Vampires, zombies, and Nicole Kidman

That this year’s Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, or BIFFF for short, would move to the prestigious Centre for Fine Arts, has been known for several months. Now, they have also released the programme of their 31^st edition. Opening the festival, will be the highly anticipated vampire movie Byzantium by the Irish director Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire, The Crying Game). The iconoclast of Korean cinema, Chan-wook Park (Old Boy, Lady Vengeance), gets to close the festival with his film noir Stoker, featuring Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska in the leading roles. From 2 to 13 April, the public gets treated to 110 feature films, a retrospective of special guest Neil Jordan’s work, a selection of Universal horror classics at Cinematek, a ZombiFFF Picnic Parade at the Warandepark/parc de Bruxelles, and masterclasses by – again – Neil Jordan and Dario Argento. Info: www.bifff.org