Activities

OPENING ACT | Le Rythme des Fourmis is a drum collective playing on industrial barrels, active for 25 years. Percussionists and drummers inspired by Stomp, Blue Man Group, Mayumana, Les Tambours du Burundi, Doudou N’Diaye Rose, and above all their French cousins Les Tambours du Bronx (respect), they’ve been lighting up street parties, demonstrations, and festivals for a quarter of a century with the same energy and enthusiasm.

https://www.lerythmedesfourmis.be/

Franky is alive! Our eccentric mad scientist managed to bring him to life. But something isn’t quite right in his head. His brain is past its expiry date, and worms have made themselves at home inside it. The children will be invited to remove them. Everything inside his skull is edible, even if it looks disgusting.

https://www.takapa.be/

As a regular fixture at the festival, the Squid Lab team returns to the BIFFF for a fascinating and monstrous SFX makeup demonstration.
This special effects workshop, led by Erwan Simon and Daphnée Beaulieux, will reveal the live secrets of cinematic transformation through costumes, makeup, and prosthetics, keeping with the festival’s purest traditions.
Both artists have worked on cult genre films, including the visual trip Mandy, the horror hit Yummy, and the French shocker Inside (À l’intérieur). More recently, they contributed to the wild film The Belgian Wave, directed by festival regular Jérôme Vandewattyne.
We won’t say anything more—it’s a surprise!

http://www.squidlab.be/

This year you can immerse yourself again in a world of color and creativity at our sensational bodypainting event! Talented artists will transform their models into veritable living works of art, right before your amazed eyes. The metamorphosis of these bodies will culminate in a demonstration on our “Happenings” stage. The combination of fiery performance and electrifying energy will capture your imagination! With the participation of students from the Annick Cayot Academy. Directed by : Annick Cayot

www.annickcayot.com

Do you dream of one day turning a corner on a forest path and coming face to face with dragon riders and their dragons? These legendary creatures descend from their enchanted realm to warn humankind of a great danger. That danger comes from humans themselves. They are destroying the forests where woodland creatures live. Come and follow them on their adventures.

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Discover the incredible Pavlof, the show hypnotist who will plunge your mind into a fascinating universe, at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. Let yourself be carried away by a hypnotic adventure where the boundaries between dream and reality become blurred. A spectacular journey awaits you, where your senses will be captivated like never before.

https://www.spectacledhypnose.com/

Bavar the story ferryman is a curious character, always ready to sweep you away into the greatest of tales. Are they true stories, or stories that feel true? No one really knows. What’s certain is that no one blends storytelling, clowning, improvisation, and audience interaction quite like he does, delighting both young sprouts and old branches alike.This year, he returns to Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, determined to pass on some of its oldest traditions to the younger generation while sharing a legend straight from the dark and mysterious Ardennes.

https://www.facebook.com/bavar

Pornographie Exclusive is a Brussels-based Electro-Rock / Dark Wave duo formed by Séverine Cayron and Jérôme Vandewattyne (Spit’n’Split, The Belgian Wave). Blending dark romanticism, intense emotion and raw energy, their musical universe has notably been praised by John Zorn. Inspired by their debut album, One-Way Ticket to the Other Side gave rise to a film-concert co-produced with actress Deborah Kara Unger, presented in Montreal, Berlin, Vienna, London and Brussels.

Fresh back from Tokyo, the duo also composed the original soundtrack for Kenichi Ugana’s Incomplete Chairs, presented at BIFFF, where they will celebrate the release of the film’s vinyl with a DJ set before the screening, in the presence of the director.

https://pornographieexclusive.bandcamp.com/

https://linktr.ee/pornographie.exclusive

La Baronne Perchée, an oneiric and flamboyantly whimsical character from Cie Tiguidap.
According to the Baronne, Reality might one day become a dreadful flaw… unless, of course, we choose to take care of it.
Knowing this, centuries ago, the Baronne made a bold and committed decision: never to set foot on Earth again!
Oscillating between childlike imagination and gentle madness, this character, as baroque as her ideas, this stilt-walking character, communicative and highly visual, questioning the place that Humans still allow for Dreams and imagination.
Equipped with her marvelous “Reality Diving Suit”, the sparkling Baronne waxes lyrical without restraint, scattering her rosy swirls wherever she goes.
Her best advice remains the simplest: Be Happy, H-A-DOUBLE P-Y! And as everyone knows, to live happily, we must live… perched!

https://tiguidap.be/