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Moon, Best Feature Film of Sitges 09
11-10-2009
OFICIAL FANTÀSTICJURYNeil Marshall, Amanda Plummer, Tuomas Riskala, John Saxon and Jordi Battle CaminalBest Short FilmOne of those days by Hattie DaltonSpecial MentionThe boy who wouldn’t...

Monday 12th Marathons
10-10-2009
MARATHONS 12th OCTOBER AUDITORI 11h 1. ZOMBIELAND – 88 min 2. MR. NOBODY – 137 min 3. SOLOMON KANE – 103 min 4. SUMMER WARS – 114 min 5. AMER – 90 min 6. DOGTOOTH...

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Sunday's Late-Night Marathon
08-10-2009
A true horror celebration with shapes and colors for all tastes, from three different masters (one more recent that the others). George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead will kick off the...

The surprise revealed: Millennium 2 premieres at Sitges 09
08-10-2009
The second part of the highly popular “Millennium” saga, The Girl Who Played with Fire, will be premiering at Sitges’09 at the Melià’s Auditori on Sunday October 11th at...

The lost of Alberto Sánchez, part of the management Committee of the Huesca Film Festival
07-10-2009
Alberto Sánchez Millán (Zaragoza, 1943-2009) Last evening Alberto Sánchez passed away. After some long months of suffering from a neurodegenerative disease, his body finally gave...

More tickets available
06-10-2009
Starting tomorrow, Wednesday October 7th, there will be more tickets available for sale of the following films:(through the Tel·Entrada website starting at 8am and at 9.30am on the festival...

SGAE Nova Autoria Award
06-10-2009
Students from the Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya, ESCAC-Escándalo Films and the Centre d’Estudis de Tècniques d’Animació de Catalunya· 9...

Martyrs wins the Méliès d'Or
06-10-2009
The award ceremony for the Méliès d’Or, the important award for the best European film from the fantastic genre, was held yesterday at the Auditori. The candidates for this award...

Round table presentation of CIMA
05-10-2009
The Asociación de Mujeres Cineastas y Medios Audiovisuales (Association of Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (CIMA) was presented yesterday at Sitges 09. CIMA is an association that, after...

PAC: from a hospital into an audiovisual park
03-10-2009
PARC AUDIOVISUAL DE CATALUNYA-TERRASSA (PAC) The incredible transformation of the land belonging to the old Thorax Hospital in Terrassa into an audiovisual park of over 50,000 m2 including sets,...

New spot of Sitges Zombie Walk'09
23-09-2009
The Sitges Zombie Walk will be invading the streets of Sitges again.The meeting place will be the Miramar Building on Saturday 10th at 8:30pm.We’ll be giving you more details soon; meanwhile you...

The Road, by John Hillcoat, to close the 42nd edition
24-09-2009
The film, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smith-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall and Guy Pearce, is one of the most eagerly-awaited movies in recent years. Presented at the Venice and Toronto...

Sitges 09 announces its complete program and presents the spot
11-09-2009
The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia announces its complete program. There are still a few surprises to be confirmed, like the closing gala, but we’ve already put...

Line Up :: Official Fantàstic In Competition Selection
05-09-2009
This year the 42nd edition of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is presenting a selection of 22 in competition films in the Official Selection. The world’s number...

'Visage', by Tsai Ming-liang, opens the Noves Visions category
01-09-2009
Noves Visions has been one of the Festival’s most consolidated and indisputable categories. This year, its most eclectic section continues to bring together films of the most diverse...

Malcolm McDowell to receive the Grand Honorary Award at the opening, which will moved up to October 1st
19-08-2009
Better known for his role as Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange (1971), Malcom McDowell was also outstanding in the controversial Caligula (1979), in the 1982 remake of Cat People, and also in the...

[REC]2 to open Sitges 09
02-07-2009
[REC]2 will be opening the 42nd edition of the SITGES 09 - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, to be held from October 1st to the 12th. Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza return to...

Alien is the inspiration for Sitges 09
02-07-2009
Alien by Ridley Scott is the inspiration for this year's edition. The Festival will be including a screening of the director's favorite version of the movie and will be attended by guests still to be...

the latest and most eagerly awaited genre films at Official Fantàstic Section
02-07-2009
The OFFICIAL FANTÀSTIC SELECTION will include the latest and most eagerly awaited genre films with titles like the vampirical Thirst (photo), by Park Chan-wook; Yatterman, a zany version of the...

Animation, international variants of horror and 3D film
02-07-2009
ANIMA'T will be including the biggest box office hit of the season in France, Lascars.In NOVES VISIONS the Festival is banking on international variants of historical and realistic horror, like the...

Sitges 09 will be recalling certain flashes from the 80's
02-07-2009
Regarding tributes, besides the 30th anniversary of Alien, SITGES 09 will be recalling certain flashes from the 80's, films that represent this decade's different genre film expressions and that will...

Catalan Films & TV strengthens its collaboration with the Festival
02-07-2009
CATALAN FILMS & TV strengthens its collaboration with the Festival and expands its program of parallel activities, with emphasis on an interactive fiction session led by Televisió de...

Jurat Carnet Jove, a committement to the young audience
02-07-2009
Sitges 09 - International Fantasy Film Festival of Catalonia continues to be committed to maintaining the spirit of youth, the Festival's most loyal following. Proof of this is the presence, yet...

Brigadoon and the zombies
02-07-2009
BRIGADOON will be including two film series by essential directors in Spanish fantasy, José Ramón Larraz and Juan Piquer Simón, who will be joining the list of tributes offered by...

ALIEN, 2009 passenger
22-10-2008
La 42nd edition of the Sitges - International Film Festival of Catalonia will revolve around the ALIEN universe, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the film directed by Ridley Scott.Sitges 09 will...

Unexpected Maria Honorifica to Fernando Guillén
10-10-2008
Fernando Guillén has suprisedly and "absolutely happy" received the Maria Honorífica that the Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya has given him in the Closing...

City of Ember, closing film
11-10-2008
Gil Kenan presented his latest work, City of Ember. The film was brought the 41st edition of the International Film Festival of Catalonia to an end. The movie, starring Tim Robbins, Bill Murray and...

La Victoria de Félix eclipses at Brigadoon
11-10-2008
BRIGADOON Paul Naschy JURY Juanjo Lleó, Toni Benages, Jaime Quesada Best short filmLa Victoria de Félix by Jordi Pastor & Albert Miró...

The Silver Méliès goes to Martyrs
11-10-2008
SILVER MÉLIÈS JURY Diego López, Zak Kadison, Javier Gutiérrez Silver Méliès for Best European Motion PictureMartyrs by Pascal Laugier Silver...

The Sky Crawlers, chosen by the Critic Jury
11-10-2008
CRITIC AWARDS JURY Beatriz Martínez Gómez, Alejandro G. Calvo, Carlos LosillaJose Luis Guarner Critic AwardThe Sky Crawlers by Mamoru Oshii Citizen Kane Award to an up-and-coming...

The audience choose Blindness
11-10-2008
AUDIENCE AWARD EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYABest Motion PictureBlindness by Fernando Meirelles...

From Inside, the Anima't winner
11-10-2008
ANIMA'T - Gertie AwardJURY Todd Brown, Xavi Sánchez Pons, Carles Arenes Best Animated FilmFrom Inside by John Bergin Best Animated Short filmThe facts in the case of Mr. Hollow by...

Orient Express-Casa Àsia Award goes to The Chaser
11-10-2008
ORIENT EXPRESS - CASA ÀSIAJURY Todd Brown, Xavi Sánchez Pons, Carles Arenes Best Motion PictureThe Chaser by Na Hong-jin...

The Carnet Jove Jury gives the Midnight X-Treme Award to Encarnaçaô do Demônio
11-10-2008
CARNET JOVE JURYAlbert Elduque, Cristina Álvarez, Manuel Bocero, Covadonga de la Cuesta, Sergio Morera Best Motion Picture FANTÀSTICEX AEQUO:The Sky Crawlers by Mamoru OshiiVinyan by...

Linda Harrison and Luis Miñarro receive the Honorary María Award
11-10-2008
Actress Linda Harrison, star of the movie The Planet of the Apes, and Luis Miñarro, film producer, Received the Honorary María Award in recognition of their career. Luis Miñarro...

Los Bastardos, Religulous and Ramírez, Seat Noves Visions Awards
11-10-2008
SEAT - NOVES VISIONS JURY Velasco Broca, Guillermo Jure, Xavi Serra Best Motion PictureLos Bastardos by Amat Escalante Special MentionGod's Puzzle by Takashi Miike Non Fiction Motion Picture...

Surveillance, by Jennifer Lynch, Best Motion Picture
11-10-2008
OFFICIAL FANTÀSTIC JURY Marina Anna Eich, Àlex Gorina, Umberto Lenzi, David Pirie, Fred WilliamsonBest Motion Picture Surveillance by Jennifer LynchSpecial Jury AwardEden Lake by...

Hundreds of zombies on parade Sitges
11-10-2008
Blood and more blood. Hundreds of people dressed as zombies came together in Sitges at the Eastpak Zombie Walk organized by the 41st edition of the International Film Festival of Catalonia. Severed...

New works from ?The Blair Witch Project? directors
10-10-2008
The co-directors of the acclaimed movie The Blair Witch Project, Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick, presented their new works at the International Film Festival of Catalonia. Although each...

Alfredson presents his Golden Méliès Award-winning film
10-10-2008
Swedish director Tomas Alfredson presented Let the Right One In. The movie, competing in the Official Fantàstic Selection at the 41st edition of the Sitges Film Festival, won the Golden...

The most human Van Damme
10-10-2008
Mabrouk el Mechri presented his latest work, JCVD. The movie not only stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, but it also bears his name. The letters in the title correspond to the initial from Van Damme's...

Absurdistan, without water there?s no sex
10-10-2008
"If there's no water, there's no sex", that's the motto of the movie Absurdistán, by director Veit Heimer, presentedo at the Film Festival of Catalonia. The film, based on some real...

Prime Time, a film about the media circus
10-10-2008
Sitges screened the movie debut of Luis Calvo Ramos. The film, entitled Prime Time, speaks about the limits of the television world: the most brutal side of reality shows. Elena, nervous and tired...

A unique occasion to see ?Dead Space? on the big screen
10-10-2008
Movie and videogame at the same time. That's what's proposed by Dead Space: Downfall, an animated film that can be seen on the big screen at the 41st edition of the Sitges International Film...

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J.A. Bayona: ?The important things are emotions, not awards?
09-10-2008
"The Americans have all the money in the world but can't do anything, while we can do whatever we want but don't have the money", stated J.A.Bayona, director of The Orphanage, in the round...

?Intrusos en Manasés? combienes history and supernatural events
09-10-2008
The International Film Festival of Catalonia screened Intrusos en Manasés, a film by Juan Carlos Claver starring Belén López and Miguel Ángel Muñoz, among others....

Umberto Lenzi receives the Nosferatu Award
09-10-2008
Director, author and screenwriter Umberto Lenzi received the Nosferatu Award, given by Brigadoon, The Festival's cult zone. The award is an acknowledgement of Umberto Lenzi's long career dedicated to...

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Charlie Kaufman and his directorial debut
09-10-2008
Charlie Kaufman, until recently a screenwriter, received the Time Machine Award. The screenwriter for works like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich presented his first...

First feature from the most revolutionary screenwriter
09-10-2008
Charlie Kaufman took the big leap to movie directing and did so with the film Synecdoche, New York. After his long career as a screenwriter - among others he wrote the screenplays for Adaptation by...

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World premiere of 'Long Weekend'
09-10-2008
The Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia screens the world premiere of the movie Long Weekend, directed by Jaime Blanks. Long Weekend, that heralds a big box office hit, stars Jim Caviezel...

?Let the right one in?, a lesson in fantasy film
09-10-2008
Sitges premiered the Swedish movie Let the Right One in, by director Tomas Alfredson. The film, competing in the Festival's Official Fantàstic Selection, stars Kare Hedebrant and Lina...

The Burrowers, half western half horror
08-10-2008
Director J.T. Petty presented his new film, The Burrowers. Petty, who had already presented two movies at previous editions, Soft for Digging (2001) and S&Man (2006), is now a candidate for the In...

Lloyd Kaufman receives the Time Machine Award
08-10-2008
Lloyd Kaufman, founder of the independent film production company Troma Entertainment, receives the classic Time Machine Award at the 41st edition of the Sitges International Film Festival of...

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Lloyd Kaufman: ?We won?t be making a cent for my wife?s retirement fund?
08-10-2008
Sitges Fòrum brought the great Lloyd Kaufman, director and co-founder, along with Michael Herz, of Troma Entertainment, the influential independent movie production company. The master class...

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A film about the invisible forms of violence
08-10-2008
After the screening of Embrión, the film's director, Gonzalo López, talked with the audience about his movie. "At first my idea was to do a remake of The Embryo Hunts in Secret, by...

Eden Lake, a teen story
08-10-2008
British director James Watkins presented Eden Lake, a film about adolescence combined with the most extreme delinquency. Since the beginning of this year alone, there have been 24 people stabbed to...

The Chaser and police corruption
08-10-2008
The International Film Festival of Catalonia screened The Chaser, Korean Na Hong-jin's first work. The movie denounces the corruption of the police and judicial system. The project's basis is actually...

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Red; vengeance for the death of a dog
07-10-2008
Sitges just premiered Red, a movie co-directed by Trygve Allister Diesen and Lucky McKee. Red, competing in the Official Fantàstic Selection, is a story of revenge. An old man sees some kids...

Trick?r Treat, a Halloween story
07-10-2008
Halloween is still a few days away, but Sitges got a jump on the celebration. The Festival screened the fist work from the screenwriter for Superman Returns and X-Men 2, Michael Dougherty. The movie,...

Pascal Laugier: ?They applauded my film and I felt uncomfortable?
07-10-2008
Attending the Sitges Fòrum session was the director of one of the most controversial and shocking movies at this year's Festival, Martyrs, by Pascal Laugier. The French director explained that...

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First vomiting after the screening of 'Martyrs'
07-10-2008
"I wanted the viewer to lose all morality". That's how categorical Pascal Laugier, the director of Martyrs was, a film that premiered at the Sitges International Film Festival of...

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Fernando Meirelles: ?Blindness raises question, but doesn?t give answers?
07-10-2008
The morning session at the International Film Festival of Catalonia saw the screening of Blindness, by director Fernando Meirelles. The movie, based on the acclaimed novel by the Portuguese Nobel...

Time Machine Award to Abel Ferrara
07-10-2008
Abel Ferrara was given the classic Time Machine Award at the 41st edition of the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia. The filmmaker received the award in the Hotel Meliá Auditorium...

Time's up. Invasioooooooooon!!!
11-10-2008
The living dead will be gathering at the Brigadoon Zone (Miramar Building), where they can get made up from noon on. The starting shot will be fired at about 19:30 and the invasion will make its way...

Tale 52 delves into the mind of a schizophrenic
06-10-2008
Greek director Alexis Alexiou presented his first work Tale 52, a claustrophobic journey into the depths of the mind of a schizophrenic who is struggling against his disease. Alexiou put a wide...

Ferrara depicts 1970?s New York
06-10-2008
The great Abel Ferrara, director of works like Ms. 45 or King of New York, among others, returns to the big screen with Chelsea on the Rocks, a documentary that depicts bohemian New Yorker life in the...

Hansel & Gretel, a macabre children?s story
06-10-2008
Korean director Yim Phil-sung presented his latest film, Hansel and Gretel, a macabre children's story. The universes of children's tales taken to the big screen, a story with an immaculate appearance...

Houellebecq reaches the big screen
06-10-2008
Controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq has taken the big leap to the big screen with the movie version of his novel La possibilité d'une île. The author who was the enfant...

The state of TV films on debate
06-10-2008
During the International Film Festival of Catalonia, there was a round table to discuss the state of TV Movies. The round table, moderated by Sergi S. Sánchez, screenwriter for The Orphanage...

Lynn Bousman: ?After making Repo!, I can take on everything else?
06-10-2008
Sitges became the world capital of sung opera. Darren Lynn Bousman premiered Repo! The Genetic Opera, a movie based on the theatrical opera by the same name, an industrial rock musical set in a...

An Oriental western
06-10-2008
The International Film Festival of Catalonia's early morning screening was The Good, the Bad, the Weird, a film from Korean director Kim Jee-Woo. The movie is a colossal adventure that starts...

The SGAE Nova Autoria Awards go to the short films 'Eyja' and 'Restaurando a Héctor'
05-10-2008
Students from the Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya (Eyja) and Pompeu Fabra University (Restaurando a Héctor), will receive the 2008 SGAE Nova Autoria Awards. The...

Twilight: the big fan phenomenon
05-10-2008
Sitges experienced a big fan moment at its 41st edition. Starting at eight in the morning, scores of girls assembled in front of the Tramuntana Room door to be the first to get in. The reason: to see...

Vinyan, the drama of losing a child
05-10-2008
Young director Fabrice du Welz presented his latest work, Vinyan. The film, competing in the Festival's Official Fantastic Selection, hace gala de un terror cotidiano y real. Vinyan is the story of a...

Tribute to ?Black Caesar?
05-10-2008
The International Film Festival of Catalonia pays homage to one of the cult pieces from the seventies: Black Caesar, directed by Larry Cohen. After its screening, Fred Williamson, the leading man in...

The keys to success on the Internet
04-10-2008
Timo Vuorensola, Finnish director of Star Wreck: in the pirkinning, the most viewed movie in the history of Finnish cinema, explained, at a presentation, the secret to the success of his first feature...

Your name here, between reality and fiction
04-10-2008
Director and screenwriter Matthew Wilder presented his latest film, Your name here, at a press conference. The movie, starring Bill Pullman, is the story of a well-known science fiction writer who, as...

?Exorcismo?: the classics never die
04-10-2008
The Prado movie theater screened a classic in Spanish cinema. The movie Exorcismo, a film directed by Juan Bosch that premieres in 1974. The screening of Exorcismo is a tribute to the movie's...

Sexykiller, a perverse Barbie
04-10-2008
A the press conference, Miguel Martí presented his third feature film, Sexykiller, "a horror comedy that will make you have a horrifically funny time", the director explained, adding...

Pataky and Sbaraglia, superheroes in Santos
04-10-2008
At a press conference, Nicolás López presented Santos, a movie with all the elements of superhero stories: the damsel in distress, the villain and the hero. She is Elsa Pataky, and they...

The first screening of Repo! The Genetic Opera cancelled
04-10-2008
The Festival management has cancelled the first screening of Repo! The Genetic Opera in order to reinforce security measures as it is one of the most eagerly awaited films by piracy networks. The...

Hermán Migoya premieres ?¡Soy un pelele!?
03-10-2008
Hermán Migoya presented his new film, ¡Soy un pelele!. After the movie was screened, the director, along with the Calatrava Brothers, Liberto Rabal and Chiqui Martí spoke to the...

The secrets of 2001: A Space Odyssey
03-10-2008
After receiving the Festival's Honorary Grand Prize at the opening gala, Stanley Kubrick's most famous movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey , continues its celebration. Christiane Kubrick, the filmmaker's...

TRICK'R TREAT, the today surprise
07-10-2008
Sitges is pleased to reveal one of this edition's big surprises. We're talking about TRICK'R TREAT, the new film produced by Bryan Singer and directed by Michael Dougherty. With this, his first...

?The Cottage, an amateur kidnapping
03-10-2008
Two years after his film debut, Paul Andrew presents The Cottage. After the press conference to present his second movie, the crew had a photo call at the Hotel Meliá viewpoint. The Cottage,...

?Cher ami? gets the youngsters geared up
03-10-2008
More than 300 students attended the special screening the Sitges Festival held for high schools. Boys and girls saw the animated movie Cher Ami, by Miquel Pujol. The screening was accompanied had a...

Brad Anderson presents Transsiberian
03-10-2008
At the presentation of his film, Brad Anderson, director of Transsiberian, explained that the movie is based on a trip he took after he finished college 20 years ago: He crossed Asia aboard the...

Honorary Maria Award to Ramón Martos
02-10-2008
Ramón Martos, director of Image Film, received the Honorary Grand Maria Award from Sitges 2008. The event was held during the opening gala ceremony of the 41st edition of the International Film...

John Carpenter and Nicholas Meyer receive the Time Machine Award
02-10-2008
Nicholas Meyer and John Carpenter both received the honorary Time Machine Award in recognition of their career. The act was celebrated during the 41st edition of the Sitges International Film Festival...

Sitges pays tribute to Kubrick?s Odyssey
02-10-2008
The opening gala of the 41st edition of the International Film Festival of Catalonia celebrated the 40th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Attending the event were...

Alexandre Aja?s Mirrors opens the Festival
02-10-2008
Mirrors, Alexandre Aja's latest film, was the one chosen to open the 41st edition of the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia. The opening gala, held on Thursday the 2nd in the Hotel...

Ponyo on the Cliff by the sea will be at SITGES
10-10-2008
Hayao Miyazaki's new film will be at Sitges 2008 Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, the new movie from one of the masters of Japanese animation, will be present at this year's edition of the Festival. The...

Time Machine Award also to Nicholas Meyer
30-09-2008
Director Nicholas Meyer joins the previously announced list of Time Machine Award Winners, and will receive his award on Sunday the 5th. The other guests of honor are John Carpenter, Abel Ferrara...

Festival Jury
30-09-2008
Official Fantàstic JuryFRED WILLIAMSON - North American actor, director and producerMARINA ANNA EICH - Actress, producer and press agentÀLEX GORINA - Sitges Film Festival Director for...

Brigadoon, the most underground cinema
30-09-2008
Consolidated as a cult venue within the Festival, in the same line as in recent years Brigadoon will continue to offer the most underground movies and promote our independent cinema. At this venue's...

Science-Fiction: Exploring Worlds
30-09-2008
This is not a retrospective, but a starting point to discuss the situation of science-fiction before and after 2001, A Space Odyssey and, thinking about this genre's future, to talk about its creators...

Sitges Forum, festival interactive zone
30-09-2008
A Festival Zone for interaction between audience and artists, professionals and new fans. So the Festival can continue to be an open, dynamic event far removed from the audiovisual exhibition...

Catalan Films & TV
30-09-2008
Catalan Films & TV will organize two round tables and a specific industry venue.The official selection of the International Film Festival of Catalonia includes some of the most outstanding movies...

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Albert Ganduxé, new Foundation director
23-09-2008
Albert Ganduxé has been named director general of the Sitges-International Film Festival of Catalonia Private Foundation. With a background in private sector companies, Albert Ganduxé...

Tickets on sales
01-10-2008
Tickets on sale and can be purchased through Caixa Catalunya's Tel·entrada service (www.telentrada.com, tel. 902 10 12 12 and at bank offices). ...

Honorary Grand Prize to Kubrick at the opening ceremony
19-09-2008
Debido a un cambio de última hora, la mujer de Stanley Kubrick, Christiane Kubrick, recojerá el Gran Premio Honirífico en nombre de su marido el día de la...

The makings of animated film
17-09-2008
Anima't is the most complete selection of animated movies and short films with special insistence on independent and Japanese anime productions. Not to forget the extensive program of the best in...

European film par excellence
18-09-2008
The In competition Official Méliès section is a necessary accompaniment to the in competition Official Fantàstic Selection, with a variety of European films that have a lot to say...

New tendencies in fantasy
18-09-2008
The Noves Visions section, reserved for addressing the new tendencies in fantasy, including innovative thematic or formal formats, experimental and clearly radical proposals. It is divided into...

The most riotous cinema always at midnight
18-09-2008
Midnight X-Treme is the favorite section of the fan fatal of the most extreme, noctambulant, mischievous cinema. Intense, late night emotions and endurance marathons for tireless freaks. MIDNIGHT...

The best Asian cinema
18-09-2008
Orient Express is the best selection of popular genres produced in Asia, with special attention to fantasy, epic films, martial arts, thrillers and horror. An essential space to complete your viewing...

Zombies to invade Sitges
18-09-2008
On the upcoming Friday October 10th, Sitges will be invaded by hundreds of zombies. The International Film Festival of Catalonia, (from October 2nd to the 12th), in its most underground section,...

Christiane Kubrick will collect the Sitges Grand Prize on behalf of her husband
16-09-2008
The 41st edition of Sitges - International Film Festival of Catalonia, dedicated to celebrating the 40th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey, will pay tribute to Stanley Kubrick by awarding the...

Time Machine Awards will be going to Abel Ferrara, John Carpenter and Charlie Kaufman
16-09-2008
The Festival's classic Time Machine Awards will be going to Abel Ferrara, John Carpenter and Charlie Kaufman. Abel Ferrara will collect his award on Monday, October 6th before the presentation of...

Honorary Maria Award will be going to actress Linda Harrison and producer J.A. Pérez-Giner
16-09-2008
The Sitges 08 Honorary María Award will be presented to important figures like Linda Harrison, one of the stars of Planet of the Apes or J.A. Pérez-Giner, Catalan producer of movies like...

Essential Films
13-09-2008
In the out-of-competition Official Fantàstic Selection you will be able to enjoy movies that complement the in competition selection, becoming instant cult movies, reviewing classics or using...

The best in competition fantasy cinema
13-09-2008
The in competition Official Fantàstic Selection is made up of a wide choice of the best fantasy films from around the world, focusing on current genre tendencies. The resurrection of Asian...

City of Ember, closing film
10-09-2008
City of Ember, by Gil Kenan and starring Tim Robbins, Bill Murray and Martin Landau, will be the film closing this year's 41st edition. Caroline Thompson, Tim Burton's regular collaborator, adapts...

The 1st International Fake Trailer Festival
03-09-2008
The festival offers anyone who wants the possibility of making a fake trailer of a movie that doesn't exist and upload it to www.teaserland.com starting September 15th. The First International Fake...

The designees for the Carnet Jove Jury
03-09-2008
Albert Elduque, as president of the Jury, Covadonga de la Cuesta, Sergio Morera, Manuel Bocero and Cristina Álvarez will be climbing out of their ship to float around in space at the SITGES...

Exhibition of solidarity to celebrate the 75th anniversary of King Kong
02-09-2008
The fantasy film magazine Scifiworld will be organizing, as a part of the Sitges - International Film Festival of Catalonia and with the collaboration of Planeta de Agostini and Norma Editorial...

Mirrors, by Alexandre Aja to open Sitges 08
13-08-2008
French filmmaker Alexandre Aja will be kicking off the 41st edition of the Sitges – International Film Festival of Catalonia with the screening of his latest film, Mirrors, which will premiere...

The 41st edition will be dedicated to 2001: A Space Odyssey
17-07-2008
The 41st edition, to be held from October 2nd to the 12th, will be dedicated to the 40th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick, and will be attended by, among others, actors Gary...

Tributes to science fiction treasures
17-07-2008
The Festival will offer a reflective retrospective on the role of science fiction in the history of contemporary cinema, with outstanding movies like Planet of the Apes, Forbidden Planet, Logan's...

The 75th Anniversary of King Kong
17-07-2008
Through a series of screenings and debates, the Festival will be paying tribute to the 75th anniversary of King Kong, the Festival's image. We will be able to enjoy the remastered copy of King Kong...

Everyday and purely real horror movies
17-07-2008
Sitges 08's OFICIAL FANTÀSTIC SELECTION will bring together tendencies from the current genre production, emphasizing everyday, purely real horror movies. Outstanding films like: Vinyan, by...

Famous proposals
17-07-2008
In the out-of-competition Oficial Fantàstic Selection there will be famous proposals like Blindness, the screen version of the José Saramago novel by Fernando Meirelles; JCVD, the faux...

Spanish production big titles
17-07-2008
Sitges 08 will leave plenty of room for the most recent Spanish and Catalan productions with films like Sexy Killer, by Miguel Martí, with a tribute to 80's youth horror movies;...

Gushing blood at midnight
17-07-2008
The festival's most extreme category, MIDNIGHT X-TREME will continue to base its subject matter on the purest and harshest horror movies, with the most bloodcurdling film in recent years as its...

Sections and activities with their own personality
17-07-2008
NOVES VISIONS will include films like Otto; or up with Dead People, by Bruce LaBruce, with a gay zombie as its leading character; Beautiful, by Juhn Jaihong, a disciple of Kim Ki-duk; and the new...

Monty Python, guests of honour at Méliès d?Or
17-07-2008
This year Sitges will be stage for the Méliès d’Or award organized by the EFFFF (European Federation of Fantastic Film Festivals) for the best European fantasy film from the...

Sitges 2008 to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of 2001, a Space Odyssey
16-04-2008
SCIENCE FICTION AND EVERYDAY HORROR, MAIN FEATURES AT SITGES 08 The 41st edition will be dedicated to 2001: A Space Odyssey The 41st edition, to be held from October 2nd to the 12th, will be...

The City of Violence
13-10-2007
The Official Premiere of “The City of Violence” was presented today in Sitges. A film about the struggle between rival gangs with aesthetics that drinks from videogames and 60’s...

The Fall, best film
14-10-2007
OFICIAL FANTÀSTIC JURY Zoë Bell, Ruggero Deodato, Mark Palansky, Casimiro Torreiro, Eloy Azorín Best Motion Picture The Fall by Tarsem Singh Best Director Jaume Balagueró...

Grindhouse: Planet Terror + Death Proof, double screening in Sitges
12-10-2007
Double midnight screening in Sitges: Planet Terror, by Robert Rodriguez and Death Proof, by Quentin Tarantino. A unique occasion to see the Grindhouse project in Europe as it was originally conceived....

Halloween
12-10-2007
The remake of Halloween, the classic that marked a milestone in 80’s horror movies come to us in the final stretch of the Sitges Festival, with actor and actress Ken Foree and Kristina Klebe. ...

I?m a cyborg but that?s O.K.
12-10-2007
South Korean director Park Chan-wok register, moves away from violence and stories of vengeance, and brings to Sitges a tale of loving, naive characters, a colorist display and a mise en scene that...

Los cronocrímenes
12-10-2007
Director Nacho Vigalondo and actors Karra Elejalde and Barbara Goenaga, along with producers Eduardo Carneros and Jordi Rediu, presented Timecrimes, Vigalondo's first foray into feature films, after...

Tres minutos
12-10-2007
This morning, Argentinean director Diego Lublinski presented his sci-fi comedy Tres Minutos. A lover of our country, (at first the movie was going to be shot in Spain), Lublinski said that genre...

Syd Mead: ?Visual Futurist? of Blade Runner, ?Time Machine? award-winner.
11-10-2007
Syd Mead, the Visual futurist for Blade Runner, received the ³Time Machine² honorary award just a few minutes before the second screening of Blade Runner: The Final Cut in the Auditori. The...

1408 - New tickets on sale
11-10-2007
New tickets on sale for the second screening of the closing film of the festival, "1408". Saturday 13, 22:45h., Auditori. 7'5 euros....

El último justo
11-10-2007
The presentation was accompanied by Manuel Carballo, Diego Martín, Sandra Fernández and Tedi Villalba, the people responseble for the film, that premieres today in the Official Premiere...

11-10-2007
The movie, based on a true story that shocked American society, investigates the life of a young nurse who, under the effects of drugs, ran over a man and left him literally stuck in the windshield of...

11-10-2007
Today was the presentation of Teeth, a movie that arrived in Sitges accompanied by its director, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and one of the leading actors, John Hensley. The movie can be interpreted on...

Three generations of genre movies made in Catalonia
11-10-2007
Marking the occasion of the opening of the new Catalunya Imaginaria section, within the International Film Festival of Catalonia, today, Thursday October 11th, a press conference was held at 12:30...

Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Extra Session at Auditori: Saturday 13th. 11:00h. With Rutger Hauer
12-10-2007
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Cinema & City
11-10-2007
With the support of the Sitges Town Council and the Town Planner Association (ISOCARP), the International Film Festival of Catalonia is organizing a round table on the relationship between town...

Robert Englund in Sitges
10-10-2007
Robert Englund was honored yesterday at the Festival giving him the honorary 'Time Machine' award. A icon of 80's and 90's horror, Robert (Freddy Krueger) Englund took advantage of the award-giving to...

A l?interieur (Inside)
10-10-2007
A l'interieur , debut of young French filmmakers Alexander Bustillo and Julien Maury, is being screened today in Sitges closely following the controversial trail of films like Irreversible by Gaspar...

Km. 31
10-10-2007
Mexican director Rigoberto Casteñada, actor Adriá Collado and producer Julio Fernández presented the horror movie Km. 31, a horrifying revision of phantasmagorical apparitions on...

Master Classes (vol. 5)
11-10-2007
Syd Mead, the art director of Blade Runner, gave a master class in the Tramuntana room on the work and importance of the art director in a movie with a futuristic subject matter. In 1982 he worked...

La crisis carnívora
09-10-2007
Attending the 'La crisis carnívora' press conference were Pedro Rivero (director), the people responsible for the Nikodemo animation crew and the actors that lend their voices to the main...

The Signal
09-10-2007
The Signal was presented at the Sitges festival today with two of its directors, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry. The film is structured in three parts, each directed by a different director. The three...

First screening of Blade Runner: The Final Cut
09-10-2007
Charles Lauzirika, producer of the new restored version, and the architects of the successful technical sector: Douglas Trumbull, director of special effects along with Syd Mead, art director, were at...

Master Classes (vol. 4)
09-10-2007
Douglas Trumbull, architect of the special effects for Blade Runner, held a master class today in the Tramuntana Room. Trumbull revealed the ins and outs of the FX used in the movie, how the city...

Anima't presents... La crisis carnivora
08-10-2007
We invite you to get to know the insides of the "marvelous" world of La crisis carnívora Hold your breath! The creators of this irreverent movie tricked a group of individuals with...

Frontière(s)
08-10-2007
Today the Official Fantàstic Selection received the first work by Frenchman Xavier Gens, a regular coworker with Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark and Emmanuel Finkiel. His first feature films has a strong...

WAZ
08-10-2007
Today the movie by British Tom Shankland was presented in Sitges, a claustrophobic thriller that tells the story of a couple of detectives on the trail a psycho who uses a pattern as perverse as...

Presentation of the Autobahn-Senator Brand Name
08-10-2007
Urban Legends is a series of eight episodes, shot by director Christian Molina, written by Mike Hostench and whose executive producers are Marivi de Villanueva (Canónigo Films) and Marco Weber...

Fermat's Room
07-10-2007
Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña presented La Habitación de Fermat. Santi Millán, Lluís Homar, Alejo Sauras and Elena Ballesteros, the film's leading actors and actress...

El Rey de la Montaña
07-10-2007
El Rey de la Montaña, the third feature film by Gonzalo López Gallego, was presented today in Sitges. The director came to the press conference with its screenwriter Javier Gullón...

Master Classes (vol. 3)
07-10-2007
The documentary Maquillando entre monstruos served as an introduction to the class on makeup and special effects given by DDT, a company located in Barcelona and that is responsible for the FX on some...

Hot Fuzz
07-10-2007
Hot Fuzz, the new bit of mischief from the director of Shaun of the Dead (known in Spain as Zombie's Party) was presented this morning at the Sitges Festival. During the press conference, the...

George A. Romero receives the SITGES-International Film Festival of Catalonia's Grand Honorary Award
07-10-2007
The director took the Auditori's stage to collect the award before the presentation of his latest film, Diary of the Dead. Sitges crowned Romero as the father of modern horror. At this point no one...

Presentation of the book American Gothic
06-10-2007
Today was the presentation of the book American Gothic, within the framework of the 40th SITGES-International Film Festival of Catalonia. The Festival dedicates a retrospective to this genre that...

Master Classes (Vol. 2)
06-10-2007
J.A. Bayona gave a master class in the Tramuntana Room on The Orphanage, where the attending audience, made up mainly of film and Audiovisual Communication students, where able to ask the director and...

Larry Fessenden and Gualberto Baña receive the Honorary Maria Award in Sitges 07'
06-10-2007
Yesterday Larry Fessenden received the Sitges Festival's Honorary Maria Award during the presentation of his last work The Last Winter. Gualberto Baña, Former Director General of UIP Spain also...

Master Classes (vol. 1)
05-10-2007
Alex Proyas's master class was held today in the Tramuntana Room. The visionary sense of his movies and his style when conceiving and filming potential, dark worlds were one of the central themes of...

REC by Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró: encouraging presentation in Sitges
05-10-2007
The new proposal from young filmmakers Paco Plaza and Jaume Balagueró was presented in Sitges at a heavily attended press conference where the directors, along with the movie's leading woman,...

Presentation of The Orphanage in Sitges
04-10-2007
J. A Bayona, along with the rest of the movie's crew, thanked the audience in Sitges, and very specially the film's producer, Guillermo del Toro, who greeted those attending the festival through a...

Alex Proyas receives the Time Machine Award in Sitges
04-10-2007
Alex Proyas received the honorific Time Machine award from the Festival director, Angel Sala. The act occurred during the 40th edition's opening gala. Proyas received the SITGES-International Film...

Anima?t kicks off with Tekkonkinkreet: the animated technovision of a retro-futuristic cosmopolis, according to Michael Arias
04-10-2007
The Sitges Fantasy Film Festival's program always reserves a privileged place for animated cinema. Anima't, one of the parallel sections dedicated to this genre and that has grown the most during the...

40 possible worlds in Sitges
03-10-2007
The 40th edition of the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia kicks off today with the film recently nominated to represent Spain at the Academy Awards in Hollywood: The Orphanage, by J.A....

Tributes and Honorary Awards
02-10-2007
This year the Time Machine Award that the SITGES ' International Film Festival of Catalonia bestows upon outstanding figures in fantasy film for their life achievement, will be for Robert Englund,...

Zoë Bell, Ruggero Deodato, Michael Rooker, Martin Weisz and Mirito Torreiro: Sitges 2007 Official Fantàstic Jury
01-10-2007
After an entire career working as a stuntwoman, Zoë Bell just debuted in film as an actress with Quentin Tarantino in Deathproof, the second pièce de résistance that precedes Planet...

Commited to first works in the Official Selection
01-10-2007
George A. Romero and Rutger Hauer, among the festival's outstanding guests The SITGES ' International Film Festival of Catalonia will be opening its 40th edition, on October 4th, with one of the...

Seminar ?Both sides of fear?
27-09-2007
Psychology defines fear as the emotion that responds to impending danger, usually leading to a disgusting feeling. The film maker Woody Allen, however, conceives it as his most beloved companion; that...

George A. Romero to receive the Grand Honorary Award
28-09-2007
A director that has known how to gauge the fears that have been built up over the 70's, the 80's and the 90's, the great George A. Romero will collect the Time Machine honorary award given to him by...

Sitges is the world capital of fantasy film once again
28-09-2007
The Sitges International Film Festival will once again be the epicenter of the fantasy genre, starting next Thursday and during nine very intense days, with the best and most representative in recent...

40 years making reality a little less harsh
26-09-2007
This year Sitges has a lot to celebrate, as it is the 40th anniversary of its acclaimed International Film Festival of Catalonia. . Vitruvio Leo Burnett, an Advertising Agency that has been working...

Pack Festival de Sitges 40th Anniversary
26-09-2007
It is an honor for Cameo to be able to be present at the Sitges ' International Film Festival of Catalonia, very especially this year when the most important competition in the genre world is 40 years...

Five young men and women to make up the 3rd Carnet Jove Jury
26-09-2007
The creation of this jury has been promoted for the last three years by the Youth Department, through the Carnet Jove's Connecta't Program, and the competition's management. The selection commission...

Temporary Film Line-up
13-09-2007
Press here to download the temporary film list pdf (Pdf 80kb), it will be updated on the 1rst of October ....

The festival commercials at the Reina Sofía Museum
18-07-2007
The advertising campaigns for the Sitges ' International Film Festival of Catalonia, created for cinema and television by the Vitruvio Leo Burnett agency, are regulars on the list of winners at...

The Orphanage, by J.A. Bayona, to open the festival
21-06-2007
The 40th anniversary's image is dedicated to Blade Runner. El International Film Festival of Catalonia will be opening its 40th edition with The Orphanage, by J. A. Bayona, produced by Guillermo del...

Awards 2006
14-10-2006
OFICIAL FANTÀSTIC JURY: Monte Hellman, Leticia Dolera, Carlos Losilla, Pilar Pedraza, Tom Schiller Best Short Film (Ex aequo) A FOR(R)EST IN THE DES(S)ERT, by Luiso Berdejo HANDYMAN, by Simon...

Sisters, with Douglas Buck
14-10-2006
Douglas Buck brings us to the psychiatrist through a remake of Sisters, by Brian de Palma. The director is in Sitges to exhibit his film...

Musical Sitges
14-10-2006
The director Ho-sun Chan is in Sitges to exhibit Perhaps Love, a love story taking place in between the settings of a musical....

Kiyoshi Kurosawa wins the Màquina del Temps Award
13-10-2006
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, main protagonist of a retrospective about Orient Express, is in Sitges to collect the Màquina del Temps award. ...

Wicker Man with the director Neil LaBute
13-10-2006
Neil LaBute is in Sitges to exhibit Wicker Man, a film in which the mysterious disappearance of a young woman and the bizarre believes of the town where she lives are investigated. ...

Terry Gilliam exhibits Tideland
13-10-2006
Terry Gilliam, former member of the Monty Python, exhibits his last film, Tideland. The film, based on the novel by March Cullin, tells us the story of a young girl that lives with her father in the...

Màquina del Temps Award to Alejandro Amenábar
12-10-2006
Alejandro Amenábar has been awarded with the Màquina del Temps Award for his contribution and diffusion of fantastic national cinema....

Anthony Wong exiled in Sitges
12-10-2006
Anthony Wong brings to Sitges one of the films he is exhibiting this year, Johnnie To. Exiled, which belongs to the Official Fantastic Section. The film brings us to the world of gangsters with the...

Abandoned Sitges
12-10-2006
First long feature film by Nacho Cerdá, who is in Sitges together with Anastasia Hille, Karim Hussin and Richard Stanley (plot writers), in order to exhibit Los Abandonados, a thrillingly...

Fido, not just zombies
12-10-2006
The director Andrew Currie has presented his second long feature film, Fido. It is a story about tamed zombies in which they seem to be more alive rather than human beings. ...

Catalan production made in Hollywood
12-10-2006
Wes Bentley is in Sitges to exhibit his new film, The Ungodly, a Catalan production made in Hollywood, in which the relationship between a film maker and a serial killer is reflected. In the press...

Learning with Jodorowsky
12-10-2006
Alejandro Jodorowsky has been awarded with the Màquina del Temps prize, and offers us a Master Class in which nobody feels reluctant to explain their problems. The director and writer has...

O'Brien exhibits his first feature film
11-10-2006
Billy O'Brien visits Sitges to exhibit Isolation, his first feature film. Set in a farm in rural Ireland, this film warns us about the risks of animal experimentation....

Satoshi Kon?s new film
11-10-2006
The director Satoshi Kon (Mousou dairinin, Tokyo Godfathers, Perfect Blue...) is in Sitges to exhibit Paprika, his last animation film. ...

Moscow Zero in Sitges
11-10-2006
Moscow Zero has been exhibited by the directress, María Lindón, the actors Julio Perillán and Rade Serbedja, and the producers José Margán and Dolo Magan. This is...

Back to the big screen
11-10-2006
Six years after directing his last film, Requiem For a Dream, Darren Aronofsky hits the big screen again with The Fountain, a science-fiction story that covers Spanish history from the XVIth century...

Target: Reality
10-10-2006
Considered as one of the masters of contemporary colour photography, William Eggleston lands in Sitges to exhibit an awesome double session that will show not only his meticulous way of working, but...

Supporting Catalan Cinema
10-10-2006
The Catalan Focus section main objective is to exhibit the best unpublished documentaries that are produced by a sector of Catalan film makers that is living a buoyant moment, as well as the launch of...

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Black Book: Grand Honorary Prize to Paul Verhoeven
10-10-2006
He could really boast about his successful films. Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct) gets back to the big screen by means of a war story set in Holland in 1944. Zwartboek (Black...

Brick: murder in Sitges
10-10-2006
Rian Johnson, director and writer of Brick, exhibits his opera prima. After a desperate phone call, Brendan finds Emily, his former girlfriend, dead. He will have to tackle with weird characters in...

The directors of Coisa Ruim exhibit their film
10-10-2006
Tiago Guedes and Frederico Serra are in Sitges to exhibit Coisa Ruim, a film dealing with the struggle of mankind against the unknown....

07-10-2006
Guillermo del Toro's Masterclass Saturday 7th at 12:45 PM at Retiro Cinemas Note: There is an exhibition of Guillermo del Toro's work at the Miramar....

Special Effects' Masterclass
08-10-2006
Howard Berger and Grec Nicotero (KNB Special Effects) Masterclass. Sunday 8th at 12:45PM at Casino Prado....

Nosferatu Prize
09-10-2006
The Nosferatu Prize goes to Victor Israel, as a recognition for his career....

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Contrasted animation
09-10-2006
After winning the best movie award in the Annecy Film Festival this year, Christian Volckman comes to Sitges to exhibit his last animation film, Renaissance, set in Paris in 2054 and shot in both...

New projection of the film Big Bang Love Juvenile A
09-10-2006
The projection of the film Big Bang Love Juvenile A, which was scheduled for Sunday 8th, will finally be projected next THURSDAY 12th at 1'00 am in the Auditorium instead of the Surprise Session....

Time for cold
09-10-2006
The director, Elio Quiroga, together with a good load of actors performing in the film, is in Sitges just to leave us frozen. In his second feature film, Quiroga presents La Hora Fría, in the...

Shall we meet so you can kill me?
09-10-2006
GRIMM LOVE STORY the movie about the Rothemburg cannival, forbiten in Germnay cause faints at Sitges. It was censured in Germany some days before the opening...

Four (Captivity), locked up in a basement.
09-10-2006
The director Roland Joffré, the screenwriter Larry Cohen and the producers Mark Damon and Leonid Minkovski are in Sitges to present us Four (Captivity), a film psychologically disquieting....

Entrega de la Màquina del Temps a Howard Berger
08-10-2006
Agreeing with the screening of the TV show Masters of Horror (Homecoming, cigarret burns and Prolife), The big master of the FX Howard Berger, gets the award: La Màquina del Temps (The Time...

Storm with taste of Matrix?
08-10-2006
Storm arrives to Sitges, a film of the Swedish Màns Màrlind i Björn Stein who remain us the videogame world, a universe totally fantastic where gets difficult recognize the real...

Horror in Sitges
08-10-2006
The TV Show Masters of Horror, arrives to Sitges with the always constant with the fantastic genre Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, Howard Berger, Grec Nicotero, Brad Anderson, Laurenc Laurent and Mick Garris....

The actor Ian Somerhalder comes with Pulse to Sitges
07-10-2006
The young actor Ian Somerhalder (Lost, CSI Miami, Fearless, Celebrity) has come to Sitges to present his last film, Pulse, a remake of the mythical Pulse of Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film shows the dark...

La Caja Kovak de Daniel Monzon
08-10-2006
The actors Lucía Jiménez, David Kelly and the director Daniel Monzón, are in Sitges to present La Caja Kovak, a film full of mistery, that takes place in an idyllic Mediterranean...

Bon Joon-ho is in Sitges to present the Host
07-10-2006
The director Bon Joon-ho presents his last film at the Official Section, The Host, showing the hard fight of a family to beat a terrible monster loomed out from the river....

Broken: Actress and directors present the film
07-10-2006
The directors Simon Boyes and Adam Manson, together with the actress and producer Nadja Brand Manson, presents Broken, a worrying and full of tension film....

Tzameti (13) comes to Sitges
07-10-2006
Gela Babluani is at the Official Section of Sitges to be with us in a trip to the unknown and maybe, to the fortune....

The french film directors duet presents Ils at the festival
07-10-2006
The young film directors David Moreau and Xavier Palaud come to Sitges to present his film Ils at the Oficial Fantàstic Section, an history of an intellectual couple that move to a house in the...

The crew of El Laberinto del Fauno at Sitges
06-10-2006
The film director Guillermo del Toro presents with the actors Ariadna Gil, Sergi López and Ivana Vaquero his new film at the festival....

Sitges 2006 Opening Night
06-10-2006
Guillermo del Toro and El Laberinto del Fauno arrive to Sitges to open this 39th Festival edition. Luis de Val, Manga Films' president, recieve the Maria Honorífica Award....

New screening for Interkosmos and First on the moon
05-10-2006
A new screening of the Noves Visions films' Interkosmos and First on the moon. The screening will be the Saturday the 7th, at the Cinemas Prado at 4pm. Tickets are already on sale....

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Time Machine Awards
27-09-2006
This year the Máquina del Tiempo (Time Machine) Awards that SITGES ' International Film Festival of Catalonia presents to outstanding figures in fantasy film, will go to Alejandro...

David Lynch, the tribute goes on
18-09-2006
Deluxe DVD editions of 'Twin Peaks, Fire walk with me' and 'Lost Highway'. Cameo, within the tribute activities that the Festival will do to David Lynch, will launch the DVD edition about the only...

Sitges' Anima't
14-09-2006
Like every year, Anima't, the SITGES International Film Festival of Catalonia's animation category, will be paying special attention to the latest and most outstanding in Japanese animated film....

Aronofsky to present The Fountain
05-09-2006
The director of Pi and Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky, will be attending the Sitges ' International Film Festival of Catalonia on October 11th to present his latest work, The Fountain, in the...

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El Laberinto del Fauno, by Guillermo del Toro, to open Sitges 06
06-07-2006
The International Film Festival of Catalonia will be kicking off its 39th edition with the premiere of El Laberinto del Fauno, by Guillermo del Toro. In addition, this Mexican director will be the...

First Board meeting of the private Foundation SITGES International Film Festival of Catalonia
23-02-2006
This week was the first meeting with all the members that make up the Board of the private Foundation SITGES International Film Festival of Catalonia. This Foundation, set up last December, renewed...

SITGES 2006 will be dedicated to the universe of David Lynch
18-10-2005
Sitges 2006 will be commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Festival's screening of one of David Lynch's most emblematic movies: Blue Velvet. The Festival will be dedicated to the...

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Awards Sitges 05
17-10-2005
2005 Festival's winner was HARD CANDY, by David Slade (United States) which won awards for Best Motion Picture and Best Script. One year later, Johnnie To had once again received the Maria award for...

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Jodie Foster to receive Sitges? Grand Honorary Award
13-10-2005
The North American actress will be accepting the award in recognition of her artistic career, which includes movies like Taxi Driver or The Silence of the Lambs. Foster's latest film, Flightplan, will...

Tarantino is back in Sitges
13-10-2005
The acclaimed director of movies like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs or Kill Bill has arrived in Sitges to present Hostel, his latest piece of work as a producer. Along with the film's director, Eli...

Honorary Maria Award for Julio Fernández
11-10-2005
Before the screening of Fragile, the President of Filmax will be receiving an Honorary María Award for his career as a producer. A great defender of genre film, Julio Fernández has had...

Sally Potter, Simon Abkarian and Christopher Sheppard present Yes
12-10-2005
Versatile Sally Potter presents Yes, her latest film, accompanied by part of the artistic crew: Simon Abkarian and Christopher Sheppard. Wednesday 12, at 23.15 in the Retiro Theater ...

Isidro Ortiz and Goya Toledo arrive in Sitges with Somne
12-10-2005
Isidro Ortiz and actress Goya Toledo arrive at the Festival to present Somne. Wednesday 12, at 18.00 in the Auditori. ...

The creator of the thai film Shutter will be presenting the film
11-10-2005
Thais Banjom Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom will be presenting the new Thai horror hit tonight, part of the Official Fantàstic Selection. Tuesday 11, at 20.30 in the Auditori. ...

Park Chan-Wook presents Sympathy For Lady Vengance
12-10-2005
After sweeping to victory at last year's Festival with Old Boy, Park Chan-Wook returns to Sitges with this extraordinary episode from the trilogy he began with OLD BOY and Sympathy for Mr. vengance....

Balagueró and Anaya present Fragiles
11-10-2005
After The Nameless and Darkness, Jaume Balagueró brings us his new ghost story, Fragile, to Sitges, starring Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal) y Elena Anaya. Anaya and Balagueró will be...

Chiaki Kuriyama presents Takashi Miike?s latest work
11-10-2005
Chiaki Kuriyama, one of the biggest Asian stars of the moment, known worldwide for her role as Go Go Yubari in Kill Bill vol. 1, will be landing in Sitges to present Takashi Miike's latest movie, The...

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The Jim Henson Company introduces MirrorMask
10-10-2005
The Jim Henson Company projects their new film of a delirant imagination, MirrorMask. The director Dave McKean and Henson's daugther,Lisa Henson, introduce the film. The festival award the work of Jim...

Álex de la Iglesia receives the Màquina del Temps Award
09-10-2005
This Bilbao-born, compulsive movie-lover who began his professional career as a comic book artist, is responsible for some of the biggest, most-talked-about box office hits in Spanish cinema. His...

Serenity?s crew to attend the Opening of Sitges'05
09-10-2005
Director Joss Whedon and actors Nathan Fillion and Summer Glau attend Sitges 05' opening film, Serenity. Whedon, nominated for Academy and Emmy Awards as a screenwriter, creator of the popular TV...

Rosa Mª Sardá and Tristán Ulloa receive the Aisge Foundation Award to two generations at the Sitges 05 Opening Gala
09-10-2005
Actress Rosa Mª Sardá and actor Tristán Ulloa receive the 'Aisge Foundation Award to Two Generations', that this Foundation grants 'for the second year straight- to two outstanding...

Sitges Sales Office together with Catalan Focus
06-10-2005
The Sitges Sales Office 05 participants will have the chance to see some of the most recent Catalan productions. Together with the festival's Catalan Focus section, premiere documentaries like The...

Sitges with the best European fantasy
05-10-2005
Once again this year, the Festival is proud to be able to present, in its Official Fantàstic Section, a highly interesting and diversified selection of European films that have made a place for...

Festival Official Presentation
04-10-2005
With the attendance of Caterina Mieras, Minister of Culture for the Generalitat, Àngel Sala, Festival Director, Xavier Marcé, director of the Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries and...

The Shark is still working out of the program
04-10-2005
The movie The Shark is still working will not be a part of this year's program as announced at the first press conference in June....

Members of the Jury 05
04-10-2005
The OFFICIAL FANTÀSTIC SELECTION jury of this year is formed by: -Bill Plympton (Animation Director) -Àngel Quintana (Journalist and film critic) -Nieve de Medina (Actress) -Blanca Li...

Tarantino returns to the festival with Hostel, by Eli Roth
04-10-2005
Attending the Festival for the third time will be one of the most influential directors in recent year, Quentin Tarantino. This time he'll be here as a producer to present the film HOSTEL, by Eli Roth...

Tickets on sale: Friday, September 30th
28-09-2005
Starting Friday, September 30th, tickets will be on sale for the 38th edition of the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia. Here at our web site you'll find all the information on the movies...

Serenity to open Sitges'05
26-09-2005
Director, Joss Whedon, actor Nathan Fillion and actress Summer Glau will be opening Sitges'05 with Serenity, on October 9th. Academy and Emmy Award nominee scriptwriter, Joss Whedon, creator of the...

Viggo Mortensen & David Cronenberg present in the festival
20-09-2005
Viggo Mortensen and the director of A History of violence, David Cronenberg, will be in Sitges at the festival October 17th to present the Premiere Oficial film that will be closing SITGES '05....

Jodie Foster to receive the Honorific Grand Prize
20-09-2005
Jodie Foster to receive award October 13th at the Official Premiere of Flightplan Jodie Foster will be one of the many celebrities present in Sitges '05 - Festival Internacional de Cinema de...

Rosa Mª Sardá and Tristán Ulloa, Aisge Award two Generations
16-09-2005
They will receive it October 9th, at the SITGES 05 Opening Gala. Actress Rosa Mª Sardá and actor Tristán Ulloa will receive the Aisge Foundation Award to Two Generations, that this...

Anima't: the language of the future
13-09-2005
Sitges' animation section, ANIMA'T, will be composed this year of 29 in-competition short films and 5 feature films that will be competing for Best Animated Short Film and Best Animated Motion...

Tribute to Jim Henson
13-09-2005
Sitges 05 will be paying tribute to Jim Henson, creator of fantasy films like The Dark Crystal or Labyrinth. Lisa Henson, Jim Henson's daughter and producer of the company's latest creations, will...

Registration and material
07-09-2005
We remind those interested in participating in the Festival Sales Office that registration is still open until September 16th 2005. Any form received after this date will not be included in the...

Outstanding oriental films
01-09-2005
SITGES 05 will be offering the latest movies by distinguished Asian filmmakers like Tsui Hark, Johnnie To, Park Chan-wook or Takashi Miike. Chiaki Kuriyama and Park Chan-wook have confirmed their...

Corpse Bride, A History of Violence and Flightplan will be screened
18-08-2005
Three of this season's most eagerly awaited movies, CORPSE BRIDE (photo) by Tim Burton, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE by David Cronenberg and FLIGHTPLAN, directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie...

New Carnet Jove Jury
22-06-2005
Sitges 05 ' International Film Festival of Catalonia will have a youth jury for the first time since its creation, organized in collaboration with the Secretaria General de Joventut de la Generalitat...

Other confirmed titles
23-06-2005
Official Fantàstic Selection LEMMING, by Dominik Moll; THE DARK, by John Fawcett MIRRORMASK (photo), by Dave Mackean; YOKAI DAISENSO (THE BIG SPOOK WAR), by Takashi Miike and FRAGILE, by...

Tribute to Álex de la Iglesia and Johnnie To
22-06-2005
Álex de la Iglesia will recieve the prestigious La Màquina del Temps award. Also Sitges 2005, in its Official Selection, will be showing the latest film by Johnnie To (photo), Election,...