Christophe Gans' Brotherhood Of The Wolf (Le Pacte Des Loups) will open this year's Fantasy Filmfest.

The peripatetic event begins its tour of Germany in Munich on 18 July and then travels to Stuttgart (25 July - 1 August), Cologne and Frankfurt (1 - 8 August) and Hamburg and Berlin (8 - 15 August).

Other films already confirmed for the 15th edition of the international festival for science fiction, horror and thriller films are Robert Rodriguez's blockbuster Spy Kids and Sam Raimi's mystery thriller The Gift, starring Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves and Hilary Swank. An Asian Focus sidebar is already lining up Tsui Hark's Time And Tide.

Separately, Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell is to be the subject of this year's 43rd Nordic Film Days, held in Luebeck from November 1-4. Troell's directing credits include Flight Of The Eagle, I Capitano and the upcoming As White As Snow.