25TH BIFFF: APRIL 5 – 17 @ TOUR & TAXIS

Just a quick note to tell you that the 25th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival starts today. Here is the program. The festival is a unique oportunity to see some out of the ordinary films. Scheduled today for example are a tribute to Enki Bilal as well as Lunacy (see also here), the latest feature film by Jan Švankmajer.

… But the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film is no ordinary film festival. It’s a multidisciplinary event with a unique atmosphere. For 13 days it will present the very best in genre cinema from all over the world and open to all audiences and tastes…. Even though the BIFFF will move most of its activities to Tour & Taxis, the outstanding collaboration with Cinema Nova – home of the cutting-edge 7th Orbit Section – and with the Film Archive will be continued ! —http://www.myspace.com/fantasticfilmfestival

In case you are wondering what type of festival the BIFFF is, you can best compare it to

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1, 2, 3, Whiteout – James June Schneider
2010 – Peter Hyams
The 4th Dimension – Tom Mattera & Dave Mazzoni
Aachi & Ssipak – Bum-jin Joe
The Abandoned – Nacho Cerda
Aliens – James Cameron
A.P.T. – Byung-ki Ahn
Attack Of The Mushroom People – Ishiro Honda
Black Sheep – Jonathan King
Blade Runner – Ridley Scott
Broken – Simon Boyes & Adam Mason
Bugmaster – Katsuhiro Otomo
The Butcher Boy – Neil Jordan
D@bbe – Hasan Karacadag
The Dark Hour – Elio Quiroga
Day Watch – Timur Bekmambetov
D-Day: Roommates – Eun-kyeong Kim
Dead In 3 Days – Andreas Prochaska
Death Note – Shusuke Kaneko
Death Note II: The Last Name – Shusuke Kaneko
Disturbia – D.J. Caruso
Dog Bite Dog – Pou-soi Cheang
Dragon Tiger Gate – Wilson Yip
Electric Dragon 80.000 Volts – Sogo Ishii
End Of The Line – Maurice Deveraux
The Entrance – Damon Vignale
Espectro – Juan Felipe Orozco
Eternally Secure – Santosh Sivan
Exit – Peter Lindmark
The Ferryman – Chris Graham
The Girl Who Leapt through Time – Mamoru Hosoda
The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai – Mitsuru Meike
Gomeda – Tan Tolga Demirci
Gruesome – Joshua & Jeffrey Crook
The Hills Have Eyes 2 – Martin Weisz
The Host – Bong Joon-Ho
Hot Fuzz – Edgar Wright
How To Get Rid Of The Others – Anders Ronnow-Klarlund
I.D. – Kei Fujiwara
Immortel – Enki Bilal
In The Name Of The King – Uwe Boll
The Invisible – David S. Goyer
I Spit On Your Grave – Meir Zarchi
Jade Warrior – Antti-Jussi Annila
Kaw – Sheldon Wilson
The Kovak Box – Daniel Monzon
Like Minds – Gregory J. Read
Lunacy – Jan Svankmajer
The Machine – Joao Falcao
Maniac – William Lustig
Marmorera – Markus Fischer
The Messengers – Danny & Oxide Pang
Mug Travel – Aaron Lim
Mulberry Street – Jim Mickle
Nightmare Detective – Shinya Tsukamoto
Nos Amis Les Terriens – Bernard Werber
Offscreen – Christopher Boe
Plane Dead – Scott Thomas
Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead – Lloyd Kaufman
Primeval – Michael Katleman
Re-Cycle – Danny & Oxide Pang
The Reflecting Skin – Philip Ridley
The Restless – Dong-ho Cho
The Return – Asif Kapadia
Return Of The Killer Tomatoes – John De Bello
Retribution – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Roman – Angela Bettis
Shadow Puppets – Michael Winnick
Shattered Soul – Mustafa Altioklar
Short Circuit – John Badham
Shrek – Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
Silk – Chao-pin Su
Simon Says – William Dear
Special – Hal Haberman
Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Robert Wise
Strange Days – Kathryn Bigelow
Sunshine – Danny Boyle
The Sword Bearer – Philipp Yankovsky
Tripping – Yiwen Chen
Tron – Steven Lisberger
Unholy Women – Keita Amemiya Takuji Suzuki & Keisuke Toyoshima
Unknown – Simon Brand
The Unknown Woman – Giuseppe Tornatore
The Unseeable – Wisit Sasanatieng
Wicked Flowers – Torico

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Tykho Moon – Enki Bilal
Le Dernier Homme – Ghassan Salhab
Vampire Cop, Ricky – Si-myung Lee
Bunker Palace Hotel – Enki Bilal
Don’t Deliver Us From Evil – Joël Séria
Unman, Wittering And Zigo – John McKenzie
The Ugly Swans – Konstantin Lopushansky
Brand Upon The Brain – Guy Maddin
The Ungodly – Thomas Dunn