NEW TIMES … BAD TIMES. WE WANT TO BE IN FASHION… We have to adapt to the sad reality in order to survive. Although we would like to stick to our principles, today is not that easy to achieve it unfortunately. Renew or die. So we decided to join the famous, well known and trendy budget cuts. Sad but true … Thus, the Audience Prize of the Horror Short Film Contest will not be rewarded... [ + ]
Hace unos años invitamos a Jesús Franco al Festival. Vino acompañado por Lina Romay, su compañera sentimental, su compañera de fatigas. Ya no era aquella preciosa muchacha que con tan solo 16 años realizara su primer papel cinematográfico en La maldición de Frankenstein, película dirigida por tío Jess en 1972, y pasara con el tiempo a ser la musa, la confidente, la compañera inseparable,... [ + ]
After the 30 edition, the Festival begins to start the engines for 2012 edition. Hence, we confirm that the XXXI Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival will take place from 30 October to 4 November 2012. That’s why we have updated all of our bases so you can participate in the contests; the 11th edition of the Short Film Horror and Gore Contest and the II edition of the Feature Film Contest. We... [ + ]
The winner of the Best Director award went to Olivier Abbou with their debut Territories . That’s why we have made an interview. Here it is: 1 – One curiosity: Being a French film / Canadian, why is shot in English? Territories is in english because of the subject and the characters. They’re all Americans, it’s about the US border, and Guantanamo, so…. I think it’s... [ + ]
El próximo miércoles 28 de diciembre se estrena XP3D, la esperada opera prima de nuestro estimado Sergi Vizcaino. La primera película española rodada en 3D, y protagonizada por un montón de caras conocidas provenientes de la televisión, fue presentada a la prensa el pasado día 20. Desde el festival tenemos unas ganas terribles de verla y le deseamos mucho éxito. Para ir haciendo boca os dejamos... [ + ]
The final assessment of this edition is very satisfactory. The increase of audience in all days has been certainly the most visible think, but the success of other activities such as the press conference of Morjana Alaoui, the Horror and Gore Short Film Contest for schools, the Networking and the new Official Feature Section have also been a success. In that sense, the Festival organization, want... [ + ]
Una semana después de la resaca festivalera, ya solo nos queda dar las gracias a las más de 2000 personas que han llenado el Festival en estos 6 días de cine, pasión y sobretodo ilusión. De echo solo quedan 2 cosas por decir: El ganador del premio Filmin al mejor cortometraje y el Premio del Público al mejor Largometraje. Recordaros que el Premio Filmin al Mejor Cortometraje se ha obtenido a... [ + ]
The Jury, Morjan Alaoui, actress of Martyrs (Pascal Laugnier, 2008); Quim Casas film critic, and actor and director Alex Brendemülh have awarded The Orphan Killer, directed by Matt Farnsworth with the Best Film Prize. A traditional but irreverent slasher that moves away from the typically used bad cliche and becomes a gore-retro-modern slasher so exciting from the second minute. In addition, Matt,... [ + ]
The award for Best Director has gone to small town in France, Colmar (Haut-Rhin), for a novice director with only two short films directed so far. The winner was Olivier Abbou for his opera prima Territories. Abbou get a great atmosphere with a climate and a dark film noir aspect that makes the viewer feel with increasing intensity, the events it describes. Following a narrative always orderly, the... [ + ]
The prize for best actor/actress of the Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival Feature Film Competition has been awarded to: Ex-aequo for Christian Berkel and Jule Ronstedt, stars of the German film The Last Employee (Alexander Adolph, 2010). With a superb performance, they give a lesson in acting with his gradual mental collapse, which creates a devastating end. The Jury considers that the award should... [ + ]
LA GRANJA, directed by Ignacio Lasierra, has won the first prize of the jury, the X Horror and Gore Short Film Contest. The second prize was for FASE TERMINAL, directed by Marta Genoa. The prize for best make-up and FX was for ALASTOR, directed by Rafa Dengrá. Finally, the Victor Israel Prize for best performance has been ex-aequo for Pepo Oliva and Juanma Lara for LA GRANJA. The best semi-finalist... [ + ]
The V Horror and Gore Micro Tales Contest, organized jointly by the Film Festival Horror Molins de Rei, the Department of Culture and Biblioteca Pau Vila, has received a total of 26 stories, 11 in Catalan and 15 in Spanish. The winners are as follows: Award for Best Micro tale in Catalan: Persecució, written by Julian Alba Solera Award for Best Micro tale in Spanish: ¿Dónde estoy?, written by... [ + ]
On September 19th the registration of Short Film Contest ended. We have received more than 80 shorts from all over Spain but also some others from Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Italy, France, Portugal… After making our selection, you can find the list of semifinalists (Friday 5th at 20:00h) and final (Friday 5th at 22:00h) in the Short Film Contest section. Thanks to the participants, year after... [ + ]
LAST MINUTE: The actor Michael Biehn will not join the Festival as it had been previously announced. JURY OF THE FEATURE FILMS OFICIAL SECTION AND SHORT FILMS COMPETITIONS We announce that Morjana Alaoui, actress who became known internationally with his masterful performance in the film “Martyrs”, will join our 2011 edition . The film directed by Pascal Laugier in 2008 (Melies D’Argent... [ + ]
From October the 16th you can book your ticket in our web site. You have all the details in the Ticket reservations section. The organization recommends booking the ticket as early as possible due to the fact that the number of tickets on sales is limited. The day and hour limit to book your tickets, will be on Sunday October 30 at 23:59. Compartir \ Share Read More →
La sala de actos de Ca n’Ametller, es la sede de la exposición retrospectiva sobre las 30 ediciones del Festival y se alargará desde ayer día 29 de Septiembre hasta el Domingo 6 de Noviembre, coincidiendo con la Clausura del Festival. Siguiendo un diseño propio de la organización, y construido por la empresa Jaume Coma Escenografíes, donde se ha reproducido un cine antiguo, y bastante castigado,... [ + ]
Este año el Festival produce un documental donde mostraremos la historia del Festival. Un recorrido por las diferentes etapas que forman parte de estas 30 ediciones, desde su creación en 1973 hasta la actualidad, mostrando la pasión por el cine en Molins de Rei, y en concreto por el género del Terror, y añadiendo un nuevo concepto: la parte humana de sus creadores y las personas que están vinculadas. Un... [ + ]
Os presentamos la que sin duda será la gran novedad de la Edición numero 30: la primera Competición de Largometrajes del Festival. Las películas que forman parte de la Sección Oficial a Competición, se proyectaran a lo largo de la semana en diferentes sesiones, incluyendo evidentemente, las películas programadas para las 12 Horas. Esta edición oficial tendrá 4 premios: Mejor Película,... [ + ]
Una de las novedades y una obligación que teníamos marcada desde hace ya mucho tiempo era realizar una retrospectiva, la cual este año no se dedica a ningún director, ni actor ni tan tampoco a ningún tema cinéfilo. Este año lo dedicamos a la década de los 90 y al cine de terror que se hizo en esa época. La década de los 90, fue una temporada en la que por diferentes motivos el Festival... [ + ]
The film “Mom, I’ma Zombie” is a documentary, which is the subject of the evolution of cinema and literature of Zombies in today’s society. The documental accompanied by powerful images of current films and not so current genre, characterization images to appear on one of these beings, many references for the public interested in expanding their knowledge in the genre, ending... [ + ]
Como cada año el cartel que será la imagen del Festival de este año, sale del Concurso de Carteles, el cual ha llegado a su tercera edición. La imagen elegida para la edición actual, nos llega de Pamplona. Raúl López, un diseñador navarro, es el ganador del concurso de carteles con su obra titulada “Hannibal”. La sobriedad en la composición y la originalidad sutil de la propuesta, es... [ + ]
