From 3 to 15 April the Brussels International Fantasy, Fantastic, Thriller and Science-Fiction Film Festival (BIFFF) will once again defend genre cinema to the death, a style of cinema that went out of fashion for a while, but which has recently experienced a spectacular return to grace, to the point that the most recent Oscars ceremony celebrated one of the masters of the genre, the director Guillermo Del Toro. Evidence of the global reach of BIFFF? The master himself will be giving a cinema lecture in Brussels, accompanied by his Belgian colleagues Jonas Govaerts and Fabrice du Welz. 

For its 36^th edition the BIFFF will be premiering some prestigious Belgian films, including Muse [+lee también:
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The festival will be hosting numerous competitions, including the 7^th edition of the Parallèle competition, which includes 10 films, six of which are European productions. The European Competition – with the Méliès d'Argent up for grabs, which will allow the winner to compete for the Méliès d'Or – consists of 12 films, including the exclusive screenings of two Belgian films: The Most Assasinated Woman in the World [+lee también:
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The BIFFF will also be renewing the BIF Market for the second year running – the first European genre market of its kind.