TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest is a long-running Italian festival focused on fantastic & horror movies. It was born in 1999 and is based in Turin, the city where Dario Argento shot his renowned "Deep Red", as well as the city where the Italian National Museum of Cinema stands.
The latest edition of the festival has been held in October 2021, showing Italian premieres of some of the higlights of the year: THE SADNESS by Rob Jabbaz, PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND by Sion Sono, MIDNIGHT IN A PERFECT WORLD by Dodo Dayao, THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST by Dasha Nekrasova, THE YELLOW WALLPAPER by Kevin Pontuti, FRANK & ZED by Jesse Blanchard, WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR by Jane Schoenbrun, HOTEL POSEIDON by Stef Lernous, SATOSHI KON, THE ILLUSIONIST by Pascal-Alex Vincent, AFTER BLUE by Bertrand Mandico, and many others.
One of the goals of the festival is to help spreading new talented voices in the fantastic genre scene. Beside works by well-known filmmakers, TOHFFF line-up is largely composed, year after year, by first- or second-time directors' movies.
Only in the last few years we had the honour and pleasure to present in Italy alternative gems by great directors and stunning feature debuts such as SAINT MAUD by Rose Glass, CLIMAX and LUX AETERNA by Gaspar Noé, ONE CUT OF THE DEAD by Shinichiro Ueda, HOUSEWIFE by Can Evrenol, WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE! by Kirill Sokolov, TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID by Issa Lopez, AMULET by Romola Garai, IT COMES by Tetsuya Nakashima, PSYCHO GOREMAN by Steven Kostanski, SCHLAF by Michael Venus...
Very strong SHORT FILM and ANIMATION FILM sections are also one of the festival's cores. More than 40 terrific short and animated films from all over the world are selected every year, bringing to light some of the best new young 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, LORENZO BIANCHINI, ANDREAS MARSCHALL...), stage performances, live concerts, art and comics exhibitions - and crazy parties, of course - we are enabled to live and interpret reality, filtering it through a most wild imagination.
- Miglior Cortometraggio / Best Short Film
- Miglior Cortometraggio D'Animazione / Best Animated Short Film
- Premio Anna Mondelli al Miglior Lungometraggio / Anna Mondelli Award for the Best Feature Film
- Premio del pubblico al miglior cortometraggio / Audience Award for the Best Short
- Premio del pubblico al miglior cortometraggio d'animazione / Audience Award for the Best Animated Short
- Premio del pubblico al miglior lungometraggio / Audience Award for the Best Feature
- Premio “Antonio Margheriti” per la miglior inventiva artigianale / “Antonio Margheriti” Award for the most insane independent and artisanal attitude
- Bloody Award ai migliori effetti speciali / Bloody Award to the best FX
- Menzione Speciale del TOHorror / Special Mention of the TOHorror crew