• Oficial Fantàstic
• Oficial Noves Visions
• Orient Express - Casa Asia
• Anima’t
• Midnight X-Treme
• Seven Chances
• Retrospectives / Sitges Clàssics
• Brigadoon
• Catalan Focus

Oficial Fantàstic

This is the Festival’s official selection and its raison d’être. This style’s heterogeneity opens the doors to films that navigate through various genres, including science-fiction, fantasy innovation, horror and thrillers among other sensations inviting the spectator to see film as an unlimited language. In this line, the Fantàstic selection includes commercial movies as well as auteur films. It also includes, out-of-competition, the Spanish premiere of the best international fantasy genre productions.

• In-competition movies that are eligible for awards.
• The so-called Premieres, with important films that represent the good and the best in the current year’s fantasy genre production.
• The Official Méliès category, European films that aren’t eligible for the awards in the official category, but are for the Silver Méliès Award.
• The sub-section dedicated to in-competition fantasy short films.

The Fall (by Tarsem Singh)
REC (by Jaume Balagueró i Paco Plaza)
Halloween (by Rob Zombie)
Stardust (by Matthew Vaughn amb Michelle Pfeiffer)
El laberinto byl Fauno (by Guillermo del Toro amb Sergi López)
Black Book (by Paul Verhoeven)
The Illusionist (by Neil Burger amb Edward Norton)
The Host (by Joon-ho Bong)
Les science bys rêves (by Michel Gondry amb Gael García Bernal)
The Fountain(by Darren Aronofsky amb Rachel Weisz)
Scoop (by Woody Allen amb Scarlett Johansson)
Children of Men (by Alfonso Cuarón amb Clive Owen)
Réquiem (by Hans-Christian Schmid amb Sandra Hüller)
A History of violence (by David Cronenberg amb Viggo Mortensen)
Red Dragon (by Brett Ratner amb Anthony Hopkins)
Zatoichi (by Takeshi Kitano amb Tadanobu Asano)
Code 46 (by Michael Winterbottom amb Tim Robbins)
Flightplan (by Robert Schwentke amb Jodie Foster)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (by Park Chan-wook amb Lee Yeong-ae)
Hard Candy (by David Slade amb Ellen Page)
El Grito (by Takashi Shimizu amb Sarah Michelle Gellar)
Howl’s Moving Castle (by Hayao Miyazaki)
Mirrormask (by Dave McKean)

Oficial Noves Visions

The Oficial Fantàstic section is carried over into this area, dedicated to the most innovative and transgressing proposals on the movie scene. This section includes Nova Autoria, resulting from the cooperation among SGAE, Institut Buñuel, SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya and the Catalan film schools. Its objective is discovering new talents and promoting newcoming filmmakers, as well as screening the best works by film school students in Catalonia.

Some films screened in this section in recent years:

Mister Lonely (by Harmony Korine)
Zoo (by Robinson Devor)
La Belle Bête(by Karim Hussain)
Offscreen (by Christopher Boe)
Edmond(by Stuart Gordon)
September Tapes (by Christian Johnston)
Haze. Original Long Version (by Shinya Tsukamoto)
Grizzly Man (by Werner Herzog)

Orient Express - Casa Asia

Invisible Target (by Benny Chan)
Election II (by Johnnie To)
Imprint (by Takashi Miike)
Tokyo Zombie (by Sakichi Sato)
Infernal Affairs (by Andrew Lau i Alan Mak)
Antarctic Journal (by Yim Phil-sung)

Anima’t

Offering the most recent animated film productions, feature and short films.

Nocturna (by Víctor Maldonado i Adrià García)
Tales from Earthsea (by Goro Miyazaki)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (by Mamoru Hosoda)
Paprika (by Satoshi Kon)
Steamboy (by Katsuhiro Otomo)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (by Tetsuya Nomura i Takeshi Nozue)

Midnight X-Treme

The section of horror movies from all around the world par excellence.

• Midnight X-Treme in competition: This section’s best movies compete for the “Maria Midnight X-Treme” Award, given by the Carnet Jove Jury.
• Mondo Macabro: The best horror movies and B-Movies from exotic countries (India, Turkey, Argentina, Indonesia, Chine, Mexico and Vietnam, among others).
• Marathons

Grindhouse – Planet Terror & Death Proof (by Robert Rodríguez i Quentin Tarantino)
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (by Jonathan Levine)
What is it? (by Crispin Glover)
The Dark Hours (by Paul Fox)
Demon Pond (by Takashi Miike)

Seven Chances

Seven auteur films chosen by well-known critics.

Clean, Shaven (by Lodge H. Kerrigan)
Pas sur la bouche (by Alain Resnais)
CQ (by Roman Coppola)
Le Filmeur (by Alain Cavalier)
Yes (by Sally Potter)

Retrospectives / Sitges Clàssics

A tribute to classic names and trends in movie history.

• Tributes
• Europa Imaginària
• American Gothic

Brigadoon

An alternative video zone offering gore, kitsch and underground movies, and that chooses DVD as a format to promote fantasy films in particular and cinemaphilia in general. Brigadoon also includes the Festival’s main exhibits as well as the area of stands where you’ll find the most fantastic products.

Catalan Focus

Catalan Focus is programmed in all categories, becoming the seal of quality for Catalan-produced fantasy genre films or films with Catalan participation screened in the Festival’s official program, both in-competition movies as well as retrospective sessions dedicated to Catalan classics or genre figures.