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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 ran 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
- Shorts
- Underground
View previous years coverage of the Fantasia International Film Festival festival:
Fantasia Latest Reviews
A rookie detective from Tokyo’s red-light district must team up with a counterpart from Seoul with equally questionable practices, to track down a dangerous criminal spreading terror across Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.
Three days before her wedding, a deeply troubled woman tells her fiancé the story of her dead sister and the terrible prophecy that haunts her.
A quarrel over a parking space pulls a couple into an unexpected confrontation with a stranger.
A tenant moves into a too good to be true Mumbai apartment only to realise that the house is shrinking in size.
A lazy sound designer is sent to the remote island where a film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate its finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew.
Events unfold in almost-realtime, as the sun sets on the haunted Wingabar Forest and eerie howls pierce its night.
A woman abandoned in the woods by her boyfriend after she turns down his marriage proposal is taken in by a mysterious couple.
A space opera about a great escape from a horrific prison planet under the rule of Queen Xaltalusia XXIII.
In 1997, 39 members of the American cult known as Heaven's Gate committed the largest mass suicide to ever take place on American soil. This is their story.
After being transformed into a vampire, a Parisian singer pursues stardom at the cost of her soul.
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