iNAFFF holds a really special place in my heart. I also greatly admire that it is just a nice, three days festival over a long weekend on 25th-27th November last week. For people of Bandung, attending this means a great opportunity to see some great indie thrillers from around the world that normally do not play in the town, and with reasonable prices too!. Only Rp15000 (USD 1.7) for each film during presale period, or Rp20000 (USD 2.2) during festival, we can buy tickets and see as many as 40 best 'horror, thriller, sci-fi, fantasy' films from all around the world to be screened this year.
To be honest, i actually have also seen some of films in advance. One film I just watched and blew me away is "The Yellow Sea", which is an original and unique Korean family thriller-crime drama that had me hooked for its near two and a half hour running time.
As one of the movies that i really enjoyed watching at the festival was "Loft", which is a well-acted, beautifully detective thriller from Netherlands. Loft is probably one of the best dutch movies I have ever seen. The movie is very exciting. During the movie i kept asking myself "who did it?" and till the end it was not certain who the killer is. But I must be honest, this movie is worth watching and probably the best movie in the festival. Except the twist ending, skip that, somehow.
The late night selections at the festival were also great; "A Lonely Place To Die", which became the 'surprise movie' of the festival this year had attracted so many attentions and curiosity from movie fans, the ticket for this movie was almost sold out in just a few hours after the ticket sales were open, it forced the organizer to close the ticket selling during the presale period and reopened it one day before the screening. This is a survival thriller film starring the sexy Melissa George. The film received a positive feedback from audiences right after the screening.
And "Claypot Curry Killers", which is a slasher film from Malaysia. Compared to "Macabre", a slasher film from Indonesia, i think Claypot Curry Killer has all points to make you directly fall in love with, as the result of, probably you might hate to eat any kinds of curry afterward.
iNAFFF is a pretty big annual indie film festival in Bandung, yet it still somehow maintains its intimacy. It is still easy to connect with a lot of people with similar interests and passions here, and in previous years i have been fortunate enough to meet fellow film fans, filmmakers and industry folk who are as crazy about film as I am.
Nothing beats the experience of watching genre films on the big screen with fellow movie enthusiast.
Scream boo, yell, clap...
Guys, let the mayhem begins again next year!.
