BIFFF, the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, is a major event in the Brussels cinemagoer’s diary. The 34th edition will take place this year from 29 March until 10 April, and once again BOZAR will play host to the fantastic, the supernatural and the occult on its screens. This year, two Polish films will be on the programme: The Photographer by Waldemar KRZYSTEK and Demon by Marcin WRONA.
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
>>> Bozar – Center for Fine Arts in Brussels (rue Ravensteinstraat 23, 1000 Brussels) – see map
Film Demon
>>> Sunday 3 April 2016 – 19:00
The photographer
>>> Thursday 7 April 2016 – 19:00
The Photographer (Fotograf) – PL, 2014, 107min
The film tells the story of s serial killer in present-day Moscow. At the scene of his misdeeds, he leaves scraps of paper with numbers on them. In the end, investigators find a trail which leads them to a former red army barracks in Legnica (Poland) where, during the 1970’s, some unexplained events took place. A young policewoman, Natasha, plays an active role in the hunt. She is the only person who can have spoken with the “Photographer”… but she is no longer living.
Waldemar Krzystek
The Polish director and screenwriter studied Polish philology at the University of Wrocław and direction at the Radio and Television department of the University of Silesia in Katowice. We also have him to thank for theatre productions and TV series. He has won many prizes for his work, the most prestigous of which went to his film W zawieszeniu (in stand-by), which was a winner in 1987 at the Gdynia film festival.
Demon – PL/IL, 2015, 93 min
Piotr, Pyton to his friends, travels from England to Poland in order to marry the extremely beautiful Żaneta. In the home of his future father-in-law, which they are given as a present, he plans to build a cosy little nest for his family. On paper, everything seems to be going perfectly, until the day before the wedding, when he finds a human skull, buried near to the house. When he sets about investigating this bizarre discovery, he is involved in an accident and loses consciousness. When he awakens, with no memory of the hours preceding his accident, he notices that his macabre discovery has vanished. But the wedding is starting and the guests, especially Żaneta’s brother, are starting to realise that there’s something the matter with Piotr…
Marcin Wrona
Marcin Wrona was a film and television director and also worked as a theatre producer. He studied cinema at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow as well as at the Radio and Television department of the University of Silesia in Katowice. He is also a graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Directing and the Amsterdam Binger Film Institute. His films were given a warm welcome from audiences and he won countless prizes and plaudits. Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Pedro Almodovar have all spoken of how much they admire his work. Marcin Wrona died in September 2015.
