Eye For Film >> Festivals >> Fantaspoa >> 2026 >> Features
Body Blow and The Vile
Adorable Humans
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2025; Director: Anders Jon, Michael Kunov, Kasper Jul, Michael Panduro; Writer: Anders Jon, Michael Kunov, Kasper Jul, Michael Panduro, based on tales by Hans Christian Andersen; Stars: Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Knud Klausen, Sus Wilkins, Mille Maria Dalsgaard,
Marinus Refnov, Mie Gren, Adam Ild Rohweder, Peter Høgsbro, Iben Skau)
Anthology re-imagining the tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
Appofeniacs
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Chris Marrs Piliero; Stars: Sean Gunn, Jermaine Fowler, Aaron Holiday, Michael Abbott Jr)
An ensemble tale with intersecting storylines that escalate into chaos as each portrays how easily deepfake technology can be weaponised to exploit society.
The Arbiter
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Marc Price; Stars: Craig Russell, Jon Xue Zhang, Georgina Leonidas, Jasmine Summer)
The city is a battlefield with gangs ruling the night, and with the bloodiest one of all making a murderous push, not stopping until every rival mob is erased. In a desperate bid to avoid being wiped out, the remaining gang leaders gather for an unprecedented summit.
Bagworm
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Oliver Bernsen; Writer: Henry Bernsen; Stars: Peter Falls, Michelle Ortiz, Robbie Arnett, Corbin Bernsen, Stephen Borrello, Jessy Morner-Ritt, Sydney Winbush, Francesca Galassi)
Carroll’s worldview is dominated by the threat of catastrophe and the decline of morality in the face of human extinction. Then he steps on a rusty nail.
The Bearded Girl
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Jody Wilson; Writer: Blake Barrie, Thiago Gadelha, Jody Wilson; Stars: Anwen O'Driscoll, Jessica Paré, Skylar Radzion, Ava Anton, Jude Wilson)
Cleo is ready to spread her wings and, tired of tradition and feeling like an oddball, she leaves her sheltered carnival life to find love and adventure.
The Red Mask and Adorable Humans
Body Blow
(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Dean Francis; Writer: Dean Francis; Stars: Georgina Haig, Tim Pocock, Chris Haywood, Sacha Horler, Paul Francis, Vincent Andriano, Barbara Hastings)
An undercover cop finds his commitment to the force tested when he falls for a young twink deep in debt to a vicious drug lord in this kinky neon-noir.
Bulk
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ben Wheatley; Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor, Mark Monero)
Sci-fi nightmare fusing head scrambling multiverse and a conspiracy of global proportions that might mean the end of the world as we know it.
Camp
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Avalon Fast)
Emily takes a job as a counselor at a summer camp and finds a coven of witches ready to show her a path to healing.
Carrie
(Country: US; Year: 1976; Director: Brian De Palma; Writer: Lawrence D Cohen, based on the novel by Stephen King; Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta, William Katt)
A bullied teenager, pushed to breaking point, discovers something unexpected about herself.
Cielo
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Alberto Sciamma; Writer: Alberto Sciamma; Stars: Fernando Arze Echalar, Juan Carlos Aduviri, Fernanda Gutiérrez Aranda, Cristian Mercado)
How far would you go to reach heaven? Santa, a young indigenous girl, embarks on a rollercoaster journey to take her mother out of a life of hardship and into eternal paradise.
Appofeniacs and The Bearded Girl
The Cramps: A Period Piece
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Brooke H Cellars)
A vibrant collision of horror, comedy, and aching personal truth as seen through the eyes of a young woman dealing with the pain of her menstrual cramps.
The Curse
(Country: Japan, Taiwan; Year: 2025; Director: Kenichi Ugana; Writer: Kenichi Ugana; Stars: Yukino Kaizu, Yu, Reika Oozeki)
A Japanese girl travels to Taiwan to track down the motive behind a friend's bizarre death, which seems to be linked to strange social media posts.
Dead Eyes
(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Richard E Williams; Writer: Richard E Williams; Stars: Ana Thu-Nguyen, Mischa Heywood, Rijen Laine, Charles Cottier, Alea O'Shea, Stephen Phillips, Freya Callaghan)
Accompanied by his fiancée, a man enters a remote forest in search of his missing father, and encounters the cannibalistic creatures his father has made while endeavouring to resurrect his little sister.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa, Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Jason Howden; Writer: Jason Howden; Stars: Milo Cawthorne, Kimberley Crossman, James Joshua Blake, Sam Berkley, Daniel Cresswell, Kieran Charnock)
Brodie resurrects his bandmates to win the battle-of-the-bands and reacquire his girlfriend. His uncontrollable undead bandmate raises an army of costumed corpses. Brodie must stop the zombie horde before it ruins his musical dreams and love life.
Deathstalker
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Steven Kostanski; Writer: Steven Kostanski; Stars: Daniel Bernhardt, Christina Orjalo, Nina Bergman, Paul Lazenby, John Ambrose, Conor Sweeney, Laurie Field, John Clifford Talbot)
When a ruthless warrior named Deathstalker steals a mysterious amulet from a dying man, he’s unwillingly thrust into a quest to stop the dark sorcerer Necromemnon and save the world from destruction.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon and Karmadonna
Faust
(Faust - Eine Deutsche Volkssage)
(Country: Germany; Year: 1926; Director: FW Murnau; Writer: Gerhart Hauptmann, based on the play by Johann Wolfgang Goethe.; Stars: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert, Eric Barclay, Hanna Ralph, Werner Fuetterer)
A silent classic in which Faust makes a pact with the demon Mephistopheles, offering his soul in exchange for knowledge.
Fifteen
(Country: Argentina, Mexico; Year: 2026; Director: Jack Zagha, Yossy Zagha; Writer: Andrzej Rattinger, Ricardo Álvarez Canales; Stars: Greta Marti, Macarena Oz, Aminta Ireta, Martha Claudia Moreno, Enrique Arreola, Mercedes Hernández, Malena Sandy, Cloe Juresa Furgan, Andre Fajardo, Silvia Villazur)
A reimagining of the quinceañera as a chaotic mix of comedy and creature horror.
The Forbidden City
(La città proibita)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Gabriele Mainetti; Writer: Stefano Bises, Gabriele Mainetti, Davide Serino; Stars: Yaxi Liu, Enrico Borello, Sabrina Ferilli, Marco Giallini, Shansan Chunyu)
A woman leaves China for Rome in search of her missing sister.
Foreigner
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Ava Maria Safai; Writer: Ava Maria Safai; Stars: Rose Dehgan, Chloe Macleod, Cassie Collis, Talisa Mae Stewart)
An Iranian-born teenager is desperate to fit in at her new high school in Canada, but the more she tries to absorb and understand the unfamiliar mindset, the more she becomes consumed by a dark entity.
Imposters
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Caleb Phillips; Writer: Caleb Phillips; Stars: Jessica Rothe, Charlie Barnett, Yul Vazquez, Bates Wilder, Luisina Quarleri, Thomas Parobek, Ian Lyons, Taylor Karin, Lee Bennett, Declan Bennett)
After a couple’s baby boy is taken, the desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back. However, her husband begins to suspect that what she has returned with isn't their son.
Lucid and Bulk
Interior
(Country: Germany; Year: 2025; Director: Pascal Schuh)
Psychological thriller about a burglar who uses a couch with a secret compartment to break into people’s homes and covertly film them.
Karmadonna
(Karmadona)
(Country: Serbia; Year: 2025; Director: Aleksandar Radivojević; Writer: Aleksandar Radivojević; Stars: Jelena Djokic, Sergej Trifunovic, Milutin 'Mima' Karadzic, Milica Stefanovic, Branislav Jevtic, Milos Lolic)
A pregnant woman gets a call from a god who orders her to commit a series of murders.
Lucid
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Deanna Milligan, Ramsey Fendall; Writer: Ramsey Fendall, Deanna Milligan, Claire E Robertson; Stars: Caitlin Acken Taylor, Georgia Acken)
Mia is a rebellious art student who struggles to create the ultimate project for a demanding professor. Desperate to find her artistic voice, she takes Lucid, a candy elixir, to access her creativity, but taps into something much darker.
Luger
(Country: Spain; Year: 2025; Director: Bruno Martín; Writer: Bruno Martín, Santiago Taboada; Stars: David Sainz, Mario Mayo, Ángel Acero, Ramiro Alonso, Ana Turpin)
Two desperate criminals navigate a dangerous industrial complex in real time, seeking redemption while facing mounting threats in this intense thriller.
Marama
(Country: New Zealand/Aotearoa; Year: 2025; Director: Taratoa Stappard; Writer: Taratoa Stappard; Stars: Ariana Osborne, Toby Stephens, Umi Myers, Evelyn Towersey, Errol Shand)
Mary, a young Māori woman, travels to Victorian England after receiving a letter promising information about her birth parents. As she peels back the layers of colonial deceit, Mary is driven to avenge her shattered ancestry.
Carrie and The Curse
Nesting
(Peau À Peau)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Chloé Cinq-Mars; Stars: Rose-Marie Perreault)
A new mother grappling with sleep deprivation and postpartum depression, finds herself unable to separate dream from reality. After she witnesses a violent hold-up in a convenience store, her already fragile psyche begins to crack.
The Peril At Pincer Point
(Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Writer: Jake Kuhn, Noah Stratton-Twine; Stars: Jack Redmayne, Alyth Ross, Os Leanse, Mike Mackenzie, Dashiell Upton, Jason Hogan, Mat Wright, Noah Stratton-Twine, Isobel Laidler, Oliver Woolf)
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.
The Red Mask
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2025; Director: Ritesh Gupta; Writer: Samantha Gurash, Patrick Robert Young; Stars: Inanna Sarkis, Helena Howard, Kelli Garner, Jake Abel)
When an outspoken queer screenwriter is chosen to pen the final instalment of the legendary slasher franchise The Red Mask, she and her girlfriend are harassed by die-hard fans. They escape to a secluded Airbnb, where she concocts a dangerous game to play to unlock her writer’s block. Then two uninvited guests crash the scene.
The School Duel
(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Todd Wiseman Jr; Writer: Todd Wiseman Jr; Stars: Kue Lawrence, Christina Brucato, Oscar Nuñez, Jamad Mays, Michael Sean Tighe, Hudson Meek)
When an opportunity for twisted notoriety arises, a tormented 13-year old enlists in a deadly competition.
The Serpent's Skin
(Country: Australia; Year: 2025; Director: Alice Maio Mackay; Writer: Alice Maio Mackay, Benjamin Pahl Robinson; Stars: Alexandra McVicker, Avalon Fast, Jordan Dulieu, Charlotte Grimes)
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.
Deathstalker and The School Duel
Theater Is Dead
(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Katherine Dudas; Writer: Olivia Blue, Katherine Dudas, Madison Lawlor; Stars: Shane West, Madison Lawlor, Colin McCalla, Stephanie Suganami, Decker Sadowski, Olivia Blue, Tammy Tavares)
Sheltered Willow auditions for mysterious director Matthew's play, a Greek tragedy adaptation. Enthralled, she ignores dangers and undergoes self-discovery as the lead under his tutelage.
The Turkish Coffee Table
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2025; Director: Can Evrenol; Stars: Alper Kul, Algi Eke, Hatice Aslan, Asli Bankoglu, Ece Su Uckan, Elif Sevinç, Özgür Emre Yildirim)
A couple's argument over a coffee table spirals into chaos when a simple mistake turns into a desperate web of lies, panic, deception, and the terrifying consequences of trying to cover up the truth.
The Vile
(Hoba)
(Country: US, UAE; Year: 2025; Director: Majid Al Ansari; Writer: Majid Al Ansari, Johnnie Alward; Stars: Bdoor Mohammad, Sarah Taibah, Iman Tarik, Jasem Alkharraz, Samira Al Wahaibi)
Amani's peaceful life as a wife and mother shatters when her husband brings home a second wife, unleashing mysterious dark forces into their household.
Violence
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Connor Marsden; Writer: Connor Marsden, Devin Myler, William Woods; Stars: Rohan Campbell, Maddie Hasson, Tomaso Sanelli, Sarah Grey, Jasmine Kar, Joris Jarsky, Greg Bryk)
Henry Violence, an anti-hero in an alternate 1980s world, becomes entangled in a brutal drug war as rival cartels battle for supremacy, forcing him to make difficult choices to navigate the treacherous landscape.
Wrong Husband
(Uiksaringitara)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Zacharias Kunuk; Writer: Samuel Cohn-Cousineau, Zacharias Kunuk; Stars: Theresia Kappianaq, Haiden Angutimarik, Mark Taqqaugaq, Emma Quassa, Leah Panimera)
An Arctic fairy tale about a couple who, though promised to each other at birth, become separated.
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:
New York's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema
Celebration of Gallic film
Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival
Greece's premier documentary film festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Lynchpin European film festival
Cannes Film Festival
Archive of festival coverage
Sundance Film Festival
News, features and reviews from 2005-2026
Berlin Film Festival
Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.
Search Movie Database
Browse our full archive
Browse our short film archive
Browse our media archive
