The 2025 Fantasia Festival is just around the corner! Taking place in Montréal from July 16 to August 3, the 29th edition of the festival will be showing hundreds of features and shorts from a wide variety of genres.
Written by Mariane Tremblay, Andie Kaiser
& Hailey Passmore
The opening night film will be Ari Aster’s highly anticipated Eddington, and the festival will close with Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed. Keep reading to discover some of our most anticipated films at this year’s festival!
Eddington dir. Ari Aster (Canadian Premiere)
The Virgin of the Quarry Lake dir. Laura Casabé (Québec premiere)
Set in 2001 Argentina against the backdrop of the economic crisis and protests, this film follows three teenage girls who become infatuated with the same boy. When that boy gets into a relationship with an older woman, teenager Natalia (Dolores Oliverio) casts a spell on the couple with the help of her grandmother Rita (Luisa Merelas).
The Devil’s Bride dir. Arūnas Žebriūnas (North American premiere)
This restoration of the 1974 Lithuanian film combines classic folklore with music, following a devil who lands on Earth and goes in search of love.
ChaO dir. Yasuhiro Aoki (North American premiere)
This animated feature takes place in a world where humans and mermaids coexist. It sees the life of office worker Stephen turned upside down when Chao, a princess from the mermaid kingdom, proposes to him.
ChaO will hit Japanese theatres on August 15.
It Ends dir. Alexander Ullom (Canadian premiere)
When four college friends (Phinehas Yoon, Akira Jackson, Noah Toth, and Mitchell Cole) find themselves on a road trip along a (literally) unending road, they are forced to reckon with the future and the unknown.
Together dir. Michael Shanks (Canadian premiere)
“Have you ever been in a relationship so long that the line between you and the other person starts to blur?”
Years into their relationship, a couple (Alison Brie, Dave Franco) relocates to the countryside, leaving behind everything they’ve ever known—except each other. As tensions rise between them, a terrifying encounter with a strange and unnatural force begins to unravel their lives, their love, and even their bodies.
Together will hit theatres on July 30.
Lucid dir. Deanna Milligan, Ramsey Fendall (World premiere)
It’s the 1990s, an art student has creative block, and to combat this stint, she decides to use a Lucid dreaming elixir. Yet instead of breaking through her current block, she unlocks a portal into another world, taking her on a surreal journey, eventually discovering her true artistic voice.
Fucktoys dir. Annapurna Sriram (Canadian premiere)
While spiraling after her tooth unexpectedly falls out, AP (Annapurna Sriram) turns to her psychic, who reveals she’s the victim of a sinister black magic curse. The only way to lift it? Sacrifice a lamb and fork over $1,000. Joined by her partner-in-chaos Danni (Sadie Scott), the two set off on a wild journey to gather the money and break the curse.
I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn dir. Ken'ichi Ugana (World Premiere)
Stranded in New York without money or a phone, a disillusioned Japanese movie star crosses paths with an eager indie filmmaker and his ragtag crew. What begins as a chance encounter soon turns into an unexpected creative odyssey—one that just might rekindle her passion for cinema.
I Live Here Now dir. Julie Pacino (World premiere)
A woman becomes trapped in a secluded hotel where the haunting remnants of her past take on a terrifying life of their own, blurring the boundaries between reality and her most disturbing nightmares.
Fixed dir. Genndy Tartakovsky (Canadian premiere)
In the first adult animated film from Sony Pictures Animation (as well as their first traditionally animated film), Fixed follows Bull, a dog who discovers he’s about to be neutered. It features a star-studded voice cast, with Adam DeVine, Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, and more involved in the project.
Fixed is scheduled to be streaming on Netflix on August 13.
Redux Redux dir. Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus (Canadian premiere)
The multiverse exists, and one woman travels through it to seek revenge over and over again. After her daughter’s murder, she’s thought of nothing but killing the person who did it. No matter how many times she does it, she continues. Becoming addicted to this revenge streak, the woman puts her humanity at risk the more she continues.
Holy Night: Demon Hunters dir. Lim Dae-hee (Québec premiere)
Holy Night – a trio of supernatural demon hunters – are used in dire circumstances in Seoul. This time around, the police cannot handle their newest threat, a devil-worshipping criminal network. When Seoul is plunged into chaos, the police must turn to the Holy Night to restore order and defeat the gangsters before the city is ruined forever.
Sugar Rot dir. Becca Kozak (Québec premiere)
After a traumatic assault by an ice cream man, a young woman named Candy (Chloë MacLeod) becomes host to a mutant pregnancy that progresses at a terrifying pace. As her body begins to transform into ice cream, she’s objectified and exploited by the men around her, treated as a product to be consumed.
Touch Me dir. Addison Heimann (Canadian premiere)
Two codependent best friends fall under the intoxicating spell of an alien narcissist whose touch is as addictive as heroin, sparking a dangerous obsession that may be part of a larger plan to take over the world.
Terrestrial dir. Steve Pink
A weekend reunion among four college friends descends into chaos when their host, a science fiction writer on the cusp of major success, begins to lose his grip on reality amid a series of strange and unsettling events.
Anything That Moves dir. Alex Phillips (World premiere)
Liam, (Hal Baum) a divine sex worker, pedals through Chicago delivering snacks and pure pleasure to his craving clients—unaware that a serial killer’s bloody trail is closing in, leading straight to the door of his unsuspecting lover.
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