Coming to Montreal from July 20th to August 6th, the Fantasia Festival celebrates niche and low-budget movies in various genres, from horror to sci-fi, showing off some up-and-coming film directors and actors.
The Fantasia International Film Festival is upon us, with a couple of weeks worth of indie films for movie-goers to enjoy. From July 20th to August 6th, fans and critics can attend the Fantasia Festival’s lineup of movies when the event kicks off in Montreal, Québec. Ranging from horror to sci-fi and even animation, the Fantasia Festival looks to show some of the better under-the-radar hits coming to the silver screen over the course of the next year or so.
Celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations between Canada and the Republic of Korea, the Fantasia Festival—in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center Canada and the Cinémathèque québécoise—will look to spotlight several South Korean, as they have done since Kang Je-gyu’s GINGKO BED in 1998. This year will feature the premiere of NEW NORMAL by Jung Bum-shik (GONJIAM: HAUNTED ASYLUM), a one-man horror anthology, An Tae-jin’s period acupuncturist thriller THE NIGHT OWL, as well as THE ROUNDUP: NO WAY OUT by Lee Sang-yong, featuring Don Lee, and many more!
Additionally, Fantasia Festival looks to have several sets of short films that will look to blow watchers’ minds, such as ARE YOU AFRAID OF FANTASIA? which is an anthology of “horrifying short films with comedic bite,” like Dead Enders, Up on the Housetop, and We Forgot About the Zombies. Another collection is called CIRCO ANIMATO 2023 and features some of the most amazing animated short films from around the world.
Perhaps best known for its spookies, Fantasia Festival has quite the lineup planned for those wanting to fill out their Halloween later this year, as we will see Where the Devil Roams, continuing the story of the Adams family seen in The Deeper You Dig and Hellbender. The Thing on the Doorstep is an H.P. Lovecraft short story getting the film treatment starring Heather Graham, Aporia starring Judy Greer, and one of Nicolas Cage’s “most intense performances,” in Sympathy for the Devil, as Cage receives his Career Achievement Award, round out only a few of the films you can look forward to at this prestigious film festival.
