Guests

Several guests from the cinematographic scene will attend the festival.

Guest of Honour: Alan Lee

Illustrator and artdirector of the lord of the rings trilogy, holder of an Oscar for his work in The return of the king, Alan Lee has also collaborated in pictures like King Kong, Legend, Eric the Viking and the series Merlin.

Mr. Alan Lee will accomplish several dedication seances and he will participate in a debating conference. More info coming up soon (tbc).

Guest: David Sterne

We are honoured to welcome David Sterne, an actor who has,since the early seventies, participated to several renowned fantastic films, amongst which are : Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Mike Newell, 2005), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Gore Verbinski, 2006), Chevalier (Brian Helgeland, 2006) and Sindbad and the Eye of the Tiger (Sam Wanamaker, 1977).

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

David Sterne

Pirate of the Caribbean

Several animations will also be proposed. More details coming up soon.

Shortfilm Projections

The festival Trolls et Légendes will propose to you a variety of the best fantastic and fantasy shortfilmsof the moment.

A selection of 10 shortfilms has been made. Here's the program for the first 5 films :

Le Trophée
(Pascal Thiebaux, 2006, 10 minutes)

Christmas eve seems to be going to be very pleasant for Soren. At least thats what he thinks, as he arrives at a vast house with a beautiful lady on his arm. But a stuffed Santa's head which he finds against the wall, will completely change the course of the evening.Le Tropée is Pascal Tiebaux' third shortfilm, of whom's first two shortfilms have been shown at the first edition of the festival Trolls & Légendes. The shortfilm has been prepared for three months, shot in three week-ends, and edited in eight months, Le Trophée has already seduced more than one festival's jury, as it has won the Prix de l'originalité at the Fontainebleau festival, and the Prix spécial du jury at Saint-Avold.

Pintame
(Wilfried Méance, 2006, 14 minutes)

Jean is a comicbook-drawer who is constantly disparaged by his wife. One day he imagines what here destiny would be had she taken part in his comicbook adventures...Only 22 years old, Pintame is already Wilfried Méeances third shortfilm. It has taken him seven months to render the filmits comicbook look. Pintame has been shown in Cannes and it has already won the Prix spécial jury at Saint-Avold, and at the Vébron film festival, as well as the Prix du scénario at the Miaou Festival.

Les mains du magicien
(Nikolas List, 2005, 13 minutes)

A young woman is convinced that a fun fair's magician, whose show consists of raising the dead, will save her sister...After attending cinematographic studies at the Universitéde Liege, and an illustration course at St. Luc Liege, Nikolas List, has studied and obtained a degree in 2006 at the IAD in Cinematographic Production.. ''Les mains du magicien'', a shortfilm he produced during his studies, has been shot in Louvain-La-Neuve in four days with some young actors of the IAD. This is the first time for this shortfilmto be shown in a festival!

Coucou Clock
(François Cailleau et Audrey Fobis, 2005, 3 minutes)

As soon as the master leaves his house, the cooking equipment in the kitchen become alive and do what they prefer to do : playing a evil darts game between a corkscrew and a vase. But one day a new one arrives in the kitchen....Coucou Clock is an animation shortfilm produced by two students of the EESA (Ecole Européenne Supérieure d'Animation), which took them two years to make.

Supermoine
(Julien Bagnol, Florian Landouzy et Sébastien Ho, 2005, 3 minutes)

A peaceful monastery is attacked by bloodthirsty vikings. But Supermoine won't give up on them.Supermoine, an animation shortfilm produced by les Supamonks, has been made as an end of studycourse project at the EESA. Since then, Supermoine hasn't stopped charming the audience at festivals. It has already won several prizes including the Prix spéecial du jury at Palavas-les-Flots and the prize of the audience at the Festival des tres courts.

Animes Projection

Animes, japanese cartoons, are more and more taking part in the world of cinema and televison. The Trolls & Légendes festival along with DYBEX and BEEZ Entertainment will show the first episode of today's very best series of japanese anime :

The BEEZ Series

Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Season 2
(Kenji Kamiyama, 2004)

Six months after Section 9's dissolving and the arrest of the Rieur (trad. Laugher), terrorists called ''the eleven individuals'' take hostage the employees of the Chinese embassy. Motoko and his team don't need much more to get back to business .... and track down this group of individuals!After its first season of exceptional quality at all levels (graphics, scenario, ...), Ghost in the shell Stand Alone Complex gives us even more thrillsin the second season : there's even more action, more violence, and ... more complexity.All this will very much please fans of the Masamune Shirow's universe.

Fantastic Children
(Takashi Nakamura, 2004)

Throughout a game of reincarnation, seven scientists, who are the children of Béfort, of the planet Greece are looking for princess Tina on planet earth. They need her in order to get back to their own original planet...
Fantastic Children is a 26 episode series produced by Nakamura Takashi. The design of the caracters in general – very simple in appearance and also a bit outdated – and the children of Béfort's in particular, contribute to a charm and a mystery which we can sense from the first images we see. One could have the impression to have been transported in a different time, a different world where tales come to life.

Planets
(Goro Taniguchi, 2003)

2075. Aï Tanabe is a new recruit in the ''Remains Section'', a team who's in charge of recovering all remains of human activity, that sail through space, endangering spacecrafts as they travel...Planet is a 26 episode Science-Fiction series which is hyper-realistic and profoundly humanistic. It is a skillful mix of serious themes (death, disease, ...), of philosophical themes (man versus infinite space, the power of dreams, ...), and of funny themes. All this is put into action by losertype caracters who are nonetheless very appealing. A Science-Fiction classic.

My Hime
(Yoshio Kuroda, 2004)

From the moment they arrive in their new school, the Fûka academy, Mai and her brother Takumi, meet girls who have mysterious materialisation forces. Soon Mai will discover her own force, her ''Hime'' nature, and the ''Child'', combat entities she has the power to invoke...
My-Hime has been made in the form of an anime, of a manga, and of a videogame. Even if they are based on the same universe, they are still different from each other. My-Hime is a top ten series of 2005 in Japan, and it's very well deserved, thanks to its explosive mix of action, humor, romance, drama, and nice and sexy girls !

Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny
(Mitsuo Fukuda, 2004)

LThe war dividing the PLANTs and the Terrestrial Alliance has come to an end. But altough one has finally found a way to live in peace, the world enrolls to meet its terrible destiny...
The Gundam series is very popular in Japan. After its phenomenal success, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (Anime Grand Prix 2004), here's the next episode : Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny ! Fans will appreciate to meet a familiar universe, with (numerous) combats between giant robots, complex political intrigues, drama and love affairs. A must see in the Mecha genre.

Eureka Seven
(Tomoki Kyoda, 2005)

At the event of a great cataclysm called ''Summer of Love'', Adrock Thurston has become a hero by giving up his life to save the planet. It is a heavy burden to his son Renton, 14 years old, who lives in a peaceful town called Belforest. Renton's only passion is lifting, a sport where you surf on waves of TraPar, an airstream made of tranparent lightparticles. His life takes a different turn when a giant robot crashes on his house, and he meets Eureka, its pilot...
Eureka Seven brings along a part of originality in a genre, Mecha, which has already known several successes.Thanks to its original startingpoint and some wellfound particularities like lifting, this series stillstands strong.Action, humor, and emotions are guaranteed.

The DYBEX Series

Samurai Champloo
(Shin'ichiro Watanabe, 2004)

Mugen are two samouraï who don't have a master, and who are opposed to eachother by their temper. The one is a balanced person, constantly referring to Bushido, while the other is an impetuous vagrant. Their fate will be linked by Fuu, a barmaid who wants to find the samouraï who smells like a sunflower...
Samouraï Champloo is an out of standard series of 26 episodes, produced by the makers of Cowboy Bebop, Animatrix, and Kill Bill. Its name is a well chosen one; ''Champloo'' means ''melange'', with happiness, samouraï, sabres, humor, hip-hop music, poetry, anachronism... The mise en scene is of a rare intensity, virtuous as well as inventive in the combat scenes and lyrical in the more serious or poetic parts.

Grey Wings
(Yoshitoshi Abe, 2002)

A young girl falls from the sky... wakes up in a huge cocoon... and rises among the Haibane (Grey wings), creatures who are winged and have halos, like angels have.
Created by Yoshitoshi Abe (Lain), this 13 episode series is simply sublime. The caracters are appealing, the intrigue is full of mystery, poetry, and onirism, and which reveals itself along the episodes, taking us, like a feather by the wind, to a summet of emotion. Accompanied by a bewitched music, we go from laughter to tears, in the world of the Haibane. And once the journey has ended, we only want one more thing : to start it all over again.

Rahxephon
(Yutaka Izubuchi, 2001)

RahXephon is a giant living robot, who only accepts Ayato Kamina to be his pilot. Engaged together in the Terra organisation, they fight Dolems, other living robots, sent by a strange extraterrestrial race that invades the earth, the Mulians.By numerous aspects RahXephon inevitably makes one think of Evangelion (giant robots, chosen pilots, mysterious attacks by invaders...), but it's not a mere copy of it. On the contrary. RahXephon has its pproper tone, that seduces from the beginning. The music, essential to the story, is superb. The solid scenario accumulates intrigues and mysteries without being hermetic. The caracters are complex and appealing. The action scenes are short but masterly. So, RahXephon, is a series that deserves, as much as Evangelion, the statute of being a cult SF series.

Hunter X Hunter
(Kazuhiro Furuhashi, 1999)

Gon is a young boy who dreams of becoming a Hunter like his father. But first he must succeed in numerous selection tests. The road will be long and hard, before becoming a Hunter, and moreover the other candidates sometimes are hostile, but Gon can count on his friends...
Hunter X Hunter is the new series of the famous - and already excellent – Yu Yu Hakusho, however it surpasses it in several ways. It's a cult Shônen (manga for boys) that steps away from the mainstream. The caracters are very appealing and very detailed. The tests are varied and inventive, and have nothing to do with the long combat scenes we usually come accross in this genre. It's filled with humor, and the skilful scenario makes it constantly interesting. So here's a Shônen that should even please to girls !

Fullmetal Alchemist
(Seiji Mizushima, 2003)

Alphonse and Edward Elric, sons of a renown alchemist who has left his house to never return again, practise alchemy from a very young age. When their mother died, the two brothers, filled with grief, decide to bring her back to life using alchemy...
Here's one more Shônen that brilliantly dissociates from other series in the genre. The caracters are very appealing, the scenaristic elements appear little by little and with a lot of skill (flash-backs are used to tell us about the caracter's past), the mise en scene is very effective, and with friendly humor it dares to use a definatly dramatic tone, and renders the series its tragic side, which is very unusual in this genre.

Karas
(Keiichi Satou, 2005)

There are two dimensions in Tokyo : The first one is inhabited by humans, and the other by spirits, summoned beings and other demons. The fragile balance between these two dimensions is guarded by Karas, the protector of Tokyo. But one day a man threatens to make the city sink into chaos and despair. Immediatly Karas is called to combat this evil and save the city.
Karas is the new series celebrating the 40 years of existence of the famous Tatsunoko studios (Demetan, Renatan, Macross, Casshern...). And the least we can say is that they show off : crazy 3d effects, sumptuous settings, symphonic music, a high mise en scene, thundering sound effects... all this is linked to a complex and bewitched scenario.