Sitges Fantastic Film Festival 2012 dedicated to the end of the world

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Sitges (ACN).- Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia dedicates the defining image of its 45th edition to an ironic concept inside science fiction: the end of the world. Sitges will offer the best of apocalyptic cinema and will present recent proposals that are renewing this genre of anticipation. In parallel, it will take place the 20^th anniversary of the Tarantino’s film “Reservoir Dogs” premiered in Sitges, and it will focus on the director’s figure as a creator of a new trend which has renewed the cult film.

The Fantastic Film Festival is the biggest in the world and the one with the most media impact in Catalonia. This cultural event was born in 1968, and since then has became a forum where exhibitors, performers and recognised film directors connect and where presentations and projections of fantastic films from all over world be shown.

Taking advantage of an old topic

Next October, the Festival will be dedicated to the end of the world. This is not a new idea. The end of the world has been present in literature, comic, and cinema for decades and from all different points of view.  Creative fiction has imagined millions of ways to read Armageddon: from natural or social disasters to nuclear wars or alien invasions. But, Sitges wants to turn this idea into the centre of its 45^th edition.

An end in every sense

According to the organizers it will be not only invoke terror of a natural end, as the Mayas predicted in their times, but the end of the world in every sense, as a result of both an economic and spiritual crisis.

Cinema with all mod cons

As in previous years, visitors expect to see new audiovisual trends and techniques. However, this time modernity will not only be a way to learn about films, but will in fact become its main protagonist. The Festival aims to mark the sign of the times which leads us to an apocalypse explained on air, through infinity of interconnected witnesses armed with cameras in their mobile phone devices, creating a link between the genre films and the immediacy of today.