Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya

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Festival building in Sitges, 2008

The Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya ( Catalan for "Catalonia's International Festival of Fantastic Films"), also known as the Sitges Film Festival, is the world's most important international film festival of fantastic films , which is exclusively dedicated to this film genre .

The festival takes place every year in the first half of October in the Catalan coastal town of Sitges , 36 km from Barcelona . It was founded in 1967 under the name Setmana Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic i de Terror de Sitges (Catalan for “International Week of Fantastic and Horror Films”) and initially had around 5000 visitors at a time. In 1996 the name was changed to Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Sitges . The festival was funded by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the City of Sitges and was accredited by the FIAPF as a film festival with specialized competitions . In 2010 it took the current name Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya .

The 48th edition in 2015 with 169 films already recorded around 180,000 visitors, the 49th edition in 2016 lists around 200,000 visitors and 66,859 admission tickets sold. The main venue is the "Auditorium" (Auditori Melià Sitges) in the Melia Hotel at Port d'Aiguadolç with 1384 seats, other locations include the cinemas of "El Prado", "El Retiro", the "Sala Tramuntana" and the "Brigadoon" “Added.

An international jury has awarded several film prizes since 1971 , the audience prize being the Gran Premi del Públic .

Festival winners

year Best movie Best director Best actor Best Actress
1971 Janusz Majewski ( Lokis ) and Michael Skaife ( Necrophagus ) Vincent Price ( Dr. Phibes' Cabinet of Horrors ) Yoon Yeo-jeong ( Woman of Fire , 화녀 Hwanyeo )
1972 The Cremator , English: The Cremator , Czech: Spalovač mrtvol , 1968, by Juraj Herz Robert Mulligan ( The Other ) Rudolf Hrušínský ( The Cremator ) Geraldine Chaplin ( no births )
1973 Juan Luis Buñuel ( Rendezvous for the happy death , Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse ) Eugene Levy ( Cannibal Girls - The Movie With the Warning Bell ) Andrea Martin ( Cannibal Girls - The film with the warning bell )
1974 Robert Fuest ( The Return of Dr. Phibes , Dr. Phibes Rises Again ) Mark Burns ( House of the Living Dead ) Cristina Galbó ( No profanar el sueño de los muertos )
1975 David Cronenberg ( Parasite Killer , Shivers ) Paul Naschy ( La Maldicion de la Bestia ) Lana Turner ( Pursuit , Persecution (1974) )
1976 Dario Argento ( Profondo Rosso ) Peter Cushing ( The Ghoul ) Brenda Vaccaro ( Death Weekend )
1977 Dan Curtis ( Country House of Dead Souls , Burnt Offerings ) Burgess Meredith ( Country House of Dead Souls ) Karen Black ( Mansion of Dead Souls )
1978 Long weekend Richard Franklin ( Patrick ) John Hargreaves ( Long Weekend ) Camille Keaton ( Day of the Woman )
1979 Juraj Heart ( Panna a netvor ) Gerhard Olschewski ( The Murderer ) Lisa Pelikan ( Jennifer )
1980 Veljko Bulajić ( The Man to Destroy ) Nicholas Worth ( Don't Answer the Phone ) Cyd Hayman ( The Godsend )
1981 Walerian Borowczyk ( Docteur Jekyll et les femmes ) Mircea Bogdan ( Povestea dragostei ) Linda Haynes ( Human Experiments )
1982 Tony Williams ( Next of Kin ) Richard Chamberlain ( The Last Wave ) Annie McEnroe ( Warlords of the 21st Century )
1983 Luc Besson ( Le Dernier Combat ) Vincent Price , Christopher Lee , Peter Cushing and John Carradine ( House of the Long Shadows ) Elizabeth Ward ( Alone in the Dark )
1984 The Company of Wolves Carl Schenkel ( Down ) Joe Morton ( The Brother from Another Planet ) Amy Madigan ( Streets of Fire )
1985 Re-animator Shūji Terayama ( Farewell to the Ark ) John Walcutt ( Return ) Lori Cardille ( Zombie 20 , Day of the Dead )
1986 Blue Velvet Sergei Parajanov and Dodo Abashidze ( Leienda i Suramsion Irepiosta ) Juanjo Puigcorbé ( Més enllà de la passió ) Caroline Williams ( The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 )
1987 Get volt, get nem volt
(A Hungarian Fairy Tale)
Paul Verhoeven ( RoboCop ) Michael Nouri ( The Hidden ) Jill Schoelen ( The Stepfather )
1988 The Navigator George A. Romero ( Monkey Shines ) Gregory Hlady ( Otstupnik ) Kate McNeil ( Monkey Shines )
1989 Heart of Midnight Peter Greenaway ( The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ) Michael Gambon ( The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ) and Nicolas Cage ( Vampire's Kiss ) Rosanna Arquette ( Black Rainbow )
1990 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer Sam Raimi ( Darkman ) and John McNaughton ( Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ) Jeff Goldblum ( Mister Frost ) Lindsay Duncan ( Reflecting Skin )
1991 Europe Jean-Pierre Jeunet , Marc Caro ( Delicatessen ) Dominique Pinon ( Delicatessen ) Juliet Stevenson ( Truly Madly Deeply )
1992 C'est arrivé près de chez vous Quentin Tarantino ( Reservoir Dogs ) Benoît Poelvoorde ( C'est arrivé près de chez vous ) Joey Wong ( A Chinese Ghost Story III )
1993 Orlando Dave Borthwick ( The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb ) Federico Luppi ( Cronos ) Jennifer Ward-Lealand ( Desperate Remedies )
1994 71 fragments of a chronology of chance Scott McGehee and David Siegel ( Suture ) Santiago Segura (Justino) Jane Horrocks ( Deadly Advice )
1995 Citizen X Chris Gerolmo ( Citizen X ) and Michael Almereyda (Nadja) Stephen Rea ( Citizen X ) Bridget Fonda ( Rough Magic )
1996 The Pillow Book Mohsen Makhmalbaf ( Gabbeh ) James Woods ( Killer: A Journal of Murder ) Melinda Clarke ( Le lengua asesina )
1997 Gattaca Scott Reynolds ( The Ugly ) Sam Rockwell ( Lawn Dogs ) Reese Witherspoon ( Freeway )
1998 Cube Michael Di Jiacomo ( Animals ) Jared Harris ( trance ) Évelyne Dandry ( sitcom )
1999 Ringu (The Ring) Ben Hopkins ( Simon Magus ) Noah Taylor ( Simon Magus ) Emma Valirasau ( Los Sin Nombre )
2000 Ed Gein Geoffrey Wright ( Cherry Falls ) Steve Railsback ( Ed Gein ) Ryōko Hirosue ( Himitsu )
2001 Vidocq Brad Anderson ( Session 9 ) Eduard Fernández ( Fausto 5.0 ) Yūki Amami ( Inugami )
2002 Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary David Cronenberg ( Spider ) Jeremy Northam ( Cypher ) Angela Bettis ( May )
2003 Zatoichi Alexandre Aja ( Haute Tension ) Robert Downey Jr. ( The Singing Detective ) Cécile de France ( Haute Tension )
2004 Oldboy Johnnie To ( Breaking News ) Christian Bale ( The Machinist ) Mónica López ( El Habitante Incierto )
2005 Hard candy Johnnie To ( Election ) Lee Kang-sheng ( El sabor de la sandía (The Wayward Cloud) ) Lee Yeong-ae ( Sympathy for Lady Vengeance )
2006 requiem Martin Weisz ( Grimm Love ) Thomas Kretschmann and Thomas Huber ( Grimm Love ) Sandra Hüller Requiem
2007 The Fall Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza ( [● REC] ) Sam Rockwell ( Joshua (El Hijo del Mal) ) Manuela Velasco ( [● REC] )
2008 Surveillance Kim Jee-woon ( The Good, the Bad, the Weird ) Brian Cox ( Red ) Semra Turan ( Fighter )
2009 Moon Brilliant Mendoza ( Kinatay ) Sam Rockwell ( Moon ) Elena Anaya ( Hierro ) and Kim Ok-vin ( Thirst )
2010 Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale Jalmari Helander ( Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale ) Patrick Fabian ( The Last Exorcism ) Josie Ho ( Dream Home )
2011 Red State Julia Leigh ( Sleeping Beauty ) Michael Parks ( Red State ) Brit Marling ( Another Earth )
2012 Holy Motors Léos Carax ( Holy Motors ) Vincent D'Onofrio ( Chained ) Alice Lowe ( Sightseers )
2013 Borgman Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales ( Big Bad Wolves ) Andy Lau ( Blind Detective ) Juno Temple ( Magic Magic )
2014 I origins Jonas Govaerts ( Cub ) Nathan Phillips ( These Final Hours ) and Kōji Yakusho ( The World of Kanako ) Essie Davis ( The Babadook ) and Julianne Moore ( Maps to the Stars )
2015 The Invitation S. Craig Zahler ( Bone Tomahawk ) Joel Edgerton ( The Gift ) Pili Groyne ( Le Tout Nouveau Testament )
2016 Swiss Army Man Yeon Sang-ho ( Train to Busan ) Daniel Radcliffe ( Swiss Army Man ) Sennia Nanua ( The Girl with All the Gifts )
2017 Jupiter's moon Coralie Fargeat ( Revenge ) Rafe Spall ( The Ritual ) Marsha Timothy ( Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts )
2018 Climax Panos Cosmatos ( Mandy ) Hasan Ma'jun (Pig) Andrea Riseborough (Nancy)
2019 El hoyo Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles ( Bacurau ) Miles Robbins ( Daniel Isn't Real ) Imogen Poots ( Vivarium )

Web links

Commons : Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . (Catalan).
  2. Information from the editorial staff of the film festival (English).
  3. Gregorio Belinchón: El cine de terror y fantástico grita ya en el Festival de Sitges. In: El País of October 10, 2015 (Spanish).
  4. Sitges 2016's statistics confirm its commitment to heterogeneous fantastic genre and opening out to the industry. Sitges 2016 website of November 3, 2016. Accessed November 17, 2016.
  5. Sitges 1971 Awards
  6. Sitges 1972 Awards
  7. ^ Sitges 1973 Awards
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  53. Sitges 2019 Awards

Coordinates: 41 ° 14 ′ 13.7 ″  N , 1 ° 49 ′ 24.7 ″  E