Kicking off in less than 2 weeks, HÕFF's annnounces it's red hot Méliès’ d’Argent program, a selection of the best genre shorts from last year in the Little Nightmares and two Estonian short fantasy features' world premieres.
Special events will include the annual parade, anniversary parties and a parcour and kung-fu master running a workshop on how to deal with zombie attacks.
MÉLIЀS D'ARGENT SHORT FILM COMPETITION
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As a member of European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation Méliès HÕFF will award one of these fresh short films a Silver Méliès, which will grant it a nomination to compete with winners from other festivals for the Golden Méliès.
HÕFF's annual selection of short shockers from across the world, the program will include a Silver Méliès winner Autumn Harvest, the UK gut-grinder Stomach and a strange attempt to interview god in Deus In Machina.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DAY
The Estonian helmer, scripter and actor Einar Kuusk set his post-apocalyptic story in an old bunker in a sleek Soviet-era town. He was inspired by the film sci-fi hit Oblivion and the epic game Last of us.
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IRON DEFICIENCY Sander Jahilo's witty folklore-flirt is centered on a strange swamp encounter between the urban-technological and the natural-ecological thinking. The winner of HÕFF's script-writing contest and funded by Jameson.
WYRMWOOD
Redeeming the zombie genre, this gory low-budget joy ride by two Australian brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner has already enjoyed serious festival-praise as being a crazy meld of Mad Max and Dawn of the Dead.
GERMAN ANGST
Acclaimed writers and directors Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall, Michal Kosakowski tell three distinct, yet equally horrific tales with a common theme being old images of Berlin's scariest architecture.
Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival
23-26.04.2015
