The twenty eighth version of the Fantasia Worldwide Movie Pageant is ready to run from from July 18th by way of August 4th on the Concordia Corridor and J.A. de Sève cinemas in Montreal, with extra screens and occasions at Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. During the last couple of months, the pageant introduced the primary wave and the second wave of titles that shall be screening this 12 months, and now the ultimate wave has been unveiled, together with an announcement that style filmmaker Mike Flanagan shall be receiving a profession achievement award on the pageant!
Right here’s the data on the ultimate wave of titles (and Flanagan’s achievement award), courtesy of the Fantasia press launch:
2024 CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: MIKE FLANAGAN
For his imaginative and heartfelt horror visions; boundary-breaking achievements in making soulful, character-driven style tv commercially viable with out compromises; and the extraordinary work he’s completed in popularizing landmark authors to a brand new technology, Fantasia shall be awarding their 2024 Cheval Noir profession award to U.S. filmmaker Mike Flanagan. Flanagan is an artist Fantasia has adored since his first go to to the pageant for the Canadian premiere of his haunting 2011 indie debut ABSENTIA, a foundational characteristic that comprises all of the core components which have come to outline the artist’s work: a singular perspective on occult prospects, engrossing slow-burn storytelling approaches, inventively cinematic aesthetics, and above all else – deeply compassionate horror narratives constructed on agonizingly private themes of loss. These components have been constant all through his profession, no matter whether or not the work is a standalone creation or an adaptation of traditional literature. Whereas it could strike some as odd to bestow an achievement award to an artist who’s nearly definitely not but reached a mid-career place, Flanagan has been so terribly prolific and constantly sensible in his output that the filmmaker has already achieved a number of lifetimes of creation.
Past being some of the impressed storytelling voices of his technology, Mike Flanagan is a bona fide, culture-shifting grasp of horror, having modified the panorama of the style since rising on the scene in 2011. Since then, Flanagan has introduced audiences such trendy classics as OCULUS (2013), HUSH (2016), BEFORE I WAKE (2016), OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL (2016), GERALD’S GAME (2017), and DOCTOR SLEEP (2019), in addition to the Netflix miniseries occasions The Haunting of Hill Home (2018), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Midnight Mass (2021), The Midnight Membership (2022), and The Fall of the Home of Usher (2023). His subsequent characteristic is the forthcoming Stephen King adaptation THE LIFE OF CHUCK (2024), starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
OFFICIAL CLOSING FILM + PRIX DENIS-HÉROUX: ANDRÉ FORCIER’S ABABOUINÉ
ABABOUINÉ takes us again to the Fifties, when the Catholic Church dominated over Quebec with an iron fist, and as a rowdy group of youngsters goes to battle towards the church. In his newest masterpiece, André Forcier (AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE, A WIND FROM WYOMING) revisits a darkish interval of Quebec’s historical past by way of an typically stunning – but undeniably and absurdly humorous – lens. Starring Rémy Girard (THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS, THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE), Gaston Lepage (JESUS OF MONTRÉAL), Pascale Montpetit (DISTRICT 31), Éric Bruneau (AN EYE FOR BEAUTY), and Mylène Mackay (NELLY), the movie brings collectively an unimaginable forged of a few of the province’s most established actors alongside its most gifted newcomers. With a deft hand, Forcier navigates the historic abuses of the church and the hope of a society on the point of change – with sensitivity, humour, and fairly actually, a variety of coronary heart. World Premiere.
Few administrators can boast having created a incredible universe of uncommon consistency over greater than 50 years. André Forcier’s work is firmly rooted in magic realism with its components of fantasy, and but it’s grounded in a really Quebec actuality. He has remodeled our distinct language right into a filmic language that’s typically crude however all the time poetic. André Forcier’s work is exclusive and immense, and Fantasia could be very proud to current him with the Prix Denis-Héroux, the pageant’s award bestowed for distinctive contribution to the event of Quebec style cinema.
BRITTANY O’GRADY SHINES IN PEDRO KOS’ HAUNTING IN OUR BLOOD
Depart it to an award-winning documentary filmmaker to do found-footage chills proper. A superbly calculated, slow-burn nightmare that opens with the texture of an indie doc and regularly evolves into one thing uniquely sinister, IN OUR BLOOD is the narrative characteristic debut of Oscar-nominated documentarian Pedro Kos (REBEL HEARTS, LEAD ME HOME). Nothing is because it appears when filmmaker Emily Wyland (an outstanding Brittany O’Grady of HBO’s White Lotus) groups up with cinematographer Danny (E. J. Bonilla, FX’s The Previous Man) to shoot an intimate documentary about reuniting along with her mom (Alanna Ubach, HBO’s Euphoria) after a decade aside. When her mom abruptly goes lacking, Emily and Danny should piece collectively more and more disturbing clues, hoping to seek out her earlier than it’s too late. Unhappy, scary, and unshakably convincing, it is a movie that lingers just like the ghosts of stolen futures. World Premiere.
4PM CHALLENGES HUMAN NATURE IN UNCOMFORTABLE WAYS
Impressed by the e-book “The Stranger Subsequent Door” from critically acclaimed Belgian author Amélie Nothomb, 4PM is a riveting psychological thriller from director Jay Tune (THE NIGHTMARE) drenched in silent stress. Jeong-in (OLDBOY’s Oh Dal-su), is taking a break from his life as a trainer in his new countryside home when a written invitation to a neighbor (Jang Yeong-nam, PROJECT WOLF HUNTING) turns right into a nightmare of excruciatingly awkward visits each day at 4PM. This character joust is one to recollect – and its numerous twists will drive any viewers member to ask themselves how they might deal with the identical wild state of affairs. North American Premiere.
STEVEN KOSTANSKI GETS FREAKY WITH FRANKIE FREAKO!
After the success of PSYCHO GOREMAN, FX artist and director Steven Kostanski hits again with the zany, over-the-top FRANKIE FREAKO! Starring Conor Sweeney and Adam Brooks of Astron-6 fame, the movie follows a nerdy man who simply isn’t cool. In an try to impress his spouse and boss, he’s lured by a 1-900 TV advert to occasion with an odd little creature known as Frankie Freako. All hell breaks unfastened when Conor calls and Frankie and his two buddies wreak interdimensional havoc in Conor’s life. Kostanski followers will flock to his newest imaginative journey, saturated with throwback cartoonish enjoyable à la GHOULIES, wildly inventive puppets, massive laughs, and a helluva good time! Septentrion Shadows part. World Premiere.
CLASSICAL CHINESE ARTS MEET MODERN ANIMATION IN THE UMBRELLA FAIRY
All issues possess spirits able to reworking into fairies, which carry the house owners’ wishes. One single piece of jade is used to create each an umbrella and a sword, however from the very starting, the fairies Qingdai and Wanggui are destined for various missions. A brand-new, top-tier work of Chinese language animation, THE UMBRELLA FAIRY marks the feature-length directorial debut of Shen Jie, artwork director on MR. MIAO (2020). Incorporating quite a few components of conventional Chinese language arts and tradition to attain a particular allure and vitality, the movie provides its viewers a visible feast of uncommon richness to enrich its participating fantasy fable. Animation Plus Part. Worldwide Premiere.
EMBRACE TRADITION AND REJECT MODERNITY IN EUGENE KOTLYARENKO’S THE CODE
Peter Vack (ASSHOLES) and Dasha Nekrasova (THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST) star as couple on the rocks through the early a part of the Covid-19 pandemic in American filmmaker Eugene Kotlyarenko (SPREE)’s newest, THE CODE – a generation-defining, wickedly darkish comedy that blends post-New Wave French sensibilities of aesthetic disillusionment with a singularly alien view of up to date American life. A transgressive and singular expertise, nothing is off limits on this surveillance-heavy narrative, which makes use of a number of codecs, factors of view, and cameras to create a visionary collage-like expertise of recent life. An epic poem for our post-pandemic world. Underground Part. World Premiere.
SUPERNATURAL SLACKER DRAMEDY GHOST CAT ANZU TOYS WITH ANIME TROPES
Dumped by her shifty widower father in a small coastal city, eleven-year-old Karin is left within the care of Anzu, who’s affable, if somewhat uncouth and feckless – oh, and he’s additionally an immortal ghost cat. Based mostly on the manga by Takashi Imashiro, the French-Japanese co-production GHOST CAT ANZU is co-directed by animator Yoko Kuno (CRAYON SHIN-CHAN, THE CASE OF HANNA & ALICE) and Nobuhiro Yamashita, whose live-action movies CONFESSION and SWIMMING IN A SAND POOL additionally display screen at Fantasia this summer season. It tackles a now-familiar trope in anime – a troubled baby’s summertime coming-of-age in a countryside inhabited by supernatural creatures – and offsets its bucolic allure with deadpan wit and an emotional tone that’s as tender as a bruise. Official choice: Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight 2024. Animation Plus Part. North American Premiere.
ELIAS KOTEAS GIVES A MOVING PERFORMANCE IN THE SILENT PLANET
After his debut characteristic, BANG BANG BABY, premiered at TIFF in 2014 and took dwelling Finest Canadian First Function Movie, the imaginative and prescient of the award-winning director and author Jeffrey St. Jules involves Fantasia. His newest is a sci-fi meditation on humanity and the what-ifs in regards to the worlds past our stars. Sooner or later, two prisoners on a penal colony planet discover they’ve an sudden connection, and so they mine greater than minerals as a horrible reality is revealed. With shifting performances by Elias Koteas (CRASH, THE THIN RED LINE) and Briana Middleton (SHARPER), this futuristic view of accountability, regrets, and truths is filled with St. Jules’ signature contact of surrealism and creativeness. Septentrion Shadows Part. World Premiere
TEASING MASTER TAKAGI-SAN GIVES HOPE IN HUMANITY
On this age of maximum polarization and armed conflicts, director Rikiya Imaizumi’s TEASING MASTER TAKAGI-SAN needs to be prescribed by public well being authorities, as this infinitely charming feel-good film will make audiences happy-cry from cuteness. An especially shy trainer (Fumiya Takahashi, BLUE PERIOD) and her school crush Takagi (Mei Nakano, OFFICE ROYALE), who she consistently teased in an try him to tug him out of is shell, reunite in the identical college they as soon as attended. Mentors and pupils study from one another on this beautiful romantic comedy typically paying homage to AMÉLIE, stuffed with witty dialogue and lovely images. North American Premiere.
BLACK EYED SUSAN BRINGS AI EVOLUTION THROUGH LEARNED PAIN
It’s been 21 lengthy years since Scooter McCrae (SHATTER DEAD) launched a brand new characteristic, and he’s misplaced none of his sensible, transgressive chew. Determined for work, Derek (Damian Maffei, THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT) accepts a job at a shady tech start-up, working intimately with Susan (Yvonne Emilie Thälker in a robust debut position), a bleeding-edge BDSM intercourse doll meant to obtain and admire sexual punishment as an integral a part of her evolving AI. Shot on Tremendous 16, BLACK EYED SUSAN counterbalances its darkish, vulgar core with a surprisingly tender vulnerability, making a lo-fi science-fiction panorama infused with stunning fragility, as legendary Italian composer Fabio Frizzi (THE BEYOND, ZOMBIE) lends the image a lush, atmospheric backdrop. Not for the faint of coronary heart, BLACK EYED SUSAN delves into themes and questions that may solely grow to be extra pertinent with the continued evolution of synthetic intelligence. World Premiere.
HEAVENS: THE BOY AND HIS ROBOT IS READY TO RUMBLE
The bond between Kai and the robotic he pilots, Little Dragon, will must be sturdy as metal if both will survive the unimaginable challenges of the Mecha Corps Academy and the battles past it. Brewing for over a decade, Singaporean filmmaker Wealthy Ho’s bold and spectacular introduction of his Heavens universe has lastly launched into the stratosphere. Constructed on a basis of technological innovation and a need to inform a story with common attraction, HEAVENS: THE BOY AND HIS ROBOT astounds with visible results that elevate it to the best world requirements of sci-fi blockbusters, and proves that the tiny city-state within the coronary heart of Asia is usually a world-class contender on the subject of popular culture. North American Premiere.
FANS REJOICE! DEAN MURDOCH IS BACK IN DEANER ‘89!
Canadian rockers, your favourite headbanger is again in DEANER ‘89! It’s 1989 and Paul Spence (FUBAR and FUBAR 2) brings us his legendary character Dean Murdoch as a youngster rising up in suburban Manitoba. Captain of the hockey crew, with a reasonably girlfriend and a terrific adoptive household – he’s received all of it till a gnarly trunk of his not too long ago deceased beginning father’s belongings arrives. Deaner’s life modifications when he learns about his heritage and id in a single fell swoop. Dean’s contagious power of lives on in DEANER ‘89, that includes an excellent forged that features Spence, Will Sasso (CBS’ Younger Sheldon, THE THROWBACK), comedy legend Mary Walsh (THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES), and a cameo from Children within the Corridor’s Kevin McDonald. You’ll snort your ass off with this charming, hilarious origin story! Septentrion Shadows Part. World Premiere.
JÉRÉMY CLAPIN’S BRILLIANT MEANWHILE ON EARTH IS READY TO LAND
A 23-year-old woman (Megan Northam) is contacted by an unknown lifeform claiming to have the ability to carry her lacking astronaut brother again to Earth. Jérémy Clapin’s celebrated reside motion debut following his Oscar-nominated animated sensation I LOST MY BODY, MEANWHILE ON EARTH is an inversion of science fiction classics: a slice of life story about present on Earth whereas an Extraordinary Man is on the market, far past the photo voltaic system. Dwell motion storytelling is intercut with animated sections that take viewers into the headspace connecting the siblings to at least one one other. Distinctive, poetic, and surreal, this otherworldly meditation on grief launched earlier this 12 months on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant the place it left audiences breathless. North American Premiere.
JACKIE CHAN AND RUMBLE IN THE BRONX DIRECTOR REUNITE FOR A LEGEND
After 100 movies, Jackie Chan exhibits no indicators of stopping on this lavish kung fu epic stuffed with excessive manufacturing values and a large forged. Chan reunites right here together with his frequent collaborator Stanley Tong to create a follow-up to their 2005 traditional THE MYTH. The 2 most famously labored collectively on the enduring motion classics POLICE STORY 3: SUPERCOP and RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, each of which turned large breakout hits for Chan in North America. In A LEGEND, Chan portrays a professor whose desires of his previous life as soldier in outdated China are haunting him, inflicting problems within the current day as he rediscovers extra of his colourful previous. North American Premiere.
MONTY PYTHON MEETS TEXAS CHAINSAW MEETS… LES MISÉRABLES IN CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING
A real DIY ardour venture from Estonian filmmaker Sander Maran, CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING is a zany, blood-soaked musical about lovers cut up up by a chainsaw-wielding killer. Over a decade within the making, Saran not solely directed however wrote, scored, shot, and edited this colourful murder-fest that’s half gory horror film and half ridiculous musical. The camerawork is creative, the enhancing slapstick, and the tone actually absurdist. Most significantly, although, the songs are extremely catchy, with Sander clearly deeply indebted to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL and Frank Oz’s LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. Underground Part. Worldwide Premiere.
SUNBURNT UNICORN IS A RARE BEAST AMONG ANIMATED ADVENTURES
It’s uncommon to come back throughout a high-quality, CG-animated fantasy movie for younger audiences that challenges industrial conventions, however not like precise unicorns, such a factor does exist. With the fascinating, eccentric SUNBURNT UNICORN, Canadian animator Nick Johnson has elevated the generic wilderness journey to a hallucinatory, existential odyssey, following within the footsteps of fantasy movies from the Eighties that, with their penchant for the sudden and moments of true fright, acted as a gateway for youths to the horror style. The pervasive eeriness is additional heightened by an astounding rating by Inuit sister duo Piqsiq, who, with solely their two voices, conjure up a robust environment of marvel and dread. Animation Plus Part, co-presented with Septentrion Shadows Part. North American Premiere.
FROM KAZAKHSTAN WITH CONTEMPT: STEPPENWOLF WILL BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF
A bleakly pulverizing motion thriller from celebrated Kazakh maverick Adilkhan Yerzhanov (THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD, THE OWNERS) and Oscar nominated producer Alexander Rodnyansky (LEVIATHAN), STEPPENWOLF explodes off the display screen with stress that may singe the flesh out of your bones. Like a Kazakh MAD MAX directed by John Ford – or maybe, THE SEARCHERS directed by George Miller – with a contact of Herman Hesse and traditional samurai tales, STEPPENWOLF reinvents the codes of its inspirations with jolting doses of post-Soviet nihilism and morbid black humor. A determined mom (Anna Starchenko, NARTAI) groups up with a psychopathic ex-cop (Berik Aitzhanov, GOLIATH, THE ASSAULT) to seek out her son who’s gone lacking in a panorama consumed by riots and demise. Winner of the Golden Raven grand prix on the 2024 Brussels Worldwide Unbelievable Movie Pageant. Official Choice: Rotterdam Worldwide Movie Pageant 2024. North American Premiere.
SWIMMING IN A SAND POOL IS A TENDER AND SUNNY PORTRAIT OF GIRLHOOD
Below the relentless warmth of a scorching July solar, 4 teenage ladies discover themselves with an uncommon activity: sweeping the sand-covered backside of a swimming pool, remnants of a close-by baseball area. Based mostly on a play written by high-school scholar Nakata Yumeka and initially carried out by the Tokushima Metropolis Excessive Faculty Drama Membership, SWIMMING IN A SAND POOL is a young coming-of-age story that explores love, ambition, and gender equality. SWIMMING IN A SAND POOL touches on materials acquainted to director Nobuhiro Yamashita, finest recognized for the profound teenage woman band comedy LINDA LINDA LINDA. With this movie, Yamashita as soon as once more strikes an ideal steadiness between bubblegum sweetness and the blunt, rebellious poetry of youth. North American Premiere.
HOUSE OF SAYURI MARKS THE RETURN OF J-HORROR MASTER KOJI SHIRAISHI
Legendary J-horror director Koji Shiraishi (NOROI: THE CURSE) brings the style to new ranges of enjoyable with HOUSE OF SAYURI. A vengeful ghost disseminates a household till a counterattack from a daring grandma brings a startling new dynamic into the home. Shifting tones in stunning and destabilizing methods, this horror-comedy alternates from a galvanizing non secular coaching montage to profoundly dramatic moments, coming collectively to create“ a very distinctive cinematic expertise. North American Premiere.
DALE DICKEY OWNS THE SCREEN IN TOUGH REVENGE THRILLER THE G
After a long time as a prolific character actor in movie and tv, successful quite a few awards within the course of, Dale Dickey (WINTER’S BONE, HELL OR HIGH WATER) takes heart stage in THE G. Right here, she performs Ann, a harsh-tongued, tough-as-nails septuagenarian who finds herself with no husband, no cash, and no dwelling aside from the depressing facility she’s been locked up in after being betrayed by her corrupt authorized guardian. However as her tormentors are about to seek out out, somebody who’s had all the pieces taken away from them is somebody with nothing left to lose. Director Karl R. Hearne has crafted a gritty revenge thriller laced with shards of bitter humor and anchors it with an unconventional, but fully convincing, protagonist – a distinct shade of noir, with a contact of gray and a ton of earned rage. Co-starring Romane Denis, Bruce Ramsay, and Roc LaFortune. Official choice: Tallinn Black Nights 2023, Glasgow Movie Pageant 2024. North American Premiere.
KIZUMONOGATARI: KOYOMI VAMP RESURRECTS A NEO-GOTHIC ANIME NIGHTMARE
These unfamiliar with the now-extensive MONOGATARI anime franchise, worry not (or not a lot, anyway): extensively revised and reworked (revamped, in case you like) from a trilogy of characteristic movies launched in 2016 and successfully not possible to seek out at present, KIZUMONOGATARI: KOYOMI VAMP is the start line, a prequel that chronicles teenage loner Koyomi’s initiation into the supernatural realm. Overseen by authentic co-director Tatsuya Oishi, this resurrection retains the distinctive traits of his work, not simply the dynamic battle scenes and stylish aesthetics, however the echoes of French New Wave cinema. Smooth, sly, and startling, it’s a grandiose, avant-garde, neo-gothic nightmare, spattered with splashes of youngster intercourse farce and copious portions of blood. Animation Plus Part. North American Premiere.
DESPERATION AND MORAL CONUNDRUMS PLAGUE SELF DRIVER
For his first characteristic, director Michael Pierro’s SELF DRIVER premiered at this 12 months’s Fantaspoa Movie Pageant and introduced dwelling a Finest Low-Price range Movie Award. Now Fantasia’s viewers will get to see this gritty tackle the gig economic system, and one man’s tensely disturbing battle to make ends meet. A Toronto rideshare driver (Nathaniel Chadwick, THE LAST PORNO SHOW) will get a possibility to earn more money with a mysterious and demanding app. In a single evening, he assessments his sanity by risking all of it, together with his passengers forcing him to place his morals on the road. With a compelling efficiency by Chadwick, audiences shall be fully invested within the plight of the gig employee as they watch him pursue the almighty greenback on a wild, harmful midnight run! Septentrion Shadows Part. North American Premiere
TATSUMI REINVIGORATES THE CRIME/REVENGE GENRE IN TRUE GRITTY FASHION
TATSUMI is a riveting crime thriller from director Hiroshi Shoji, following his award-winning 2015 characteristic debut KEN AND KAZU. Tatsumi works as a fisherman in a small coastal city, however he additionally has a aspect job: he’s a “cleaner” for an area drug gang, disposing of their sufferer’s our bodies. After the homicide of his ex-girlfriend, her younger sister, defiant automotive mechanic, seeks revenge and asks Tatsumi for his assist. There’s no turning again, and now they must struggle for his or her survival. TATSUMI’s cinematic portrayal of gang life paints a grim and real looking portrait of struggling and cruelty. As a gritty, violent, and brutal revenge story, Shoji delivers one of many best and most compelling crime thrillers in a really very long time. North American Premiere.
NEW ZEALAND BRINGS INVENTIVELY TRIPPY PARANORMAL HILARITY: THE PARAGON
Former Energy Rangers director Michael Duignan’s completely mad characteristic debut, THE PARAGON, electrifies with hilarity and trippy psychedelic visuals, delivers within the spirit of impressed low-budget New Zealand filmmaking that harkens again to early Peter Jackson. After experiencing successful and run, an indignant ex-tennis coach named Dutch (Benedict Wall, SHADOW IN THE CLOUD) embarks on a psychic coaching course to seek out the driving force and get revenge. Alongside his witchy psychic coach Lyra (Florence Noble), Dutch should resolve between being a sufferer of his destiny or a slave to otherworldly evil on this spectacularly entertaining fantasy comedy the place revenge turns into a cosmic expertise. Co-starring an particularly nuts Jonny Brugh (WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS). North American Premiere.
ATMOSPHERIC SPANISH HORROR LIVES INSIDE CARLOTA PEREDA’s THE CHAPEL
The beautiful sophomore characteristic from award-winning director Carlota Pereda (PIGGY), THE CHAPEL marks the incredible return of atmospheric, character-driven supernatural Spanish horror. Emma (Maia Zaitegi) needs to learn to talk with the spirit of just a little woman who has spent centuries trapped inside a chapel. She tries to persuade Carol (THE ORPHANAGE’s Belen Rueda), a cynical and faux medium, to assist her within the hopes that contacting the spirit might assist her to stay near her dying mom after she passes. What Carol doesn’t suspect is that Emma actually does have “the reward” and, if she retains on making an attempt to make use of it with out her steerage, she shall be placing her younger life at terrifying threat. Winner: Finest Actress, Belen Rueda, Cinefantasy 2023. Official Choice: Sitges 2023. North American Premiere.
DELIRIOUS YOUTUBE MASHUP FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS GAZES DOWN THE BARREL OF U.S. GUN CULTURE
Shootings! Explosions! Tanks! Musical numbers! Javier Horcajada Fontecha’s FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS is a jaw-dropping exploration of gun tradition in the US constructed from 1000’s of hours of YouTube movies that’s equal elements amusing, hilarious, weird, and spectacular (there’s some fairly sharp taking pictures right here). Typically disturbing in methods their creators didn’t all the time intend, taking part in like an odd, real-life sister act to the darkest Paul Verhoeven satire, audiences can settle for it as a doc of our troubled instances or as a bit of leisure. Providing no opinions and presenting all the pieces matter-of-factly, audiences gained’t be capable of take their eyes off this sharply assembled movie, which packs one hell of a recoil. Docs from the Edge Part. North American Premiere.
ADDITIONAL THIRD WAVE TITLES:
THE A-FRAME (USA) – dir. Calvin Reeder
Donna (Dana Namerode, WHAT JOSIAH SAW), a gifted pianist, is crushed when she is recognized with a type of bone most cancers that instantly impacts her hand. Throughout city, a quantum physicist (Johnny Whitworth of LIMITLESS and EMPIRE RECORDS), has developed a machine that creates a tunnel to a sub-atomic parallel universe. In his quest to show the machine’s efficacy, he inadvertently discovers an unorthodox most cancers therapy, and now recruits human topics to legitimize his efforts. Calvin Reeder’s phenomenal newest is a gripping sci-fi thriller with a pitch-black humorousness, cautioning its viewers that each miracle comes at a value. Official Choice: Tribeca Movie Pageant 2024. Worldwide Premiere.
ADRIANNE & THE CASTLE (Quebec / Canada) – dir. Shannon Walsh
Half fever dream and half fairy story, ADRIANNE & THE CASTLE makes use of magic, music, and thriller to carry us into the world of Alan St. George after the lack of his spouse, Adrianna, showcasing how, by way of the ability of artwork, his love lives on. A testomony to creativity as a type of adoration and devotion, Shannon Walsh’s documentary permits the viewer to discover the couple’s fortress, a marvel of creativeness, by way of pleasure and celebration. A testomony to creativity as a type of adoration and devotion, Walsh’s documentary permits the viewer to discover the couple’s fortress, a marvel of creativeness, by way of pleasure and celebration. Official choice: SXSW 2024, Scorching Doc 2024. Docs from the Edge Part. Quebec Premiere.
CUCKOO (USA) – dir. Tilman Singer
A seventeen-year-old woman (Hunter Schafer, HBO’s Euphoria) is pressured to maneuver along with her household to a resort the place issues should not what they appear on this astonishing mixture of mixture of home stress, physique horror, and perverse science from the gifted director of LUZ. Co-starring Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csókás, and Jan Bluthardt. Official choice: Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant 2024, SXSW 2024. Winner of the Silver Raven Award on the 2024 Brussels Worldwide Pageant of Fantasy Movie. Montréal Premiere.
KIDNAPPING INC. (Quebec / Canada / Haiti / France) – dir. Bruno Mourral
Two bumbling kidnappers tackle greater than they’ll deal with when plans for his or her political hostage go straight to hell within the streets of Haiti. Grit and day-glo colours of the Caribbean propel director Bruno Mourral’s pastiche of your favourite crime capers and real-life occasions (his crew was kidnapped whereas making the movie), creating one thing distinctive to characterize this troubled nation’s societal trials, with classism, colorism, and corruption touching each phase of society. In KIDNAPPING INC., Mourral presents these points in a handy guide a rough, brutally comedic debut characteristic, centering round essentially the most distinguished crime in Haiti. Official Choice: Sundance 2024. Canadian Premiere.
THE KILLERS (South Korea) – dirs. Kim Jong-kwan, Roh Deok, Chang Grasp-jun, and Lee Myung-Se
4 administrators painting hitmen of their respective tales by depicting our personal turbulent instances. A visible, auditory, and narrative feast, this anthology of exhilarating tales provides all the pieces followers of style cinema may hope for and extra. A must-see! Canadian Premiere.
OUT OF THE SHADOW (Hong Kong) – dir. Ricky Ko
A rejuvenated ode to each THE KARATE KID and the motion heroines of Hong Kong’s Golden Age, the newest from director Ricky Ko after his award-winning TIME (Fantasia 2021) as soon as once more superbly combines nostalgia and modernity with a potent mixture of martial arts, humor, sweetness, and compelling characters. Official Choice: Osaka Asian Movie Pageant 2024. North American Premiere.
RATS! (USA) – dirs. Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry
Merely put, this is among the craziest, funniest movies audiences will see wherever this 12 months. There’s a wild power to RATS! that may solely be described as evil SpongeBob flash animation dangerous tripping off Xanax… simply the type of insanity you used to observe on NewGrounds whereas your mother and father weren’t paying consideration! Channeling the filth of movies like STREET TRASH and THE GREASY STRANGLER, co-directors Nalevansky and Fry show they’ve the chops to face tall amongst the legends of absurdist comedy. Official Choice: Cucalorus Movie Pageant 2024, Calgary Underground Movie Pageant 2024. Quebec Premiere.
THE ROUNDUP: PUNISHMENT (South Korea) – dir. Heo Myung-haeng
Badass detective Ma Seok-do (the inimitable Don Lee) is again! The fourth installment of some of the adored Korean motion franchises of all time explodes with struggle sequences executed to perfection and high-energy mise-en-scène from director Heo Myeong-haeng, the collection’ longstanding struggle choreographer. Official choice: Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant 2024. Quebec Premiere.
THE TENANTS (South Korea) – dir. Yoon Eun-kyoung
In a dystopian Seoul, workplace employee Shin-dong, threatened with eviction, rents out his rest room to an eccentric couple whose unusual conduct shortly escalates right into a waking nightmare. A rising expertise within the indie horror scene, writer-director Yoon Eun-kyoung creates a singular mix of soppy science fiction, Kafkaesque absurdism, and darkish comedy to spotlight Korea’s very actual social inequality issues. Winner of the Finest Director Award and the FIPRESCI Prize on the thirty fourth Singapore Worldwide Movie Pageant. Official Choice: Hong Kong worldwide Movie Pageant 2024, Fantaspoa 2024. Canadian Premiere.
TIMESTALKER (UK) – dir. Alice Lowe
Alice Lowe (PREVENGE) returns with an ingenious, Python-esque time-jumping/reincarnation anti-rom-com not like something audiences have ever seen, whereby a lady repeatedly seeks out the presumed love of her life throughout time. Co-starring Jacob Anderson (HBO’s Sport of Thrones), Nick Frost (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, THE WORLD’S END), and Aneurin Barnard (DUNKIRK), this bloody sensible – and brilliantly bloody – movie impales the guts of the romantic comedy on the sharpest sword conceivable, proving some classes are simply too onerous to study in a single lifetime. Official Choice: SXSW 2024. Canadian Premiere.
TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN (Hong Kong) – dir. Soi Cheang
The Hong Kong field workplace sensation that induced a wild response on the Cannes Movie Pageant arrives in its first Canadian cease over earlier than going huge throughout North America. Award successful director Soi Cheang (MAD FATE) directs this era neo noir actioner set in Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled Metropolis, a harmful, densely populated monolith, demolished in 1995, the place fists and blades would settle scores and no legislation enforcement dared to enter. WALLED IN options a few of cinema’s most jaw-breaking and audacious struggle scenes, recalling the glory Eighties and 90s kung fu cinema. Starring Louis Koo, Sammo Hung, and Richie Jen. Canadian Premiere.
VULCANIZADORA (USA) – dir. Joel Potrykus
Two buddies trudge by way of a Michigan forest with the intention of following by way of on a disturbing pact. Functioning as a darkly humorous non secular sequel to author/director/actor Joel Potrykus’ 2014 offbeat slacker portrait BUZZARD, VULCANIZADORA engages in dialogue with the previous, reflecting on totally different phases of the filmmaker’s life. He and returning star Joshua Burge (RELAXER, THE REVENANT) put ahead an emotional depth that enables the viewers to see themselves of their characters’ seek for management in lives which have escaped their grasp. Official choice: Tribeca Movie Pageant 2024. Winner: Finest Narrative Function: Oakland Movie Pageant 2024. Worldwide Premiere.
AN ECLECTIC MIX OF RESTORATIONS AND ARCHIVAL PRINTS ILLUMINATE FANTASIA’S 2024 RETRO CLASSICS LINEUP ALONGSIDE A POSTHUMOUS DENIS-HÉROUX AWARD FOR THE GREAT ÉRIK CANUEL
AVENGING EAGLE (Hong Kong, 1978) – dir. Solar Chung
A former killer and a mysterious stranger should confront his former father and sworn brothers on this action-packed martial arts traditional from Hong Kong’s golden age that may be a favourite of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. World Premiere of Arrow Movies’ new restoration of the totally uncut movie.
A CHINESE GHOST STORY II (Hong Kong, 1990) – dir. Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Rival kung fu enemies converge to struggle monsters and a large centipede on this wild and wacky sequel to the award-winning traditional A CHINESE GHOST STORY from producer Tsui Hark and award-winning motion director Ching Siu-Tung (SHAOLIN SOCCER). Offered in gloriously haunting 35mm.
COCKFIGHTER – fiftieth ANNIVERSARY SCREENING (USA, 1974) – dir. Monte Hellman
A person (Warren Oates) who trains preventing cocks vows to stay silent till one in all his birds wins a championship on this highly effective, underseen gem of the Hollywood New Wave. Co-produced by the late, nice Roger Corman and co-starring Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr., and Laurie Hen. Fantasia’s screening shall be offered on the exact anniversary of the movie’s July 30, 1974 theatrical launch by Kier-La Janisse (“Home of Psychotic Girls”), who will learn the introduction to her forthcoming e-book “Cockfight”.
DEVIL TIMES FIVE (USA, 1974) – dir. Sean MacGregor
A gaggle of catty adults in a distant chalet grow to be the “toys” of murderous kids on this prime slice of offbeat ‘70s cinema. A drive-in favourite and cult traditional, co-starring Sorrell Booke (The Dukes of Hazzard’s Boss Hogg) and teen-heartthrob-to-be Leif Garrett, reverse his real-life mother Carolyn Stellar and little sister Daybreak Lyn. World Premiere of Vinegar Syndrome’s new 4K restoration.
HOLLYWOOD 90028 (USA, 1974) – dir. Christina Hornisher
HOLLYWOOD 90028 is an existential serial-killer story that explores themes of pornography, fame, hopes, and fears filmed in Nineteen Seventies Los Angeles. Unavailable for many years and as soon as thought misplaced, this not often seen cult traditional has not too long ago been rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece by the likes of Arkasha Stevenson (THE FIRST OMEN), Anna Biller (THE LOVE WITCH), and Ti West (MAXXXINE), highlighting its significance as each a critique of the exploitation business and a historic snapshot of Nineteen Seventies Los Angeles. Canadian Premiere of Grindhouse Releasing’s new 4K restoration, offered as a particular e-book launch occasion for Heidi Honeycutt’s “I Spit on Your Celluloid” (Headpress Books).
KILLER CONSTABLE (Hong Kong, 1980) – dir. Kuei Chih-Hung
Think about, if you’ll, a wuxia model of Decide Dredd in outdated China from Kuei Chih-Hung, the controversial director of BOXER’S OMEN. Right here, Kuei unleashes his solely wuxia movie, broadly thought-about a profound martial-arts masterpiece that brilliantly subvers the style with its distinctive darkish horror and bleak undertones, whereas providing unimaginable motion set items. Hardly ever seen in North America for 30 years. World Premiere of the killer new restoration from Arrow Movies.
LA LOI DU COCHON (Quebec, 2001) – dir. Érik Canuel
Stéphane Brousseau, 27, is a compulsive gambler. Confronted with an ultimatum from the financial institution, which is about to grab the pig farm she inherited from her father, she tries to make a fast buck by promoting a crop of pot that two metropolis criminals are rising on her land. Behind this seemingly easy framework, the movie boasts a posh script with a thousand twists and turns, and creative route from the late director Érik Canuel. A exceptional characteristic debut for the artist, a person of many skills and extraordinary power, who would go on to make a few of Quebec’s most necessary style works, together with LE DERNIER TUNNEL (2004), THE OUTLANDER (2005), CADAVRES (2009) and LAC MYSTÈRE (2013). His largest hit was BON COP, BAD COP (2006), which world premiered at Fantasia and went on to grow to be one of many highest grossing Canadian movies of all time domestically. Archival 35mm Print Memorial Screening with a posthumous Denis-Héroux award for the beloved Érik Canuel, who handed away on June 15 of this 12 months. Forged in attendance.
All through a extremely productive profession that included quite a few characteristic movies, commercials, music movies, and episodes of main tv collection, Érik Canuel was all the time pleased with his standing as a style director. He was not solely a director of incredible cinema, however of all genres – and an artist who broke down doorways, making method for youthful generations of artists, all whereas legitimizing style movie in Quebec. The pageant is proud to current a Denis-Héroux Award posthumously to Érik Canuel, signaling an distinctive contribution to the event and dissemination of Quebec style cinema.
LOVE AND POP (Japan, 1998) – dir. Hideaki Anno
Made in 1998, not lengthy after the success of NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, LOVE AND POP was director Hideaki Anno’s first live-action characteristic movie. Regardless of already being established as a filmmaker, Anno embraced new applied sciences and unconventional stylistic selections to inform the story of Hiromi (Asumi Miwa) and her schoolgirl buddies as they have interaction in enjo kosai, or “compensated courting,” the place older males pay younger ladies for dates. Utilizing new digital cameras, Anno appeared restricted by solely his creativeness as he shot the movie. The ensuing expertise is a transgressive examination of transactional need with a mode that embodies the total inventive vary of the underground spirit. Underground part. Offered in a brand new restoration from King File Co., Ltd.
THE RUBBER GUN (Canada, 1977) – dir. Allan Moyle
A younger Stephen Lack (SCANNERS) co-wrote and stars on this gritty directorial debut of Quebec filmmaker Allan Moyle (TIMES SQUARE, PUMP UP THE VOLUME, EMPIRE RECORDS), set towards Montréal’s 70s drug scene. Earlier than this, Moyle notably collaborated with Frank Vitale on the indie classics MONTRÉAL MAIN and EAST END HUSTLE. An exploitation movie within the type of experimental cinéma verité, this radical 70s traditional evokes the work of Canadians Robin Spry and Ted Kotcheff, in addition to the early movies of John Cassavetes and Jim McBride. North American Premiere of Canadian Worldwide Footage’ new 4K restoration.
TIKI TIKI (Canada, 1971) – dir. Gerald Potterton
A real misplaced gem of adult-oriented animation, 1971’s unusual and hilarious hybrid manufacturing TIKI TIKI—the story of an easy-riding, film-directing ape and a multimillion-dollar contraption known as the FMM 70, the world’s first all-purpose, rocket-propelled, flying film machine—is among the many titles resurrected below Telefilm’s Canadian Cinema Reignited program. Directed by HEAVY METAL’s Gerald Potterton, it combines animation within the filmmaker’s pop-psychedelic fashion – so recognizable from YELLOW SUBMARINE – with repurposed live-action footage from AYBOLIT-66, a Soviet kids’s fantasy movie. A sassy satire of Hollywood, it’s a strange slice of Canadian countercultural cool. World Premiere of Canadian Worldwide Footage’ new 4K restoration.
A PLETHORA OF SPECIAL LIVE EVENTS
Fantasia is proud to disclose the next thrilling array of particular reside occasions occurring all through its 2024 version, the vast majority of which shall be offered free-of-charge.
Movie screening and lecture
EVERY FRAME A PAINTING PRESENTS THE SECOND
Moderated by Vincenzo Nappi
Free admission
Saturday July 20, 4:00PM, Cinéma du Musée
Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou, Vancouver-based creators of the wildly standard YouTube video essay collection “Each Body a Portray” – which has amassed 2 million subscribers – are coming to Fantasia! From YouTube movies and Netflix collection (Voir) to indie options and animation studios, the duo have labored on tasks massive and small, each for themselves and others. Be a part of them for the World Premiere of their brief movie, THE SECOND, starring Paul Solar-Hyung Lee (CBC’s Kim’s Comfort, Disney+’s The Mandalorian) and an unique lecture about its making, the “one for us, one for them” ethos, and the way they’ve charted their careers. A Q&A with the filmmakers will observe.
Artist discuss
FILMMAKER MIKE FLANAGAN
Moderated by writer and critic Michael Gingold
Free admission
Sunday July 21, 5:00PM, Cinéma du Musée
Be a part of iconic style journalist Michael Gingold for a particular one-on-one with gifted U.S. filmmaker Mike Flanagan, recipient of Fantasia’s 2024 Cheval Noir profession award, which shall be offered initially of the dialog. A author, director, and editor who creates with uncommonly haunting emotional resonance, Flanagan has moved style mountains since rising on the scene together with his 2011 characteristic debut ABSENTIA. From options like OCULUS (2013), HUSH (2016), BEFORE I WAKE (2016), OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL (2016), GERALD’S GAME (2017), DOCTOR SLEEP (2019), and the forthcoming LIFE OF CHUCK (2024) to miraculously profound Netflix miniseries occasions The Haunting of Hill Home (2018), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Midnight Mass (2021), The Midnight Membership (2022), and The Fall of the Home of Usher (2023), he’s already amassed a number of lifetimes price of wholly individualistic creation. Followers gained’t wish to miss this career-spanning dialog with a contemporary grasp of horror.
Cultural expertise
MAKGEOLLI WORKSHOPS
Free Admission
Wednesday, July 24, 5:00PM – 6:30PM (French)
Thursday, July 25, 5:00PM – 6:30PM (English)
Pony BBQ Coréen, 1608 Saint-Catherine West
Along side the screenings of FAQ, Fantasia and the Korean Cultural Centre Canada are happy to host two Makgeolli Workshops, that includes makgeolli professional M. Carol Duplain Ing, president of Brasserie Vrooden Inc. This workshop provides a possibility to share Carol’s experience and supply an introduction to makgeolli (a standard Korean rice wine made by fermenting rice and a fermentation starter known as nuruk). Contributors may have the prospect to style makgeolli, and learn to craft their very own utilizing the offered kits.
Restricted area accessible. Fantasia passholders and FAQ ticket holders shall be given precedence. Register to attend at Fantasia’s web site. All contributors have to be over 18.
Podcast recording and dialogue
FANGORIA PRESENTS THE COLORS OF THE DARK PODCAST: LIVE!
Hosted by Dr. Rebekah McKendry and Elric Kane
Particular visitor: Chuck Russell
Free Admission
Thursday July 25, 5:15PM, York Amphitheatre
Be a part of hosts Dr. Rebekah McKendry (professor, writer-director) and Elric Kane (professor, writer-director) as they discover the artistry and impression of the horror movies of the Eighties. The duo shall be joined by director Chuck Russell (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: DREAM WARRIORS, THE BLOB) to debate the 80s sequels and remakes that launched his profession, in addition to his newest re-imagining of WITCHBOARD.
The interview shall be adopted by a visible exploration of the VHS cowl artwork that formed their tastes, a mirrored image on the video retailer increase and its affect on trendy horror, and a countdown of their favourite deep-cut movie suggestions from the Eighties.
Particular E-book Launch Occasion
HEIDI HONEYCUTT’S I SPIT ON YOUR CELLULOID: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN DIRECTING HORROR MOVIES (Headpress Books)
Friday July 26, 5:15PM, Cinema J.A. DeSeve
A legendary curator, historian, and critic, writer Heidi Honeycutt co-founded the Etheria movie Pageant and has written for an unlimited variety of publications and retailers, from Filmmaker, Ms. Journal, Moviemaker, and Indiewire to Bloody Disgusting and Rue Morgue.
Fantasia is proud to be internet hosting the World Premiere e-book launch of Honeycutt’s “I Spit on Your Celluloid: The Historical past of Girls Directing Horror Motion pictures” (Headpress Books), a complete 20-years-in-the-making work that covers the evolution of girls in horror cinema from 1896 to the current day. The official e-book launch shall be going down with a particular screening of Christina Hornisher’s once-thought-lost 1974 horror gem HOLLYWOOD 90028. Honeycutt will introduce the screening and advance copies of the e-book shall be accessible on the market and signing.
Artist discuss
DRAWING MONSTERS: A GHOULISH CHAT WITH ARTIST GARY PULLIN
Moderated by Justin Langlois
Free admission
Saturday July 27, 2:00PM, York Amphitheatre
Ghoulish Gary is taking on Fantasia! Be a part of us on July 27 for an intimate dialogue with artist Gary Pullin about his profession, artwork, and influences. Pullin’s discuss will vary from his seminal days at Rue Morgue Journal to his more moderen tasks as Ghoulish Gary. For the final twelve years, he has made covers for Mad Journal and Fangoria, film posters for Mondo, Arrow Video and MGM, and authentic vinyl soundtrack artwork for everybody from Deep Focus Information to Waxworks. The Rondo-winning artist will discuss pop artwork, being a monster child, and all the pieces in between on this groovily ghoulish occasion!
Particular panel dialogue
HER HORROR LEGACY: A DISCUSSION ON WOMEN DIRECTING HORROR MOVIES
Moderated by Heidi Honeycutt
With panelists Yfke Van Berckelaer, Sapna Moti Bhavnani, Heather Buckley, Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair, Kier-La Janisse, Kristina Klebe, Izzy Lee, Maude Michaud, Toby Poser, Elizabeth E. Schuch, Lucía Forner Segarra, Jenn Wexler, and Anouk Whissell
Free admission
Saturday July 27, 4:00PM, York Amphitheatre
Be a part of historian and writer Heidi Honeycutt and a spread of filmmakers attending this 12 months’s pageant for an enticing dialogue on the historic and trendy impression of girls directing horror movies. By exploring their particular person tales and the evolution of the style, we purpose to make clear the very important position girls administrators play in shaping the panorama of horror cinema and its tradition.
Offered as a part of Fantasia’s particular e-book launch for Heidi Honeycutt’s “I Spit on Your Celluloid: The Historical past of Girls Directing Horror Motion pictures” (Headpress Books). Advance copies of the e-book shall be accessible on the panel, as well as co-panelist Izzy Lee’s debut novella “I Can See Your Lies” (Darkish Matter Ink).
Particular gallery exhibition
VOÏVOD: REBEL ROBOTS
Free admission
Monday July 29, 4:00PM – 7:00PM
Tuesday July 30, 12:30PM – 6:00PM
BBAM! Gallery, 808 Atwater Avenue
Quebec steel legends Voïvod are synonymous with pioneering music. Their drummer, Away, is a multifaceted artist who’s cultivated a singular fashion in music and artwork whereas protecting true to themselves. In celebration of the hometown world premiere of Felipe Belalcazar’s Voïvod documentary WE ARE CONNECTED, Fantasia and BBAM! Gallery have come collectively to current Insurgent Robots: an exhibition of authentic artwork items, images, devices, and artifacts sourced instantly from the band’s archives, celebrating Voïvod’s extraordinary 40-year legacy. Step into the multiverse expertise of Voïvod with this particular, intimate exhibit and don’t miss WE ARE CONNECTED on the pageant!
Cultural expertise
KOREAN CULTURE BOXES EXHIBITION
All through the pageant
Auditorium des diplômés de la SGWU Foyer
Be a part of us all through the run of this 12 months’s pageant as Fantasia and the Korean Cultural Centre Canada proudly current the Korean Tradition Containers exhibition. Open the Korean Tradition Containers and embark on an interactive journey to know and expertise the life-style of Koreans.
Hansik Field
The Hansik bins are designed to supply a straightforward and joyful introduction to hansik (Korean meals) for all Fantasia audiences. These interactive exhibition bins provide an pleasurable expertise of Korean meals tradition, permitting audiences the chance to find their favourite Korean dishes.
Hanbok Field
The Hanbok Field provides a singular alternative for audiences to attempt on hanbok, the normal clothes of Korea, together with varied forms of the nation’s hats. Immerse your self within the distinctive fantastic thing about Korea with the Hanbok Field. Please notice that the Hanbok Field is barely exhibited often.
INTRODUCING FANTASIA’S 2024 JURIES AND COMPETITIONS
CHEVAL NOIR COMPETITION
Jury President: MATT JOHNSON
Actor, director, screenwriter
STEVE DOLLAR
Critic, journalist, Inventive Director of the Tallahassee Movie Pageant
ROB JABBAZ
Director, screenwriter
KRISTINA KLEBE
Director, actor, voice performer
ARIANE LOUIS-SEIZE
Director, screenwriter
NEW FLESH COMPETITION FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE
Jury President: RAIN RANNU
Director, screenwriter, producer, founding father of Tallifornia
SAPNA MOTI BHAVNANI
Director, producer, actor, founding father of Mumbai’s Wench Movie Pageant
ÉRIC S. BOISVERT
Director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor
AMELIA MOSES
Director, screenwriter, producer
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION
Jury President: HEIDI HONEYCUTT
Journalist, critic, movie historian, co-founder of the Etheria Movie Pageant
JEAN ANNE LAUER
Professor, Pageant Programmer at Unbelievable Fest
EMILY LERER
Director, screenwriter
GARY PULLIN
Illustrator, designer
ALEX WILLIAMS
Senior Supervisor of Acquisitions and Growth at XYZ Movies
SATOSHI KON AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ANIMATION
Jury President: JOHANE MATTE
Story Artist at Dreamworks Animation
JONATHAN ALVAREZ
Senior Coordinator, Theatrical Distribution and Acquisitions at Effectively Go USA Leisure
ELIZABETH E. SCHUCH
Artistic Director at Melancholy Star
DGC/GCR COMPETITION
Jury President: PHILIP KALIN-HAJDU
Producer, author
TREVOR ANDERSON
Author, director
FRANCESCO GIANNINI
Director, cinematographer, actor, Founder/CEO of Franky Movies
CAROLINE LABRÈCHE
Director
SERENA WHITNEY
Programming Director at Revue Cinema, producer, author, podcast host, script advisor, Founding father of Drunken Cinema
CHEVAL NOIR 2024 COMPETITION TITLES
4PM (South Korea) – dir. Jay Tune
ABABOUINÉ (Quebec / Canada) – dir. André Forcier
CONFESSION (Japan) – dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita
THE COUNT OF MONTE-CRISTO (France) – dirs. Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre De La Patellière
ELECTROPHILIA (Argentina) – dir. Lucía Puenzo
IN OUR BLOOD (USA) – dir. Pedro Kos
INFINITE SUMMER (Estonia) – dir. Miguel Llansó
MASH VILLE (South Korea) – dir. Hwang Wook
OUT OF THE SHADOW (Hong Kong) – dir. Ricky Ko
PARVULOS (Mexico) – dir. Isaac Ezban
PENALTY LOOP (Japan) – dir. Shinji Araki
RITA (Guatemala) – dir. Jayro Bustamante
A SAMURAI IN TIME (Japan) – dir. Junichi Yasuda
STEPPENWOLF (Kazakhstan) – dir. Adilkhan Yerzhanov
NEW FLESH 2024 COMPETITION TITLES
BRUSH OF THE GOD (Japan) – dir. Keizo Murase
CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING (Estonia) – dir. Sander Maran
DEAD DEAD FULL DEAD (India) – dir. Pratul Gaikwad
HEAVENS: THE BOY AND HIS ROBOT (Singapore) – dir. Wealthy Ho
JOUR DE CHASSE (Quebec / Canada) – dir. Annick Blanc
KIDNAPPING INC. (Quebec / Canada / Haiti / France) – dir. Bruno Mourral
KRYPTIC (Canada) – dir. Kourtney Roy
ME AND MY VICTIM (Quebec / Canada) – dirs. Maurane Dubois and Billy Pedlow
NOT FRIENDS (Thailand) – dir. Atta Hemwadee
THE PARAGON (New Zealand) – dir. Michael Duignan
RATS! (USA) – dir. Maxwell Nalevansky, Carl Fry
SELF DRIVER (Canada) – dir. Michael Pierro
SHELBY OAKS (USA) – dir. Chris Stuckmann
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM 2024 COMPETITION TITLES
98% (South Korea) – dir. Byun Chang-woo
BE RIGHT BACK (Spain) – dir. Gabe Ibañez, Lucas Paulino
BERTA (Spain) – dir. Lucía Forner Segarra
BLITZMUSIK (Quebec / Canada) – dir. Martin Amiot
CRAVE (France) – dir. Mark Middlewick
DIRTY BAD WRONG (Canada) – dir. Erica Orofino
DYSMORPHIC (USA) – dir. Grant Swanson
EDITH (Singapore) – dir. Clare Chong
EMPTY JARS (Chile) – dir. Guillermo Ribbeck
FACES (USA) – dir. Blake Simon
FACTORY DROP (Germany) – dir. Petja Pulkrabek
THE FUTURE IS NOW (South Korea) – dir. Jung Jongmin
HEADACHE (Sweden) – dir. Björn Schagerström
HOW TO KILL A VAMPIRE (South Korea) – dir. Kim Soyeon
LEAP OF PASSION (South Korea) – dir. Kim Jae Hyung
MEAT(LOV)ER (South Korea) – dir. Park Kyung Web optimization
MEMORY (South Korea) – dir. Jang Hawon
NIGHT FISHING (South Korea) – dir. Moon Byoung-gon
RÉEL (France) – dir. Rodrigue Huart
RING NECK (Canada) – dir. Vasili Manikas
THE STREETLIGHT (USA) – dir. Sophia Parella
WANNA DIE WANNA KILL (South Korea) – dir. Jeong Jaehee
WHERE THE MOUNTAIN WOMEN SING (Hong Kong / Taiwan / USA) – dir. Zhang Juefang
WILDFLOWER (USA) – dir. Wan Xin Tang
The twenty eighth version of the Fantasia Worldwide Movie Pageant is offered by Videotron and is made doable with the monetary contributions of Telefilm Canada, la Société́ de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), le gouvernement du Québec, the town of Montréal, le Conseil des arts de Montréal, Tourisme Montréal, and the Administrators Guild of Canada (DGC). Ticket gross sales will start this Friday, July fifth.
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