min.An alien-spawned, mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan, transformingthose who inhale it into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies hell-bent on devouring thesurviving human population. Plunged into chaos, Japan is torn in two – the southernhalf of the country, where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas, livesbehind a heavily-fortified wall, while the northern half is a lawless, zombie-infectedwasteland. Political forces are locked in a stalemate over whether the living deadshould remain protected as family members or exterminated like a plague. Theeconomy withers away, and all hope seems lost for the people and the nation ofJapan. Hope arrives in the form of Kika, a beautiful high school girl armed with achainsaw sword powered by an artificial heart. Recruited by the government, Kikaleads a ragtag group of desperados on a secret mission into the zombie-infectedwilds to exterminate zombie queen Rikka and put an end to the plague of the livingdead. But the road is fraught with a thriving zombie culture that, with its own designs on the living half ofJapan, refuses to lay down and die.Anybody who’s familiar with the movies of special effects wizard and splatter godfather Yoshihiro Nishimura,will not be surprised when we say that the above synopsis is merely the beginning of the movie. Nishimuraastounded everybody in 2008 with Tokyo Gore Police and is almost solely responsible for all the bloody sfxmayhem in the genre (Machine Girl, Robogeisha, Hard Revenge Millie…). Last year, we had a bloody goodriot with Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl. But this year Nishimura himself will introduce us to his mostambitious project to date. Helldriver is a non-stop splatter opera, a true endurance test for the senses, withrecord breaking quantities of blood, flying limbs and legions of zombies.42

HORNY HOUSE OF HORROR (Jun Tsugita/Japan)A Jun Tsugita filmScreenplay : Jun TsugitaCast : Asami, Mint Sizuki, Saori HaraRunning time: 82 minAfter some solid baseball training, Toshida and Uno drag their recently engaged friendNakazu to one of the many brothels in Japan disguised as massage parlors. Nakazuhas never paid for sex, nor does he intend to begin with it before his betrothed will puta permanent lock on his pants. His friends should have listened to him, because thisparticular house of ill repute in which they find themselves has made a pact with thedevil. The girls specialize in sexually torturing their unfortunate clients. And theirimagination truly knows no bounds. A vagina with razor-sharp teeth, the sushi-penisspecial and a samurai sword are one of the many means with which they separateman from his only best friend. Luckily Nakazu has chosen a prostitute with aconscience. But will this be enough to escape from the Horny House of Horror ?Many Japanese film directors (Takasi Miike to name just one) learned the tricks of their trade on the set of a“pinku” aka a Japanese softporn movie. It has even saved many from dying of poverty during hard times !Now young talent Jun Tsugita surprises us with the very first pinku horror. Horny House of Horror is definitelynot advised to men with castration anxiety, because the extremely graphic special effects are courtesy of theomnipresent Yoshihiro Nishimura (Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl, Helldriver, Mutant Girls Squad).Shamelessly funny and horribly titillating Midnight Movie fare !KARATE ROBO ZABORGAR (Noboru Iguchi/Japan)A Noboru Iguchi filmScreenplay:Cast: Itsuji Itao, Asami, Akira Emoto, Yasuhisa Furuhara, Yuya Ishikawa, Hiroaki Murakami, Yui Murata, Sakichi Sato , Aimi Satsukawa,Kentaro Shimazu, Naoto Takenaka, Demo Tanaka, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Mami YamasakiRunning time: 101 min.Secret police office Daimon inherits a mighty robot warrior named “Zaborgar”from his father, a scientist killed by Sigma, an evil organization bent on worlddomination. Realizing Zaborgar’s potential, Daimon vows to use the robot as aforce for good in the fight against Sigma. During the course of their adventures,Daimon meets and falls in love with a beautiful female cyborg named Ms. Borg.Unfortunately, Ms. Borg becomes an enemy of both Daimon and Zaborgar, adevelopment that creates a deep rift between the crime fighting pair. Just whenthings couldn't get any worse, Daimon discovers that his own department at thepolice force has lost its will to fight for righteousness. Disappointed with life,Daimon quits crime fighting, drops out of society, and becomes a recluse. Butyears later, as Sigma makes its final move to take control of the nations of theEarth, there is no one but Daimon and Zaborgar to stand in their way. Making theirreturn in true 1970s Japanese “tokusatsu” hero style, Daimon and Zaborgarreunite to suppress the forces of evil once and for all!Director Noboru – The Machine Girl – Iguchi recreates the Japanese TV super hero from the seventies,surfing with obvious delight between some crazy special effects – helped by a very comfortable budget – anda tacky retro look.43

PREY (Antoine Blossier/France)An Antoine Blossier filmScreenplay : Antoine Blossier & Erich VogelCast: Bérénice Bejo, Grégoire Colin, François Levantal, Joseph Malerba, Fred Ulysse, Isabelle RenauldRunning time : 80 min.Nathan is visiting his fiancée Claire at her familys estate. When mutilatedanimals are found on the terrain, Claires grandfather, her father and herbrother decide to form a hunting party. They set of into the woods with futureson-in-law Nathan trudging along. A wild boar seems to be the main suspectfor the carnage, but theres something far more dangerous afoot. The familyalso owns a chemical factory and a leak in a tank with an experimental type offertilizer has infected the surrounding wildlife. The pollution has started amutation in the local population of boars, who aggressively attack anything thatbreathes, including themselves. The family members start bickering with eachother, poor Nathan is stuck in between and the boars have tasted blood.Prey is another fine addition to the subgenre of wildlife gone mad. Illustriousexamples like Razorback, Black Sheep and Tremors show what fun you canhave with this when its done right. And with Prey, young debuting directorAntoine Bloissier has done the right thing indeed ! This is one very stylishly filmed horror trip. The foamingbeasties steal the show, but the ones who tear each other apart the most are those animals walking on twolegs. So it gives you lots of pleasure to see how these not very sympathetic characters end us mangled andmutilated in boar stomachs.SIREN (Andrew Hull/UK)An Andrew Hull filmScreenplay: Geoffrey Gunn & Andrew HullCast: Eoin Macken, Anna Skellern, Tereza Srbova, Anthony JabreRunning time: 80 min.Escaping the city for a weekend away, company man Ken and his girlfriend Rachelmeet up with an old friend, the exotic and worldly Marco. Their plan is simple –cruise the Greek isles for a relaxing weekend. Things hit a snag when Marco spots abeautiful young girl, the sultry and seductive Silka, waving for help off the shore ofone of the many secluded islands. But if anyone needs help now, it’s them...With strong allusions to classics such as The Descent, Dead Calm and Open Water,Siren is probably one of the most eagerly awaited Brit-thrillers of the year. Shot inTunisia, this horror flick is a terrifying tale about lust and revenge. It’s a familiar topicfor director Andrew Hull, who has a solid background as art director on films such asP2, Romero’s Bruiser and Absolon. For his first long feature, our fellow Hull musthave had some very pleasant moments with the female cast: Anna Skellern (TheDescent: part two, and the upcoming W.E. directed by Madonna) and Tereza Srbova (Inkheart andCronenberg’s Eastern Promises) are as cute as they are dangerous.44

TETSUO : THE BULLET MAN (Shinya Tsukamoto/Japan)A Shinya Tsukamoto filmScreenplay: Shinya Tsukamoto & Hisakatsu KurokiCast: Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Yuko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain, Shinya Tsukamoto, MichaelDuncan, Alan Koji, Sou Fujita, Markus Wambsganss, Hajime Izuki, Dwayne Lawler, Aldo La Riviere, Yutaka Mishima, GettoRunning time: 71 min.Office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother, lives inTokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony’s mother died ofcancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for their health and rigidly subjectsAnthony and Tom to monthly physicals. Walking home, Tom is killed in a hit and runbefore Anthony’s eyes. Losing their boy pushes Yuriko over the edge and triggersviolent emotions in Anthony, whose body begins to transform. Little by little, his cellsturn to iron. When the driver who killed Tom reappears and Anthony learns the truthabout his father’s past experiments on human guinea pigs and about his mother’sdeath, Anthony mutates into a mass of metal – a human weapon fuelled by anuncontrollable rage.The BIFFF was the first festival in the world to screen Tetsuo (1989); which has sincebecome the cult gem we all know. So it would have been awkward to end this twentyyearadventure without showing the last episode of Tsukamoto’s trilogy. And our chap hasn’t lost an ounce ofhis talent: edgy editing, mystical inserts, sexualisation of the mechanical – reminiscent in some ways ofCronenberg’s Crash (or is it the opposite?) –, industrial themes for the score (thanks to Chu Ishikawa) andTrent “Nine Inch Nails” Reznor for the soundtrack.45

MOTHER’S DAY (Darren Lynn Bousman/USA)FANTASTIC NIGHTA Darren Lyn Bousman filmScreenplay: Scott Milam, based upon Charles Kaufman and Warren Leight's 1980 screenplayCast: Deborah Ann Woll, Shawn Ashmore, Lisa Marcos, Patrick Flueger, Frank Grillo, Jaime King, Tony Nappo, Rebecca De Mornay,Warren Kole, Matt O'Leary, Briana Evigan, Lyriq Bent, Jessie Rusu, Alexa Vega, J. LaRose, Stan LeskRunning time: 112 min.After a bank robbery gone wrong, three brothers head for home… only to discoverthat their mother has lost the house in a foreclosure. The new owners and theirguests, gathered for an ill-timed birthday party, become the brothers’ unwittinghostages. Their mother and sister arrive, and it soon becomes obvious that Motherwill do absolutely anything to protect her children. In one terrifying evening, Motherbrilliantly takes control of the situation and masterminds her sons’ escape. Sides willbe taken, secrets revealed, and sins punished as the hostages struggle to make itthrough the night.A false remake that only borrows the coating of Troma’s original movie from 1980 –directed by Charles Kaufman (yes, brother of…) – Mother’s Day is above all a horrificgem rebooted by Darren Lynn Bousman. Does this name sound familiar to you? He’sthe guy behind Saw II, III, IV and Repo! The Genetic Opera. At this hardcore housewarming party, you willsurely notice Frank Grillo (Minority Report, My Soul to Take), Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine, Sin City) and,last but not least, Rebecca De Mornay, whose hand rocked the cradle a bit longer that we thought…BEDEVILLED (Cheol-So Jang/South Korea)A Cheol-So Jang filmScreenplay: Gwan-You ChoiCast: Min-Ho Hwang, Min Je, Ji-Eun-I Lee, Jeong-Hak Park, Yeong-Hee Seo, Sung-Won JiRunning time: 115 min.Hae-won is a beautiful single woman in her thirties who works at a bank in Seoul city.She leads a busy life until she becomes a witness in an attempted murder case and,at the same time, things get complicated at work. When matters get out of hand, sheis forced to take a vacation and heads for 'Moo-do' Island, a small undeveloped spotwhere she had once visited her grandparents. And where she had befriended a girlnamed, Bok-nam, who still writes to Hae-won asking her to visit despite the fact thatHae-won never bothers to reply. On reaching the island, Hae-won is shocked to seeeveryone treating Bok-nam like a slave. As the only young woman on the island, sheis a plaything for all the men and a free labourer for the women. Sick of all thisinhumane treatment, Bok-nam has tried to escape the island several times in thepast, but failed. She begs Hae-won to help her get away, but Hae-won remains indifferent, not wanting to getinvolved in complicated situations. When Bok-nam realizes that her own daughter will end up like her, shetries to flee the island with her, but her daughter gets killed in the process. And having lost the only thing thathad kept her going due to Hae-won's negligence, Bok-nam takes a sickle in her hand for her revenge.The first long feature from Jang Cheol-soo, Kim Ki-duk’s former assistant, is an instantaneous cult gem!There’s a subgenre in Korean cinema and literature where women have to suffer terrible ordeals from men,but bear everything with dignity and stoic heroism. Bedevilled firmly sticks up its middle finger to all that. Theway in which Bok-nam takes her revenge will fill you both with horror and sympathy.46

KEEPSAKE (Paul Moore/USA)A Paul Moore filmScreenplay : Paul MooreCast: Robert Pralgo, Sunny La Rose, Anna Tulou, Courtney Hogan, Jeffrey Schmidt, Barry EllenbergerRunning time: 101 min.Young photographer Janine is a woman with a troubled past who wants to give herlife a new start. The traditional car engine trouble on a deserted highway is theintroduction to this new beginning, but certainly not the one she would have wanted.A lift from a psychopathic trucker will take her on a trip straight to hell. The manthrows her in a dungeon and gives her thirty days to live. Janine now has to face thedemons from her past as well as the dangers of the present. Bodies are starting topile up, blood is flowing freely. The true nature of her precarious situation revealsitself. Janine is stuck in a grisly game with only one purpose staying alive !There was a time when scary movies gave you plenty of escapism, followed by aliberating catharsis. The (un)human monsters were defeated and the survivorswalked home, hand in hand towards the sunset. With the world around us becoming a very unpleasantplace, a new generation of genre directors genre has stood up to give the middle finger to this traditionalhappy end. One of them is Paul Moore. Keepsake spares us no detail of the brutal degradation of the maincharacter. The label torture porn is a perfect fit for this terror trip.REEF (THE) (Andrew Traucki/Australia)An Andrew Traucki filmScreenplay: Andrew TrauckiCast: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley,Running time: 87 min.Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Mark SimpsonA bunch of friends decide to sail along Queensland’s tropical shores:turquoise water, white sand, palm trees, sun lotion with protection factor50… Paradise ! After their yacht hits a reef and overturns, our cheerfulfellows are a bit less enthusiastic as they find themselves adrift,heading towards the big blue. Luke, the brightest of the bunch,suggests swimming to the nearest island to avoid getting grilled by thehammering sun. According to him, sharks rarely attack humans. So,don’t panic! But what they don’t know is that an 18feet long great whiteshark wants to be the exception to this rule.You really need some cohones to make a shark movie after Jaws or themore recent Open Water. It certainly didn’t frighten Andrew Traucki. Thefact that he scared us into the trees three years ago with Black Water,starring a giant crocodile with an insatiable appetite, might have hadsomething to do with it. And it has to be said. Traucki has succeeded inscaring us out of the water. The Reef is beautifully shot, with effectiveediting and a haunting soundtrack boosting the tension meter into the red. By the way, the movie’s based onactual events. Party poopers who want to know who survived, may now surf to wikipedia, the others arewelcome to get their thrills at the Bifff.47

Out of COMPETITIONAFRO SAMURAI RESSURRECTION (Fuminori Kizaki/Japan-USA)A Fuminori Kizaki FilmScreenplay: Eric S. Calderon, Leo Chu, Eric Garcia, Yasuyuki Muto & Takashi OkazakiVoices: Samuel L. Jackson, Lucy Liu, Mark Hamill,Grey DeLisle, Dave Wittenberg, Liam O'Brien, Zachary Gordon, Yuri Lowenthal, JeffBennett, Steve Blum S. Scott Bullock ,Greg Eagles, Phil LaMarr, Kevin Michael Richardson, the Rza, Ariel WinterRunning time: 90 minAfter Afro Samurai had finally avenged his father’s murder, he was given the chanceto carry the number one headband, the symbol for the world’s best swordfighter. ButAfro renounced the title and retreated to a quiet place to reflect upon a life filled withvengeance and battle. No rest for the wicked though. Afro gets a visit from thecurrent number one, the luscious Lady Sio. Her hatred for him is fierce and morethan justified. He has destroyed everything she ever loved. Through a combination ofbizarre medical technology, alchemy and black magic, she resurrects Afro’s father. Ifhe doesn’t take up the sword again to conquer the number two headband, with whichhe can challenge her, Sio will horribly torture his maker. Afro has no other choicethen to wreck bloody carnage once again, so that the soul of his dad can finally restin peace.Fans of visually dazzling anime will get plenty of kicks from Afro Samurai :Resurrection. There’s no need to have seen the first film to enjoy the adventures of our ultra nihilistic antihero,once again voiced by Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Star Wars). Afro spares no man,woman or child in his quest, which makes you automatically root for Lady Sio, voiced by Lucy Liu (Kill Bill,Charlie’s Angels). The cool-meter reaches further heights by the soundtrack of former Wu Tang clansmanThe RZA (Ghost Dog : The Way of the Samurai, Kill Bill, Repo Men).AKIRA (Katsuhiro Otomo/ Japan)A Katsuhiro Otomo filmScreenplay : Izo Hashimoto & Katsuhiro Otomo, based upon Katsuhiro Otomo's graphic novelVoices: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tetsusho Genda, Hiroshi Otake, Koichi Kitamura, Michihiro Ikemizu, YurikoFuchizaki, Masaaki Okura, Taro Arakawa, Takeshi Kusao, Kazumi Tanaka, Masayuki Kato, Yosuke Akimoto, Masato Hirano,Yukimasa KishinoRunning time: 124 min.On 16 July 1988 Tokyo is destroyed in a nuclear explosion, which is alsothe start of World War 3. 31 years later a new metropolis, Neo-Tokyo,has risen from the ashes on an artificial island in the bay. The city is tornapart by political rivalries, terrorism and gang violence. Kaneda is theleader of the Capsules, a motor gang which is battling for territory with arival gang called the Clowns. When Kaneda and his best friend Tetsuoare pursuing some Clowns on the highway, Tetsuo almost runs over achild with the face of an old man and crashes his bike. Everybody on thescene is arrested, but Tetsuo and the child are transferred to the care ofColonel Shikishima and Doctor Onishi, the responsibles of an ultrasecretgovernment project. It turn out that Tetsuo has the same mentalpowers as Akira, a child with immense telepathic force, who caused theexplosion of 1988.Is it still necessary to present Akira, the animated movie from 1988 whichled to the international breakthrough of anime and which paved the wayfor authors such as Mamoru Oshii (Ghost In The Shell), Satoshi Kon(Paprika), Mamoru Hosada (Summer Wars) and of course director Katsuhiro Otomo himself !? The film,adapted from Otomos popular manga, dealt with themes like the corruptive nature of power, rebelliousyouth, the fear for a nuclear holocaust and the psyche of post-war Japan, but made a lasting impressionbecause of its breathtaking production design and fluid animation. Everybody who was never able to see thislegendary classic on the big screen, will now get the chance to see a brand new, remasterized version at theBIFFF.48

BURKE AND HARE (John Landis/UK)A John Landis FilmScreenplay: Piers Ashcroft & Nick MoorcroftCast: Simon Pegg, Isla Fischer, Tim Curry, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson, Jenny Agutter, Jessica Hynes,HughBonneville, Stephen Merchant, Georgia King, Bill Bailey, David Schofield, Allan Corduner, John Woodvine, Pollyana McIntoshRunning Time: 93 min.In 1827, Edinburgh wasn’t yet renowned for being the cradle of suchcelebrities as Sean Connery or J.K Rowling. Its 19th century pride camemore from anatomy lectures and public dissections at the MedicalCollege. The Bloody Code, which established the death penalty as anational sport – the hangman’s rope for the slightest theft -, offered aconstant renewal of raw material for those wielding the scalpel. But whenthe Code got repealed and fresh corpses became as rare as a legalWikileak, a profitable black market for the recently deceased sprung upovernight. Burke and Hare, two morons specializing in cock-eyed plans,stumble upon this goldmine when they sell the corpse of a senile lodgerto doctor Knox, a renowned college butcher. Pitchforked as Knox’s unofficial suppliers, Burke and Hare starthunting down the dying in every corner of the city. But demand quickly exceeds supply, and our two Victorianbastards are left with no choice but to help death a little.John Landis (Blues Brothers, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, An American Werewolf in London) is back with amacabre tale based on true events. Burke and Hare is a departure from other big screen adaptations due toits dark humor and a first-rate cast: Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as the Laurel and Hardy of serial killersand an anthology of RKO and Hammer cameos (Christopher Lee and Ray Harryhausen for example). Amust for diehard fans!KARMINSKY GRAD (Jean-Jacques Rousseau/Belgium)A Jean-Jacques Rousseau filmScreenplay : Jean-Jacques RousseauCast : Noël Godin, André Stas, Léon Stone, Vladimir Kamenev, Pierre S., Tommy Gun, Béla Olâh, Rémy S. Legrand, Olga S., FrancisSomville, Martine Tonon, Fanchon Daemers, Eric Tilmant, Maria Ventura, Ronald LeclercqRunning time : 95 min.Convinced Stalinist Bolshevik Igor Yaboutich prepares the most daring coup ever:destroying the Christian West. He decides to use the most powerful weapon ofmass destruction there is: the atomic bomb! We are in Charleroi, renamedKarminsky-Grad, the city where he'll work out this dark plan. In the nuclear armsfactory, the sinister bosses Vladimir Karminsky and Reinhard Heydrich rule withan iron fist. They ruthlessly suppress their employees. This results in a workersrevolt, followed by the killing of their oppressors. Chaos rapidly grows. Thesituation gets out of hands and seems beyond control for the Chinese, Arab,Russian and German leaders, whom are all united against the Americans. OnlyIgor Yaboutich survives in this city of madness. Will he start a new World War?The Belgian self-proclaimed filmmaker of the absurd, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,has done it again ! His Karminsky Grad is a sequel to his own movie The Gulag ofTerror, in which we first meet the character of Igor Yaboutich. Rousseau hasalways dreamed of making a movie about the conflict between Russians and Americans, especially duringthe Reagan years, when two demented old men held their trembling fingers over a big red button. Whatbetter place than Charleroi, world champion of industrial decline, to realize this dream. Journalist Noël Godin,notorious for throwing cakes in the faces of the world's finest, has a big part in the film, so hold on to yourseats, boys and girls !49

LUSTER (Adam Mason/USA)An Adam Mason filmScreenplay: Simon Boves & Adam MasonCast : Tommy Flanagan, Billy Burke, Holly Valance, Xander Berkeley, Matthew Rhys, Tara Summers, Zelda Williams, Andrew Howard,Pollyanna Rose, Guy Burnet, Tess Panzer, Ian Ducan, Thang, Kyoko Okazaki, Robert Hooven, Sarah EssexRunning time: 104 minThomas Luster is a self made businessman with a tidy little life, a charmingwife… and recurring insomnia. One fine day, he starts receiving somestrange notes. He initially suspects his neighbor, a formed child star, whoogles his beloved wife like a turkey ready for stuffing. But the notes keep oncoming and Thomas, who’s getting ever more paranoid, is now convincedthat an intruder is paying them a visit during the night. Without a glimpse ofhesitation, he installs CCTV at home, ready to host his very own Big Brothershow. But when he watches the tapes, a vivid nightmare replaces hisinsomnia. Thomas meets Luster, his Machiavellian alter ego who doesn’tmind getting blood on his hands.After Blood River, shown last year at the BIFFF, Adam Mason is back inBrussels with Luster, a Hitchockian dive in a dazed subconscious thatborrows simultaneously from the Swedish “Sleepwalker’ and the classicJekyll/Hyde dilemma. On the screen, apart from the brilliant Andrew Howard(The Devil’s Chair, Blood River) as Luster, are some impressive newcomers:Billy Burke (Twilight) and Tommy Flanagan (Sons of Anarchy, Gladiator). Abrilliant bit of casting for a movie called “Luster”. Could that be a premonition?MEANT TO BE (Paul Breuls/Belgium)A Paul Breuls filmScreenplay: Kara HoldenCast: Kelly Reilly, Mia Maestro, Kris Marshall, Santiago Cabrera, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Marisé Alvarez, Jessenia Da Silva Rios, RafaelChristian, Norman Grant, Leonardo Castro, Jose Oyola, Elmer Tollinchi Ruiz, Brian TesterRunning time: 90 min.When the Big Boss tells guardian angel Will that he no longer has to watch over thebeautiful young architect Amanda, someone he has protected her entire life, he gets thisstrange feeling, a feeling he cannot let go, a feeling that mortals call “love”. Convincedthat he and Amanda are destined for one another, Will convinces his best friend Archieto help him with his rebellious mission. He abandons his wings and is transformed intoflesh and blood. Will has seven days to win Amanda’s heart and put aside his love rival,the charming Puerto Rican Ben. While Will is wrestling with what it all means to bemortal, he discovers that it’s not that easy to change fate. Some things are just meant tobe.Paul Breuls is known as one of Belgium’s most active producers, having worked withHugo Claus (The Sacrament, Closure), Dominic Deruddere (Suite 16) and Eric Van Looy(Shades). In recent years he has gone international, having produced films by John Daly (The BoxCollector), Lee Tamahori (The Devil’s Double) and John McTiernan’s latest (Shrapnel, 2012). He switchedsides in 2009 by directing his first feature The Hessen Affair. This experience gave him a taste for filmmakingand led to his second long feature, Meant To Be, a heartwarming romantic comedy with a touch of magic.Julian Rhind-Tutt (The River King, Stardust) plays the angel who falls head over heels for the lovely Amanda,a part by Kelly Reilly (Eden Lake, Sherlock Holmes).50

MUTANTS (David Morley/France)A David Morley filmScreenplay : Louis-Paul Desanges & David MorletCast : Hélène de Fougerolles,Francis Renaud, Dida, Marie-Sohna Condé, Nicolas Briançon, Luz Mando,Driss Ramdi,GrégoryGivernaud, Justine Bruneau de la Salle, Jérémy Loth, Sébastien Rouquette, Frédéric Troussier, Cyril Hipaux, Nicolas Leprêtre, CécileCorsalan, Emmanuel LanziRunning time : 85 minMarco and his pregnant wife Sonia have a promising future ahead until a virustransforms the majority of humanity into bloodthirsty zombie mutants. They have to runif they don't want to get infected themselves. They try to fight their way to Noah, amilitary base where they are working on finding a cure. On this trip, Marco gets bittenduring an attack. But not all hope is lost. Sonia seems to be immune to the virus, havingbeen bitten earlier. She takes her husband to a giant abandoned facility and tries to dealwith Marco’s transformation. Meanwhile she also has to fend off other mutants. Thepregnant Sonia realises that she must now fight the worst possible enemy : the man sheloves.Just until recently, France seemed to specialize in extremely brutal horror films. With Mutants, writer-directorDavid Morlet shows that love is possible in a zombie setting. He has crafted a beautiful love story that willappeal to a wide audience. Unlike most traditional genre movies, Marco's transformation doesn’t happen in awink. His metamorphosis is slow, haunting and disturbingly painful! Morlet was obviously inspired by DannyBoyle’s 28 Days Later, but he also manages to throw some Cronenberg-like body horror among the zombiechases. Starring Hélène de Fougerolles and Dida Diafat, who'll show you how far you can go to save a lovedone.PROWL (Patrick Syversen/USA)A Patrick Syversen filmScreenplay : Tim ToriCast : Ruta Gedmintas, Courtney Hope, Bruce Payne, Joshua Bowman, George Oliver, Velizar Peev, Elitsa Rajeva, Saxon Trainor,Perdita Weeks, Jamie BlackleyRunning time: 81 min.Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friendsto accompany her to find an apartment in the big city. When their transportationbreaks down, she and her friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a truck.But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is hundreds ofcartons of blood, they panic. Their panic turns to terror when the truck disgorgesthem into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn tohunt on human prey, which, the friends realize, is what they now are.The first long feature in the series produced by After Dark (distributor ofSkinwalker, Mulberry Street and ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, amongothers), Prowl has all the ingredients for a terrific horror cocktail: the Norwegiandirector, Patrick Syversen, undoubtedly made a very strong impression with hishomemade slasher Manhunt and is now given the chance to slaughter someaspiring young actors in the US. Courtney Hope, the new Texan scream queen,plays hide and seek with a bunch of frightful bastards. And British actor BrucePayne (Passenger 57, Highlander: Endgame) gets the part of the viciousflunkey. On your marks, ready… Run for your life!51

PHASE 7 (Nicolas Goldbart/Argentina)A Nicolas Goldbart filmScreenplay: Nicolas GoldbartDaniel Hendler, Jazmin Stuart, Yayo Guridi, Carlos Bermejo, Abian Vainstein, Sung Kim Chang, Patricia Gutierrez,Federico LuppiRunning time: 96 min.Just when Coco and his seven months pregnant wife Pipi have settled in their new flat,the authorities hermetically seal the building. One of their neighbors seems to havebeen infected with the latest killer virus. The emergency phone number doesn’t workand the inhabitants are left to fend on their own. It doesn’t take long before the situationspirals out of control. Their neighbors turn into enemies and Coco is forced to forge analliance with the unstable and paranoid, but extremely well armed Horacio to protect hiswife and the contents of his fridge. Meanwhile outside the building, the world as weknow it, is rapidly disappearing.Luckily there are also films where you can have a good laugh with the end of all things.Phase 7, hailing from Argentina, presents us with the lighter and funnier side of theApocalypse. Director Nicolas Goldbart has found an original way to show the usual disintegration of society.Just when you think you know where the story is heading, he twists and turns it into a completely differentdirection. The humor is as absurd as it is outrageous, but it all remains perfectly credible. Federico Lupi(Cronos, The Devil’s Backbone) is outstanding as Horacio, an elderly Rambo with a very itchy trigger finger.RAMMBOCK (Marvin Kren/Germany)A Marvin Kren filmScreenplay: Benjamin HesslerCast: Michael Fuith, Anka Graczy, Theo Trebs, Melanie Berke, Sabrina Caramanna, Emily Cox, Carsten Behrendt, Mila Gach, HaraldGeil, Sebastian Achilles,Jörn Hentschel, Arno Kölker, Brigitte Kren, Nenad Lucic, Steffen Münster, Ingrid BeerbaumRunning time: 64 min.A bunch of zombies is invading the German capital. Some survivors are stuck inan apartment complex which is surrounded by the raging hordes. One of them isMichael, who got the stupid idea of putting the pieces back together with his exgirlfriend. But there’s a snag; anxiety makes you hungry. And when the fridge isempty, while you yourself are on the menu of those folks downstairs, you have todo something, even if that means swapping with the neighbours; – food formedication, for instance. Michael and the other inhabitants do their utmost torespect this new mantra: eat or be eaten and trying to survive this nightmare inone piece, of course.A. Romero.Rammbock, a huge surprise at the last Cannes Film Market, offers a freshapproach to genre cinema. Marvin Kren, best known for his short movies(among which the multi-awarded Shautag), wraps up his feature in 64 minutes,by cutting through the flesh and going straight to the bone, with a story andcharacters that are more related to Danny Boyle and Zack Snyder than George52

RARE EXPORTS (Jalmari Helander/Finland-France-Norway)A Jalmari Helander filmScreenplay: Jalmari HelanderCast: Onni Tommila, Jorma Tommila, Tommi Korpela, Rauno Juvonen, Jonathan Hutchings, Ilmari Jarvenpaa, Peeter Jakobi,Per Christian Ellefsen, Risto Salmi, Jens Sivertsen, Sigmund Boe, Olav Pedersen, Nils M. Iselvmo, Steinar Skogstad, NilsNymo, Hjalmar IselvmoRunning time: 78 min.In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies Christmas’s mostclosely-guarded secret ever. But the time has come to dig it up! Way up north inFinland, right on the border with Russia, lies one of Santa Claus’s supposed homes.For the last couple of months, an international team of “archaeologists,” working forSubzero Inc. and led by a weird Brit, has been mysteriously digging away at a largehill, wreaking havoc on the environment. The locals, mostly Samis and Laplanders,are furious. The annual reindeer round-up, which happens a few days beforeChristmas, has been ruined, dealing a devastating blow to the local economy.Especially annoyed is Rauno, a single father who’s struggling to make ends meet anddeal with his imaginative, physically underdeveloped son, Pietari. Though he doesn’ttotally fit in with the community, Pietari is insatiably curious and notices things thatothers don’t. Specifically, he’s realized that the dig is somehow related to Santa Claus,but this isn’t exactly the Santa from animated Christmas specials or nineteenth-century American doggerel.This Santa is, to put it mildly, a little harsher.Only a Finnish film would have the guts to mistreat the legendary Santa Claus, whose official address is inLapland (Northern Finland). Jalmari Helander already gave it a shot in 2003, with his short Rare Exports Inc.;but this time, it’s on the big screen and, along with Troll Hunter, it’s creating one of Scandinavia’s biggestbuzzes of the year!SPEAK (THE) (Anthony Pierce/USA)An Anthony Pierce filmScreenplay: Brett Donowho, Lamont Magee, Anthony Pierce & Martin WileyCast: Kristina Anapau, Tom Sizemore, Tina Casciani, Brett Donowho, Steven Nelson, Michael Klinger, Una Jo BladeRunning time: 85 minDirector Shelly isn’t really known for making high brow art. This documentaryfilm maker with inflated ego earns a living with voyeurism and sensation. Forhis latest project, he wants to spend the night with his crew in the worsthaunted hotel of the US. His presenter, Malia, is also a medium and issupposed to get as many ectoplasmic entities in front of the camera aspossible. The crew try to get things going with a spiritual séance in which theyevoke the ghostly inhabitants of the hotel. The problem for Shelly and Malia isthat their response is so enthusiastic that it’s doubtful they will ever let themgo.Just before the financial crisis broke out in the US, real estate broker AnthonyPierce decided to say goodbye to the housing market to devote himself to histrue passion, which was cinema of course, otherwise we wouldn’t even talkabout him here. He also wrote the script for his first long feature, The Speak,and showed himself to be a risk taker, as he set foot on the overcrowded fieldof reality horror. Mission Accomplished nevertheless, thanks to the inventive form of The Speak, consisting ofwebisodes of 12 minutes; in which we are forced to share the horrifying ordeal of Shelly and his crew.53

SUPER (James Gunn/USA)A James Gunn filmScreenplay : James GunnCast: Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, Nathan Fillion, Linda Cardellini, Lloyd KaufmanRunning time: 96 minFrank D’Arbo, a deeply religious cook, watches in anguish how his stunninglybeautiful wife Sarah leaves him for the slick drug dealing strip club owner Jacques.He sinks away in a deep depression in front of the television. In a feverish dream,he gets a message from God : “Thou shalt fight the scum of the Earth with thinewrench.”. A reborn Frank stitches a brightly colored spandex suit together anddeparts on a one-man crusade against petty thieves, pedophiles, junkies and eachand every law breaking citizen he can hit with his wrench. His antics inspire cutecomic-strip clerk Libby, who enthusiastically joins him as his sidekick Boltie. Thetwo kick, fight and scratch their way to Frank’s ultimate goal : liberating Sarah fromJacques’ clutches.James Gunn, scriptwriter of Dawn of the Dead and director of Slither, must havebeen mad as hell when last year’s Kick-Ass started to… well, kick ass. Gunn hadalready been working for years on a movie about an ordinary guy with a superhero complex. But Super isanything but a copy of our 2010 closing film. The violence is a lot more extreme, the humor is grimmer andthe story is more dramatic. His “Troma-roots” (Lloyd Kaufman has a cameo!) are also clearly visible in hisstyle, a fusion between horror and satire. And the cast is to die for : Rainn Wilson (Galaxy Quest) as Frankaka Crimson Bolt, Lyv Tyler (Armaggedon, Lord of the Rings) as Sarah, Kevin Bacon (Tremors, Mystic River)as Jacques and Ellen Page (Hard Candy, Juno) as sidekick Boltie.TRIGUN : BADLANDS RUMBLE (Satoshi Nishimura/Japan)A Satoshi Nishimura filmScreenplay : Yasuko Kobayashi, based upon Yasuhiro Nightow's mangaVoices : Sho Hayami, Tsutomu Isobe, Masaya Onosaka, Maaya Sakamoto, Hiromi Tsuru, Satsuki YukinoRunning time: 93 minMakka is a prosperous desert town surrounded by quicksand. Its busystreets are alive with disturbing rumors that the notorious robber Gasbackhas set his eyes on the city. Mayor Kepler does not want to take any chancesand recruits an entire legion of bounty hunters, which isnt that difficult, withGasback having an astronomical bounty on his head. Insurance agentsMeryl and Milly are also in town. To their horror, they discover that if the giantstatue of Mayor Kepler would fall prey to Gasbacks fury, their companywould go bankrupt in paying out the insurance. That another notorioustroublemaker, Vash The Stampede, has also decided to pay a visit, onlyhelps to complicate things even further.Fans of the popular manga and television series will not be disappointed.Trigun : Badlands Rumble, five years in the works, contains all the elementsin which it excels : hilarious situations, kinetic combat and dramatic storylines, but this time presented in a visually and technically impressive longfeature. Those who are not familiar with the series, shouldnt be afraid. Thestory is smart enough to familiarize yourself with the typical atmosphere and characters of the Trigununiverse. The production was handled by the reputed Madhouse Studios (Satoshi Kons Paprika, MamoruHosadas Summer Wars).54

THIRTEEN ASSASSINS (Takashi Miike/Japan-UK)A Takashi Miike filmScreenplay : Daisuke Tengan, based upon Kaneo Ikegami's screenplayCast : Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya, Goro Inagaki, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Masachika Ichimura, Mikijiro Hira, HirokiMatsukata, Ikki Sawamura, Arata Furuta, Masataka Kubota, Sosuke Takaoka, Seiji Rokkaku, Yuma Ishigaki, Koen Kondo,Ikki NamiokaRunning time: 126 min.Japan, the middle of the 19th century. After more than two centuries of peace, theShogunate has become a shadow of itself. The samurai are bored to death andspend their time drinking and gambling. Lord Naritsugu, the sadistic brother of theShogun, murders and rapes without fear of being punished. He’s just a heartbeataway from the throne. Because of Naritsugu’s status, the honorable chamberlainDoi can not openly attack him. He asks Shinzaemon, one of the last true samurai, toassemble a team of 13 warriors for a suicide mission. To kill Naritsugu, you have toget pasts hundreds of bodyguards, who’re being led by an old friend ofShinzaemon. The thirteen manage to lead Naritsugu’s convoy to a small villagewhere they have prepared an ambush. An explosive, bloody and hopelessconfrontation lies ahead.Takashi Miike (The Audition, Ichi The Killer, Zebraman) is probably Japan’s mostversatile director. With 13 Assassins, he has pulled of a magnificent mix somewhere in between AkiraKurosawa’s Seven Samurai and Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen. Do not expect an ironic genre homagelike his Sukiyaki Western Django. 13 Assassins is one very serious samurai movie indeed, where honor is allthat matters and where it’s better to chop off one more head just to be sure. The formidable Koji Yakusho(Cure, Eureka, Babel) would even give Toshiro Mifune a run for his money with his interpretation ofShinzaemon, the fearless leader of the 13 Assassins.TRUE BLOOD (Daniel Minahant & Scott Winant/USA)A Daniel Minahant & Scott Winant filmScreenplay: Brian Buckner & Raelle Tucker, based upon Charlaine Harris’ novels, an Alan Ball creationCast: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Marshall Allman, Chris Bauer, Kristin Bauer VanStraten, Nelsan Ellis, Todd Lowe, Jim Parrack, Carrie Preston, William Sanderson, Alexander Skarsgard, Deborah Ann Woll,Evan Rachel WoodRunning time:After Japanese scientists invented a synthetic form ofblood called “Tru Blood”, vampires were finally able to“come out of the coffin” and start integrating themselves inhuman society. Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in thesmall Southern town of Bon Temps. She’s always feltisolated because of her ability to hear other people’sthoughts. But when Bill Compton, a handsome, twohundredyear old vampire walks into the bar, she discoversthat she cannot hear what he thinks. A stormy, passionateromance ensues between the two of them. In the firstseason, Bill and Sookie have to find the killer of severalwomen in Bon Temps, whom are all related to Sookiesolder brother Jason. The second season centers on thesearch for Eldric, a 2000 year old vampire. The Fellowship of the Sun, a Dallas-based Church whovehemently opposes vampire integration, might have something to do with this. At the beginning of the thirdseason, Sookie has accepted Bill’s proposal to marry her. But he’s nowhere to be found.Being at a film festival, you would almost forget that some of the best contemporary genre fiction can beseen on the little screen. The Bifff, in collaboration with Be.TV gives you an exclusive preview to the thirdseason of True Blood, the acclaimed TV series by Allan Ball (Six Feet Under), based on The SouthernVampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris. The show soon became the most watched HBO series sincethe Sopranos. True Blood has been wildly praised for its enticing blend of fantasy, horror, mystery, humor anderoticism, while some critics also found an allegory in the vampires fight for recognition with the civil rightsmovement and the struggle for gay and lesbian rights. Another major draw is that the on-screen passionbetween star crossed lovers Sookie and Bill, played by Anna Paquin (The Piano, X-Men) and Stephen Moyer(Quills, Priest), is as real as can be, as they became a couple while shooting the series.55

THE WALKING DEAD: Season 1: episode 1Director : Frank DarabontScreenplay: Charlie Adlard, Frank Darabont, Robert Kirkman, Tony MooreCast: Andrew Lincoln, John Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie HoldenRunning time: 66 minutesThe Walking Dead tells the story of the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. Itfollows a small group of survivors, traveling across the desolate UnitedStates in search of a new home away from the shuffling hordes of theundead. The group is led by Rick Grimes, who was a sheriff’s deputy in asmall Georgia town before the zombie outbreak. As their situation growsmore precarious, the group's desperation to survive pushes them to thebrink of insanity. At every turn they are faced with the unspeakable horrorsthat come from having the dead walk again, as well as facing hostility fromthe scattered remains of a struggling human populace who are focused ontheir own survival, now that the structures of society have collapsed.When rumors were confirmed that director Frank Darabont (The ShawshankRedemption, The Green Mile, The Mist) was working with producer GaleAnne Hurd (The Terminator movies) on an television adaptation of thebestselling zombie comics by Robert Kirkman, the series soon became oneof the most anticipated shows in TV history. And you will not bedisappointed. The first season of The Walking Dead was hailed by criticsnot as one of the best horror series in recent years but simply as one of thebest TV series in recent years, period ! Darabont has captured Kirkman’soppressive world in breathtaking detail and with a cinematic and emotional scope that far exceeds the littlescreen. Now the Bifff, in collaboration with Be.Tv, will give you an exclusive preview by screening the pilotepisode of season one. Do not miss this unique opportunity !THE WARDA John Carpenter filmScreenplay : Michael & Shawn RasmussenCast : Amber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca,Danielle Panabaker, Jared Harris, Mamie Gummer,Mika Boorem, Sydney Sweeney, Laura Leigh, Milos Milicevic, Sean Cook, Jillian Kramer, Sali Sayler, D.R. Anderson, R.J. Hampton,Susanna Burney, Tracy SchornickRunning time: 88 min1966. Kristen, a scantily clad young woman, runs through the woods, with thepolice hot on her heels. She manages to reach an abandoned farmhouse, whichshe promptly torches before the cops can arrest her. She wakes up in a psychiatrichospital without any memories of how she got there. Kristen is put under the careof Dr. Stringer, who places her with a group of four other traumatized girls andsubjects them to a new kind of therapy. Of course they’re supposed to get better,but the thing is that no one has ever left the ward; at least not officially, becausemany former residents simply vanished without a trace.The Ward is Master of Horror John Carpenter’s first feature since 2001’s Ghosts ofMars and it looks like the director of Halloween, The Thing and Escape From NewYork is still capable of delivering the goods. It even feels like a relief to see anatmospheric horror flic of the kind they used to make in the 70ties, but providedwith top notch contemporary camerawork and sound design. And Carpenterdemonstrates that he can still use his considerable arsenal of horror and shock effects to maximum effect.With scream queen Amber Heard (All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, Drive Angry) as Kristen and Jared Harris(Tv’s Mad Men and The Fringe) as the sinister Dr. Stringer.56

WORKSHOP 2011You might be born as a movie lover and you might even be a diehard genre fan, but tobecome a genuine moviemaker, you’ll undoubtedly need some training. That’s why everyyear the BIFFF organizes its Workshop “Fantastic Brussels”. This unique experienceallows students of two Brussels based film schools (RITS and INSAS) to direct two shortmovies under the supervision of an experienced and renowned foreign film director.For this 16 th edition, the big boss is Jake West, Englishfilmmaker with some heavy stuff on his CV: Razor Blade Smile,Evil Aliens (presented at the BIFFF in 2006), and his latest, theanti macho zombie flick Doghouse.Practically speaking, the shooting will take place on the 22 nd , 23 rd and 24 th of March. Theediting and the post-production will go on from March 25 th until March 30 th . And the officialscreening will, off course, take place at the BIFFF during its Belgian Fantastic Film Day !And there are also some Prizes to be attributed. One lucky student will receive the Eye-Lite Award (2500€ of lightning equipment for a next project). The BIFFF will also awardsome students with two prizes for those who distinguished themselves during the entireproduction process.Let us seize the opportunity to warmly thank the Flemish Community Commission of theBrussels Capital Region and our professional partners Eye-Lite, Maquillages S.A., E.S.Broadcast & Media, TV Connections and Le Site for their indispensable support.57

GuestSOlivier AbbouBetween 1998 and 2004, he produced a series of short films all broadcaston Canal+, TPS, France 3 and won awards in several festivals. In 2007,he directed for Canal+ mini-series Madame Hollywood, co-written byBertholon Delphine and performed by Delphine Chanéac and Liza Manilli.In 2009, he directed Territories, a psychological thriller co-produced withCanada. In 2011, he produced for Arte a comedy adventure fiction YesWe Can!.Filmo−−−−−−−1997 : Un jour de plus (CM)1999 : Clin d'œil (CM)2000 : Le Tombeur (CM)2003 : Manon (CM)2007 : Madame Hollywood (série télévisée)2010 : Territories2011 : Yes We can ! (téléfilm)Paco CabezasIn the Eighties, Paco Cabezas worked in the video libraries and spent his time lookingat films of Scorsese, Raimi and of Álex de la Iglesia. Thereafter, he leaves the shopand writes a scenario entitled Sexykiller (which he will obtain the Price of the Publicwith the BIFFF in 2009). In 2007, he directed his first feature film: The Appeared. Anddue to the accumulation of awards for his short film Neon Flesh in 2005, he nowpresents the feature version where he mixes comedy and thriller.Filmo−−−−2010 : Neon Flesh2007 : The Appeared2005 : Neon Flesh (short)2000 : Invasion Travesti (short)58

Hou Chi JanAfter his studies and his military service on an isolated island near Taiwan,Hou Chi Jan produced a series of short films between 2003 and 2007 beforeembarking on the creation of his first feature film One Day. This film reflects hisexperience and memories of his youth, his studies, military service and travelby boat to go to the island of Kinmen.Filmo−−−−−2010 : One Day2007 : Shopping Cart Boy (short)2005 : Taiwan Black Movies (documentary)2005 : My 747 (DigiBeta) (short)2003 : Stardust (experimental short)Zoé FélixAfter various stages of drama and comedy and two years at the Beaux-Arts, Zoé Félixappeared for the first time on screen in 1998 with the drama Déjà Mort by Olivier Dahan,for which she won the award for Best Actress Award at the Festival Young Comedians ofBeziers. Short films later, the actress seduced Michaël Youn in the comedy La Beuze.Incorporating castings comedies Le Coeur des hommes by Marc Esposito andL’Anniversaire by Diane Kurys, she attracted Titoff and Frederic Diefenthal in L’incruste.Denying some movies, Zoé Félix plays again under the guidance of director MarcEsposito in the adaptation of his novel Toute la beauté du monde. In 2008, she playedthe wife of Kad Merad in the film Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis of Dany Boon and shesucceeded Mélanie Doutey in the second season of Clara Sheller.Filmo−−−−−−−−2008 : Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis2006 : Toute la beauté du monde2005 : L'Anniversaire2004 : L'Incruste2003 : Le Cœur des hommes2003 : La Beuze2000 : Pour l'amour du ciel1998 : Déjà mort59

Andy FetscherAfter high school graduation Andy Fetscher worked as a free photographer for a stockphotography agency in Germany. From 2001 to 2007 he studied cinematography anddirecting at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg, where he began to make a name forhimself with a number of short movies such as Bucharest Fish and Kingdom of theYouth. Finally he debuted with the full long horror feature Bucharest Flesh that hasbeen invited to a numerous of festivals; including Brussels International Fantastic FilmFestival 2008. Urban Explorer is his first co-production with America.Filmo−−−−2011 : Urban Explorer (post-production)2007 : Bucharest Flesch2005 : Kingdom of the Youth (short)2004 : Bucharest Fish (short)Yann GozlanIt is the psychological thriller that Yann Gozlan began his career in short films.For the company Les Films au long cours, the young director directs two: Pellis,Price of Jury at the Festival of Villeurbanne, which tells the anguish of a doctor indermatology suddenly faced with medical traumatic events. He continues withEcho, which incorporates the theme of paranoia and pays special attention tothe soundscape. The plot centers around a pregnant woman suffering fromanxiety and original treatment earned him the Grand Prize Short Film Festival ofGerardmer. These cards open him the doors of feature film. And in 2010, hedirected Captifs, a extremely dark thriller about organ trafficking in EasternEurope, with Zoe Felix, Arie Elmaleh and Eric Savin.Filmo−−−2010 : Captifs2007 : Echo (CM)2004 : Pellis (CM)60

David MorleyRevealed by his short film Organik that petrified spectators at movie theatersGerardmer, David Morley made his first feature film with zombies soberly calledMutants. A cross between 28 Weeks Later and the remake of The Fly by Cronenbergwhere Helen de Fougerolles, Francis Renaud and boxer Dida Diafat try to surviveFilmo− 2008 : Mutants (présentation Hors-Compétition au Festival de Gérardmer en 2009)− 2007 : Morsure (CM)− 2005 : Organik (CM récompensé au Festival de Gérardmer en 2005)Patrick Quinet(Belgium).After studying directing at the INSAS (1987-1991), he began working as assistantstage manager, production manager and especially the first assistant director. In1992, he founded Artemis Media, became Artemis Productions in 1994. Since2001, Patrick Quinet is President of the Union of French Film Producers (UPFF). Inthis case, in close collaboration with the Belgian Minister of Finance (DidierReynders), he worked to create a "Tax-Shelter" Belgian whose the legislation isapplicable since April 2003. In March 2003, Patrick Quinet created the productioncompany LIAISON CINEMATOGRAPHIQUE sarl, majority owned by ArtemisProductions, but the ownership is shared with companies Samsa Film(Luxembourg) NORTHWEST PRODUCTION (France), ENTRE CHIEN ET LOUPFilmo−−−−−−−−−−2010 : Sans Queue Ni Tête (Coproducteur) de Jeanne Labrune2010 : L'âge De Raison (Producteur Associé) de Yann Samuell2009 : La Régate (Producteur) de Bernard Bellefroid2008 : Le Jour Où Dieu Est Parti En Voyage (Producteur, Coproducteur) de Philippe Van Leeuw2008 : Diamant 13 (Producteur, Acteur, Producteur Délégué) de Gilles Béhat2007 : Où Est La Main De L'Homme Sans Tête ? (Coproducteur) de Guillaume Malandrin et deStéphane Malandrin2007 : Jcvd (Coproducteur) de Mabrouk El Mechri2007 : Le Premier Venu (Producteur, Producteur Délégué) de Jacques Doillon2006 : La Couleur Des Mots (Acteur)de Philippe Blasband2006 : J'Aurais Voulu être Un Danseur (Producteur) de Alain Berliner61

Talal SelhamiHe made his directing and writing debut in the world of theatre, aged 18, with twofarcical plays in collaboration with the 'Centre Culturel Français' in Casablanca. Acinema enthusiast, he thrives on genre movies' and shoots his fourth short filmSinistra in 2006, which is awarded numerous prizes and shown in prestigiousfestivals. In 2007, Arte (a pan-European TV channel), La Ligue contre le cancer (aFrench cancer charity) and the French Department of Health give his movie Partir enfumée a prize for best commercial film for the prevention of cancer. In 2009 heshoots for Ali'N Productions his first feature film Mirages, a single-set movie in theMoroccan desert, produced by famous director Nabil Ayouch. He is currentlyworking on Carnival of Illusions, a French/Spanish co-production for which he is alsoscriptwriter, and hard boiled/horror film called The Oasis, which is aFrench/Moroccan productionFilmo−−−−−−−−2011 : L’Oasis2010 : Mirages2006 : Partir en Fumée (CM)2006 : Sinistra (CM)2005 : Conséquence d’un casse (sans grandes incidences) (CM)2004 : La victime du passé (CM)2004 : Etrange ? (CM)2003 : Patient X (CM)Miguel Angel VivasMiguel Angel Vivas is a Spanish director and screenwriter. After having directed twoshort films he made in 2002 his first feature film Reflections for PRODUCTIONSDREAM. Then he wrote and directed the short film I'll see you in my dreams in Portugalfor which he won the award for Best Short Film at the Fantasia Festival in 2004 and theSilver Méliès for Best European Short Film at Fantasporto. In 2010, he introduced themovie Kidnapped.Filmo−−−−−2010 : Secuestrados2003 : I'll See You in My Dreams (short)2002 : Reflejos2002 : El hombre del saco (short)1998 : Tesoro (short)62

Frédérique BelShe studied modern literature at the University of Strasbourg where shegraduated. But she is known for her portrayal of Dorothy Doll, the stereotype of ablonde in the sequence entitled La Minute Blonde on Canal+. At the same time,she made several appearances in cinema. Including its small role of Miss Francein comedy Un ticket pour l'espace by Eric Lartigau alongside Kad Merad andOlivier Barroux. Then she plays a first role in the romantic comedy of EmmanuelMouret: Changement d'adresse. She has also a second important role in Vilainein 2008. The actress also plays alongside Kad Merad in the film Safari releasedin 2009. She continues to make appearances in the series Le Groupe, in Un gars, une fille and in Livre VI ofthe series Kaamelott. In 2010, it is especially the poster of Adèle Blanc-Sec, directed by Luc BessonFilmo− 2010 : Red Nights− 2010 : Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec− 2009 : Safari− 2008 : Vilaine− 2008 : Les Dents de la nuit− 2007 : Un baiser s'il vous plaît− 2006 : Changement d'adresse− 2006 : Camping− 2006 : Un ticket pour l'espace− 2006 : Petits meurtres en famille− 2005 : Imposture− 2004 : Un long dimanche de fiançailles−Julien Carbon et Laurent CourtiaudSuccessively classical musician, journalist and film critic for Julien Carbon, audiovisual director, writer andjournalist for Laurent Courtiaud it is through their passion for Asiancinema that the two men met in Paris in 1990. They will join first toButterfly Warriors, a luxurious fanzine on film from Asia. In 1996 theysold their first screenplay to director Tsui Hark, who invites them tojoin. They include the Film Workshop as writers for whom they developseveral scenarios. At the end of their contract, they begin their ownexperience and they became known in 1998 with Running Out of Time.They go to Vancouver to participate in shooting of Black Door KitWong, whom they signed the scenario. Then they engaged in thehistory of Black Mask 2 and write the screenplay for The Talisman for Michelle Yeoh. They are assistants towrite several works of Wong Kar-wai, as In the Mood for Love. In 2007, they founded their productioncompany Red East Pictures in collaboration with director Wong Kit, to make their own films. In 2009, the duomade their first film Red Nights.Filmo− 2011 : Red Nights− 2002 : Le Talisman (Tian mai chuan qi)− 2002 : Black Mask 2: City of Masks (Hak hap 2)− 2000 : Black Door− 1999 : Running Out of Time (Aau chin)63

Alex de la IglesiaÁlex de la Iglesia is a director, screenwriter and film producer born in 1965 in Bilbao.Student of the "big school" film clubs, designer and art director on movie andtelevision sets, he started directing in the early 90s with his first feature, MutantAction, a satirical comedy flirting with gore. Thus begin an international reputationand success for a work spot to date nine feature films (El día de la bestia, LaComunidad, Perdita Durango, 800 balas, La Habitación del niño, Crimen Ferpecto,The Oxford Murders, ...), which are expressed a baroque style and a taste for blackhumor.Filmo−−−−−−−2010 : Balade Triste de Trompeta (Balade triste de Trumpeta)2008 : Crimes à Oxford (The Oxford Murders)2006 : La Chambre de l’enfant (La Habitación del niño)2004 : Le Crime farpait (Crimen Ferpecto)2002 : 800 balles (800 balas)2000 : Mes chers voisins (La Comunidad)1997 : Perdita DurangoStéphane DebacHe made his debut at 16 at the Conservatory of Lyon in presenting a sketch ofColuche. At 18, he joined the company Skénée for a tour of festivals of streettheater. In 1995, the apprentice actor left Lyon for Paris. There, he wasselected to Cnet, a show of sketches broadcast on Canal+. In 1998, he writesand performs his own sketches for theater and broadcast on France 3. In1999, he made his debut in a Korean feature titled Interview. Follows analternation of roles on television (Dans la tête du tueur, Engrenage) andcinema (L'Incruste, L'Ivresse du pouvoir, Mr. Bean’s Holiday). In 2005, RaoulPeck gave him his first major role, that of judge Lambert, in L'Affaire Villemin.Since, he continues the shootings: La Fille coupée en deux, Modern Love, TheHappening or Faubourg 36, where he played an inspector alongside Gerard Jugnot.Filmo− 2011 : La proie− 2008 : Faubourg 36− 2008 : The Happening− 2008 : Modern Love− 2007 : La fille coupée en deux− 2007 : Mr. Bean's Holiday− 2006 : L'affaire Villemin (TV mini-series)− 2006 : L'ivresse du pouvoir− 2004 : L'incruste− 2000 : Interview64

James GunnGunn began his filmmaking career with Troma Entertainment, for whom he wrote andco-directed Tromeo and Juliet. After contributing to several other Troma films, Gunnwrote, produced and performed in his own superhero comedy, The Specials. Gunn'sfirst major Hollywood screenplay was Scooby-Doo in 2002. In 2004, he wrote the initialscreenplay for the remake of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, but left theproject early to work on Scooby-Doo 2. That same year he also executive produced,and appeared in the mockumentary LolliLove.His directorial film debut was Slither, a comedy horror motion picture which bore astrong similarity with the similarly themed horror comedy Night of the Creeps. Gunn'snewest projects include the comedy short film Humanzee! which was originallyintended exclusively for the Xbox Live's Horror Meets Comedy series of short comedy films by horrordirectors, it was replaced with Sparky and Mikaela. Gunn also has a short form web series for Spike.comtitled James Gunn's PG Porn.Filmo− 2010 : Super− 2009 : Humanzee !− 2008 : Sparky and Mikaela− 2008 : James Gunn's PG Porn− 2006 : Slither− 2004 : LolliLove− 2004 : Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed− 2004 : Dawn of the Dead− 2004 : Tube− 2002 : Scooby-Doo− 2000 : The Specials− 1996 : Tromeo and JulietDavid KeatingHe has directed for film, theatre documentaries, TV drama and music videos. His mostrecent feature film Wake Wood. This film is produced by Brendan McCarthy and JohnMcDonnell of Fantastic Films, in co-production with Magnus Paulsson of SolidEntertainment, Sweden, and is due for release in early 2011.In 1996 David directed and adapted the screenplay for his critically acclaimed debutfeature film The Last of the High Kings, starring Jared Leto, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Reaand Christina Ricci. It was an international success and David received a nominated as‘Best Newcomer’ in the London Evening Standard Film Awards. David has also directedthe cinema documentary KM64: Birth of a Skatepark, which tells the story of how one ofthe world’s most extreme skateparks was built in a chilli field in Mexico. His screenwritingincludes work for Columbia /Sony Pictures and a writing credit for Jim Sheridan’s script ofMike Newell’s Into the West.Filmo− 2011 : Wake Wood− 2007 : KM64: Birth of a Skatepark (documentary− 1997 : Where Do I Begin (documentary)− 1996 : The Last of the High Kings− 1992 : Into the West− 1991 : I Dreamt I Woke Up (short)− 1986 : The End of the World Man65

Chun Yu LaiLai Chun Yu is known for his experimental animations and unique visual style. Hisdirectorial debut, Dying away, vividly portrays the loneliness of old war veterans in Taipei. Inthis award-winning short film, he took a poetic humane approach to the subject and cleverlyintegrated computer-generated imagery with it. In 2005, Lai worked as a visual effectsassistant in Silk (directed by Chao-bin Su), which was awarded Best Visual Effects at the2006 Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards. He further demonstrated his talent by becoming thevisual effects director of Secret (directed by Jay Chou) which won him a Golden Horse forBest Visual Effects in 2007.Filmo−−−2010 : Ayu2005 : After Political show2004 : Dying awayJeong-Ho LeeJeong Ho Lee is a young Korean director and screenwriter. He began his career in2004 as assistant director for the film Dead Friend. Thereafter he will chain to otherfilms as an assistant. In 2010 he wrote and directed the film Best Seller.Filmo2010 : Best Seller2008 : A Man who was Superman2007 : Shim's Family2006 : Vampire Cop Ricky2004 : Dead FriendGuillem MoralesGraduated from film school in Catalonia Guillem Morales made his debut indirecting with the short films such as Back Room and Upside Down. In 2004 hecontinued with feature films with The Uncertain Guest, a game of hide and seekhorrific. After a meeting with Guillermo Del Toro, in London, the project of Moralesis produced by the director of The Devil's Backbone. Julia's Eyes is the result ofthe collaboration between them. The feature tells the investigation of a youngwoman to understand the murder of her blind sister.Filmo−−−−2010 : Julia’s Eyes (Los Ojos de Julia)2005 : The Uncertain Guest (El habitante incierto)2002 : Upside Down1999 : Back Room66

Yoshihiro NishimuraBorn in Tokyo in 1967, Yoshihiro Nishimura taught himself to do special effects,and went on to found one of the busiest special effects makeup companies inJapan, Nishi-Eizo, which has practically created a genre unto itself, with work onfilms ranging from Suicide Club to L: Change the World to Gothic and LolitaPsycho. He began making short films in high school and college, and directed hisfirst short feature, Anatomia Extinction, in 1995, providing the template for his laterTokyo Gore Police, which debuted in 2008 at film festivals around the world.Nishimura has also been closely associated with the work of Sion Sono,contributing effects and production design to Suicide Club, Exte and many others.After Tokyo Gore Police, Nishimura co-directed Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (with NaoyukiTomomatsu), and made Mutant Girls Squad for Sushi Typhoon with Noboru Iguchi and Tak Sakaguchi. Oneof the busiest creative forces in the low-budget Japanese film industry, he has several projects lined up forlater in 2010, the most significant being his first solo directorial feature since TGP, the massive zombie roadmovie epic Helldriver, part of The Sushi Typhoon.Filmo−−−−−−−−−−−−−−2011 : Karate-Robo Zaborgar2010 : Helldriver2010 : Mutant Girls Squad2009 : RoboGeisha2009 : Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl2009 : Samurai Princess2009 : Stop the Bitch Campaign2008 : Tokyo Gore Police2008 : The Machine Girl2008 : Death Note: L Change the World2007 : Meatball Machine: Reject of Death (video short)2005 : Meatball Machine2001 : Suicide Club1995 : Anatomia ExtinctionBelen RuedaBelen Rueda is a Spanish actress, born in 1965 in Madrid. She began working as acommercial and a model before becoming a TV presenter. Finally, she became anactress for television and film in 1997. She starts with appearances in the Spanishseries Medico De Familia. However, the actress succeeds as an actress in film in2004 and 2005 in films Retruc and Mar Adentro. Two films that reveal the goodkarma of the actress. For Mar Adentro, she also won the Goya Award for BestActress in 2005. In 2007, she played in the feature long The Orphanage by JuanAntonio Bayona where he offered her the star in its scary movie. The following year,the actress is on two movies : 8 Citas and El Mal Ajeno by Oskar Santos Gómez.And in 2010, she played a young woman who investigates the murder of her blindsister in Julia's Eyes.Filmo−−−−−−−−2010 : Julia’s Eyes (Los ojos de Julia)2007 : Savage Grace2007 : The Orphanage (El Orfanato)2005 : Retruc (short)2004 : The Sea Inside (Mar adentro)2002 : Periodistas (série TV)2001 : 7 vidas (série TV)1997 : Médico de familia (série TV)67

Timothy SpallTim Burton.Teenager, he started his passion for theater. At 21, he is a first important roleon stage and made his film debut in The Life Story of Baal. The following year,he played a projectionist in Quadrophenia. In 1982 he met Mike Leigh, adecisive encounter for his career. The two men worked on the TV movie HomeSweet Home in which he plays a main character. Subsequently the filmmakeroffered the most memorable roles of his career in Life Is Sweet, Secrets andLies and Topsy-Turvy. He multiplies the roles with the adaptation of literaryclassics with Oliver Twist, with the comedy Dutch Girls, with the horror Thedream demon and with the drama Le Complot. He also appeared in WhiteHunter, Black heart of Clint Eastwood, Tea in the Sahara of BernardoBertolucci and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet. In 2000, he found his passion fortheater, lends his voice to Nick rats in Chicken Run and Patrice Chéreau useshim for the film Intimacy. The following year, he played with Tom Cruise inVanilla Sky, and then in 2003 he found the actor for The Last Samurai. Hecontinues whit Harry Potter in which he plays the servant of Lord Voldemort.More recently, we have found in Sweeney Todd and Alice in Wonderland byFilmo−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−−2011 : Wake Wood2010 : Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort2010 : My Angel2010 : Alice au pays des merveilles2009 : The Damned United2009 : Harry Potter et le Prince de sang-mêlé2007 : Oliver Twist2007 : Sweeney Todd : Le Diabolique Barbier de Fleet Street2007 : Il était une fois2005 : Harry Potter et la Coupe de feu2004 : Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban2004 : Les Désastreuses Aventures des orphelins Baudelaire2003 : Le Dernier Samouraï2001 : Vanilla Sky2001 : Intimité1999 : Topsy-Turvy1990 : Un thé au Sahara1979 : QuadropheniaChao Bin SuTaiwan director Su Chao-bin receives the Best Director award in the movie Reignof Assassins from Hong Kong director Johnny To during the Hong Kong FilmCritics Society Awards presentation in Hong Kong (2011)68

Filmo− 2010 : Reign of Assassins− 2008 : The Forbidden Kingdom− 2006 : Silk (Guisi)− 2002 : Twenty Something Taipei (Toi bak man 9 chiu 5)− 2002 : Double Vision (Shuang Tong)− 2002 : 3 Extremes II− 2002 : Better Than Sex (Ai qing ling yao)− 2000 : The Cabbie (Yun zhuan shou zhi lian)− 2000 : A Chance to Die (Xiang si chen xianzai)Alice TaglioniBefore wanting to be actress, Alice Taglioni first began as a pianist formation to theMusic Conservatory of Paris. To overcome her shyness, she takes theater coursesand quickly catches the virus of comedy. She begins her film career in 2001 in theLa bande du Drugstore and Quatre copains (TV). She obtains one of the principalroles of Brocéliande, plays in Le pharmacien de garde and Grande école. The filmMensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités... in 2003 gave her the recognition of thepublic. Alice next embarked on more prestigious productions of the year 2005. Shewas a pilot in Les chevaliers du ciel, then acted in Le cactus and also acted withGad Elmaleh in La doublure by Francis Veber.Filmo−−−−−−−−−−−−−2010 : La proie2008 : Ca$h2007 : L'Île aux trésors2006 : La Doublure2006 : La Panthère rose (The Pink Panther)2005 : Le Cactus2005 : Les Chevaliers du ciel2004 : Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités2004 : Grande École2003 : Le Pharmacien de garde2002 : Brocéliande2002 : La Bande du drugstore1994 : Hélène et les garçons (TV)69

Jun TsugitaTsugita is a Japanese screenwriter and director. Love horror films, he has writtenseveral screenplays for film and Japanese magazines, including The Ancient DogooGirl: Special Edition Movie, Mutant Girls Squad of Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimuraand Tak Sakaguchi and Naoto Takenaka Yamagata Scream . Horny House of Horror isthe first feature film written and directed by Tsugita.Filmo−−−−−−2011 : Tomie: Unlimited (Tomie: Anrimiteddo)2010 : Horny House of Horror (Fasshon heru)2010 : Mutant Girls Squad (Sentô shôjo: Chi no tekkamen densetsu)2010 : The Ancient Dogoo Girl: Special Movie Edition2009 : Saikin rettô (screenplay)2009 : Yamagata ScreamEric ValetteAfter a Master of Science and Technology of audiovisual communication in1991, Eric Valette directed several short films, including Saturday, Sunday andMonday too, noticed the Cognac Festival (1999) where he won the GreatAward, Il est difficile de tuer quelqu'un, même un lundi and Dégustation.Meanwhile, Eric Valette signs several clips and features many sketches of theGuignols for Canal+.In 2002 he headed Clovis Cornillac and Gérald Laroche in his first feature film,Evil, which won the Jury Prize of the 10th Festival Fantastic Arts of Gerardmer. The filmmaker goes to theUnited States. There he writes a U.S. version of the horror thriller One Missed Call by Takashi Miike. Thisremake is interpreted by Edward Burns and Shannyn Sossamon. In the same time, Eric Valette signs theachievement of the B series Hybrid before making his return to France with Une affaire d'Etat (2009) and LaProie (2011)..Filmo−−−−−−−2011 : La Proie2010 : Hybrid2009 : Une affaire d'Etat2008 : One Missed Call2003 : Maléfique2001 : Dégustation (short)2000 : Il est difficile de tuer quelqu'un, même un lundi.70

Lysette AnthonyLysette Anthony is an English actress born 26 September 1963 in London.She was a famous model before becoming a famous actress at the age of20 years. She was first made known in the famous movie Krull by PeterYates. But it is also known for his roles in Husbands and Wives by WoodyAllen, Three Up, Two Down, Dracula: Dead and Loving It by Mel Brooks,Tale of the Mummy by Russell Mulcahy. In addition to her many roles, she isalso known for his work in film and television as a producer.Filmo• 1983 : Krull• 1985-1989 : Three Up, Two Down• 1987 : The Emperor's New Clothes• 1992 : Husbands and WIfes (Woody Allen)• 1995 : Dracula: Dead and Loving It de Mel Brooks• 1998 : Tale of the Mummy de Russel Mulcahy71

Knights Of The Order Of The RavenThe idea came up during a round-table. The quest started with a sip of wine from the HolyGrail: how could we possibly salute the essential contribution of creation craftsmen to themovie industry without the poisoned gift of the retrospective, which would sound as if theywere heading for an early grave? By knighting them, of course! The best way for theBIFFF to thank them is seeing how these stable boys become proud knights during aceremony with lots of humor and zero pretence.Laureates2005Larry Cohen (screenwriter) : Maniac Cop, Le retour des sept, Captivity, Phone Game.Dario Argento (director/screenwriter) : Profondo Rosso, Suspiria, Stendhal Syndrome.2007Christopher Lloyd (actor) : Retour vers le futur I, II, III, La famille Adams I, II.Lloyd Kaufman (actor/director) : Tromeo et Juliette, The Toxic Avenger.2008Jurgen Prochnow (actor) : Das Boot, Dune, In the mouth of madness, Air force one.Stuart Gordon (director/screenwriter): Re-animator, Fortress, the Dentist, Stuck.2010Harry Kumel (director/screenwriter): Malpertuis, Les Lèvres RougesLuc Besson (director/screenwriter) : Le Grand Bleu, Léon, Le Cinquième Element2011Alexandre AjaAlexandre Aja begins at the BIFFF with Furia in 1999, following byimpressive successes with High Tension in 2003, The Hills Have Eyesand lately Piranha 3D. As a french director, he definitely made hismarks.Filmo• 2010 : Piranha 3D• 2008 : Mirrors• 2006 : The hills have eyes• 2003 : Haute tension• 1999 : Furia72

John LandisDirector, actor, film producer and screenwriter American, born in 1950 inChicago, John Landis quickly integrates the movie business working as acourier to Fox. In 1973 he wrote his first screenplay and managed to raiseenough money to do Schlock (a parody of King Kong) for which he wonseveral awards. Following this success, he produced comedies such asHamburger Film Sandwich and American College. Then he attacked theblockbuster: Blues Brothers. Thereafter, he continued successes, includingAn American Werewolf in London, Trading Places in 1983. The same yearhe also carries the famous clip of Michael Jackson's Thriller. Finally, herealized in 1985, Into the Night and then in 1986 Three Amigos!, Coming toAmerica in 1988, Beverly Hills Cop 3 in 1993. Meanwhile, in 1991, he madeanother clip of Michael Jackson: Black or White. Landis has also been active in television as aproducer and often director. Moreover, he inaugurated the series Masters of Horror in 2005. In2010, the feature film Burke and Hare marks the return of film director after Susan's Plan in 1998.Filmo− 2010 : Burke and Hare− 2005-2006 : Masters of Horror (TV series)− 1996 : The Stupids− 1993 : Beverly Hills Cop 3− 1992 : Innocent Blood− 1991 : Black or White (video short)− 1991 : Oscar− 1988 : Coming to America− 1985 : Into the Night− 1983 : Thriller (TV short)− 1981 : An American Werewolf in London− 1980 : The Blues Brothers− 1973 : Schlock73

Guest OF HONOURRenny HarlinFamous finish director, Renny Harlin is the masters of thenineties’ action movies, directing stars such as Burce Willis in DieHard 2, Stallone in Cliffhanger, Samuel L. Jackson in The LongKiss Goodnight, Geena Davis in Cutthroat Island or Val Kilmerand Christian Slater in Mindhunters. He also directed somefantastic features such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, Exorcist:The Beginning and The Covenant. He is actually working on asequel of The Long Kiss Goodnight.74

OFFTaiwanESE EVENINGSmall island that everybody knows but hard to locate on a map by most of us, Taiwan isespecially renowned for its economic growth and its high level of technologicaldevelopment, sheltering various and breathtaking landscapes, and marking areinforcement of the cooperation and the mutual trust with continental China.But the diehard movie-lovers have their own way to define Taiwan, using proper nameslike Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang or even a promising rookie namedAng Lee.For the centennial of the Republic of China (Taiwan), the BIFFF decided to point itsspotlights on this country and its thousand treasures during the Taiwanese evening, whichwill take place on Monday April 11 th at 5 PM:the lion danceThe ancestral martial arts of Kung Fu are not only used in combat.Its basic positions can also be found in the lion dance, a symbolicpractice whose demonstrations, organized by Kung Fu schools,are very common at new year’s eve and during other celebrations.The animal has two distinct parts: a head made of bamboo,decorated with paper and tissues, and the body linked to the tail.Each of these parts is independent and controlled by a dancer.The lion is also surrounded by six musicians, giving the rhythm butalso guiding the dancers inside the lion.The choice of the lion for this tradition is due to the fact that – inChina – it is considered to be a mythical beast, present innumerous sculptures and statues. The lion is a sign of prosperity, but also symbolizesstrength and kindness.75

The bubble teaSince the early nineties, Bubble Tea has litteraly been adapted bythe Taiwanese. The concept is very simple: tapioca pearls plungedat the bottom of a milk-shake look alike; which is in fact a mix of hotor cold tea and milk. With the help of a huge straw, you can enjoyyour bubble tea while gulping down the pearls.Bubble Tea is a huge success in Asia and the recipe starts to exportvery well in North America and in Europe. Belgium hasn’t fallen for ityet, but that is just a matter of time…the puppetsIn Taiwan, movies are not the only way to tell stories. Puppets are also a renownedmedium to start a fantastic journey:Fan Li Hua – Xue Ding ShanXue Ding Shan is a young, famous general of theTang Dynasty. He is handsome and very brave inbattle. The hostile young female general (Fan LiHua), falls in love with him at first sight. Theymeet on the battlefield, slowly fall in love andfinally decide to marry. The legendary couplestick together through thick and thin, manage toexpel a foreign invasion and successfullyaccomplish the westward military mission. As aresult, the Emperor promotes both of them to therank of nobility and they live together happily everafter.NewlywedsMay the lovers always be united under the heavenly skiesIn Taiwan, at the end of every puppet show the bride and bridegroomusually appear on stage to symbolize the happy ending of the playand to bless the audience.76

Zhang FeiThe Romance of the Three KingdomsZhang Fei is one of the most popular characters inTaiwanese traditional drama. He is a bold and recklessfigure, well known for his impulsiveness and rash action.The audience loves his clumsy exuberance and martialbravery. Chang Fei is also known for his sense of humorand charm.Guan GongMartial SagesGuan Gong is a historical figure known to every household inTaiwan. Due to his outstanding loyalty, justice, and bravery, he isa popular hero and admired by the ruling classes from generationto generation.Shi Yan WenThe scholar / SwordsmanThe character of Shi Yan Wen is legendary in Taiwan. Theexciting travels and adventures of this hero, known for his braveand just character, were so successful with audiences thatTaiwanese television made a popular programme around thecharacter.77

Chung K’ueiGuarding the Home that brings Wealth and RichesChung K’uei is a mythical figure familiar to almost every Taiwanese. The story of “ChungK’uei, the Demon Queller” has a long history in folklore. Legend has it that he was ascholar, who was said to have been ugly enough to scare demons.He wanted to become an official but he reportedly failed due to his looks. In a fit offrustration, he condemned himself to death at the palace halls. The King of Hades thentook pity on this virtuous but unfulfilled scholar and appointed him “Generalissimo of QuellDemon.”He has since been venerated by all, from emperors to common folk, as a controller ofdemons. Through the ages, the figure and legend of Chung K’uei has been the subject ofartists and story tellers and when Chinese people seek spiritual protection, such as duringthe New Year and Dragon Boat Festivals, they always display pictures of him.CINEMAThe Taiwanese cinema will also be present at the BIFFF during the whole festival with thefollowing screenings:ONE DAY AYU REIGN OF ASSASSINSAyuReign of AssassinsAnd don’t forget the Ang Lee retrospective at theBrussels CINEMATEK from March 30 th to April 28 th !(www.cinematek.be)78

FESTIV'ARTSquid Lab presents :the “CREATURE” exhibitionThe "Squid Lab" team takes you to an amazing universe of internationalartists gathered around the theme of the “CREATURE".Sculptures, paintings, art dolls and other art works, from the smallest to themost monumental!More on: www.squidlab.be79

26th VAMPIRE’sBALLEverybody knows the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the flute player who hypnotizedchildren with his music to take a plunge in the river. What if we told you that, since 26years, this is no longer a legend !? Okay, we’ve worked a bit on this medieval formula,because a flute playing tempter of kiddies is not exactly kosher nowadays, but the concepthas stayed the same. Our Satanic hypnotizers are called DJ Raven, DJ Volkan and DJ O.Every year, these gents manage to put thousands of followers into a collective trance,dancing from dusk till dawn. This unique event, of which only the mention of the name isenough to get the attention of every party animal in the capital, is none other than the 26thVAMPIRE BALL of the BIFFF…Live video : 24 FRAMES and Ko AxSets and installations : Dom’s Dister and ManufactorPractical Info16 April 201186 Avenue du Port - 1000 BrusselTour & Taxis MUSIC ROOMOpening : 11pmClosing : 7am (so you can still make it to your coffin before sunrise…)Advance sales : 10€On the spot : 15€80

ZOMBIFFF DAY & NIGHT09.04.2011ZOMBIE PARADEThe zombies are among us ! Oncemore, they’re ready to invade thestreets of Brussels during the 4 thZombie Parade.There were with more than 500during the last edition. This yearthey will advance again upon thecity centre on Saturday9 April 2011.The parade is a huge role playinggame in which you can surpriseunsuspecting passers-by andentertain numerous tourists.All those rookies who missed theirchance last year will be able to join the ranks of the hundreds of participants to the ZombieParade. You can even get made-up as one of the Undead at the BIFFF. Also on theprogram: a tribute to Manneken Pis, who’ll be dressed up as count Dracula for theoccasion.The Zombie Parade is organized in collaboration with the 5 th Zombie Day, Make-Up-For-Ever (www.makeupforever.be) and Fardel Cosmetics (www.fardel.com).Practical Info29 th Brussels International Fantastic Film FestivalTour & Taxis, avenue du Port 86C, 1000 BrusselsZombie Parade : Saturday 9 April 2011Make-up from 12am till 3pm at the BIFFF – Limited number of placesDeparture from the BIFFF : around 3pm heading downtownRounding-up : at 3.30pm at place de l’AlbertineVisit to Drakulen-Pis at 4pmBack to the BIFFF around 6pmFor the latest info : www.zombieday.net (Raphaël Wenric)82

ZOMBIFFF FILMTo keep your rotting limbs shivering, the BIFFF presents :EATERS at 18.00 - see page : 21Practical Info29 th Brussels International Fantastic Film FestivalTour & Taxis, avenue du Port 86C, 1000 BrusselsCheck www.bifff.net for rates and latest infoZOMBIFFF NIGHTAnd to top it all off, like a rotten cherry on a maggot infested cake, you’ll be able to attenda concert night in Magasin 4, organized by the young Brussels independent label CheapSatanism Record.Cheap Satanism Records will rock your remaining limbs with an eye-popping bunch ofgigs : Zombie Zombie and Cercueil. Zombie Zombie wil present the Brussels première ofits cover project of musical themes from the films of John Carpenter (Halloween, TheThing, New York 1997…). Also appearing : Philippe Petit (live & a dj set), Agent Palmer(DJ set) and also all the house bands Keiki, Trike, Joy As A Toy (for a new project on thefilms of Dario Argento), Baby Fire and Vitas Gerulaïtis.Practical infoMagasin 4 (opposite Tour & Taxis)Avenue du Port 51B, 1000 BrusselsZomBIFFF Night: Saturday 9 April 2011 starting from 7pm.Advance sales : 14 € at the FNAC storeOn the night itself : 17€ (14 € for those who are made-up or dressed up aszombies AND for holders of a BIFFF film ticket of 09.04.2011)Surf to www.cheapsatanism.com or www.magasin4.com for practical info anddetails about the program.83

BELGIAN FILM DAYApril 15 th 20119.30AM – 11.30AM: TAX SHELTER CONFERENCEWith the participation of Diana Elbaum (Entre Chien et Loup), producer of PatriceLeconte’s next film, THE SUICIDE SHOP, adapted from Jean Teulé’s novel.Since its introduction in 2003, the tax shelter has become a very important tool for thefunding of audiovisual projects in the French Community.The most effective method to keep the system going is to make it as transparent aspossible. That’s why the Middle Class Union (UCM) is organising a seminar whereaudiovisual and financial professionals can clearly and legally exchange information aboutthe ‘’tax shelter’’.Thanks to its dynamic organisation and its importance in the French Community and inBrussels, the BIFFF is the ideal partner to bring those professionals together.In the presence of federal and regional political representatives, professionals and artistsof the French Community, the seminar will include a detailed explanation of theadvantages and the financial mechanism of the system, and other practical information;but also a presentation about the particularities of the film industry. A technical dossier willbe handed to all the participants and will later be available to all members of the UCM.Please note that entrance is free, but candidates are kindly requested to subscribe at thefestival’s box office before April 12 th , or to contact the Middle Class Union UCM(www.cafeconseils.be).84

12PM – 1.30PM : VIDEO CONTEST « YAPAKA »Our children are watching us, what kind ofexample do we give them?Children observe and copy everything what we sayand do; which is quite fortunate, because by imitatingus, they learn how to talk, to sing, to walk, to love, totake care of others...It’s quite a responsibility to be a role model…And whether we want it or not, we are all, at a certainmoment in our lives, the example, the reference… Our children are what we transmit tothem. They develop themselves according to what they get from their parents and thesocial environment that surrounds them. But what kind of example do we give them?With this topic, Yapaka, a mistreatment prevention program created at the initiative of theMinistry of The French Community, launched the campaign “Our children are watching us,what kind of example do we give them?” in collaboration with the Community’s cinemacenter. Part of this campaign is the organization of a free contest (for amateurs,professionals, film school students,…) that invites the participants to shoot a short videoclip that fits the campaign’s theme “We are the example”.At the occasion of the Belgian Film Day, selected clips will be screened at the BIFFF onFriday 15 April 2011 at 12pm in presence of the jury, consisting of personalities such asMarion Hänsel, Stéphane Aubier, Bernard Bellefroid, Joachim Lafosse, Frédéric Dumont… The winners will be announced on the same day around 5pm at Tour & Taxis.85

1.45PM – 4.30PM: BELGIAN SHORT FILMS COMPETITIONSee page : 404.30PM – 5PM: WORKSHOPSee page : 575PM – 5.30PM: AWARDS1) Workshop2) Children are watching us3) Belgian short films6PM : Screening of MEANT TO BE (Paul Breuls – Belgium)A coproduction helped by the tax shelter – See page : 5086

24 th International Body Painting ContestOrganized in collaboration withFARDEL Cosmetics (www.fardel.com)EVA AIR (www.evaair.com)Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium (www.taiwanembassy.org/BE/)Every year, this renowned festival event gathers more and more international success.The contest takes place every night from 8 till 17 April 2011.During 4 hours, the participants will realize their creations at the Body Painting stand at theFestival, letting their imagination run wild around the themes of fantasy, science-fiction,horror and fairytales.You can admire them every day (free entry) between 5.30 pm and 9.30 pm, followed by aparade on the Body Painting stage just before the 10.00pm film.Every photographed Body Painting will be submitted to a jury of professionals.Body Painting Contest at the 29 th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival -Tour & Taxis.From Friday 8 till Sunday 17 April 2011, between 5.30pm and 9.30pm : free entry.Attribution of prizes on Monday 18 April 2011 at 9pm.Info : www.bifff.net – Events – Body Painting87

Prize List1 st Prize :FARDEL CosmeticsA box with FARDEL Cosmetics for a value of +/- 1.000 €EVA AIRA plane ticket Amsterdam-Taipei-Amsterdam (taxes not included)BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVALAn original autographed silk-screen print of the poster of the "29 th BIFFF" offeredby the Festival2 nd Prize :FARDEL CosmeticsA box with FARDEL Cosmetics for a value of +/- 500 €BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVALAn original autographed silk-screen print of the poster of the "29 th BIFFF" offeredby the Festival3 rd Prize :FARDEL CosmeticsA box with FARDEL Cosmetics for a value of +/- 400 €BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVALAn original autographed silk-screen print of the poster of the "29 th BIFFF" offeredby the FestivalOther Prizes :Every body painter will receive on the evening of the contest : A degree of participation A case of FARDEL Cosmetics with a value of +/- 250 € to 300 €.Other prizes can still be added to this list...88

28 th Make-Up ContestFree make-up contest : open to everyone.Beginners, amateurs or semi-professionals, join us and let your imagination loose onthemes such as fantasy, science-fiction, horror and fairytales at the 28 th Make-Up Contest.Transform human faces into beautiful or divine creatures or have fun with special effects.Register yourself for one of the 3 categories : amateur, semi-pro, special fx (specialeffects).Registration is possible on the night itself at the make-up stand. Products will be put atyour disposal, but you’re advised to bring your own material : brushes, sponges, latex,prostheses,…The jury will choose the winners based on pictures taken during the contest, on Monday18 April 2011. Be at the Festival at 9pm to pick up your award.Make-up Contest.At the make-up stand of the 29 th Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film –Tour & Taxis, av. du Port 86C, 1000 Brussels.From Friday 8 th April until Sunday 17 th April 2011, from 5.30pm until 10.30pm.Attribution of prizes on Monday 18 th April 2011 at 9pm.89

JAPANIMATION DAYOn the morning of April 17th, the site of Tour & Taxis will still bear the traces of one crazy night;the Vampire Ball. But another huge event will start at the BIFFF : the 8 th JAPANIMATIONDAY. Free entry for fans and curious passers-by who want to attend the COSPLAY or browseamong the stands of the Scy-Fi, Fantasy & Manga Market !5th CosplayInspired by American conventions where diehard genre fans puton customized pyjamas (Star Trek), a fleece of hairy ferret ordonuts in the hair (Chewbacca and Princess Leïa), the Japanesecosplay celebrates its manga and videogame heroes. A hugeinstitution in the land of the rising sun, this tribute quickly caughton with many people in Europe. The aficionados are growing innumbers and are ever more inventive, trying to outdo each other increativity and dressing themselves up in costumes that are farfrom the Lycra capes and the red underpants we used to wear askids. A genuine parade of freaks and wonders, life-sized souvenirsof the heroes who monopolized our Saturday mornings, this 3rdCosplay Edition is from now on what the anti-flea collar is to thewerewolf : indispensable !BUT, this year, the cosplay contest will becompetitive for the first time : the winner willhave the opportunity to go to Paris to takepart in the European Cosplay Competition!90

Fantasy & manga marketFor the 4 th time, there’ll be a market at the BIFFF for lovers of fantasy,sci-fi and manga. Whether you’re a fan, a collector or just curious,come and browse through a dozen stands with accessories,merchandising, figurines, DVD’s, comic books… in short everythingthat is part of our favourite universe.Anime tv seriesKANA HOME VIDEOBlack Butler (season 2)The second season, adapted from Yana Toboso’s manga, focuses onAlois Trancy, a young aristocrat living in England during thenineteenth century. He’s pretentious and sometimes sadistic with hisservants, among whom Claude. He’s a very special employee, sincehe’s a demon…DYBEX S.A., one of the European pioneers and leaders in releasing Japanese animation,in particular in the Benelux and France, will presents 3 series :Time of EveTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGOqSoyRF4Rin/MnemosyneTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7THj6DVLin091

Highschool of the DeadHighschool of the Dead a bloody adaptation of Daisuke Sato’s manga,centers on Takashi’s unusual school day. He’ll have to struggle withoutsomething else than a quick nap during his courses. You see, hisschoolmates have turned into flesh eaters. He will have to team up withother survivors with one common purpose: staying alive.KAZÉ NEOGhost HoundGhost Hound, directed by Ryūtarō Nakamura (Serial Experiments Lain),takes us to the little town of Suiten, where strange things are happening.Tarô, Masayuki and Makoto, three traumatised schoolmates, will enter aparallel world and try to solve the mystery surrounding Suiten’s strangephenomena.No Longer HumanThis series of 4 episodes, adaptated from Osamu Dazai’s classic, benefitsfrom the talents of character designer Takashi Obata (Death Note) anddirector Morio Asaka (Gunslinger Girl, Chobits). Enter Yozo’s torturedworld, a child of a rich and wealthy family, who lives his life day by day,slowly descending into decadence and debauchery.ClaymoreClaymore, adapted from Yana Toboso’s manga, tells us the story ofthe struggle of the Claymores, half demon and half human warriors,against bloodthirsty beasts…92

Acht, Abattoir Fermé and Potemkinowith the support of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF)and in collaboration with the 29 tht BIFFF & the BeursschouwburgpresentMONSTER!Tragicomichorrordramedyzombienaziblaxploitationschlockfestorgy,made in Flanders!A horribly funny sitcom in sex parts about an overambitious film director whomanages to churn out “masterpiece” after “masterpiece” despite a chronic lack ofmeans.Meet Ad-Harry Shredder, a self-declared genius filmmaker who constantlystruggles to separate reality from fiction. His ambition is only equaled by hisinflated ego, but his limited talent and means do not stop him from shooting a newmovie every week.He can count on his regular cast and crew, who are as enthusiastic as they areuntalented. And even though they bring all their numerous personal problems tothe set, at least they’re dirt cheap.There’s nothing better to get the creative juices flowing than a nonexistingbudget. And every time Harry and his acolytes succeed inthe most improbable stars to the set, shoot some impressivescenes and pull of a “monster production”.luringScreenplay and direction : Stef Lernous en Jonas GovaertsWith: Pepijn Caudron, Tine Van den Wyngaert, Chiel van Berkel,StefLernous, Kirsten Pieters, Matthijs Scheepers, Lotte Diependaele,KevinTrappeniers & special guests: Isabelle A, Gène Bervoets, Roos Van Acker, Kevin Janssens, Sandy Tura,Nathalie Meskens, Eveline Hoste, Jaak Van Assche, Joke Van De Velde, Jelle Cleymans, Clara Cleymans,Paul Ricour, Frank Dingenen, Alice Toen, Mark Verstraete, Johny Voners, Marc ReynebeauMONSTER! marathon at the BIFFF 2011Saturday 16 April 2011 at 8.30pmDuration : 6 x 30’Location: BEURSSCHOUWBURG, Rue A.Ortsstraat 20—28, B – 1000 BrusselsTICKETS:€ 5 (advance sales) / € 7 (on the spot)Through the Beursschouwburg: tickets@beursschouwburg.be or tel. +32 (0)2 550 03 50Free for Bifff subscribers, but with the number of seats being limited, please reserve inadvance at lieve@beursschouwburg.be.93

BABIFFF SITTING© BIFFF / DAVID PYou’re no longer able to come to the BIFFF as often as you’d like ?But it’s so much fun there ! Yeah well, it’s not that simple anymorewhen you got kids. You need them to be taken care of, you have topay the babysitter, you can’t come home too late… Sometimes it’s areal juggling act when you want to attend the BIFFF as a parent.That’s why the BIFFF has found a solution : during the screening youcan entrust your children to the BABIFFF SITTING (the BIFFF BabySitting !)Where ? : At the festival site in Tour & Taxis, from 8 till 18 April 2011.Practically : Child nursery from 5 till 12 years old.Opening hours :during the week : from 5.30 pm till 10 pm (screenings of 6pmand 8pm).during the weekend : from 3.30pm till 10pm (screenings of 4pm,6pm and 8pm).The BIFFF nursery is free, on presentation of a film ticket for which you’d like your kids tobe taken care of.With the number of places being limited, please reserve in advance.Starting from 21 March 2011 on : 02/204.00.13.Proposed activities : Movies & TV series, hobby room, paintingworkshop & reading space. With some possible extra activities to beadded such as comic strip workshops, make-up…Your hosts : Véronique Simon (psychometrician and ergotherapist),Lydie Bossaert (ergotherapist), Sébastien Delvaux and Tiziana Rizzo,entertainers with MiniMayFair (www.cscmayfair.be).94

WHO IS DAVID P. ?Drawer, illustrator, painter, sculptor and writer, DavidP. is an autodidact artist. He succeeds in a fewstrokes of his pen dipped in Indian ink on whitepaper, enhanced by blood red stains, to portray thesuspicious atmosphere and almost attractive, ofHistory’s darkest hours. Needless to say that theBabifff-Sitting will kick ass!With the first volume of BEURK (éditions Jourdan Jeunesse),David P. showed a new facette of his artcraft, proposing aneducationnal and funny book that will delight kids and elderfans as well. Good news, the second volume of Beurk isabout to be published!More info : www.beurk.info95

Comic StandThe eldest European comics’ library, THE SKULL, is back this year atthe BIFFF! Mangas, imports, comics, silk-screen printings, movie books,everything you’ve ever looked for will be within reach…THE SKULL will also bring some friends for public meetings with theaudience. Among them:LORENZO MATTOTTILorenzo Mattoti is considered as one of the major figures of the comic strip, numerous ofhis books being translated throughout the world. During his career, started in the earlyseventies, his work has always been very coherent but Mattoti dared to innovate, aboldness that brought him many prizes. Besides the comic strip, he also worked in variousfields, such as fashion and commercials, and designed the poster of the 53rd Cannes FilmFestival in 2000. The BIFFF is proud to announce his presence at the festival on April 9 THand 10 th for a Q&A and the dedication of “The Crow”, co-written with singer Lou Reed.96

BUT ALSO :GihefSteven DupréLionel MartyPhilippe Delaby (designer of the 2011 BIFFF poster)97

Festiv’Art 2011ANIMATIONS & OFFFly Tox Symphony (Opening and Closing show)http://www.magicland-theatre.com/The galactic pollution didn’t spare the constellation of Orion where colonies of expats fromearth have been living for ages. Numerous genetic mutations transformed our distantcousins into hybrid beings and frightening creatures. The strange procession comingtowards us is an innocent cultural delegation. Yet, since they left Orion to warn theinhabitants of the other planets of the great danger that threatens them – the imminence ofan ecological disaster -, their journey hasn’t been always easy. How to establish thecontact with the earthmen? This strange delegation multiplies the processions, the musichall shows, the songs and the folkloric dances but endures the worst difficulties toconvince the human beings, way too Cartesian to get the message… The GreatAmbassador leads with an iron hand termites and prelates in an exuberant symphony.98

FREEEKS FACTORYSoBRE (Station orbitale Belge Relais Extra-terrestre)21st century, worldwide cataclysms are devastating earth,Flying cars don’t exist.Regretting the tightly-fitting boiler suits and the tinted glasses,Always at the cutting edge of its technology and even worse,The Freeeks Factorylaunches:SoBRE(Station orbitale Belge Relais Extra-Terrestre)"It' a far, far better thing i do than i have ever done before.A far better resting place that i go to than i've ever know"James.T.kirkhttp://www.freeeks-factory.beDOLLE PRETMonSTARSwww.dollepret.beTwo completely insane trolls with crooked legs jump and dance aroundin search of fun. They can jump no less than 2 meters hight! Theirfluorescent green and red hair can be seen by anyone and as soon asthese loony gents pass by you instantly become cheerful.Here is the movie of our animation at the 2010 BIFFF:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGUKkuy0AMPictures here: http://www.dollepret.be/foto/mon/99

www.outrerue.beORBILYSOverhanging the crowd, with a self-assured and slow walk, the Orbilys neverstop questioning the world’s moods. These curious humanoids watcheverything and talk with the eye.If you’re there, it’s because they’ve already seen you!100

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PUBLIC TRANSPORT ACCESSBUS14 : stop TOUR&TAXIS57 : stop Steamers(near the entry place des Armateurs)89 : stop Picard (5 minutes by foot)20 : stop Simonis (15 minutes by foot)87 : stop Simonis (15 minutes by foot)13 : stop Simonis (15 minutes by foot)De Lijn : line 245, stop TOUR&TAXIS.TRAM51 : stop Sainctelette (7 minutes by foot)METROLigne 2 : stop Ribaucourt (10 minutes by foot) ;stop Yser (15 minutes by foot)Ligne 6 : stop Belgica (15 minutes by foot)TRAINThe North Station is close to the site (20 minutes by foot).102

PRESS CONTACTsPublic informations: 02/204.00.13 or www.bifff.netPresse: Jonathan Lenaerts, Marie-France Dupagne8 rue de la Comtesse de Flandre, 1020 Bruxellestel: 02/204.00.14. ; fax: 02/201.14.69.e-mail: jonathan@bifff.net ou press@bifff.netFrom April 7th to 19th 2011: Tour & Taxis Magasin 386c avenue du Port1000 Bruxelles.PHOTOS FROM THE PRESS FILE HAVE A COPYRIGHT103

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Avec le soutien de – Met de steun van :festivalpartnerspour la REGION DE BRUXELLES-CAPITALE,voor het BRUSSELS HOOFDSTEDELIJK GEWEST:M. Charles PICQUE, Ministre-Président, Minister-Voorzitter,Dhr. Jean-Luc VANRAES, Minister van Externe Betrekkingen, Ministre des Relations Extérieures,pour la COMMUNAUTE WALLONIE BRUXELLES :Mme Fadila LAANAN, Ministre de l’Audiovisuel et de la Culture ;voor de VLAAMSE GEMEENSCHAP :Mvr. Joke SCHAUVLIEGE, Vlaams Minister van Leefmilieu, Natuur en Cultuur;pour la COMMISSION COMMUNAUTAIRE FRANCAISE de la Région de Bruxelles Capitale:M. Emir KIR, Ministre de la Culture ;voor de VLAAMSE GEMEENSCHAPSCOMMISSIE van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest:Dhr. Jean-Luc VANRAES, Collegelid bevoegd voor Onderwijs, Vorming en Begroting;Dhr. Bruno DE LILLE, Collegelid bevoegd voor Cultuur, Jeugd, Sport en Ambtenarenzaken;pour la VILLE DE BRUXELLES / voor de STAD BRUSSEL:Echevinat de la Culture / Schepenambt voor CultuurM. Freddy THIELEMANS, Bourgmestre / BurgemeesterM. FASSI-FIHRI, Echevin de la Culture / Schepen bevoegd voor Cultuur ;M. Philippe CLOSE, Echevin du Tourisme / Schepen bevoegd voor Toerisme ;pour WALLONIE BRUXELLES INTERNATIONALM. Rudy DEMOTTE, Ministre-président, chargé des Relations Internationales ;105

Le Ministère de l’Emploi de la Région Bruxelles-Capitale, het Ministerie van Tewerkstellingvan het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest,Le Service général de l’Audiovisuel et des Multimédias de la Communauté française deBelgique,Le Service Général de la Culture de la Communauté française de Belgique,Le Fonds Maribel Social des secteurs Socio-culturels et Sportifs des Communautésfrançaise et germanophone,La Loterie Nationale / De Nationale LoterijLe Centre de prêt de matériel de la Communauté française de BelgiqueLe Centre de prêt de matériel de la Commission communautaire française de la Région deBruxelles-CapitaleDe Gemeentelijke Uitrustingsdienst van de stad Brussel – service Outdoor & IndoorLe Centre de prêt de matériel de la Ville de Bruxelles – service Outdoor & Indoor106

Merci à - Met dank aanToutes les firmes qui nous ont aidés pour cette 29 e éditionAlle bedrijven die hebben meegewerkt aan deze 29 e editieLES FIRMES DE DISTRIBUTION ET DE PRODUCTION DE FILMS EN BELGIQUE /AAN ALLE VERDELERS EN PRODUCTIEHUIZEN IN BELGIE :CNC, Kinepolis Film Distribution, UPI, A-Film, Cinéart, Victory, Independent, Starway FilmDistribution, Dybex.ET LES FIRMES DE DISTRIBUTION A L'ETRANGER /EN IN HET BUITENLAND.Avec l’aide des ambassades – Met de steun van de ambassades vanCorée et / en KOFIC, Danemark, Maroc, Estonie, Argentine, Japon et / en Japan Foundation,l’Office Culturel et Economique de Taipei et / en GIO.107