BIFFF

MONSTER CALLS
2024-04-21 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Brussels)
Twelve-year-old Conor has a lot on his plate. Sickly and dreamy, he’s the school’s favorite whipping boy. And he can’t find a sympathetic ear in his family. His father? Gone to live a new life in the United States. His mother? His mum… Conor loves her deeply, but he doesn’t want to add to her troubles. You see, a particularly aggressive cancer is eating away at her from the inside and all attempts to cure her are wearing her down day after day. Her grandmother? As loving as a prison door. Conor is desperately lonely in this cruel world… His only refuge is his imagination, which is slowly beginning to overtake reality. And every night, a few minutes after midnight, a giant monster comes to see him. Not to reassure him or protect him, but to tell him three extraordinary stories that will teach him true courage…

40th Make-up Contest
2024-04-20 12:00 - 23:30
Save the date – Saturday 20th April 2024

This year, the BIFFF make-up contest (which has been around since the festival’s second edition!) returns for its 40th edition!
The contest will take place in the course of one day, a day that promises to be intense, rich in emotions, and full of creative surprises! We are asking all make-up talents to choose one of two categories: with prosthesis, or without prosthesis!
The themes remain the same: the fantastic, the imaginary, the amazing, science-fiction, and horror! Careful, because this time, participation spots are not unlimited!
You may register on our site, and we will select the most promising projects for inclusion in our contest. We encourage you to bring along your own materials.
The jury will select three winners in each category. The prizes will be presented to the winners at the end of the day, on the Q&A stage in our BIFFF Village. So, are you ready to knock us off our feet?
Make-up Contest timetable
Welcoming: from 12:00
Contest for the category without prosthesis: 13:00-16:00
Contest for the category with prosthesis (FX): 16:30-19:30
Award Ceremony: 20 :30 on stage
Led by Georges Stevens : makeup@bifff.net
With the participation of Jean-Pierre Finotto’s makeup school
Led by Véronique Lacroix

Bloody Date Night
2024-04-17 17:00 - 22:00
Whips, feathers and masks are back for the Bloody Date Night! Bring your date to celebrate love, sex and freedom in our unique way with a selection of tailor made movies for movie loving lovers. In between screenings, you’ll get a chance to meet up with our favourite love shop EvaLuna, who will be back to spice up the game and welcome for the first time the Cabaret Chez Maman to make sure the heat is on!

7th Art Contest
2024-04-12 - 2024-04-20
FROM APRIL 12 TO 20 | 5 PM – 10 PM
From April 12 to 20 it’s time to get bold! Is your creative bone tickling? Is your brush dying to get out of the drawer? Is your head overflowing with ideas? Then you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to the 7th International Art Contest! All candidates will get only 5 hours – watch and learn, Jack Bauer – to produce a painting of fantastic art. Everything is allowed! A variety of basic paints and standard 80 x 100 cm canvases are provided. These performances are open to the public and the finished artworks will be exhibited throughout the remaining festival days. The BIFFF jury will announce the winners during the closing ceremony on Friday April 21 at 7 PM!
When: every day, from 5 until 10 PM
Want to participate? Fill out our form or send an e-mail to jonathan@bifff.net
Award Ceremony: 21.04.2023, 7 PM

1st prize: Exhibition of 5 artworks during the 42th BIFFF + material offered by ‘Géant des Beaux-Arts’
2nd prize: Exhibition at the Museum for Fantastic Art in Brussels + material offered by ‘Géant des Beaux-Arts’
3rd prize: material offered by ‘Géant des Beaux-Arts’

REGISTRATION FORM

Organized in collaboration with
Art projects Pieterpauwel (www.artpieterpauwel.be)
Curator: Marleen De Schryver
Sponsors: Le Géant des Beaux-Arts (www.geant-beaux-arts.be)
& Musée d’Art Fantastique & Centre d’Art Fantastique de Bruxelles (https://www.fantastic-museum.be/ )

OUTWATERS
2024-04-10 08:00 - 17:00
Four friends head off to the Mojave Desert to shoot a video clip. Each one has his neat little tent to pitch, a water bottle and sun-cream. When night falls they go to sleep. That is, if the desert lets them… Everything that happens afterwards will have to stay between us because even just trying to put into words what happens risks to twist our poor little stomachs. So, let’s continue with a more neutral content to keep your heart rate down before the screening. The famous Mojave desert is a 40.000 km² area with a lot of rocks. It can be very hot, like in Death Valley, because it is located in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada. Not much in the way of flowers, apart from a couple o’ yuccas. In terms of animals, there’s red-tailed hawks, roadrunners and bighorn sheep, also called the ovis canadensis. That other Canadian ovis, Céline Dion, also shot two video clips there. But she’s had way more luck than the four clowns we have here…
