Imagine Film Festival Méliès Selection 2022

Imagine Film Festival Méliès Selection 2022

Imagine Film Festival presents the Méliès d’argent films competition 2022

Imagine is the largest film festival for fantastic film in the Netherlands, showcasing the best in fantasy, horror and science fiction. Imagine is all about the imagination. Every year Imagine tries to challenge the audience to think through the imagination about the future of people and society. The power of the fantastic film is used here: it allows you to discover future worlds, develop a different view of reality, explore the unknown and thus broaden your view.

The Méliès competition is organized in collaboration with the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF) and is reserved to European fantastic films.

Imagine Film Festival Méliès Selection 2022

Imagine Film Festival presents the Méliès d’argent feature films competition 2022

This prize is awarded on behalf of the Méliès International Festivals Federation.
This year’s feature film jury consists of journalist Alex Mazereeuw, actress Loïs Dols de Jong and festival director Henriette Poelman.
The feature film competition consists of:

  • Attachment – Gabriel Bier Gislason (Denmark 2022)
  • The Elderly | Viejos – Fernando Gonzalez Gomez, Raul Cerezo (Spain 2022)
  • Exhibit #8 – Ruben Broekhuis (The Netherlands 2022)
  • Family Dinner – Peter Hengl (Austria 2022)
  • Flux Gourmet – Peter Strickland (United Kingdom 2022)
  • Holy Shit! | Ach, du Scheisse! – Lukas Rinker (Germany 2022)
  • Megalomaniac – Karim Ouelhaj (Belgium 2022)
  • Sputum – Dan Geesin (The Netherlands 2022)
  • Vesper – Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper (Lithuania, France, Belgium 2022)
Imagine Film Festival Méliès Selection 2022

Imagine Film Festival presents the Méliès d’argent short films competition 2022


The Méliès d’argent is awarded on behalf of the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF) to the best European feature film and short film. The short film jury consists of film programmer Mei-ling Djoa, director Jörgen Scholtens and former Imagine educator Anouk Balvers.

  • Amy & I – Bastiaan Rook (The Netherlands 2022)
  • Ashkasha – Lara Maltz (Spain 2022)
  • The Black ReCat – Paolo Gaudio (Italy 2022)
  • The Caterpillar Girl – Aleksandra Bokova (The Netherlands 2021)
  • Covid Love – Rene Nuijens (The Netherlands 2022)
  • Cut it Out – Inez Kristina (Denmark 2021)
  • Drifter – Joost Jansen (Belgium 2022)
  • Eos – Razan Hassan, Wessel van Wanrooij (The Netherlands 2022)
  • A Final Transmission – Kelly Klingenberg (The Netherlands 2022)
  • Gnomes – Ruwan Heggelman (The Netherlands 2022)
  • I, Adonis – Angelo Raaijmakers (The Netherlands 2022)
  • It Escapes, Irretrievable Time – Chellysia Rae Christen (The Netherlands 2022)
  • KØT – Nils Gerbens (The Netherlands 2022)
  • Legs – Celine Cotran (United Kingdom 2022)
  • The Light – Iago de Soto (Spain 2021)
  • New Babylon – Gideon van der Stelt (The Netherlands 2021)
  • Other Half – Lina Kalcheva (United Kingdom 2021)
  • Peaches and Scream – Adrian Kirk Ejsing (Denmark 2022)
  • Phantasmagoria – Alejandro Mathé (Germany 2022)
  • Pox – Simon Young (Austria 2022)
  • Subhuman – Arjen Schotel (The Netherlands 2022)
  • Sucker – Steve Oen (The Netherlands 2022)
  • The Following Year – Miguel Campaña (United Kingdom 2021)
  • Under the Ice – Alvaro Rodrigues Areny (Spain 2021)
  • WhatKilledTimmyBenson – Nick Cremers (The Netherlands 2022)
  • Red Cemetery – Francisco Lacerda (Portugal 2022)

Don’t forget to watch the MELIES D’ARGENT Special Programs on our Méliès Fantastic Hub!