Fantasia 2025

Title: Eddington

Director: Ari Aster

Description: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbour is pitted against neighbour in Eddington, New Mexico.

Title: Les Schtroumpfs [VERSION FRANÇAISE]

Director: Chris Miller

Description: Papa Smurf is captured by the evil sorcerer brothers Razamel and Gargamel. Smurfette will do everything she can to save him by travelling to the real world, with the help of the Smurfs and their new allies...

Title: Fragment

Description: A murder strikes a community, and conflict escalates between the son of the victims and the that of the accused. A hard-hitting drama about the grief of guilt, in which tension reigns.

Title: Smurfs [ENGLISH VERSION]

Director: Chris Miller

Description: Papa Smurf is captured by the evil sorcerer brothers Razamel and Gargamel. Smurfette will do everything she can to save him by travelling to the real world, with the help of the Smurfs and their new allies...

Title: Hold the Fort

Description: An HOA turns out to be more hellish than usual in this wildly amusing, creature-packed horror/comedy about newly minted suburbanites forced to take part in a battle against monstrous forces.

Title: Verdict, The

Director: Lee Chang-hee, Yusron Fuadi

Description: Following the death of his wife in a senseless attack, a man decides to seek justice in a daring way. A brilliant thriller with an important moral dilemma at its core.

Title: Reflet Dans Un Diamant Mort

Description: An electrifying reinvention of ‘60s Euro-spy films from the gifted makers of AMER and LET THE CORPSES TAN, starring Italian screen icon Fabio Testi. An astonishing act of imaginative visual storytelling.

Title: Rewrite

Director: Daigo Matsui

Description: A seemingly cute, slightly sad, time-travelling romance somehow hasn’t worked out the way it should have. What went wrong?

Title: mort n'existe pas, La

Director: Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Description: A young woman faces a difficult decision when a group of activists take up arms against an affluent family, hoping to plant the seed that sows a rebellion.

Title: Wailing, The

Description: Several generations of women, separated by time and space, are stalked by the same terrifying curse in Pedro Martín-Calero's prize-winning supernatural horror debut.

Title: Noise

Description: After her sister's disappearance, Ju-young moves into their apartment. Determined to find out more, she sets her sight on her neighbours, who only have one thing to say - could she stop making so much nois...

Title: Bearded Girl, The

Description: A rebellious, sword-swallowing bearded girl decides to leave her carnival sideshow home behind in search of love and adventure. A debut feature that’s charming, dryly funny, and filled with a fairy-tale ae...

Title: Bearded Girl, The

Description: A rebellious, sword-swallowing bearded girl decides to leave her carnival sideshow home behind in search of love and adventure. A debut feature that’s charming, dryly funny, and filled with a fairy-tale ae...

Title: Nyaight of the Living Cat Episodes 1 2 3 4

Description: A virus is sweeping the globe, causing anyone who touches a kitty to become one! Executive director Miike delivers a furry, purring parody of the natural-horror subgenre, an anime cataclysm of cuteness!

Title: Sweetness

Description: Rylee meets her pop-star idol, only to find he’s a drug-addicted faker. When she decides to help him get sober, her good intentions become a road to a living hell.

Title: Find Your Friends

Director: Izabel Pakzad

Description: Helena Howard, Bella Thorne and Chloe Cherry star in an intense tale of college besties on a hard-partying girl's trip that turns into a bloody battle for their right to exist.

Title: It Ends

Description: In one of 2025's major genre breakouts, four college friends find themselves on an infinite, unending road, forcing each of them to decide how to confront their fate in an unnerving journey into the unknow...

Title: Maya, donne-moi un titre

Description: An assortment of animated vignettes from the wry, inventive French director, prompted by nightly phone calls with his daughter. Voiced and narrated by Pierre Niney!

Title: Anime no bento 2025

Description: Fantasia’s annual mixed bag of short-form anime works returns with a focus on young, independent anime creators, by turns weird, wild, wistful, and whimsical.

Title: Garo: Taiga

Director: Keita Amemiya

Description: The distinctive tokusatsu franchise marks its 20th anniversary in grand style, with gothic gravitas and gruesome monsters, mystical symbolism and elegant steampunk accents.

Title: Départ Canon!

Description: We're off to a great start with a selection of 8 thunderous short films that perfectly represent the various FWCQ programs, both in their diversity and for their exceptional qualities.

Title: Devil's Bride, The

Description: Biblical myths and Baltic folklore meet fuzz guitar, funky bass, and a big, bold brass section in the Soviet Union’s first rock-opera movie, a rare gem of Lithuanian cinema gorgeously restored at last!

Title: Cielo

Director: Alberto Sciamma

Description: With unlikely allies, a plucky young indigenous girl performs miracles across Bolivia’s sublime landscapes, where survival becomes a sacred, elemental act of love and divine ritual.

Title: Ville Jacques Carton

Director: Jean-Marc E. Roy, André Forcier

Description: A poet in Longueuil refuses to sell his house to an unscrupulous property developer. Jean-Marc E. Roy and André Forcier deliver a very unusual film in which reality and fiction intertwine.

Title: Blazing Fists

Description: Two teenage hoodlums aim for better lives for themselves, and fighting in the ring is how they’ll get there. A convincing coming-of-age drama with a big heart to balance out the bruises and black eyes.

Title: Good Boy

Description: A curious and resourceful dog senses something supernatural is threatening his owner in this one-of-a-kind ghost story featuring Indy, who delivers one of the greatest dog performances in movie history.

Title: Horreurs All-Dressed

Description: There are many ways to lose your cool...a rollercoaster of emotions ranging from giggles to uneasy gasps, or vice versa!

Title: Last Woman on Earth, The

Director: Yeum Moon-kyoung, Lee Jong-min

Description: Hanah can’t get support for her feminist revenge film. Cheol can’t get funding because his script lacks female perspective. A quirky, immensely entertaining comedy about the unique world of filmmaking.

Title: Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers

Director: Amélie Ravalec

Description: A dive into the twisted shadows writhing under the rising sun, a riot of the beautiful, bizarre, radical, and outrageous, charting an underground art movement that still echoes hauntingly today.

Title: Bullet in the Head

Director: John Woo

Description: In 1967, three Hong Kong friends on the run flee to Vietnam to make their fortune, only to face the horrors of war and the pain of betrayal, in John Woo's 1990 masterwork.

Title: Écorchés - Partie 2, Les

Director: Luca Jalbert

Description: A year after confronting the Soul of the Woods, the “Little Monsters Club” must now face Babao, the spirit of a murderous, psychopathic teacher long dead.

Title: International Science-Fiction Short Film Showcase 2025

Description: Eight films. Eight countries. Worlds of brilliance. Fantasia’s annual showcase of next-level sci-fi shorts returns with stunning works from China to Britain, Poland to South Korea and beyond.

Title: I Am Frankelda

Director: Roy Ambriz, Arturo Ambriz

Description: Discover another world, a realm of weirdness and wonder, as a milestone of animation history, Mexico’s very first stop-motion feature film, comes to life on Fantasia’s big screen!

Title: Beans

Director: Tracey Deer

Description: Laughter and tears, joys and sorrows, but above all, a fresh look at an event we experienced collectively, but few have understood from the inside: the Oka crisis, as seen sensitively by a 12-year-old girl...

Title: Battle Wizard, The

Director: Pao Hsueh-Li

Description: A bookworm drinks the blood of a serpent and becomes invincible in this outlandish kung fu-meets-STAR WARS classic.

Title: Terrestrial

Description: Jermaine Fowler shines in a completely original and unpredictable dark comedy sci-fi thriller about belonging and paranoia, from the director of HOT TUB TIME MACHINE.

Title: Cinéma Vérité… et plus encore!

Description: Presenting captivating short documentaries and docu-fictions. With several character portraits that take us through a whole range of emotions.

Title: Stinker

Director: Yerden Telemissov

Description: A shipwrecked alien disrupts two strangers’ lives in a rural village. As chaos unfolds, a government official and a bumbling cop add further pressure in this darkly funny yet surprisingly sweet sci-fi adve...

Title: Tamala 2030: A Punk Cat in Dark

Director: t.o.L

Description: Tamala is the cutest girl-cat in dystopian Cat Tokyo in this anime anomaly, a deviously dreamlike, metaphysical mind-melt of high-fructose, retro-futuristic, paranoid pop-art brilliance.

Title: Grand Mockery, A

Description: A nightmarish, alcohol-fuelled journey shot on 8mm, this Australian experimental feature follows the troubled Josie through the streets of Brisbane into the belly of the beast.

Title: Science-Fiction et Fantastique

Description: A program of short films for fans of science fiction and fantasy.

Title: Cielo

Director: Alberto Sciamma

Description: With unlikely allies, a plucky young indigenous girl performs miracles across Bolivia’s sublime landscapes, where survival becomes a sacred, elemental act of love and divine ritual.

Title: Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers

Director: Amélie Ravalec

Description: A dive into the twisted shadows writhing under the rising sun, a riot of the beautiful, bizarre, radical, and outrageous, charting an underground art movement that still echoes hauntingly today.

Title: CineMapsosa 2025

Description: Four films that elevate genre filmmaking and truly show that Korean cinema is in a league of its own in this current day and age.

Title: Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards

Director: Junichi Ishikawa

Description: This hilarious action-comedy from Jun Ishikawa (Best Director at Fantasporto 2025) perfectly captures the sweet madness and eccentricity of the original manga.

Title: Well, The

Description: In the near future, resources have run out, and a family must contend with dwindling water supplies, rival camps, and a deadly virus.

Title: Brrr... Version québécoise de THE UNCANNY

Director: Denis Héroux

Description: An anthology horror film starring evil cats, what could be more Fantasia? Produced and directed by one of the pioneers of Quebec cinema, Denis Héroux.

Title: Dog of God

Description: Dire omens and sexual perversions, clerical fanaticism and collective madness—an eerie, animated folk chiller from the Baltic region in which malevolent moments and sinister sights abound.

Title: Every Heavy Thing

Director: Mickey Reece

Description: As women are going missing in Oklahoma, an office worker finds his life turned upside down after witnessing something he shouldn’t have in this absurdist dark comedy from Mickey Reece.

Title: Lucid

Description: Struggling art student Mia Sunshine Jones must discover her artistic purpose or risk being expelled from school. When she takes Lucid, a candy elixir, she opens a dreamscape of memories and a ’90s grunge n...

Title: Stinker

Director: Yerden Telemissov

Description: Un extraterrestre trouble l’existence de deux étrangers dans un village rural. Une aventure de science-fiction où l’humour noir rencontre une étonnante tendresse.

Title: Sweetness

Description: Rylee meets her pop-star idol, only to find he’s a drug-addicted faker. When she decides to help him get sober, her good intentions become a road to a living hell.

Title: Perilous Ports 2025

Description: Leaning into the bizarre, our Canadian short-film showcase is back and weirder than ever! Ghosts, guts, worms, creepy neighbours, and beefy dudes, Perilous Ports has it all!

Title: Peau à Peau

Director: Chloé Cinq-Mars

Description: A new mother, exhausted from a difficult birth and sleep deprivation, struggles with haunting memories and the overwhelming demands of caring for her newborn son.

Title: Redux Redux

Director: Matthew McManus, Kevin McManus

Description: In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer over and over again. A sci-fi vengeance thriller like no other.

Title: Hank est en ville

Director: Feber E. Coyote

Description: Between musical rivalries, police investigations, burning passions, linguistic squabbles and labour struggles in the ’50s, witness a duel that presents itself as an explosive social western.

Title: Contact Lens

Description: A playful experimental film with shades of JEANNE DIELMAN about a woman trying to break free.

Title: Fucktoys

Description: In this John Waters-inspired dark comedy, a sex worker living in Trashtown must raise $1,000 to lift a curse in a filthy, absurdist quest through society’s underbelly.

Title: Limoilou: Le film (événement 10 ans)

Director: Edgar Fritz

Description: Rock ’n’ roll and friendship remain the mothers of invention. A look back at a Québec film evoking both early Jim Jarmusch and Gilles Groulx on its 10th anniversary.

Title: Grand Mockery, A

Description: A nightmarish, alcohol-fuelled journey shot on 8mm, this Australian experimental feature follows the troubled Josie through the streets of Brisbane into the belly of the beast.

Title: Every Heavy Thing

Director: Mickey Reece

Description: As women are going missing in Oklahoma, an office worker finds his life turned upside down after witnessing something he shouldn’t have in this absurdist dark comedy from Mickey Reece.

Title: House with Laughing Windows, The

Director: Pupi Avati

Description: A brilliant, unsettling outlier for the Italian giallo. A haunting meditation on art, madness, and the failure of reason against pagan chaos, set in a village where silence conceals a disturbing legacy.

Title: Nightmare Before Christmas, The

Description: It’s Christmas, and Halloween, in July! The kooky, spooky stop-motion musical masterpiece, screening in honour of the composer of its score (and singing voice of Jack Skellington), Danny Elfman!

Title: Things That Go Bump in the East 2025

Description: Fantasia’s showcase of bite-sized Asian tales of the macabre again offers a celebration of the otherworldly from the other side of the world.

Title: Reflet Dans Un Diamant Mort

Description: An electrifying reinvention of ‘60s Euro-spy films from the gifted makers of AMER and LET THE CORPSES TAN, starring Italian screen icon Fabio Testi. An astonishing act of imaginative visual storytelling.

Title: Serpent’s Skin, The

Description: A colourful supernatural romance follows a young woman escaping her small transphobic town, only to unleash a demon that begins killing all her friends.

Title: Tie Man

Director: Rémi Fréchette

Description: Marjolaine Coppola is a cop with nothing left to lose. A missing sister, silent parents. Faced with a criminal empire headed by a cutthroat tycoon, she joins forces with Tie Man, a shadowy vigilante consum...

Title: I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn

Director: Kenichi Ugana

Description: Alone in NYC with no wallet, no cellphone, and no fluency in English, can this day get any worse for fading screen star Shina? Then she meets passionate, low-budget filmmaker Jack.

Title: Fragment

Title: Redux Redux

Director: Matthew McManus, Kevin McManus

Description: In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer over and over again. A sci-fi vengeance thriller like no other.

Title: Virgin of the Quarry Lake, The

Director: Laura Casabe

Description: Young Natalia turns to witchcraft to give herself an upper hand against a changing world. The volcanic emotions of teenhood conveyed through a lens of supernatural horror.

Title: Anna Kiri

Director: Francis Bordeleau

Description: After a robbery gone wrong, Anna (Catherine Brunet) sees a chance to turn her life around. But the price of freedom is high and she soon learns the past is not so easily left behind.

Title: I Live Here Now

Director: Julie Pacino

Description: A surreal, 16mm psychodrama starring Lucy Fry, Madeline Brewer and Sheryl Lee that is haunting, ironic, and Lynchian, as it explores trauma, identity, and the horror of perfection.

Title: Mother of Flies

Director: Zelda Adams, John Adams, Toby Poser

Description: A young girl diagnosed with cancer turns to necromancy under guidance from a witch in the woods. Can dark magic heal her? At what cost? A brilliant occult fairy tale from the directors of HELLBENDER.

Title: Transcending Dimensions

Director: Toshiaki Toyoda

Title: Serpent’s Skin, The

Description: A colourful supernatural romance follows a young woman escaping her small transphobic town, only to unleash a demon that begins killing all her friends.

Title: I Live Here Now

Director: Julie Pacino

Description: A surreal, 16mm psychodrama starring Lucy Fry, Madeline Brewer and Sheryl Lee that is haunting, ironic, and Lynchian, as it explores trauma, identity, and the horror of perfection.

Title: Night of the Juggler

Director: Robert Butler, Sydney J. Furie

Description: Take a wild ride through one of the scuzziest, seamiest entries in the New York City crime-film canon as James Brolin tears Manhattan apart to rescue his kidnapped daughter!

Title: Hostile Takeover

Director: George Mihalka

Description: Eugene Brackin, a repressed, armed accountant, holds his boss and colleagues hostage while they work overtime. A thriller with an unpredictable ending.

Title: The Forbidden City

Director: Gabriele Mainetti

Description: Two unlikely people, a chef and an immigrant martial artist, search (and fight!) for the truth in the underbelly of Rome, in this massively entertaining mix of martial arts, crime and romance.

Title: Hellcat

Description: Lena finds herself trapped in a trailer of a mysterious stranger who says she’s infected and is being taken for treatment, in a supernatural shocker that journeys deep into unexpected territory.

Title: Ma Gang de malades

Description: A program of absolutely delirious short films featuring characters each more dysfunctional than the last.

Title: Anything That Moves

Description: From the director of ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS comes a darkly comic erotic thriller about a bike-courier sex worker caught in a deadly small-town conspiracy and a serial killer's reign of terror.

Title: New Group

Description: Two students try to survive when their classmates start form a strange pyramid. This frightening reflection on our increasingly radicalized world is a future J-horror classic.

Title: Hold the Fort

Description: An HOA turns out to be more hellish than usual in this wildly amusing, creature-packed horror/comedy about newly minted suburbanites forced to take part in a battle against monstrous forces.

Title: Funky Forest: The First Contact

Director: Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki, Hajime Ishimine

Description: Celebrating its 20th anniversary, a defining work of Japan's millennial new wave of outrageously original pop cinema, guaranteed to confuse, amuse, repulse, and excite you!

Title: Juliet & the King

Director: Ashkan Rahgozar

Description: Complications abound for a lovestruck monarch, a Parisian actress, and her playwright pal bringing Shakespeare to the Persian stage. A charming animated musical comedy celebrating cross-cultural curiosity!

Title: Noroi: The Curse

Director: Koji Shiraishi

Description: Koji Shiraishi's unforgettable classic, the jewel in the crown of horror mockumentaries, is finally presented at Fantasia. A unique opportunity to rediscover one of the best J-horror films.

Title: Girl Who Stole Time, The

Director: Yu Ao, Zhou Tienan

Description: What will unfold when a village girl with the power to control time encounters a cold-faced assassin? Top-tier digital animation from China, with a heartfelt story and on-point humour.

Title: Mixed Blood

Director: Paul Morrissey

Description: A drug-dealing matriarch who lives with her son and his gang of juvenile delinquents starts a brutal turf war in Alphabet City. A long-unavailable cult classic from the director of FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN a...

Title: Influencers

Description: CW is on the prowl again. With the versatility of a chameleon and a spider’s skill in weaving a nasty web, she’ll welcome nasty twists and fatal errors in paradise!

Title: Woman, The

Director: Hwang Wook

Description: From the director of the award-winning MASH VILLE (Fantasia 2024), a riveting, character-driven psychological thriller filled with non-stop tension and suspense.

Title: Destins Imprévisibles

Description: As John Lennon sang: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans!

Title: Together

Description: A codependent couple (Alison Brie and Dave Franco) are afflicted by an uncanny force that binds them in very uncomfortable ways. A smart, shocking marriage of body horror and troubled-relationship study.

Title: Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo

Director: Tsai Chia Ying

Description: Attention: Do not follow a guy in a yellow raincoat when you’re lost in the mountains…

Title: Sueurs Froides

Description: Stories in which the protagonists find themselves in extremely frightening situations!

Title: Rewrite

Director: Daigo Matsui

Description: A seemingly cute, slightly sad, time-travelling romance somehow hasn’t worked out the way it should have. What went wrong?

Title: De belles aventures à Mon Premier Fantasia 2025

Description: Bring the whole family and discover short films from all over the world, including Quebec. Laughter, thrills and adventure await you. The films in this program are in French or contain no dialogue.

Title: Good Game

Director: Dickson Leung

Description: Tai and his team of oddballs underdogs will have to combine their strengths in gaming if they’re to win a fierce esports competition.

Title: Hellcat

Description: Lena finds herself trapped in a trailer of a mysterious stranger who says she’s infected and is being taken for treatment, in a supernatural shocker that journeys deep into unexpected territory.

Title: ChaO

Director: Yasuhiro Aoki

Description: A 21st-century reworking of THE LITTLE MERMAID, set in a psychedelic, cyberpunk Shanghai, this frenzied, fantastical romantic comedy is a daring and dazzling burst of animated brilliance.

Title: Pinball Summer

Director: George Mihalka

Description: George Mihalka's first feature film celebrates the summer of 1980 with its colourful arcana, funky, whiter-than-white music, gleaming cars, customized minivans and fashion victims.

Title: Born of Woman 2025

Description: Fantasia’s top-shelf showcase of mind-blowing personal genre visions returns with seven works from six countries that will leave you shaken and amazed. From Belgium to Australia, France to Norway and more,...

Title: Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie

Director: Shibue Shuhei

Description: A spectacular and exciting musical tournament powered by the new icons of J-pop and a deliciously bizarre story adapted from the popular manga.

Title: Memento Mori

Description: “Remember that you're going to die.” This program brings us face to face with this reality in a variety of ways.

Title: Undertone, The

Description: Podcaster Evy prepares for her mother’s death and becomes intrigued with a mysterious set of recordings that spirals into unexpected terrors.

Title: Omniscient Reader: The Prophet

Director: Kim Byung-woo

Description: An ordinary office worker sees his apocalyptic manwha become reality before his very eyes. This spectacular fantasy action film delivers a disaster story to remember.

Title: Animation Tous Azimuts!

Description: More than 30 works show that animation is alive and well in Quebec!

Title: Flush

Description: A middle-aged coke fiend gets stuck in a bar’s toilet with drugs stolen from the resident dealer. A deliriously inventive thrill ride that consistently ups the ante in darkly comic sleaze and shock.

Title: Transcending Dimensions

Director: Toshiaki Toyoda

Description: A nihilistic hitman in search of a missing monk confronts a sadistic sorcerer in this potent blend of film noir, sci-fi, supernatural combat, deadpan comedy, and existential weirdness.

Title: Woman, The

Director: Hwang Wook

Description: From the director of the award-winning MASH VILLE (Fantasia 2024), a riveting, character-driven psychological thriller filled with non-stop tension and suspense.

Title: Looking for an Angel

Description: In this late-1990s queer classic, two friends remember Takachi, a young porn star from rural Japan who recently died.

Title: Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey

Director: Kazuaki Seki

Description: Under the domineering, traditionalist art teacher Hidaka’s guidance, aspiring manga artist Akiko will have to learn to hold her ground and find her place.

Title: Hi-Five

Description: Five people gain superpowers following transplant operations, and must defeat a terrifying enemy. With its crazy cast, this blockbuster will blow your mind.

Title: Are You Afraid of Fantasia? 2025

Description: Will you be brave enough to take on these ten international shorts, five of which are from Quebec? Come and laugh, thrill and jump with us...

Title: Buffet Infinity

Description: Channel-surfing becomes a dramatic standoff as TV ads tell the sinister tale of a restaurant taking over an Albertan town.

Title: Kazakh Scary Tales

Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov

Description: A cop investigating grisly events in a remote village finds himself in the centre of an otherworldly storm of local witchcraft. A jolting folk-horror vision from the director of STEPPENWOLF.

Title: Dernier tunnel, Le

Director: Érik Canuel

Description: Five criminals dig a tunnel through the Montreal sewers to gain access to a bank vault. Inspired by true events, the was the late Érik Canuel’s most accomplished work, presented now in his beloved 35mm.

Title: Anything That Moves

Description: From the director of ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS comes a darkly comic erotic thriller about a bike-courier sex worker caught in a deadly small-town conspiracy and a serial killer's reign of terror.

Title: Undertone, The

Description: Podcaster Evy prepares for her mother’s death and becomes intrigued with a mysterious set of recordings that spirals into unexpected terrors.

Title: Diasporic Dualities

Description: A new generation of Asian-origin filmmakers convey their perspectives, each unique, vibrant and compelling in genres ranging from horror to comedy, action and fantasy.

Title: Double Bill: Fantasia Family Members on Screen

Description: You're invited to a crazy double bill: first THE SILENT INVASION, restored 25th-anniversary version, and the VHS release of CHAOS K7: LES FILMS DE RÉMI FRÉCHETTE.

Title: LifeHack

Director: Ronan Corrigan

Description: After scamming the daughter (Jessica Reynolds) of a ruthless crypto millionaire, a group of digital troublemakers (Georgie Farmer, Yasmin Finney) find themselves entangled in a heist for their lives!

Title: Stuntman

Director: Albert Leung Koon-Yiu, Herbert Leung Koon-Shun

Description: When an old-school, high-risk Hong Kong action director is hired for a modern, safety-first production, which style will win out?

Title: OBEX

Description: Conor's life takes a turn for the fantastical as he is transported into the video-game world of OBEX, where he must rescue his kidnapped dog and come to terms with the grief buried deep inside himself.

Title: Dollhouse

Director: Shinobu Yaguchi

Description: Director and screenwriter Shinobu Yaguchi (SWING GIRLS) takes an intelligent and effective approach to horror cinema in this downward spiral involving an evil doll.

Title: Messy Legends

Description: In this micro-budget comedy, a group of misguided Montreal millennials stumble through a disastrous night in a city undergoing rapid change.

Title: It Ends

Description: In one of 2025's major genre breakouts, four college friends find themselves on an infinite, unending road, forcing each of them to decide how to confront their fate in an unnerving journey into the unknow...

Title: Haunted Mountains: The Yellow Taboo

Director: Tsai Chia Ying

Description: Attention: Do not follow a guy in a yellow raincoat when you’re lost in the mountains…

Title: $POSITIONS

Director: Brandon Daley

Description: Local loser Mike, desperate and overwhelmed, turns to crypto to keep from drowning in debt. Instead, he finds himself in a spiral of bad decisions in this darkly comedic tale of addiction and family.

Title: Dui Shaw

Director: Nuhash Humayun

Description: Four new fearful fables from the leading light of genre film in Bangladesh, each strikingly distinct in theme and tone, from gritty and gruesome to haunting, hilarious, and magically musical.

Title: Barbie Boomer

Director: Marc Joly-Corcoran

Description: Sylvie Longpré, the “Barbie of Quebec” for over 20 years, seeks to donate part of her collection to the Musée de la Civilisation. An uncompromising portrait in which every collector should recognize themse...

Title: Désolé, Pardon, Je m'excuse

Director: Estevan Morin

Description: Ella loves to watch torture videos and is ready to get her hands dirty. Unfortunately, her first potential victim wants to die and ruins her fun.

Title: En Suspens

Director: Émilie Sigouin

Description: After a car accident, a man finds himself in the void with a guitar in his hand. Immerse yourself in a concert-film in which Dominiq Hamel on stage interacts with the film of his life on the screen behind ...

Title: Sham

Director: Takashi Miike

Description: A teacher falsely accused of abusing a pupil goes through personal and social hell. Based on a true story, Takashi Miike's thriller deals with media one-upmanship.

Title: Small Gauge Trauma 2025

Description: Fantasia’s celebrated showcase of provocative, cutting-edge genre works is back with 11 shorts from seven countries, from Portugal to Kazakhstan, France to Sweden and beyond, returning this year for its 26...

Title: OBEX

Description: Conor's life takes a turn for the fantastical as he is transported into the video-game world of OBEX, where he must rescue his kidnapped dog and come to terms with the grief buried deep inside himself.

Title: Stuntman

Director: Albert Leung Koon-Yiu, Herbert Leung Koon-Shun

Description: When an old-school, high-risk Hong Kong action director is hired for a modern, safety-first production, which style will win out?

Title: Fragments of Asia 2025

Description: Fragments of Asia returns to shake up the senses and emotions with four different visions of cinema from as many countries of the East, visiting different genres and moods.

Title: Occupy Cannes

Director: Lily Hayes Kaufman

Description: A fond, funny, punk-spirited doc following Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team on their adventures in Cannes, waging a war against an industry that seems ever more determined to squeeze them out.

Title: Au pied du mur

Director: Alexandra Elkin

Description: As they attempt to conquer the mythical mountain wall of El Capitan, young climbers are helped by much older mentors. An inspiring and emotionally charged documentary with vertiginous imagery.

Title: School Duel, The

Director: Todd Wiseman Jr

Description: In a near-future “Free State of Florida,” where gun control is outlawed and school shootings are at an all-time high, a tormented 13-year old enlists in a deadly, state-sponsored competition.

Title: Le Cabaret des curiosités 2025 100% SOLO

Description: You've got a date with more than 25 crazy shorts from the 4 corners of the world, grouped into various themed blocks. Stage entertainment and performances will be delivered by Marc Lamothe (formerly DJ XL5...

Title: Book of Sijjin And Illiyyin, The

Director: Hadrah Daeng Ratu

Description: A woman constantly humiliated and intimidated by her employers turns to the forces of evil to seek revenge. A bloody nightmare that will satisfy fans of ocular torture.

Title: Foreigner

Description: A new experience in Canada puts an Iranian teen at odds with her family, her identity, and a dark presence.

Title: Last Woman on Earth, The

Director: Yeum Moon-kyoung, Lee Jong-min

Description: Hanah can’t get support for her feminist revenge film. Cheol can’t get funding because his script lacks female perspective. A quirky, immensely entertaining comedy about the unique world of filmmaking.

Title: Dui Shaw

Director: Nuhash Humayun

Description: Four new fearful fables from the leading light of genre film in Bangladesh, each strikingly distinct in theme and tone, from gritty and gruesome to haunting, hilarious, and magically musical.

Title: Flush

Description: A middle-aged coke fiend gets stuck in a bar’s toilet with drugs stolen from the resident dealer. A deliriously inventive thrill ride that consistently ups the ante in darkly comic sleaze and shock.

Title: Instinct de Survie

Description: A program of short films in which the protagonists try to survive destabilizing and sometimes very dangerous situations.

Title: Burning

Director: Radik Eshimov

Description: One stormy night, a fire engulfs a family home. In a nearby store, neighbours gossip and speculate: was it black magic, a woman’s madness, or a man crushed by life? A gripping mystery told in true RASHOMON...

Title: All You Need Is Kill

Description: The innovative, time-looping Japanese sci-fi novel finally gets the anime version it deserves, visually striking, dynamic, and intense, with fierce and fluid action, and a look all its own.

Title: Lurker

Director: Alex Russell

Description: When a retail clerk (Théodore Pellerin) encounters a rising pop star (Archie Madekwe), he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs, access and p...

Title: Projection défi KINO

Title: Sugar Rot

Description: A girl at an ice cream shop is assaulted and she becomes horrifically pregnant with some... thing that begins to turn her into ice cream, in this burst of in-your-face, offensive, punk body horror.

Title: School Duel, The

Director: Todd Wiseman Jr

Description: In a near-future “Free State of Florida,” where gun control is outlawed and school shootings are at an all-time high, a tormented 13-year old enlists in a deadly, state-sponsored competition.

Title: Adventures and Laughter at My First Fantasia 2025

Description: Come and discover short films from all over the world, including Quebec. Laughter, thrills and adventure await you. The films in this program are in English or contain no dialogue.

Title: Foreigner

Description: A new experience in Canada puts an Iranian teen at odds with her family, her identity, and a dark presence.

Title: Angel's Egg

Description: Can two broken souls in a broken world keep a mysterious, perhaps divine egg intact? A rare, early work from two of the biggest names in anime emerges from the shadows at last.

Title: Circo Animato 2025

Description: Fantasia’s annual showcase of amazing animated short films from around the world returns with a dozen dazzling offerings, marvelously multifarious in tone, technique, and perspective.

Title: Straight Outta Space

Director: Michael Middelkoop

Description: It's inner city vs. outer space when best friends Amin and Mitchell battle aliens before their neighbourhood is obliterated in this super-fun and very funny Dutch sci-fi comedy.

Title: Rites de Passage

Description: Stories where certain characters go through ordeals that will be turning points in their lives.

Title: Touch Me

Director: Addison Heimann

Description: Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world. A wild psychosexual comedy/horror creation.

Title: Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage

Description: Form, Truth, and Reason! After the first film’s sold-out world premiere at last year’s Fantasia, the Medicine Seller is back for more of the pop-psychedelic, paranormal-procedural anime phenomenon!

Title: Multiples dimensions

Description: Fascinating stories that open doors to unsuspected worlds.

Title: Queens of the Dead

Description: When a zombie apocalypse breaks out on the night of a giant warehouse party, an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, & frenemies must put aside their drama and use their skills to fight against the br...

Title: Virgin of the Quarry Lake, The

Director: Laura Casabe

Description: La jeune Natalia se tourne vers la sorcellerie pour avoir le dessus sur un monde en transformation. Les émotions volcaniques de l’adolescence à travers une vision d’horreur surnaturelle.

Title: Burning

Director: Radik Eshimov

Description: One stormy night, a fire engulfs a family home. In a nearby store, neighbours gossip and speculate: was it black magic, a woman’s madness, or a man crushed by life? A gripping mystery told in true RASHOMON...

Title: Thelma du pays des glaces

Director: Reinis Kalnaellis

Description: A little penguin girl’s wish for the best birthday ever leads to an adventure full of strange surprises and new friends. A weird, wonderful, and award-winning animated journey for the little ones.

Title: Chinese Ghost Story III, A

Director: Ching Siu-Tung

Description: Beware of sexy ghost vixens knocking at your door! The beloved Hong Kong series concludes with another wild joyride of exhilarating kung fu, flying monks and monsters, and a kinky subtext!

Title: Touch Me

Director: Addison Heimann

Description: Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world. A wild psychosexual comedy/horror creation.

Title: Appartenance

Description: This program looks at the theme of belonging from different points of view. The pleasure of belonging to a group or community, or the pain of failing to do so.

Title: Holy Night: Demon Hunters

Description: After zombies, gangsters and a few superheroes, the imposing Don Lee (TRAIN TO BUSAN) takes on demons with his bare hands in this hard-hitting, truly horrific action film.

Title: Celluloid Experiments 2025

Description: You have a rendezvous with shapes, colors and poetry, on a celluloid journey that takes you straight from daydreams to feverish nightmares.

Title: Fixed

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

Description: From the visionary director of PRIMAL and SAMURAI JACK comes an adult animated comedy about Bull, an average, all-around good dog who discovers he’s going to be neutered in the morning!

Title: Collective Delusions 2025

Description: A showcase of underground DIY, outsider, and bizarre cinema from around the world. This year the program dives deep into fetishism, transgressive sex acts, and macramé.

Title: Old Guys in Bed

Director: JP Bergeron

Description: Dating sites and new ways of connecting aren’t easy to navigate — regardless of age or preferences. Love can quickly become a real headache.

Title: Révolutions tranquilles

Description: More than just a program of experimental shorts, a sensory experience made up of some 50 micro-shorts and short films, all thought up, dreamed up, and produced here in Quebec.

Title: TAROMAN: Expo Explosion - The Grand Movie

Director: Ryo Fujii

Title: $POSITIONS

Director: Brandon Daley

Description: Local loser Mike, desperate and overwhelmed, turns to crypto to keep from drowning in debt. Instead, he finds himself in a spiral of bad decisions in this darkly comedic tale of addiction and family.