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The Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) was created in 1983 as a venue for horror, thriller, and science fiction films. Each year, the festival awards prizes in several competitions for feature-length and short films. The programme of 43th edition of the festival, taking place from 8 to 20 April, includes 4 films by Polish filmmakers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWet Monday\u201d<\/strong> (PL: \u201eLany poniedzia\u0142ek\u201d) by Justyna Mytnik\"\"
Belgian premiere
April 14, 18:30<\/p>\n

Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

Klara (15) was assaulted by a masked boy on Wet Monday, a traditional Polish Easter festivity popular with teenagers. A year later, nine days before the trauma anniversary, the protagonist starts to suffer from an acute fear of water. Klara seeks support with her new esoteric friend Diana (17) and finally faces the repressed trauma. A magical story of teenage-hood, healing from trauma and the power of empathy.

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\u201cDead by Dawn\u201d<\/strong> \u00a0(PL: \u201eMartwi przed \u015bwitem\u201d) by Dawid Torrone\"\"
<\/span>World premiere
<\/span>M\u00e9li\u00e8s Competition (European)
<\/span>April 17, 21:30
Screening will be followed by a Q&A with directore Dawid Torrone.<\/p>\n

Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

On a stormy Christmas Eve, a troupe of young actors and actresses is summoned by the renowned but reclusive playwright Heissenhoff to his family\u2019s baroque theater to rehearse for his next play. Oh no, nothing related to gibberish about witchcraft that\u2019s in the script he sent them. Once they\u2019re all neatly locked up in his maze, he\u2019s got a whole other play in mind for them. One that is played to the death, with his cute little lab rats pitted against a raged, eyeball-masked maniac. Place your bets! Who\u2019d have thought the true heir to the Italian giallo maestri Argento, Bava, Martino and Lenzi would hail from\u2026 Poland? Dawid Torrone\u2019s malicious creation \u2013 which he dubs \u201cGiallo Pollo\u201d \u2013 is a frenzied update of Soavi\u2019s STAGE FRIGHT, resulting in a delirious and generously gory slasher for the whole family!<\/p>\n

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\"\"Short film: \u201eLOVE_PROXY\u201d<\/strong> by Marcin Niemkiewicz
as a part of They’re the Future<\/em> panel
April 10, 16:00
Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

Gniewko, a sensitive, and shy software engineer works for a major IT company. His life takes a turn when he gets a chance to use an extraordinary invention \u2013 a robot doppelg\u00e4nger. This robot not only looks better, but also behaves in a more confident manner. It\u2019s calm, persistent, and comes with a built-in speech auto-correction feature.<\/p>\n

The idea of using the robot for work is enticing, but Gniewko has something else in mind. He plans to use his mechanical alter ego to get closer to Lena \u2013 a co-worker he\u2019s secretly in love with.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Short film: \u201cAutorkar\u201d<\/strong> by Sylwia Szki\u0142\u0105d\u017a
Belgian Short Films Competition
April 12, 12:30
Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

In the 1990s, 8 years-old Agata leaves Poland for Belgium. Anxious about her journey, the little girl writes a letter to her father back home, but her pencil falls out and gets lost on the bus. Forced to overcome her shyness, she crawls between the seats in search of the pencil, plunging into a fantastic world populated by strange half-human, half-animal passengers. At the tender age of 8, her eyes transform the reality of migration into an initiatory experience.<\/p>\n

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BIFFF
<\/strong>Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
<\/strong>April 8-20, 2025
<\/strong>Brussels Expo, Palais 10
<\/strong>1020 Brussels<\/p>\n

Check out the full programme of the festival and buy tickets<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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