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2026 witnesses the 30th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival, and it's got a cracking line-up. It opens with Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell and packs in numerous world premières. There's the latest work from Kiyashi Kurosawa, Jenn Wexler, Larry Fessenden and more high profile talents, plus some eye-catch débuts in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, anime and thriller genres. Alongside the features there's an extensive shorts programme, plus the usual line-up of special events, with some very special guests set to attend.
The festival runs from 16 July to 2 August.
View Films by Strand:
- Animation Plus
- Cheval Noir Competition
- Documentaries from the Edge
- Features
- Galas
- Les Fantastiques Week-Ends du Cinéma Québécois
- My First Fantasia
- Retrospectives
- Septentrion Shadows
- Underground
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Three young mentravel to a remote house on the promise of a party, to find just three women who have a secret and sinister agenda.
A documentary recounting the events surrounding the imposition of martial law in Korea in December 2024, and the peaceful uprising of civilians against dictatorship.
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.
A punk kid gets superpowers from alcohol and tries to reshape society, but a violent error sparks global tensions with him at the centre.
Sadie struggles to find balance as she juggles work, her social life and her erotic fascination with insects.
Eccentric twins proclaim themselves prophets to a priest, blurring reality and delusion as they involve him in their supposed divine mission.
A family's Christmas Eve dinner becomes a nightmare as Gino must protect his loved ones from his reanimated grandmother who crashes the celebration with murderous intent.
Watching bizarre footage of a massacre in a café, a police detective is horrified to recognise something he has seen before.
Now a CIA field agent, Becky goes undercover in Poland to infiltrate a family running an inn at The Wolf's Lair, one of Hitler's WWII bunkers. When she learns the father, Wilhelm Reuss, plans to spark the Fourth Reich, Becky must stop him.
Two children, raised in total isolation by an automated house, begin to confront the mysteries of their existence after an enigmatic stranger arrives from outside.
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