Festival highlights
Find here the history of the festival, its awards, its highlights and guests.
Press quotes
“An eclectic, high standard and generous festival”
Écran Large
“Let your imagination run wild at viewings of previously unshown fantasy flicks at the Paris International Fantastic Film Festival.”
Delta Sky Magazine
“The PIFFF is on its way to becoming France’s biggest festival of its genre”
Collider
“One week long, the Paris International Film Festival (PIFFF) honors horror and genre cinema at the Max Linder.”
Konbini
“The Paris International Fantastic Film Festival will give you “traumatic experiences”, “shake up your vision” and “possibly change your life.”
Le Figaro
“A place of pilgrimage for fans of the genre”
L’express
“In a landscape of French cinema rarely welcoming for genre movies, the Paris International Fantastic Film Festival (Pifff) which began on November 16 and continues until Sunday appears as a breath of fresh air.”
Libération
“A must go for the fantasticophiles.”
France Info
“The best genre festival in Paris.”
Premiére
“The feature films presented at the PIFFF offer a broad range of genre movies.”
Le Monde
Prizes list
12th edition, December 6-12, 2023
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Violaine Barbaroux, Lydia Decobert, Maud Geffray, Katya Mokolo, Maybelline Skvortzoff.
For the Climax Grand Prix, the jury was composed of Douglas Attal, Ninon Chapuis, François Descraques, Cédric Ido, Emma Javaux.
PALMARES :
- Main price for motion picture : Vampire Humaniste Cherche suicidaire consentant - Ariane Louis-Seize (Canada - 2023)
- Main Price for international short film : Murder Camp - Clara I Aranovich (USA - 2023)
- Main Price for French short film : Cadaverik - Maxime Brunet, Rémi Paquin - 2023
- Jury Award for best French short film : Cadaverik - Maxime Brunet, Rémi Paquin - 2023
- Mad Movies Readers' prize : Stopmotion - Robert Morgan (UK - 2023)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best motion picture: Vampire Humaniste Cherche suicidaire consentant - Ariane Louis-Seize (Canada - 2023)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best French short film: Gertrude and Yvan Party Hard - Louise Groult - 2022
for Infested
for Stopmotion
11th edition, December 6-12, 2022
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Alt236, Alexis Bacci, Céline Defremy, Jeremy Hoarau, Miyako Slocomb.
For the Climax Grand Prix, the jury was composed of Tiphaine Daviot, Anaïs Bertrand, Katell Guillou, Margaux Lorier, Arnaud Malherbe.
PALMARES :
- Main price for motion picture : La Montagne - Thomas Salvador (France - 2022)
- Main Price for international short film : Gnomes - Ruwan Heggelman (The Netherlands - 2022)
- Main Price for French short film : Colonie - Romain Daudet-Jahan - 2022
- Jury Award for best French short film : Les racines Sauvages - Nicolas Millot - 2022
- Mad Movies Readers' prize : Earwig - Lucile Hadzihalilovic (UK/ Belgium/ France - 2021)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best motion picture: La Montagne - Thomas Salvador (France - 2022)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best French short film: Colonie - Romain Daudet-Jahan - 2022
10th edition, December 1-7, 2021
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Estelle Charrié, Dédo, Raphaël Hernandez, Savitri Joly-Gonfard, Jehanne Rousseau.
For the Climax Grand Prix, the jury was composed of Jeanne Aptekman, Violaine Barbaroux, Raphaël Rocher, David Meadeb, Sébastien Marnier.
PALMARES :
- Main price for motion picture : Bull - Paul Andrew Williams (United Kingdom - 2021)
- Main Price for international short film : Cuckoo! - Jörgen Scholtens (The Netherlands - 2021)
- Main Price for French short film : La Verrue - Sarah Lasry - 2021
- Jury Award for best French short film : La Verrue - Sarah Lasry - 2021
- Jury's special mention : Le Varou - Marie Heyse - 2021
- Mad Movies Readers' prize : Stéphane - Timothée Hochet, Lucas Pastor (France - 2021)
- Mad Movies Readers' special mention : Comrade Drakulich - Márk Bodzsár (Hungary - 2019)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best motion picture: Bull - Paul Andrew Williams (United Kingdom - 2021)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best French short film: Le Varou - Marie Heyse - 2021
9th edition, December 11-17, 2019
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Lilith Bekmezian, Jérémy Clapin, Noëmie Devide, Mounia Meddour, Alex Pilot.
For the Climax Grand Prix, the jury was composed of Olivier Afonso, Louise Blachère, Jean-Luc Cano, Amélie Grossier, Nicolas Herlin.
PALMARES :
- Main price for motion picture : Why don't you just die ? - Kirill Sokolov (Russia - 2019)
- Main Price for international short film : My Little Goat - Tomoki Misato (Japan - 2019)
- Main Price for French short film : Dibbuk - Dayan D. Oualid - 2019
- Jury Award for best French short film : Boustifaille - Pierre Mazingarbe - 2019
- Mad Movies Readers' prize : Why don't you just die ? - Kirill Sokolov (Russia - 2019)
- Mad Movies Readers' special mention : Vise - Yasuhiko Shimizu (Japan - 2019)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best motion picture: I See you - Adam Randall (USA - 2019)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best French short film: Boustifaille - Pierre Mazingarbe - 2019
8th edition, December 4-9, 2018
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Olivier Abbou, Balak, Julie Gayet, Julien Maury and The Toxic Avenger.
For the Climax Grand Prix, the jury was composed of Coralie Fargeat, Sabrina B Karine, Léo Karmann, Dominique Rocher and Arnaud Malherbe.
PALMARES :
- Main price for motion picture : Freaks - Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein (USA - 2018)
- Main Price for international short film : Baghead - Alberto Corredor Marina (UK - 2018)
- Main Price for French short film : Belle à croquer - Axel Courtière - 2017
- Jury Award for best French short film : Déguste - Stéphane Baz - 2018
- Mad Movies Readers' prize : Freaks - Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein (USA - 2018)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best motion picture: Freaks - Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein (USA - 2018)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best French short film: Belle à croquer - Axel Courtière - 2017
7th edition, December 5-10, 2017
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Eric Gandois, Joan Sfar, Rebecca Zlotowski, Quarxx and François Descraques.
For the Climax Grand Prix, the jury was composed of Carlo de Boutiny, Alexandre Bustillo, François Cognard, Guillaume Lemans, Julien Maury, Benjamin Rocher and Raphaël Rocher.
PALMARES :
- Main price for motion picture : Tigers are not afraid - Issa Lopez (Mexico - 2017)
- Main Price for international short film : RIP - Albert Pintó, Caye Casas (Spain - 2017)
- Main Price for French short film : Scaramouche Scaramouche - Arthur Môlard - 2017
- Jury Award for best French short film : Scaramouche Scaramouche - Arthur Môlard - 2017
- Special mention: Spooked - Spook&Gloom - 2017
- Ciné Frisson Award for best motion picture: Tigers are not afraid - Issa Lopez (Mexico - 2017)
- Ciné Frisson Award for best French short film : Spooked - Spook&Gloom - 2017
6th edition - December, 6-11, 2016
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Olivier Afonso (special effects, director), Stéphane Debac (actor), Xavier Jamaux (musician), Tom Kan (graphic designer, artistic director), Michel Koch (artistic director, concept artist).
Dario Argento was there to present a restored version of Opéra and Richard Stanley was presenting Hardware.
For the first time, PIFFF partnered with the Climax Grand Prix which aims to bring out and highlight genre cinema script-writers and scenarios. The jury was composed of Marc Caro, Marina de Van, Pascal Sid, Noémie Devide, Jérome Vidal and Manuel Chiche.
PALMARES :
5th edition - November 17-22, 2015
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Joyce A. Nashawati (director and script writer), Fleur & Manu (directors), Run (author and illustrator) and Seth Gueko (musician).
PALMARES :
4th edition - November 18-23, 2014
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Rob, Bastien Vivès, Céline Tran, Antoine Blossier and Kook Ewo.
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3rd edition - Novembre 19-24, 2013
From this edition onwards, there is no longer a jury for the international competition: the public votes for the winner for the Golden Eye Prize.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Willie Cortes, Alex Cortes, Annick Mahnert, Jérémie Perrin and Sébastien Prangère.
PALMARES :
2nd edition - November 16-25, 2012
The Jury of the international competition was composed of: Pascal Laugier, Nicolas Boukhrief, Xavier Gens, Laurent Courtiaud and Julien Carbon.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Anaïs Bertrand, Eddy Brière, Rodolphe Chabrier and Abel Ferry.
PALMARES :
1st edition - November 23-27, 2011
The Jury of the international competition was composed of: Roger Avary, Christophe Gans, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and Jaume Balagueró.
The jury for the French short film competition was composed of: Hélène Saint-Riquier, Antoine Charreyron, Stéphane Chaput, Juan Carlos Medina, Sébastien Bacchini and Jean-Christophe Spadaccini.
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