1. FANT PREMIÈRES

The programme includes the following full-length film premières:

PRIMER (Shane Carruth, USA, 2004)
This film won the Sundance 2004 Award for Best Director and Script, surprising the film world with a result on low resources and the strength of imagination of its narrative and visual invention.

CSA (Confederate States of America) (Kevin Willmott, USA, 2004)
A 'false' documentary that employs humour and terror to tell the story of an America in which the South wins the Civil War.

LES REVENANTS (Robin Campillo, France, 2004)
A different, terrifying version of the zombie cinema classic with a very original twist.

RAMONES: END OF THE CENTURY (Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia, USA, 2003)
Since the US première of this documentary on one of the most representative groups of North American punk rock, three of its members have died, including Johnny Ramone, who was a self-declared fan of Roger Corman’s work and grade-Z horror films.

HAIR HIGH (Bill Plympton, USA, 2004)
Together with this full-length film by the cruel but tender Plympton, which won the Best Animation Film Award at Animamadrid 2004, we will show his latest short, GUARD DOG, candidate at the last edition of the Oscar Awards for the Best Short Animation.

KONTROLL (Nimrod Antal, Hungary, 2003)
One of the surprises from contemporary Hungarian cinema. A dark, terrifying and consuming thriller that has won awards all over Europe: Cannes (Award of the Youth), Copenhagen (Best Script and Director), Hungary (Best Actor, Script, Critics’ Award...), Warsaw (Filmgoers’ Award), etc.

AFTER THE DAY BEFORE (Attila Janish, Hungary, 2004)
The terrible murder of a young woman told in a fragmented way and from a variety of time lines has turned this contemporary Hungarian film into one of the most brilliant narrative experiments of recent European cinema. Lynch’s influence is there to be seen...

TEMPUS FUGIT (Enric Folch, Spain, 2003)
Funny, original, fantastic, this Catalonian TV-movie is pure delight, a story filled with ingenuity on the classic subject of time travel. It has already received awards at the fantastic film festivals of Amsterdam, Monte Carlo, Sweden and Great Britain, among others.

2. THE FUTURE CLOSE AT HAND

A season of Mexican fantastic films which looks at works produced between 1945 and 1970 as part of research carried out by Itala Schmelz and already exhibited with great success at the Reina Sofía National Art Museum in Madrid. The films comprise the following 6 titles:

EL SEXO FUERTE (Emilio Gómez Muriel, 1946)
ARAÑAS INFERNALES (Federico Curiel, 1966)
LA MOMIA AZTECA CONTRA EL ROBOT
HUMANO (Rafael Portillo, 1958)

EL PLANETA DE LAS MUJERES INVASORAS (Adolfo Crevenna, 1966)
SANTO CONTRA LA INVASION DE LOS MARCIANOS (Adolfo Crevenna, 1966)
LA NAVE DE LOS MONSTRUOS (Rogelio González, 1959)


For further information and photos, etc., please visit:
http://www.tumbaabierta.com/festivales/
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http://w3art.es/mncars/archivo/000169.php


3. MASTERS OF THE FANTASTIC FILM

A section devoted to past masterpieces of fantastic cinema, thrillers and horror films from the history of the film industry, restored copies and films in original version with subtitles. The films to be shown are as follows:

FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED, by Terence Fisher
KISS ME DEADLY, by Robert Aldrich
DAS TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE, by Fritz Lang
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, by Roger Corman
KURONEKO, by Kaneto Shindo

4. RYAN LARKIN SPECIAL

On the occasion of the Oscar for the Best Short Animation for RYAN by Chris Landreth (winner of the Golden Mikeldi at ZINEBI 2004), we will show this short together with the Canadian documentary ALTER EGOS by Laurence Green, an exciting discovery of the work by the film-maker Ryan Larkin, the subject of this special section.

5. SHORTS

FANTASY SHORTS A new edition devoted to the short in which each Spanish film-maker presents his/her most recent work. The shorts include the following, among others:

ZOMBIE XTREME by Julián Lara
NOTAMOTOF by Rubén Coca
CITIZEN WELLES by Robert Figueras
TADEO JONES by Enrique Gato
METAMORFOSIS by Fran Estévez
LA BOCA DEL LOBO by Haritz Zubillaga

6. NONTZEFLASH

Second competition for Flash animations for the Internet. The competition will show the winning pieces and a selection of the most interesting works received so far. There will be an awards ceremony for the winners.

7. CINEASIA

In collaboration with Casa Asia and the magazine CINEASIA, we shall offer a sample of the most recent productions from the Asian horror and fantastic film industry, including award winners from numerous festivals.

8. CHILDREN’S CINEMA

Morning sessions for schoolchildren.