The Belgian film of Fabrice du Welz «Alleluia»Has been awarded the Prize Melies d'Or for the best European fantasy film.
The European Federation of Fantasy Film Festivals has chosen this film, which has already won the Silver Méliès at the International Fantasy Film Festival in Lund, Sweden.
Among the winning films of this award, which was awarded for the first time in 1996, we find «Vanishing Waves»From Kristina Buozyte,«Let The Right One In»From Tomas Alfredson,«Martyrs»By Pascal Laugier,«Possessed»From Anders Rönnow-Klarlund,«The Green Butchers»By Anders Thomas Jensen,«Princess»From Anders Morgenthaler,«Adam's apples»From Anders Thomas Jensen«Code 46»By Michael Winterbottom or the only two Spanish winners«The Day of the Beast»By Álex de la Igelsias and«The nameless»By Juame Balagueró.
This year tapes such as «let us prey»By Brian O'Malley, Silver Méliès at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival,«The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears»By Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, Méliès de Plata at Trieste - Scienceplusfiction or the Spanish«Cannibal»By Manuel Martín Cuenca, Silver Méliès at the Strasbourg International Fantastic Film Festival.
The Méliès de Oro for the best short film went to «The Body»By Paul Davis, who won the Silver Méliès at the last Sitges Festival.
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