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Yesterday, we were at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur and presented YUMMY (by Lars Damoiseaux) and JULIA (by Vincent Smitz) for our 'carte blanche' ! Thank you, the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, the Yummy & Julia teams, and of course, to our beloved and loyal public 😍🤩 See you soon 😈 @fiffnamur @yummythemovie @vincentsmitz

Let it burn 🔥 BIFFF x @moviedrive_be 🔥 Pic by @rivirdavid

Yes we're back ! 🙌🔥Welcooooome to the BIFFF Week End @Movie Drive ! From Friday 25 Sep. until Sunday 27 Sep. ! More info & link to tickets on our website 🥳🧛‍♀️🧛

We couldn't be more grateful. Thanks to each and everyone of you! You make this possible every year! 🔥 Nous ne pourrions pas être plus reconnaissants. Merci à chacune et chacun d’entre vous. Vous rendez cela possible chaque année!. 🔥 Ons hart loopt over van dankbaarheid. Een dikke merci aan iedereen van jullie, want jullie maken dit ieder jaar mogelijk!

DAY 1️⃣3️⃣ - LAST DAY - RECAP 🎬 BOY'S CLUB Imagine being confined (what a funny idea, right?) in a bunker.The problem is, you’re a sex addict and you see a sex doll in a 🚗 outside.You’d do whatever it takes to take it, right? 🐇 Well, it’s probably not the brighest idea... 🙊 🎬 MY BIG NIGHT Yes indeed, our Closing Night 2016 was a big night,all thanks to festival-favorite @alexdelaiglesia who already won 3 Golden Raven @the BIFFF (THE DAY OF THE BEAST,THE LAST CIRCUS and WITCHING & BITCHING) and who made our fragile hearts race again with MY BIG NIGHT.While outside of its doors hundreds of angry fired ex-workers protest,a TV studio is trying to finish up taping the traditional NYE spectacle 🍾.The who's who of Spanish showbiz is gathered inside;dwindling old stars and rising up-and-comers are side-to-side with the many extras and zealous superfans,and of course the staff.This being a de la Iglesia film,this micro-cosmos is treated as a Theater of Cruelty.Scheming managers are burnt on murdering their celebrities,a 'Spain's Got Talent'-type song-and-dance number fetishizes Nazi symbols,obsessed fans try to steal the sperm of their idol in order to blackmail him..and that's only the beginning!A grand-guignolesque, exuberant black comedy and a biting social satire against the backdrop of class struggle🎭 but above all:a whole lot of FUN!So, let's make this a party never to be forgot! 🎉 🎬 AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL Here we are, at the last day of the and last film 😫 Our 2017 winner of the Thriller Award, the Argentinian AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL! It's the story of Joaquin,a disabled and frankly misanthropic dude in a wheelchair who discovers some up-to-no-good guys are digging a tunnel to rob a bank 💰. He may despise humanitybut he still knows right from wrong,and it ain't no wheelchair that is going to stop him from kicking these thieves' asses!Or, you know, he'll try..The film doesn't shy away from making references to those Big Classics such as THE MALTESE FALCON and THE GREAT ESCAPE.It will make you sweat bucket-loads of sheer tension,but at the end of the tunnel you'll be revived! 💥 To no one's surprise, this was a jugé box-office hit in 🇦

After hours of deliberation, a fight and a peace offering, the Jury of the has finally reached a decision... 😮 🟥 We are proud to announce our winners of our precious : 1st place: ANAIS ALVAREZ IGLESIAS wins a silk-screen print of the poster 38th BIFFF, two entries to the Bal des Vampires 2021 and one bottle of Cremant d’Alsace Scherp 2nd place: CAPUXART wins one poster of the 38th BIFFF, one entry to the Bal des Vampires 2021 and one bottle of Cremant d’Alsace Scherp 3rd place: CHARLOTTE VD wins one poster of the 38th BIFFF and one entry to the Bal des Vampires 2021 🟥 The winner of our brand new is... 🏆 Gabriel Toth with his eerie rendition to Pinhead from HELLRAISER! His wins a poster of the 38th BIFFF and one entry to the Bal des Vampires 2021! Because of all your crazy submissions, we couldn’t pick one... so we award two very special mentions from the Jury with a poster of the 38th BIFFF: ➡️ Laura Maugeri’s JAW’S poster ➡️ Pscl Van Mldrn’s flabby BLOB poster The winners can contact the BIFFF via concours@bifff.net to collect their prizes 🏆🎁 We want to thank all the participants for their submissions ... and we will see you and your fantastic costumes next year!! 🧛‍♀️ 🧛‍♂️ Thanks to @cuvee.des.trolls et be.brussels

🎬 SHORT FILM OF THE DAY❗ CHOWBOYS 🤠"3 idiot cowboys are lost in the woods on the coldest night of the year without any food."The key word here is 'idiot' and we won’t tell you much about it so you can discover for yourself how bad it's gonna get...😟You should just know that this short film is by Astron 6,the collective behind FATHER’S DAY (BIFFF 2012) & THE EDITOR (BIFFF 2015) 🎬 LET US PREY - FILM OF THE DAY (1/2)❗ The ever intense Pollyanna McIntosh stars as a tough female cop who gets transferred to a small Irish village 👮‍♀️ She wants to make a statement by putting the notorious local criminal behind bars,but by doing so brings doom upon herself..Because the 😈 is coming to town and he wants to take a couple of sinning souls back with him.Who the devil is he?A diabolical Liam Cunningham (Davos, the Onion Knight in GoT),bringing out the worst in everyone.Exemplary police offers suddenly turn into psychopathic maniacs when their dirty secrets risk getting revealed...😈 This Méliès d'Argent winner of our European Competition 2014,blew a lot of minds with its dark twisted story. 🎬 FILM OF THE DAY (2/2)❗ TURBO KID Imagine the kids of STRANGER THINGS coming of age in a dystopian post-apocalyptic 90's..The Dioxin crisis of the actual 90's is nothing compared to this barren wasteland ravaged by nuclear bombs and acid rain. There's almost no water left and sadistic Zeus (Michael Ironside, SCANNERS,TOTAL RECALL,STARSHIP TROOPERS) is the leader of a merciless motorcycle gang that chases the few human survivors left to kill 'm and squeeze the water out of them! Easy peasy,lemon squeezy.Except that brave young Kid and his sort-of girlfriend Apple keep evading them.But Kid ain't much of a justice warrior.He's a bit of a nostalgic; searching the land on his BMX for relics from the blasted past: comic books, Rubik cubes, Game Boys... But when Zeus' biker boys kidnap Apple, he goes into overdrive and the Kid becomes...TURBO KID! 🚴‍♂️💥"TURBO KID is the ideal movie for all genre buffs who love a nihilistic retro-punk Mad Max-like extravaganza!”,we wrote in 2015, when we presented the film in European premiere.It was a smash hit at the Sundance festival & at the BIFFF!

DAY 1️⃣1️⃣ RECAP SHORT FILM OF THE DAY❗️ 🎬 FLOTANDO - Take your proteins pills and put your helmets on ‘cause we’re going to space! And don’t forget your cake. Ladies and Gents, welcome to space... 🚀👨🚀 🎬 THE WOMAN - In 2012, Lucky McKee (MAY, THE WOODS) took us deep into the US to tell us this story of a woman (no shit Sherlock) who escaped from a weird cult (yes, all cults are weird) and was then captured by a lawyer who tried to reintegrate her into society. If you think that already sounds f****d up, brace yourself because it’s only the beginning❗ THE WOMAN is not the subtlest of films, but rather an ultra realistic sledgehammer in the face of the Patriarchy. It's about a 'Wild' Woman who is captured, enslaved and tamed by a 'Civilized' Man. Chained up in his cellar like some wild beast, she's waiting for a chance to avenge herself... A brutal, shocking, unflinchingly hard look at our society and the values we hold to be true 👩💢 🎬 THE WOLF HOUR - It's "the hour between night and dawn… when most people die, sleep is deepest, nightmares are most real. It is the hour when the sleepless are haunted by their worst anguish, when ghosts and demons are most powerful” 👻 🛌 👿 Huh, never thought we’d quote Ingmar Bergman at the BIFFF! 1970's New York, the Bronx, a rundown apartment. Naomi Watts has voluntarily locked herself in. It's hot outside and people on the street seem nervous and a bit violent. There's something in the air, and it ain't Phil Collins (nor Covid-19)! And then someone keeps buzzing her doorbell, without saying a thing... Who's there? 🚪🛎️ Alistair Banks Griffin gives a modern update of Polanski's REPULSION, but with a heightened awareness of racial tension and feminist outrage. The Wolf Hour was part of our 2020 selection, but now you can watch it at home. In a sense it's a perfect film for these confined days, so hole yourself up in your apartment, lock the door and dive into the paranoid nightmares of Naomi Watts! 💤 Links on our Facebook Page!

DAY 10 RECAP 🎬 Brunch Shift Massacre.Today let’s present BRUNCH SHIFT MASSACRE,the previous short film of the Adam Boys, which was a huge success at the BIFFF 2019.In a nutshell:they say the customer is king and he's always right, but let’s face it, he can also be a pain in the ass.So we say:the customer is always shite! 😡 🎬 It's T-T-, everbody!Today's blast from the past is Golden Raven winner 1985: DREAMSCAPE!If that poster gives ya a heavy Indiana Jones vibe, well; that was the point.But apart from starring Kate Capshaw(TEMPLE OF DOOM star and soon-to-be wife of Herr Spielberg), they've got little in common. 🤠 Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) is a brilliant dude with psychic(and a whole lot of other)abilities(he's basically 3 X-Men rolled up in 1!),who's very useful to the government for a dream experiment.Many patients in the facility have horrible nightmares and Alex,with a little help from Dr. Paul Novotny is going to be sent into their dreams!What he'll find there is beyond his wildest imagination:demons with cobra heads,the Apocalypse and worst of all..Christopher Plummer! 😨🐍 🎬 He's a Man With No Name, but he ain't no Clint Eastwood:he's Japanese, has the hairdo of a Playmobil and pajamas not even Pedro Almodóvar would dare to wear.He's trapped in an immaculately white space and the only way out is by pushing the little weenies of angels hidden within the walls 🇯🇵👦Meanwhile in 🇲🇽 we follow Escargot Man,a wrestler who's about to fight his last lucha libre fight in the presence of his son.There's seemingly no link between the two story-lines until Mr. Pajamas finds out there's some Grand Design in the penis pushing he's been doing..🤼‍♂️The BIFFF was already wild about his debut BIG MAN JAPAN in 2007,but Hitoshi Matsumoto's SYMBOL hit the BIFFF 2010 like a bizarro bomb,winning both the Silver Raven and the 7th Orbit Award.At the time we called it “a mix between NACHO LIBRE and CUBE with the mysticism of Lynch and the aesthetic nihilism of Nietzsche”,no less.It's a movie that somehow manages to marry philosophical questions with fart jokes(involving a gigantic ass,no less).Trust us: this is a cult masterpiece of surreal comedy! 😉

It was written in the stars, there were signs on the wall, omens everywhere: even back in 2019, we could have known Covid-19 was coming! 😨☢️ Our friend and illustrator @david.peeters.5817 had it all figured out with his 37th edition poster of the BIFFF !

Day 9 SHORT FILM OF THE DAY❗ 🎬 MASK OF SANITY (directed by Fran Casanova) 👋 Surprise! For the 2nd time, we’re offering you one of the shorts of our 2020 program!Coming from Spain, MASK OF SANITY won the award for best horror-suspense film at last year’s Comic-Con in San Diego.Yup,we definitely agree:this is a great horror flick and we’re sure you’ll enjoy it a lot too! Elizabeth Grese, a renowned writer for her bestseller “The Killer of the Polaroid”,is locked up by a man who will not reveal his identity until the very end of the story..✍️ FILM OF THE DAY (1/2) – THE HUMAN RACE 🎬 One moment some 80 people are walking on a big city street.Suddenly a blinding light appears that transports them to a very peculiar racing course.A voice sounds in everybody’s head:“The school,the house and the prison are safe.Follow the arrows or you will die.Stay on the path or you will die.If you’re doubled twice,you will die.Do not touch the grass or you will die.Race or die.”Whether you’re rich or poor,old or young,blind,strong,handicapped, courageous or a coward;the rules make no distinction.There can be only one 🏆! 🏃🏻♂️☠️ Paul Hough's first feature THE HUMAN RACE translates this brilliantly simple concept into one of strongest and most original 🎞of our BIFFF International Competition 2013.BATTLE ROYALE has finally found a worthy successor! FILM OF THE DAY (2/2) – FREE FIRE 🎬 Do we still need to present Ben Wheatley?For those of you with spotty memories,let’s just mention KILL LIST, High-Rise or a segment from THE ABCs OF DEATH.In 2016,we had the pleasure to screen Free Fire,which is basically 1 long,massive shoot-out between bad(ass) guys in an enormous warehouse 😎 In one corner you've got Chris and his buds from the IRA with a 💼 full of 💰.In the other,you have Vernon,a weapon dealer who's nervous because he's got crates of Kalash’s instead of the M16's.One trigger-finger later things get 💥Ben Wheatley plays in the same ballpark as Guy Ritchie and Mr Tarantino here,the ballpark of Cool&Violent Exploitation Movies. Produced by no less than Martin Scorsese!Expect adrenaline, insanity, bullets & blood, black humor and a 🌟cast. Mention in the Thriller Comp. BIFFF 2017.1

‼️ BAL DES VAMPIRES CONFINED ! 🧛‍♂️🧛‍♀️ It should’ve been our 35th edition of the Bal des Vampires...but don’t worry, a confined without our Bal would merely be a ! So don’t throw away your costume 👹 - and your wish to win the award for Best Costume - because we didn’t forget you! Let’s have a confined version of the Bal des Vampires! Of course there will be an online contest, of course there will be prizes... AND we organize a second contest to get all your creative juices flowing... 🧠 This is what you can expect: ➡️ Online version of our usual BEST COSTUME CONTEST: find that costume you worked on for our 2020 edition, ‘cause there will be an Online Best Costume Contest! HOW: costumes, make up, ... everything is possible! Post your costume on Facebook and tag the BIFFF in your post! (make sure that your post is public) and add the hashtags ➡️ LOWCOSTUME CONTEST: our exclusive newcomer for this confined edition! ✨ HOW: recreate a picture of a famous movie scene or a character of a sci-fi, thriller or horror movie (well, a fantastic movie, you got it...) with tools and supplies you have lying around in your quarantined house! ☢️ (Need some inspiration? Check our examples in our FB post!) Post your "Lowcostume" on Facebook and tag the BIFFF in your post ! and add the hashtags Deadline: you can post your masterpieces online until Saturday 18/04 - 11pm (CET) 🏆 For more info about the prizes : check our website https://www.bifff.net/bal-des-vampires-confined/ Verdict: SUNDAY 19/04 🧛‍♂️☢️🧛‍♀️ (Thanks @david.peeters.5817 for this amazing confined version of the poster of the Bal des Vampires !!)