The Paris International Fantastic Film Festival (PIFFF), was created in 2011 by the Paris Ciné Fantastique association as a venue for horror, thriller and science fiction films. It takes place in Paris every year in December, and has been recently presented by television station and Mad Movies magazine.[1] PIFFF has prizes in both feature length and short films.[2] [3] The most recent festival in December 2018 showed 26 films over 8 days and attracted over 10,000 attendees, making it one of the largest film festivals in the city of Paris.[4] [5]
MovieMaker magazine called the festival an "international platform for promising new talent."[6] The festival is held at the historic Max Linder Panorama theater in Paris.[7] The 2018 festival was periodically interrupted by the Yellow Vest gilets jaunes riots that marched by while the festival was in progress.[8]
Year | Film title | Director | |
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2011 | Bellflower | Evan Glodell | |
2012 | The Body | Oriol Paulo | |
2013 | Cheap Thrills | E. L. Katz | |
2014 | Spring | Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead | |
2015 | |||
2016 | Raw | Julia Ducournau | |
2017 | Tigers Are Not Afraid | Issa López | |
2018 | Freaks | Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky |