Paris International Fantastic Film Festival Explained

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 Ciné+ OCS 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]

Winners of the Golden Eye for Best Film[9]

YearFilm titleDirector
2011BellflowerEvan Glodell
2012The BodyOriol Paulo
2013Cheap ThrillsE. L. Katz
2014SpringJustin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
2015
2016RawJulia Ducournau
2017Tigers Are Not AfraidIssa López
2018FreaksAdam Stein & Zach Lipovsky

Other genre film festivals

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Le genre se porte bien, la preuve en cinq films à ne pas rater au PIFFF . www.20minutes.fr . 2016-12-06 . fr . 2024-10-22 . Vincent . Jule . https://web.archive.org/web/20230607115724/https://www.20minutes.fr/culture/1974687-20161206-paris-international-fantastic-film-festival-genre-porte-bien-preuve-cinq-films. 2023-06-07.
  2. Web site: Soghomonian . Talia . Paris International Fantastic Film Festival 2014 Opens with The Mole Song . Collider . 2014-11-20 . 2024-10-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210109231708/http://collider.com/paris-international-fantastic-film-festival-2014/. 2021-01-09.
  3. Web site: Soghomonian . Talia . Paris International Fantastic Film Festival 2015 Review . Collider . 2015-11-24 . 2024-10-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210109092108/http://collider.com/paris-international-fantastic-film-festival-2015-dont-grow-up-bridgend/. 2021-01-09.
  4. Web site: Xavier. Bonnet. Le PIFFF nous en a encore mis plein la tronche ! . Rolling Stone . 2018-12-12 . fr . 2024-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20240228122040/https://www.rollingstone.fr/pifff-2018-report/. 2024-02-28.
  5. Web site: PIFFF 2018 : le palmarès de la 8e édition ! . Agence MIAM . fr . 2024-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20210108131811/http://n3s4.mjt.lu/nl2/n3s4/lit14.html. 2021-01-08.
  6. Web site: Kennelly . Kate . 2016-12-22 . Festival Wrap: Rich Metaphor Abounds at the Sixth Paris International Fantastic Film Festival - MovieMaker Magazine . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161223055336/https://www.moviemaker.com/archives/festivals/festival-wrap-the-paris-international-fantastic-film-festival/ . 2016-12-23 . MovieMaker.
  7. Web site: Brown . Todd . The Paris International Fantastic Film Festival Is Bringing The Madness To France! . ScreenAnarchy . 2017-11-29 . 2024-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20210107021439/https://screenanarchy.com/2017/11/the-paris-international-fantastic-film-festival-is-bringing-the-madness-to-france.html. 2021-01-07.
  8. Web site: Thiss . Maxime . Retour sur le week-end chaos du PIFFF 2018 . LeMagduCine . 2018-12-10 . fr . 2024-10-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210107193505/https://www.lemagducine.fr/festivals/festival-pifff-2018-10002764/ . 2021-01-07.
  9. Web site: Paris International Fantastic Film Festival . PIFFF . 2024-10-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240926115033/http://www.pifff.fr/festivalhistory-en . 2024-09-26.

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