Fantasia International Film Festival 2026

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Anymart (Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Yusuke Iwasaki; Writer: Yusuke Iwasaki; Stars: Shota Sometani, Erika Karata)
A young man works on autopilot in his disillusioned father’s convenience store, where he’s constantly having to put up with visits from the AnyMart chain’s sales representative. Amidst a clientele frustrated by their economic and social circumstances and colleagues at the end of their tethers, a sassy new employee arrives in this toxic environment, ready to explode at any moment.
Beasts Clutching At Straws (Jipuragirado Japgo Sipeun Jimseungdeul) (Country: South Korea; Year: 2020; Director: Kim Yong-hoon; Writer: Keisuke Sone, Kim Yong-hoon; Stars: Jeon Do-yeon, Jung Woo-sung, Bae Sung-woo, Youn Yuh-jung, Shin Hyeon-bin, Jeong Man-sik, Jin Kyung, Jung Ga-ram)
A struggling restaurant owner, caring for his sick mom, finds a bag of cash in a sauna locker, while a customs officer gets into trouble when his girlfriend runs off with money he borrowed from a loan shark.
Corpus (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Corrin Evans; Writer: Lily Cowles, Corrin Evans; Stars: Jeff Wahlberg, Brodie Townsend, Michael Vlamis, Lily Cowles, Nuha Jes Izman, Ching Valdes-Aran)
It's the summer of 1998 in New York City. A nightlife photographer and small-time drug dealer is invited to a party upstate by his long-time friend and unrequited love, a movie star on the rise. Together with a rowdy friend, they drive to a remote, bucolic manor in hopes of some summer debauchery. But when they arrive, they discover that the promise of a party is actually three mysterious women, whose disturbing agenda draws the boys into a dark web of seduction and terror.
The Eyes (Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Yeom Ji-ho; Stars: Shin Min-a, Kim Nam-hee)
A blind woman investigates the mysterious death of her sister in this remake of Spanish thriller Julia's Eyes.
Ferine (Country: Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Andrea Corsini; Writer: Andrea Corsini, Massimo Vavassori; Stars: Carolyn Bracken, Caroline Goodall, Paola Lavini, Elisabetta Caccamo, Ilario Calvo, Marco Gambino)
A tragic event shatters a rich art collector's life, awakening her primal nature. She destroys her privileged existence to build a new concept of family, leading her on a path of destruction and animalistic transformation.
Hot Spot (Country: Poland, Greece, Sweden, Norway; Year: 2026; Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska; Writer: Robert Bolesto; Stars: Noomi Rapace, Filippa Kaye, Reika Kirishima, Andrzej Konopka, George Aurimas Cris, Yiannos Mpahas)
In the late 21st Century, an investigator and a member of a feared religious sect are brought together by a murder in a refugee camp.
Nightborn (Yön Lapsi) (Country: Finland, France, UK, Lithuania; Year: 2026; Director: Hanna Bergholm; Writer: Hanna Bergholm, Ilja Rautsi; Stars: Seidi Haarla, Rupert Grint, Pamela Tola, Pirkko SaiSio, Rebecca Lacey, John Thomson)
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.
No Rest For The Wicked (Year: 2026; Director: Kasper Kalle; Writer: Rasmus Birch, Kasper Kalle, Karl Heinreich Ulrichs; Stars: Egor Venned, Pilou Asbæk, Sofia Nolsøe Mikkelsen, Kjarten Hansen, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Brimheim)
A fisherman falls in love with a rugged whaler on the isolated Faroe Islands in this unconventional vampire story.
Sleep No More (Country: Indonesia, Singapore, Japan, Germany, France; Year: 2026; Director: Edwin; Writer: Edwin, Eka Kurniawan, Daishi Matsunaga; Stars: Rachel Amanda, Lutesha, Iqbaal Dhiafakhri Ramadhan, Sal Priadi, Kev Luqman)
Sibling are forced to work in a hair factory to pay off their mother's debt. They witnessed strange events that happened to the workers.
Sour Minnows (Year: 2026; Director: Harrison Atkins; Stars: David Brown, Chase Williamson, Suzanna Son)
After unknowingly peeking through the veil, two flatmates witness six men sensually licking the pavement on an empty LA street.
Unidentified Murder (Country: Hong Kong; Year: 2025; Director: Ka Hei Kwok, Jack Chun-Kit Lee; Writer: Devon Ka-Hang Choi, Siu-Hong Ho, Ka Hei Kwok; Stars: Man-Lung Ling, Renci Yeung, Charm Man Peter Chan, Hui Chun-pong, Lam Tsz-kit)
When an influencer couple's prank turns deadly, blackmail, aliens, and links to a 25-year-old missing child case emerge, plunging them into a web of mystery.
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