Sitges2026: Reveals The Projects For Fantastic 7 at Marche du Film

THE 2026 SELECTION

1. DEAD GROUND - by Marta Medina del Valle

Genre: Folk horror, Science Fiction

Héctor is a Spanish engineer living in Paris who abandoned his hometown as a teenager after his parents died in a freak accident. When the company he works for sends him back to his village to repair the data center they’ve built nearby, his pregnant girlfriend, Hélène, travels with him to lend him support on his return to his roots. There, he finds that the few remaining villagers are fighting to shut the project down, given that it’s causing blackouts and drying up the river and the crops. When Héctor suddenly disappears, Hélène discovers that the data center has awakened something ancestral that may be the cause of the people’s vanishing.

Presented by Sitges - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya

1. LAST MANKIND - by Gun Huh

Genre: Science Fiction, Horror

After air pollution wipes out all life on Earth, bioengineer Dae-seung lives in a bunker with Sina, whom he subjects to brutal experiments in an attempt to create a human capable of surviving on the outside. When a survivor, Taeo, appears and later vanishes, Sina discovers she is just an experiment and escapes in search of freedom.

Presented by Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

1. ROCK, PAPER, SEA - by Randa Ali

Genre: Family Drama, Fantasy

Rock Paper Sea is set in the summer of 2001, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. We follow Maha, an 11-year-old girl with a wild imagination, who discovers that her beloved father -with whom she shares a love of writing and drawing- won't be coming home for her birthday, as he's stuck in an oil-rich country. Maha spends her summer searching for answers to the secret behind his disappearance. Her quest to find him leads her to brand new discoveries regarding friendship, girlhood and the complexities of the adult world.

Presented by El Cairo International Film Festival

1. METALHEADS VS THE WITNESSES - by Wicho Rivera, Cabe Tejeda

Genre: Horror Comedy

Ángel, Mishiko, Daniel, and Mike, four wannabe metalheads, travel to a remote town to shoot a music video in a house marked by a brutal murder. Upon arrival, they encounter a bunch of door-to-door preachers. Soon, townspeople begin to vanish under violent, mysterious circumstances, and the band members become the main suspects. To survive and clear their names, they must confront a hidden cult and complete the most grotesque, blood-soaked video of their lives.

Presented by Guadalajara International Film Festival

1. THE COWARD AT KETTLE CREEK - by Noah Stratton-Twine & Jake Kuhn

Genre: Comedy, Thriller

Roy Bound, a timid and deeply cowardly horticulturist, longs only for a quiet, unremarkable life but finds himself thrust into unwanted attention after a drunken night he barely remembers. He wakes to discover he has somehow challenged the feared outlaw Lee “Guarantee” Garrett to a duel, and the town now celebrates him as a hero. Unable to escape the mounting pressure and expectations, Roy spends his final hours desperately trying, and failing, to avoid the confrontation. His lack of skill and growing panic drive him to self sabotage, but his efforts only push him closer to the inevitable showdown. When the duel ends with Garrett dead and Roy presumed killed, he survives in secret and ultimately chooses to disappear, embracing the legend built on a version of himself he never truly was.

Presented by SXSW South by Southwest Film & TV Festival

1. TING - by Maximilien Dejoie

Genre: Dark Fantasy

Northern Italy, 1918. As she tries to escape from an institution for war orphans, Marilì forms a bond with Ting, a dark and unsettling creature born from the traumas of the First World War. After finding her father again - a deserter doctor scarred by the conflict - Marilì realizes Ting’s sinister intentions. To protect what she holds most dear, Marilì will have to confront her past and face the monstrous presence that has crept into her life.

Presented by PÖFF - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

1. THE VEIL - by Gabriel Motta

Genre: Drama, Horror

In a cult profiting from staged exorcisms, darkness descends when the pastor’s daughter becomes genuinely possessed, forcing her brother to confront his father’s authority. As the siblings navigate possession, secrecy, and repressed desire, psychological and carnal horror blur the line between ritual and reality. THE VEIL explores Brazil's spiritual landscape through faith, repression, liberation, family, and the cost of breaking inherited cycles.