The 21st edition of TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest will take place in October 13-17, 2021 in Turin. We trust that by then the situation will be favorable enough to allow the festival to be held quite normally on-site: thats why the event will be only live. As we truly believe in the importance of theaters and cinema as a collective “rite”, we decided not to go online at all, not even in a “hybrid” form.
Submissions are open on FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/TOHorrorFilmFest. We accept short/medium/feature lenght works (including animated films and documentaries) related in any way to fantastic & horror genre, in the widest and most free sense of the word: horror, thriller, science-fiction, fantasy, weird, black comedy, bizarre, grotesque, experimental…
The Earlybird Deadline is March 3, 2021. Full rules and terms are on FilmFreeway as well.
TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest, born in 1999, is a long-running Italian independent festival focused on fantastic cinema. It is based in Turin: the city where Dario Argento shot his renowned DEEP RED, as well as the city where the great National Museum of Cinema stands. The main target of the festival is – as it has always been – to support, promote and help spreading new talented voices in fantastic genres. Beside works by well-known filmmakers, year after year a huge part of TOHFFF line-up is composed by first or second time directors’ movies indeed.
In the last few years we had the honour and the pleasure to showcase in Italy gems such as KNIVES AND SKIN by Jennifer Reeder, CLIMAX by Gaspar Noé, ONE CUT OF THE DEAD by Shinichiro Ueda, HOUSEWIFE by Can Evrenol, ALL THE GODS IN THE SKY by Quarxx, IS THAT YOU? by Rudy Riveron Sanchez, TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID by Issa Lopez, HAIL SATAN? by Penny Lane, WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE! by Kirill Sokolov and so many other amazing films.
Very strong SHORT FILMS and ANIMATION FILMS sections are also one of the festival cores. More than 40 terrific short and animated movies from all over the world are scheduled every year, bringing to light some of the best new filmmakers in the scene.
Being a “cross” event, TOHFFF starts from cinema and then explores all possible means of communication and modern media, with the purpose of analysing contemporary society through the deforming lenses provided by the fantastic & horror culture. Thus, through movies, meetings with authors and guests (such as, over the past years, RICHARD STANLEY, JEAN ROLLIN, DARIO ARGENTO, RUGGERO DEODATO, HELENE CATTET & BRUNO FORZANI, MIGUEL ANGEL MARTIN, ANDREAS MARSCHALL…), stage performances, live concerts, art and comics exhibitions, and (why not) savage parties, we are enabled to live and interpret reality, filtering it through a most wild imagination.
