The Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia recently received double awards from the journalists of Sitges and the surrounding region. In both cases, the Trinitat Catasús and Talaia awards are rewards for the Festival’s international scope. Last Friday,...

MareMonstruo, the el space for fantastic and horror cinema in the MareMostra Film Festival, and Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia have built bridges for the best horror movies to land in Majorca. All kinds of different creatures will be appearing on the screens...

So the countdown begins! Exactly six months from today Sitges 2013 will be raising the curtain to a festival that can already announce one of the current stars in international cinema: Japanese Takashi Miike, who has confirmed he will be attending the Festival with a brand new film: Lesson of the...

The disturbing sound of a lullaby from hell will invade the streets of Sitges during the 46th Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, to be held from the 11th to the 20th of October 2013. The Festival’s poster –once again designed by the China Agency– recalls...

A master has left us. The prolific film director Jesús Franco –also known as Jess Franco– died today in Malaga at the age of 82. Fate would have it that the filmmaker from Madrid has passed on just a few days after the premiere of his last movie, Al Pereira vs. The Alligator...

Sitges premiered a new and interesting project for movie lovers: Cine Club Sitges, presented last Thursday, where its first screening received an excellent turnout. Cine Club Sitges was born with the intention of offering the town a periodic program of original version independent films....

The list of final nominees for the Academy, Goya and Gaudí Awards, announced last week, contains a wide selection of films screened at Sitges 2012. The awards given by the Catalan, Spanish and American academies have chosen as finalists nine different movies included in the lineup of the past...

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The game of masks in Holy Motors, the latest film by the unclassifiable Leos Carax, won the awards for best in competition fantastic feature film and best director, as announced this afternoon at a press conference by Festival Director Ángel Sala. The film also picked up the José Luis...

Catalan director Oscar Aibar, a good friend of the Festival, presented El bosc today, a proposal with fantastic elements and the background of the Civil War that adapts a short story of the same name by Albert Sánchez Piñol. The story, that takes place in the rural setting of...

Rebelle, Me @ the Zoo, Crazy & Thief, Wu Xia (Dragon), Okami kodomo no ame to yuki (Wolf Children), Fuga, Holy Motors, Eat, Tower Black and Elefante are the first winners at the 45th Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, corresponding to the Noves Visions, Casa Asia and...

Sitges’ most loyal audiences will undoubtedly remember the name Pascal Laugier as the director who shook up the Festival in 2008 with his controversial Martyrs. The French filmmaker returns to Sitges today presenting The Tall Man, a film which leaves extreme violence aside and delves deep into...