The San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival is organized since its beginning in 1990 by the San Sebastian Municipal Board of Culture. Born with the goal of attracting youngsters to the movies, while audiences of this kind have lost none of their importance, the event now encompasses spectators of all ages. But this is…
The Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival is the only genre festival in Flanders! Ready to promote young and new talent, our Fresh Blood section is the ideal springboard for debuting European genre filmmakers, but not only debuting filmmakers are promoted! Check out the young and fresh performances and shortfilms! Our side events are quite interesting,…
MOTELX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival promotes the best of horror from around the globe and encourages the production of Portuguese horror films. One of the cultural highlights of the year in Lisbon, the festival has also carved out a prominent position in the international circuit of genre film festivals since its inception in 2007….
Grossmann Fantastic Film & Wine Festival was spawned in 2005 on the 100th anniversary of Slovenian cinematography in Ljutomer, where the first Slovenian motion picture was made by Dr Karol Grossmann. Situated amongst endless vineyards Grossmann Fantastic Festival brings you a truly unique film & wine program. It is dedicated to true movie buffs, enthusiasts…
The Haapsalu Horror & Fantasy Film Festival (HOFF) is the “one and only stop” for the genre hungry in the Baltics. Held in the unique setting of the city of Haapsalu – once a renown summer retreat of the Russian Czars, now a picturesque town, a celebrated spa for its legendary mud treatment and the…
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,…