40th Fantasy Filmfest

A spirit guide in the afterlife realm helps souls reach reincarnation. When he meets a young girl whose anger threatens to turn her into a monster, he must save her while learning about human emotions.

Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.

A bald man's life unravels when his new neighbor moves in - an exact double of himself, but with a full head of hair.

A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing.

A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.

In this darkly comic folktale, an affable foxhunter encounters a talking Fox who offers him an opportunity to transform his fiancée into the perfect woman.

A mother's manic quest pulls an unwitting bystander into a twisted, obscene ordeal that spirals into lunacy and terror.

A notorious prison, an invisible force starts killing inmates brutally, compelling enemy gangs and corrupt guards to work together as they try to survive the mounting bloodshed.

A mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor town. The residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before.

On the fog-drenched Black Sea coast, a woman gives birth to a being that defies nature. As her body and mind begin to unravel, love becomes both her devotion and her disease. MUTTER is an intimate fever dream of motherhood, grief, and transformation - a modern folk parable where tenderness and terror share the same frame.

Eleni, a painter in Cyprus in 1882, reaches into the shadows to resurrect her lost children, but instead summons the ancient Kalikantzari of Cypriot lore. She must now confront the storm of her grief and anger, and lift the curse.

Follows a woman losing her ability to hear men's voices as she experiences psychological alienation and dangerous obsession.

At the end of the 19th century, Zélie lives on a remote farm in the stranglehold of her father Jacob. He appeals to his faith, but that does not keep him from cruelty: beneath pious words, he keeps his daughter small, while her mother has long since been broken by his harshness. But even beyond the farm, the world is falling apart. A mysterious plague, the "Black Veil," is spreading and robbing people of their minds. However, how the infected are dealt with extinguishes any notion of compassion. Director Quarxx conjures a dark, invented era that transplants the rugged loneliness of a Western to Europe. What emerges is a relentless eye-for-an-eye struggle in which familial violence, religious delusion, and a deadly pandemic interlock. This Gothic horror is a feverish descent into a hellish world that leads in only one direction: into the darkness.

What is the cost of love? Connor and Jessie are a young couple forced to make an impossible choice as Jessie begins to show signs of a mysterious illness. "The Plague" is a dark tragicomedy of love, death, and farts.

Follows a cash-strapped couple who fake a terminal illness and start a crowdfunder for treatment, but their viral scheme attracts attention from Almaty's criminal underworld and spins dangerously out of control.

A family's Christmas Eve dinner becomes a nightmare as Gino must protect his loved ones from his reanimated grandmother who crashes the celebration with murderous intent.

Who doesn't know the feeling of being in the wrong movie? Madoka feels the same way: The theater author sits in the cinema watching a film about the musician Kazuma – who sits in the cinema watching a film about Madoka – who sits in the cinema watching a film about Kazuma. In disbelief, they stare at each other across the screen. How is that possible? What is happening right now? But then they begin to talk to each other and change the official plot. The story gets more and more tangled and becomes increasingly fantastical. Multiverse master Makoto Ueda, following his screenplays for BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES and RIVER, directs for the first time himself with YOU ARE THE FILM. Once again, he outdoes himself with a collection of whimsical ideas in which elements from different galaxies mix and the space-time continuum increasingly dissolves.