HARD: LINE Festival
The HARD: LINE Film Festival is an international film festival that takes place annually in Regensburg . The festival emerged from the monthly film series of the same name and focuses primarily on contributions from extreme film genres such as horror, thriller or science fiction.
development
Since January 2010, HARD: LINE has been showing regular films from the marginal genres of horror , thriller and science fiction in Regensburg . Every last Saturday of the month, contributions from extreme film art find their place in the late-night program of the cinemas in the Andreasstadel and are introduced by media studies . The great media attention and the popularity of the audience meant that a film festival was organized for the first time in 2013 for the monthly series, which focuses on the highlights of the year. The program has been expanded annually since then. In 2016 the festival had to change location due to the great popularity. It is currently a guest with 20 performances in Ostentor cinema , one of the oldest cinemas in Germany. In 2018 the festival was examined for admission to the Méliès International Festivals Federation (MIFF) and passed. HARD: LINE has been the only Méliès festival in Germany since 2019 and is one of the 100 most important genre festivals worldwide.
Sections and prices
In 2014, for the first time, one of the audience favorites was chosen from all the films shown during the festival. Out of competition was the contribution from the final evening, which was shown as a surprise film in a Regensburg pub. With the expansion of the program to a total of eleven films, the 2015 festival featured two cinemas and, in addition to highlights with a commercial focus (section: Spotlights), also showed four independently produced films that had to get by without a large budget (section: Perspective). A crowd favorite was chosen in each of the two sections. With the addition of a festival day and the move to a larger cinema, another section (Directors Spotlight) was founded. In 2017 the two film sections were reunited. The director's focus was retained. With the admission to the Méliès International Festivals Federation, two short film blocks were included in the program. The Méliès D'Argent Award for the best European fantastic short film is determined by an international jury.
Crowd favorite
| year | winner | Director | section | Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead | Tommy Wirkola | ||
| 2015 | Deathgasm | Jason Lei Howden | Spotlights | |
| 2015 | Dude Bro Party Massacre III | Tomm Jacobsen , Michael Rousselet , Jon Salmon | perspective | |
| 2016 | Under the shadow | Babak Anvari | Spotlights | |
| 2016 | Sun choke | Ben Cresciman | perspective | |
| 2017 | Saving Sally | Avid Liongren | ||
| 2018 | Dave Made A Maze | Bill Watterson | ||
| 2019 | Achoura | Talal Selhami | Feature film | Golden Razor Blade |
| 2019 | The Burden | Nico van den Brink | Short film | Silver Razor Blade |
Méliès D'Argent
| year | winner | Director | jury |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Supine | Nicole Goode | Julian Richards , Jonathan Barkan , Stefan Schimek |
Opening film
| year | Movie title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Maniac | Alexandre Aja |
| 2014 | It follows | David Robert Mitchell |
| 2015 | We are still here | Ted Geoghegan |
| 2016 | Fear, Inc. | Vincent Masciale |
| 2017 | The Heretics | Chad Archibald |
| 2018 | Summer of 84 | François Simard , Anouk Whissell , Yoann-Karl Whissell |
| 2019 | I see you | Adam Randall |
Graduation film
| year | Movie title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Fresh Meat | Danny Mulheron |
| 2014 | What We Do in the Shadows | Jemaine Clement , Taika Waititi |
| 2015 | Turbo Kid | François Simard , Anouk Whissell , Yoann-Karl Whissell |
| 2016 | Operation Avalanche | Matt Johnson |
| 2017 | 68 Kill | Trent Haaga |
| 2018 | Mandy | Panos Cosmatos |
| 2019 | Why don't you just die! | Kirill Sokolov |
Directors Spotlight
With the aim of offering young independent directors a platform and thus making them accessible to the German market, selected titles from the work of a director are shown.
| year | Director | Movie title |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Michey Keating | POD , Darling and Carnage Park |
| 2017 | Chad Archibald | The Drownsman , Bite, and The Heretics |
| 2018 | Simeon Halligan | Splintered , White Settlers, and Habit |
| 2019 | Julian Richards | Darklands , The Last Horror Movie and Reborn |
Premieres
Among other things, many films celebrated their German, European, international or world premieres at the HARD: LINE Festival: Achoura , Artik , Aniara , The Axiom . Bajo La Rosa , Black Mountain Side , Boar , Cold Ground , Compulsion , Darling , Death on Scenic Drive , The Demolisher , Domain , The Drownsman , Dude Bro Party Massacre III , Fear, Inc. , Found , Framed , Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary , Habit , Happy Hunting , The House On Pine Street , The Heretics , I'll Take Your Dead , The Incident , Itsy Bitsy , Living Among Us , Pimped , Plague , The Pool , Saving Sally , Sexy Durga , Splintered , Starfish , Sun Choke , Tigers Are Not Afraid , Top Knot Detective , Volition , We Are Still Here , The Witch Next Door .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Media reports on HARD: LINE , on the festival website.
- ↑ Mélies International Festivals Federation: The Méliès International Festivals Federation. In: Méliès International Festivals Federation. Méliès International Festivals Federation, accessed October 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Adrian Tofei: Top 100 Horror & Fantasy Film Festival. In: Adrian Tofei. Adrian Tofei, October 1, 2019, accessed October 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Audience favorite at the HARD: LINE Festival , on the festival website.