Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival

The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF, French Festival international du film fantastique de Neuchâtel ) is an international film festival that is held annually in Neuchâtel , Switzerland . It specializes in fantastic films, with filmmaking in Asia playing a special role. Fantastic films in the sense of the festival are films that “transcend normal reality”. In addition to fantasy, this also includes science fiction , horror , mystery , thriller and the like. There are also stop-motion animations and digital images .

history

In 2000, a group of students led by Anaïs Emery, who will be the artistic director until 2020, organized the first NIFFF. After a one-year break, a new edition followed annually in July from 2002 and the event grew continuously. Since 2001 the NIFFF has been integrated into the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation . Jean Studer has been President of the Organizing Committee since 2013 . In 2018, a new visitor record was achieved with 44,000 spectators. The NIFFF is an event supported by the Federal Office of Culture , the main media partner is Radio Télévision Suisse .

Price categories

Currently (2018) prizes are awarded in the following categories:

• Prix ​​HR Giger “Narcisse” for the best film, named after HR Giger (since 2000)
• Méliès d'argent for the best European feature film, named after Georges Méliès (since 2004)
• Best Asian Feature Film (since 2003)
• Prix ​​RTS du public , audience prize awarded by Radio Télévision Suisse (since 2002)
• International Critic Award (since 2014)
• Imagining The Future Award for the best production design (since 2013)
• Youth Prize Denis de Rougemont (since 2003)
• Prix ​​HR Giger “Narcisse” for the best Swiss short film (since 2000)
• Prix ​​Taurus Studio à l'innovation (since 2009)
• Outside the Box (since 2018)

Prize winners (main prizes)

Best movie

year	Movie	Director	country
2000	Gemini	Shin'ya Tsukamoto	Japan
2002	The Yin-Yang Master	Yōjirō Takita	Japan
2003	28 days later	Danny Boyle	United Kingdom
2004	The machinist	Brad Anderson	Spain
2005	Innocence	Lucile Hadzihalilovic	France
2006	Other country	Jens Lien	Norway
2007	The recent thunderstorm	Roy Andersson	Sweden
2008	Sleep dealer	Alex Rivera	United States
2009	Fish story	Yoshihiro Nakamura	Japan
2010	Enter the Void	Gaspar Noé	France
2011	Trollhunter	André Øvredal	Norway
2012	Citadel	Ciarán Foy	Ireland
2013	Dark touch	Marina de Van	France
2014	Housebound	Gerard Johnstone	New Zealand
2015	Green Room	Jeremy Saulnier	United States
2016	Under the shadow	Babak Anvari	Iran
2017	Super Dark Times	Kevin Phillips	United States
2018	Climax	Gaspar Noé	France
2019	Extra Ordinary - ghost hunting for beginners	Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman	Ireland , Belgium

Audience award

year	Movie	Director	country
2002	Don't ask don't tell	Doug Miles	United States
2003	Invisible - Trapped in the afterlife	Joel Bergvall	Sweden
2004	Tokyo Godfathers	Satoshi Kon	Japan
2005	Zebraman	Takashi Miike	Japan
2006	Adam's apples	Thomas Jensen is different	Denmark
2007	Black Sheep	Jonathan King	New Zealand
2008	CJ7	Stephen Chow	Hong Kong
2009	Connected	Benny Chan	Hong Kong
2010	Black Death	Christopher Smith	United Kingdom
2011	Trollhunter	André Øvredal	Norway
2012	Grabbers	Jon Wright	United Kingdom
2013	You're next	Adam Wingard	United States
2014	5 room kitchen coffin	Jemaine Clement / Taika Waititi	New Zealand
2015	Green Room	Jeremy Saulnier	United States
2016	Swiss Army Man	Daniel Scheinert / Dan Kwan	United States
2017	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure	Takashi Miike	Japan
2018	Kasane	Yûichi Satô	Japan
2019	Extra Ordinary - ghost hunting for beginners	Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman	Ireland , Belgium

Best Asian Film

year	Movie	Director	country
2003	Gozu	Takashi Miike	Japan
2004	Tokyo Godfathers	Satoshi Kon	Japan
2005	Zebraman	Takashi Miike	Japan
2006	SPL	Wilson Yip	Hong Kong
2007	Don - The game begins	Farhan Akhtar	India
2008	Om Shanti Om	Farah Khan	India
2009	The Handsome Suit	Tsutomu Hanabusa	Japan
2010	TIG	Renpei Tsukamoto	Japan
2011	Hello Ghost	Kim Young-tak	South Korea
2012	Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings	Jade Castro	Philippines
2013	Eega	SS Rajamouli , JVV Sathyanarayana	India
2014	Yasmine	Siti Kamaluddin / Chan Man-Ching	Brunei
2015	Full strike	Henri Wong / Derek Kwok	Hong Kong
2016	Honor Thy Father	Erik Matti	Philippines
2017	Trapped	Vikramaditya Motwane	India
2018	Bad genius	Nattawut Poonpiriya	Thailand
2019	The fable	Kan Eguchi	Japan

Best European film

year	Movie	Director	country
2004	The machinist	Brad Anderson	Spain
2005	Code 46	Michael Winterbottom	United Kingdom
2006	Other country	Jens Lien	Norway
2007	The Ugly Swans	Konstantin Lopischanski	Russia
2008	So dark the night	Tomas Alfredson	Sweden
2009	Linkeroever	Pieter Van Hees	Belgium
2010	Strigoi	Faye Jackson	United Kingdom
2011	Trollhunter	André Øvredal	Norway
2012	Citadel	Ciarán Foy	Ireland
2013	In the Name of the Son (Au nom du fils)	Vincent Lannoo	France
2014	Blind	Eskil Vogt	Norway
2015	Men & Chicken	Thomas Jensen is different	Denmark
2016	Parents (Forældre)	Christian Tafdrup	Denmark
2017	El Bar	Álex de la Iglesia	Spain
2018	Climax	Gaspar Noé	France
2019	Abou Leila	Amin Sidi-Boumédiène	Algeria , France , Qatar

Prominent jury members (selection)

Brian Aldiss (2005) Nancy Allen (2010) Jaume Balagueró (2007) Zoë Bell (2015) Roger Corman (2004) Bong Joon-ho (2009) Orson Scott Card (2013) Luigi Cozzi (2014)

David Cronenberg (2018) Joe Dante (2008) Lucile Hadzihalilovic (2007) Tobe Hooper (2000) Anurag Kashyap (2016) John Landis (2006) Russell Mulcahy (2015)

Kim Newman (2013) Nicolas Roeg (2005) George A. Romero (2006) Lucius Shepard (2008) Douglas Trumbull (2010) Jennifer Ulrich (2012) Franziska Weisz (2007)

Web links

• Official website of the NIFFF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Daniel Fuchs: Long-standing film festival director about the time after Corona: “The audience will perceive our festival differently”. In: tagblatt.ch. July 3, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Anaïs Emery Neuchâtel. DAS Genève, accessed on August 19, 2018 (French). 
3. ↑ Le petit monstre devient grand. L'Express , July 8, 2002, accessed August 19, 2018 (French). 
4. ^ Jean Studer nouveau président du NIFFF. ArcInfo, March 13, 2013, accessed August 19, 2018 (French). 
5. ↑ NIFFF 2018: Palmarés. SciFi World, July 17, 2018, accessed August 19, 2018 (Spanish). 
6. ↑ Awards 2000. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Awards 2002. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Awards 2003. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2004. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2005. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Awards 2006. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Awards 2007. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
13. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2008. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
14. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2009. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
15. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2010. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
16. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2011. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
17. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2012. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
18. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2013. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
19. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2014. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
20. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2015. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
21. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2016. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2016, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
22. ↑ ^{a b c d} Awards 2017. Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festivel, 2017, accessed on August 19, 2018 (English). 
23. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gaspar Noé's 'Climax' wins top prize at the 2018 Neuchatel Film Festival. Screendaily, July 16, 2018, accessed August 19, 2018 . 
24. ↑ ^{a b c d} Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival: NIFF 2019 list of winners. Accessed July 14, 2019 .