Eye For Film >> Festivals >> A-Z >> Fantasia International Film Festival >> 2025
The 29th edition of the Montreal-based festival is packed with great titles, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, thrillers and anime, with over a dozen world premières. It opened with the latest work by Ari Aster, Eddington.
The festival runs from 17 July to 3 August.
View Films by Strand:
- Animation Plus
- Canadian Première
- Cinéma Québécois
- Documentaries from the Edge
- Features
- Galas
- My First Fantasia
- Retro!
- Septentrion Shadows
- Shorts
- Underground
View previous years coverage of the Fantasia International Film Festival festival:
Fantasia Latest Reviews
Two street coaches in a bustling neighborhood face an unexpected crisis when locals transform into bizarre, slimy beings.
Lloyd Kaufman and The Troma Team go on what could be their final trip to the Cannes Film Festival.
When a Cornish fisherman's wife performs a medical miracle, a doctor goes to investigate, but discovers a lot more than he bargained for.
When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.
On what should be a fun night at a Brooklyn warehouse party, an outbreak of flesh-eating zombies forces a ragtag group of drag queens, partygoers and party-throwers to band together and somehow survive the night.
A young woman leaves her transphobic small-town, and develops a romance with tattoo artist Gen with whom she shares a paranormal connection. But their deep-rooted insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their ex-lovers and begins feeding on their friends by sucking out their lifeforce.
A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
Indy is a good boy; a faithful dog, he is always by his human Todd’s side. When Todd seeks quiet in an empty family home in the countryside, Indy finds there is a strange, malevolent presence lurking in the shadows — an evil that only he can sense.
An unassuming office worker at an online periodical becomes entangled in a conspiracy after witnessing a murder.
A jaded Japanese movie star stranded in NYC without money or phone meets a passionate indie filmmaker and his crew, leading to an unexpected creative journey that could reignite her love for cinema.
Fantasia International Film Festival Features
Fantasia International Film Festival News
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:
DOC NYC
New York's celebration of factual film
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Baltic film festival
French Film Festival
The UK's longest running celebration of Francophone cinema
Leeds International Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Celebration of world cinema
Cannes Film Festival
Archive of festival coverage.
Sundance Film Festival
Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2018.
Berlin Film Festival
Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.
