After having hosted the Festival Internazionale del Film di Fantascienza, one of the oldest and most important science fiction festivals in Europe (1963-1982), it was time, in 2000, for the capital city of Friuli Venezia Giulia to go back to its cinematographic roots and give birth to Trieste Science+Fiction Festival: a new festival for the…
Lund International Fantastic Film Festival, Sweden was founded in 1995 with the overall aim to help stretch the limits of the imagination, and to reinforce the intrinsic value of imagination in films. International competitions are held for both feature films and short films, and the festival also offers retrospectives, seminars and exhibitions related to fantastic…
The Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival was founded by Les Films du Spectre in 2006 as a thematic festival. Subsidised by French regional and local authorities and with a 7-fold increase in visitors since its launch, it now holds Méliès competitions for both European feature and short fantastic films. The best international fantastic film is…
THE NIFFF Created in 2000, the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) has become a major film event in Switzerland in just 16 editions. Indeed, the NIFFF’s quality and original programs, as well as its prestigious guests convinced both the public (45,600 visitors) and the critics. The first characteristic of the festival is a rich…
The annual Imagine Festival started out in 1984 as The Weekend of Terror, a two-night “mini-festival” of horror, sci-fi and fantasy films. This small-scale event eventually became a festival of 12 days, reaching a wider audience with a great variety of genre films from all over the world, almost all of them Dutch premieres or…
The Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival rouses the European capitol from its winter sleep for the most expected cinematographic event of the year. Bursting to the seams with amazing spectavles and original manifestations (the Make-Up Contest, the International Body Painting Contest, the Zombie Parade in the heart of Brussels, the Japanimation Day, the Manga Market,…