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 fr:Ciné+ 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
2015fr:Don't Grow Upfr:Thierry Poiraud
2016RawJulia Ducournau
2017Tigers Are Not AfraidIssa López
2018FreaksAdam Stein & Zach Lipovsky

Other genre film festivals

References

  1. ↑ Recap of 2018 festival from French magazine 20 Minutes.
  2. ↑ Article from Collider about 2014 festival.
  3. ↑ Review from Collider of 2015 PIFFF festival
  4. ↑ Article from Rolling Stone (in French) about the 2018 festival.
  5. ↑ French language press release from PIFFF.
  6. ↑ MovieMaker magazine article from 2016.
  7. ↑ Article from ScreenAnarchy from 2017
  8. ↑ Article in French-language Le Mag Du Cine.
  9. ↑ "PIFFF - Festivalhistory - Paris International Fantastic Film Festival".


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