All Fantasia articles
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Features20 films to watch from the 2025 summer festivals
Includes titles from Locarno, Edinburgh, Annecy, Karlovy Vary, Transilvania, Munich and Fantasia.
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FeaturesJulie Pacino on confronting childhood trauma through her feature debut ‘I Live Here Now’
‘I Live Here Now’ is playing at Edinburgh, following its a festival run including Fantasia and Locarno.
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NewsEFM partners with Montreal’s Frontières Market for genre showcase
The collaboration will begin in 2026.
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Reviews‘The Book Of Sijjin And Illiyyin’ review: Indonesian chiller filters possession narrative through Muslim mythology
Hadrah Daeng Ratu’s culturally specific shocker is her fourth collaboration with writer Lele Laila
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News‘Mother Of Flies’ wins top prize at Fantasia
It is the first feature from the US to win the top prize at Fantasia in the festival’s 29-year history.
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Reviews‘Mother Of Flies’ review: Fantasia’s Cheval Noir winner is a visceral, thoughtful folk horror
The latest from cult filmmakers the Adams Family is heading to Shudder
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Reviews‘The Woman’ review: South Korean filmmaker Hwang Wook delivers ponderous psychological thriller
Follow up to director’s Fantasia 2024 prizewinner ’Mash Ville’ is overstuffed murder mystery
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Reviews‘Hellcat’ review: Claustrophobic US horror sees woman trapped in Airstream trailer
Editor-turned-director Brock Bodell’s debut features a compelling performance from Dakota Gorman
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Reviews‘I Live Here Now’ review: Julie Pacino’s vividly realised debut plays out in remote California motel
The director’s highly sylised feature blends elements of Argento, Lynch and ‘Alice In Wonderland’
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Reviews‘Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy’ review: Ahn Hyo-seop heads adaptation of South Korean web comic sensation
Kim Byung-woo’s uneven creature feature also stars K-pop singers Nana and Jisoo
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Reviews‘The Well’ review: Muted Canadian eco-thriller finds humanity on the brink of collapse
Oscar-nominated documentarian Hubert Davis makes the move into fiction with this sombre drama
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Reviews‘Terrestrial’ review: A Hollywood success story hides a secret in dark US comedy
Latest from ’Hot Tub Time Machine’ director Steve Pink premieres at Fantasia
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Reviews‘Cielo’ review: A young girl embarks on a quest across Bolivia in this uncertain fable
Alberto Sciamma’s visually inventive feature comes to Fantasia after multiple wins at Fantasporto
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Features“Existential dread” is fuelling the genre boom says Fantasia festival head Mitch Davis
Source: Vincent Frechette Mitch Davis Like its recent predecessors, this year’s 29th edition of Canada’s Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal will reflect a genre film scene whose output is “built on existential dread and the anxiety of a world that’s changing for the worse,” says festival ...
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NewsGenndy Tartakovsky’s adult animation ‘Fixed’ to close Fantasia fest
Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman to receive Indie Maverick Award, as organisers announce third wave of programming.
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FeaturesWhy the role of festival manager has become more significant for a successful film launch
Competition for festival slots is becoming fiercer than ever as filmmakers look to secure distribution.
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NewsBlue Finch boards Brock Bodell’s Fantasia horror ‘Hellcat’
EXCLUSIVE: It is the feature debut of US writer-director Bodell.
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NewsFantasia unveils first wave; new work from Hwang Wook, Steve Pink, the Adams Family
Montreal fest runs July 17 to August 3.
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NewsFantasia-bound comedy horror ‘Hold The Fort’ picked up for sales
Blue Finch Films has boarded sales.
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News‘Bookworm’ wins 2024 Fantasia audience award for best international film (exclusive)
‘A Samurai In Time’, ‘Self Driver’, ‘Voïvod: We Are Connected’, ‘Kidnapping Inc.’ among winners.