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10TH EDITION
SAVE THE DATE!
04.07.2010 - 11.07.2010
NIFFF - Neuchâtel
Passage Max-de-Meuron 6
CH-2000 Neuchâtel
T: + 41 (0) 32 730 50 31 F: + 41 (0) 32 731 07 75
info@nifff.ch
http://www.nifff.ch
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NIFFF - Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
10 YEARS OF FANTASTIC FILM
The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is now more than ever confirming its role in the Swiss cinema landscape. Thanks to an additional projection room, the NIFFF has enriched its programming and is exploring the richness and diversity of Western cinema as well as emerging film-making. With a dozen European and its 2 worldwide premiers, the 2010 program is both intense and varied and shows just how much the fantastic influences all film genres today. Following this interdisciplinary track, the NIFFF is also exploring fantasy’s evolution in literature (literature day), contemporary art (ITF and CAN) and is offering musical events (live soundtrack making of films). From July 4 to 11, 2010, join us in Neuchâtel and get some fantasy in your life!
NIFFF 2010 IN NUMBERS
With a total budget of 1.3 million, the 2010 NIFFF offers 8 days of film screenings, in 5 rooms (with a total capacity of 1250) and an 800 seat open air theater. The 118 public sessions will present 80 full-length features and 50 short films from 19 different countries.
GUESTS
Lead by Douglas Trumbull, the American director and producer as well as a pioneer of special effects in the 70s and 80s (2001: Space Odyssey, Silent Running), the NIFFF’s jury is also hosting this year: the American actress Nancy Allen
(RoboCop), Greg Broadmore, a New Zealand conceptual designer who notably worked on King Kong and District 9, the French producer Vérane Frédiani, the Swiss Ueli Steiger, chief cameraman for Godzilla, 10,000 BC and Austin Powers, the French musician and singer Sébastien Tellier, as well as Mans Marlind, the Swedish director of Storm and Shelter, presented in a special screening. Also noteworthy, the jury president, Douglas Trumbull and Greg Broadmore will be speaking during the Imaging the Future symposium.
This edition’s guest of honor, the Japanese director Sogo Ishii, will present the retrospective that the NIFFF is dedicating to its off-the-wall punk filmography. Already a guest in Neuchâtel in 2000 with Electric Dragos 80,000 V, this Japanese film-maker will also give us an exceptional show with a live musical performance on THE CODENAME IS ASIA STRIKES BACK. Several Swiss directors, such as Bettina Oberli or Clemens Klopfenstein will also be present during the vast retrospective on our country’s fantastic film genre. Eric Tessier (5150 Rue des Ormes) and Sylvain Guy (Détour) will represent Quebec cinema that will be honored in a special program. At the same time, the International Competition will be enriched by the presence of Christopher Smith (Black Death, UK), Sandra and Hugues Martin (Djinns, FR), Gaspard Noé (Enter the Void, FR), Nicolas Winding Refn (Valhalla Rising, DK) and Nick Cohen (The Reeds, UK). The French director Frank Richard will also join us to introduce the screening of his film La Meute for the closing of the festival.
THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The NIFFF’s two full-length feature competitions are evaluating superior works and have become excellent catalysts for launching films in the market. The International Competition explores all the areas of fantasy, from the purest to the most hybrid. With the Englishman Christopher Smith’s Black Death, we dive right into the heart of heroic fantasy while Pang Ho-Cheung (HK) gives us a pure slasher with Dream Home. Djinns, from the French couple Sandra and Hugues Martin flirts with the war film and fantasy legends, while Gaspar Noé combines experimental cinema and fantasy in Enter the Void.
The Islander Julius Kemp offers the gory comedy Reykjavic Whale Watching Massacre while Choi Dong-hun (KR) mixes action, science-fiction and humor in the film Woochi. Fantasy is also infused with the thriller (Strayed from the Kazakh Akan Satayev and The Reeds from the British Nick Cohen), comedy (Strigoi from the Englishwoman Faye Jackson) and even romance (Transfer from the Dane Damir Lukacevic and The Eclipse from the Irishman Conor McPherson – named the best Irish film of the year by IFTA – Irish Film and Television Award). Finally, we’ll be carried off on a mythological Scandinavian high with Valhalla Rising from Nicolas Winding Refn, the director of the high-powered trilogy Pusher.
NEW CINEMA FROM ASIA
The selection for the Asian film competition reflects the great quality and the specifity of Asian popular cinema with, notably, an original use of martial arts that is alternately humorous (Gallants from the Hong-Kongers Clement Cheng & Derek Kwok) or rhythmic (Raging Phoenix from the Thai director Rashane Limtrakul and 14 Blades from the Hong-Konger Daniel Lee). Horror mixes with drama in Bedevilled from Jang Cheol-so (KR), and the thriller in Murderer from Chow Hin Yeung Roy (HK), or with action in Tetsuo – The Bullet Man from Shinya Tsukamoto (JP), of which the first two parts were presented at the NIFFF in 2000. Finally, enjoy a delicious fantastic comedy with Wig from Renpei Tsukamoto (JP) or allow yourself to get carried away with the deliriously gory Mutant Girls Squad from Japan’s Noburu Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura & Tak Sakaguchi.
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