Frontières 2026: First Wave of Titles Announced

FIRST WAVE ANNOUNCEMENT

 

After the upcoming Frontières Platform in Cannes on Saturday May 16 and Sunday May 17, Frontières will return to the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal for the 15th Anniversary edition of its co-production market which will take place between July 22-25, 2026.

 

Frontières is pleased to announce the first wave of ten projects for this year’s official Market selection. Notable project helmers include: Isaac Ezban (PARVULOS) from Mexico, George Mihalka (MY BLOODY VALENTINE) and Elza Kephart (SLAXX) from Canada and Johannes Grenzfurthner (SOLVENT) from Austria. These projects showcase a wide variety of genres including science-fiction, slasher, horror, psychological thriller and fantasy. Past Frontières projects include IN FLAMES, HATCHING, LAMB, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, SEA FEVER, VIVARIUM and RAW.

 

The Frontières Co-Production Market is funded by Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Rendez-Vous Canada, the Government of Quebec, the City of Montreal, Buma Music in Motion and the Netherlands Film Fund.

 

 

 

FRONTIÈRES MARKET

 

ANY MEANS NECESSARY  (Canada)

Director: George Mihalka

Producer: Susan Curran

Genre: Documentary

The outrageous true story of the renegade company Cinépix that built Canadian cinema, launched global filmmakers, and rewrote the rules of independent film.

 

AURORA COMES HOME  (Canada)

Director: Gloria Mercer

Producers: Shawn Angelski, Martin Fisher

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

In rural Northern Canada, a family unravels after the sudden and mysterious disappearance of their daughter, and the subsequent arrival of an eerily familiar woman eighteen months later.

 

BIRTH (Estonia)

Director: Oskar Lehemaa

Producer: Evelin Penttilä

Genre: Body Horror

Emma and Carl travel to a fertility ritual deep in the woods - where Carl becomes pregnant with an ancient entity and Emma must protect him from the hosts who plan to carve it out.

 

DELIVERY  (Mexico)

Director: Isaac Ezban

Producers: Isaac Ezban, Natalia Contreras, Alejandra Cardenas

Genre: Science Fiction, Road Movie

A lonely trucker meets an abandoned girl in a border town. Fate, or something more sinister, will set them on an unexpected road trip, with devastating consequences. An original Isaac Ezban picture, inspired by the voice notes in WhatsApp.

 

GRANDMONSTER (Norway)

Director: Vegard Dahle

Producer: Jon Vatne

Genre: Zombie Comedy

When an aimless young woman returns to her home island to care for her demented grandmother, she joins an illegal experiment using jellyfish stem cells to reverse aging—only to spark a zombie outbreak among the elderly and realize the only thing harder to stop than the undead is the Norwegian healthcare bureaucracy.

 

MY MISSING HALF  (Philippines, Japan)

Director: Rodiell Veloso

Producers: Tomomi Furuyama, Rajiv Idnani

Genre: Black Comedy, Horror, Road Movie

When a runaway manananggal desperate to live a human life loses her lower half, she teams up with a hung-up ex, a Catholic priest ghost, a wandering Japanese spirit, and a drag queen on an existential journey to retrieve the only part of her that hides what she fears becoming—a monster.

 

THE GREAT CANADA DAY MASSACRE (Canada, QC)

Director: Elza Kephart

Producers: Marcel Giroux, Rebecca Rowley

Genre: Slasher Satire

Back home to sabotage Canada Day, a determined climate activist uncovers a plot to sell the town’s beloved forest and a killer targeting the culprits, including her own mother!

 

THE MIRE (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Latvia)

Director: Marika Harjusaari

Producers: Mika Ritalahti, Nima Yousefi, Einar Loftesnes, Gints Grübe

Genre: Folk Horror

In a remote 1800s Finnish village, a milkmaid secretly delivering unwanted infants to their deaths finds herself torn between old-world rituals and newfound faith when a reformist priest arrives—and something beneath the surface of the mire begins to fight back.

 

VIOLENT DELIGHTS (United States)

Director: Jack Warren

Producers: Brock Bodell, Andrew Duensing, Josh Duensing, Ariel Adler, Jacob Brodsky

Genre: Horror Romance

A trans boy and a cannibal girl fall in love and fight for survival against her homicidal family.

 

YOU WERE NEVER HERE (Austria, Canada)

Director: Johannes Grenzfurthner

Producers: David Hiatt, Taylor Nodrick, Jasmin Bauer, Guenther Friesinger

Genre: Science Fiction

At a remote research facility, people from across human history briefly materialize every 4 minutes and 56 seconds -- forcing a team of scientists and officials to confront a phenomenon they can neither control nor explain.

 

FRONTIÈRES is an international co-production market and networking platform specifically focused on genre film financing and co-production between Europe and North America. It is organised by the Fantasia International Film Festival, in partnership with the European Film Market Berlinale and the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes.  In addition to its annual co-production market at Fantasia (July 22-25 2026), Frontières programming also includes the EFM Frontières Focus in Berlin (February 14 2026) and the Frontières Platform in Cannes (May 16-17 2026).