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Last Updated on Sunday, 06 September 2009 09:38 Written by Ivo Sunday, 06 September 2009 06:20

Lund International Fantastic Film Festival is Scandinavia's largest festival for fantastic film. September 17-26 2009 the idyllic city of Lund in Southern Sweden becomes a meeting place for filmmakers, audiences, and business from all over the world.

LIFFF 2009: celebrate 15 Fantastic Years with us!

Peter LarsWe are currently putting together what will become the full festival line-up for this years anniversary edition of LIFFF, and it sure's looking good already! You people who have had the chance to visit all the wonderful free pre-views we've hosted this year know's what we're talking about!

It can already be said that the festival will open up with an exclusive viewing of the The Box by Donnie Darko-director Richard Kelly, two months before its USA-premiere.

The 15th anniversary brings a lot of news to the festival – more films, more guests, exclusive viewings in a huge outdoor tent, and even more world premiers. The big little festival in Lund has rapidly grown into one of Sweden’s most prominent international film festivals and it’s raising the bar for each year.

“This year’s festival is bigger than ever and it has generated more interest than before. It almost feels as if we’re turning 25, even though we’re not really there yet", says Festival Director Lars Diurlin.

This year, Lund International Fantastic film Festival will, amongst other things:

 

  • Boasting two awards sections; the traditional Silver Méliès (more info below), handed out to the best fantastic film in Europe, and a new international award, The Siren, for which eight, both European and non-European films, will be competing (see all the nominees below) .
  • Have its opening, and all of the viewings of the first festival weekend, in an enormous, fully theater equipped tent in the middle of Lundagård, with room for 700 visitors. The Opening Party will be held in an adjacent tent surrounding the well known Lundagård fountain, providing the perfect setting for a festival opening. We are thankful to The Lund University and the Lund Cultural Night for access to the tent. 
  • Show more than 110 films, which is more than ever before. The full program will be presented shortly.
  • Show more world premiers than ever.
  • Present more guests than ever. This year FFF will focus especially on up-and-coming film makers, the stars of tomorrow. It may be at Lund International fantastic film Festival you met them first.

The guests will be made public consecutively  up to the festival opening but FFF can reveal right now that Enzo G. Castellari will be one of them. The Italian director is mostly known for the 70s film Inglorious Bastards and is of current interest thanks to Quentin Tarantino's remake, in which he also stars in a minor role.

“It’ll be nice to see Tarantions Inglorius Basterds” in theatres now, but we’re so geeky we’ll go one step further and bring the man behind the original. He’s one of Italys’s most curious genre film makers and of course we’ll be showing Castellari’s original in the form of a newly restored copy”, says Lars Diurlin.

More information about guests, as well as the complete festival program well be released shortly.

The Gold Méliès winner is announced annually by ten sitting members of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation (EFFFF). In a first phase every festival hosts a local competition; the winners there are awarded with the Silver Meliés (Méliès d’ Argent) and are automatically nominated for the Gold Meliés that same year. The 13th edition of the Gold Meliés award will take place in Sitges, Spain in October 2009.

Be sure to check back on this site. Up until the festival we'll present news, festival selections, Guests of Honor, seminars, happenings etc, so come back often!

Silver Méliès nominees (more to come):

  • THE WAKE WOOD by David Keating
  • PSALM 21 by Fredrik Hiller
  • MOON by Duncan Jones
  • A TOWN CALLED PANIC by Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier
  • AMER by Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet
  • THE CHILDREN by Tom Shankland
  • DOROTHY MILLS by Agnés Merlet

 

Siren nominees

  • WARSAW DARK by Christopher Doyle
  • I COME WITH THE RAIN by Tran Anh Hung
  • THE CLONE RETURNS HOME by Kanji Nakajima
  • VAN DIEMEN’S LAND by Jonathan auf Der Heide
  • 2033 by Francisco Laresgoiti
  • NYMPH by Pan-Ek Ratanauroang
  • MASTER KEY by Patrice Sauvé
  • TRIANGLE by Christopher Smith
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