Film Festivals

Staff Writer: DL Mullan

In this area, OHG lists film festivals from around the world.
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International Film Festivals

Chichester IFF
Telluride IFF
Toronto IFF

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• Press Conferences - TIFF 09

Sitges IFFFC
Venice IFF

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Sitges Int'l FFC

Staff Writer: Grave Digger

The Sitges IFFC is October 1st - 12th, 2009 in Spain. Besides showing films, the festival also does:

• Oficial Fantàstic
• Oficial Noves Visions
• Orient Express - Casa Asia
• Anima’t
• Midnight X-Treme
• Seven Chances
• Retrospectives / Sitges Clàssics
• Brigadoon
• Catalan Focus

This year the festival has a great selection of films in competition. To name a few:

The French selection is completed with the stunning zombie film La Horde, by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher; and Les derniers jours du monde by Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu, starring Sergi López. And from the UK come the distressing The Children, by Tom Shankland and Dorian Gray, a revision of the classic film by Oliver Parker. Asian presence in the Official Selection is completed with the urban thriller Accident, by Soi Cheang, from Hong Kong and produced by Johnnie To.

Some of the pages are in Spanish.

Source: Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia