Festivals: Fantasia
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA: Canadian Premiere to Happen at Fantasia International Film Festival
The event chosen for the Canadian Premiere of Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma has been announced.
Frontières 2026: First Wave of Titles Announced
The first wave of titles participating in the 15th anniversary edition of Frontières have been announced!
Fantasia 2026 First Wave: Smoczyńska's HOT SPOT, Wexler's THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECKY, And Walker's HOME BODIES Among First Wave Titles
Summer camp for genre film nerds is back for it's thirtieth anniversary edition. LFG! The first wave of titles for this year's Fantasia International Film Festival is here and it is full of films from faves and friends of the...
THE BEARDED GIRL: Watch The Trailer Premiere For Jody Wilson's Drama Fantasy
The story of a bearded girl who is tired of being a freak.
Fantasia 2026: Poster Art Revealed For 30th Anniversary Edition
Fantasia is celebrating its 30th anniversary this Summer and have unvealed the poster art for this year's edition.
Fantasia 2025 Interview: KAKUKAKU SHIKAJIKA, Akiko Higashimura and Mei Nagano Talk Bringing a Mangaka's Autobiographical Work To Screen
A beloved manga artist and her on-screen counterpart discuss the live-action adaptation.
Fantasia 2025 Review: ALL YOU NEED IS KILL, Big Action in Anime Adaptation of Landmark Sci-fi Novel
One year ago, a giant, alien plant called Doral landed on Earth and took root in the Earth’s crust, and has lain dormant since. For the past year, teams of young volunteers, armed with high-tech suits and gear, wake up...
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE GIRL WHO STOLE TIME, After the Animation Dazzles, the Story Grabs Your Heartstrings
Qian Xiao grew up in a quiet fishing village, but she’s never wanted a peaceful life. She wants out, and when she spots a supply boat heading to the mainland, she sneaks aboard without a plan. Midway through the...
Fantasia 2025: FLUSH, BURNING And THE UNDERTONE Score Audience Awards
I have been back a day since leaving the final leg of Fantasia, and I quickly started hating everything, everyone, and everywhere that isn't the festival. Feels good to be back to normal. All throughout the festival, attendees were...
Fantasia 2025 Review: STRAIGHT OUTTA SPACE, A Sci-fi Comedy With Good Intentions
In the low-income neighborhood of Schijndrecht, best friends Amin and Mitchell work as street coaches, helping residents and maintaining order. But everything changes when the area faces redevelopment plans, so Amin considers moving away with his girlfriend, Stef. However, an...
Fantasia 2025 Review: BURNING, A Rashoman-Style Horror Thriller Calls Out For Social Change
An explosion tears through the silence of an otherwise quiet Kyrgyzstan town. What happened to the couple that lived there? Asel and her husband, Marat. And didn’t his mother, Farida, just arrive in town to help around the house? ...
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE SCHOOL DUEL, When Dystopia Doesn't Feel So Distant
We are thrown into a twisted, ultra-patriotic Florida where guns, God, and old-school values rule. 13-year-old Sam, a bullied kid who just wants to feel seen, instead he lashes out at his tormentors, even his mom. Sam’s actions catch the...
Fantasia 2025 Review: FOREIGNER, A Newcomer, Coming-of-Age Horror For The Tween Set
Yasamin (Yasi), a recently immigrated Iranian teen in Canada, struggles to fit in at her new high school. She falls in with a clique of white girls whose subtle racism pressures her to erase her identity. Desperate to belong, Yasi...
Fantasia 2025 Review: FLUSH, The Horrors And Hilarity When Trapped in a Toilet
Luc has gone to the club where his ex, Valentine, works to convince her to go with him to see their daughter, who is now living in foster care with his parents. A struggling addict, though, he buys a line...
Fantasia 2025 Review: OCCUPY CANNES, After Decades of Disrupting Media, Here is That Year Troma Disrupted Cannes
In 2013, the Troma Team returned to the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du film for the first time in a decade. Their mission was twofold. First, sell their latest production at the time, Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1....
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE BOOK OF SIJJIN AND ILLYYIN, Payback Is a Bitch
When Yuli was a child, she watched in horror as her mom was possessed by an spiritual force before killing her father. Parentless, she was treated as an outsider, a bastard. Twenty years have passed, and she is now a...
Fantasia 2025 Review: DOLLHOUSE, A Worthy And Entertaining Addition to The Cursed Doll Genre
Yoshie and her husband Tadahiko devote all their energy and love to five-year-old Mei. The day that Yoshie is tasked with looking after the gaggle of girls in the neighbourhood, she has them all over for a play day with...
Fantasia 2025 Review: THE UNDERTONE, Scary to Watch, Terrifying to Listen to
Evy is back at her mother’s home, watching over her as she lies on her deathbed, her passing inevitable. When she is not caring for her mom, Evy hosts The Undertone, a paranormal podcast she co-hosts with her friend Justin....
Fantasia 2025 Review: KAZAKH SCARY TALES, Too Scary For The Locals, What About International Horror Fans?
Birzhan, a big-city detective, moves his family to the remote village of Karatas and is called to investigate an eerie series of events at a maternity hospital. Pregnant women are getting sick, all at once, some of them even dying....
Fantasia 2025 Short Film, Short Review: BARLEBAS
Shot in lush and misty black & white, with superbly framed large-canvas photography, and truly exceptional production design, Malu Janssen’s Barlebas is a 20-minute short of a literal witch-hunt. One which perfectly balances the epic and the intimate, the tender and...
