Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
2025 Festival poster | |
| Location | Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
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| Established | 2000 |
| Founded by | Anaïs Emery and Olivier Müller |
| Most recent | 2025 |
| Directors | Pierre-Yves Walder |
| No. of films | 127 |
| Festival date | Opening: 4 July 2025 Closing: 12 July 2025 |
| Language | International |
| Website | http://www.nifff.ch |
The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) is a Swiss film festival dedicated to fantastic movies. The NIFFF constructs its programming around three central axes: Fantastic cinema, Asian cinema and Digital images. The films shown at the Festival are very diversified, ranging from major works by renowned directors to unknown and underground films d'auteurs. Notable attendees include George A. Romero, Joe Dante, John Landis, Terry Gilliam, Hideo Nakata.
The NIFFF offers five competitions: an international competition, an Asian competition, a Best Swiss Short Film Competition, a Best European Short Film Competition and a Swiss Video Art Competition entitled Actual Fears and inaugurated in 2008.
Retrospective themes have included "Scream Queer" (2022), "Female Trouble" (2023) and "Eat the Rich" (2024).
The 24th edition of the film festival was held from 4 July to 12 July 2025, featuring 127 films from 42 countries.