This year the 31st edition of the Belgian International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF) will take place from the 2nd to the 13th of April at the Palais des Beaux Arts (23 Ravenstein street, 1000 Brussels) and will host the screening of the Lithuanian film VANISHING WAVES by director Kristina Buozyte on the 5th April at 10:00pm (Cine 2). BIFFF is welcoming director KRISTINA BUOZYTE and actress JURGA JUTAITE in the event.

Kristina Buozyte’s first feature The Collectress participated to more than 30 film festivals and won The Best Movie Award at the 2008 Lithuanian Silver Crane Awards and the Best Director Award at the 2009 Russian Kinoshock Film Festival. Now she is back with a Belgian co-production. This winner of the Golden Méliès 2012 and many other prestigious prizes, deals with ethical issues and uses a clever screenplay that questions our trust in our own imagination. Needless to say that you will not dream as usual after Vanishing Waves.

Vanishing Waves synopsis:

Lukas is a scientist who works at the European experimental project that focuses on advanced ‘human neuron research’. The aim of the projects is to transfer neuron information from one human mind to another while enabling the recipient to share the same information the “host” individual is experiencing. When he is inside the mind of the body of a comatose woman he calls Aurora, Lukas finds an attractive universe where a lively and passionate woman lives who does not know that she is in a coma. In this other world, safe from the restrictions of reality, both Lukas and Aurora live for the moment by freeing their instincts and hidden fantasies. Wanting to help her, Lukas tries to revitalize her senses by secretly feeding her body with drugs. His actions cause unexpected results that start to destroy their dreamlike world and they both begin to drift towards the fatal outcome.

For more information on the film, please visit the BIFFF website:

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