Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival unveiled the first wave of its upcoming 29th edition on Thursday, a boisterous roster that brings
Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival unveiled the first wave of its upcoming 29th edition on Thursday, a boisterous roster that brings modern work from Hwang Wook, the Adams Family, Steve Pink, Julie Pacino, and Brock Bodell.
One year after debuting Mash Ville at Fantasia, South Korea’s Hwang returns with The Woman, a psychological thriller starring Han Hye-ji in which a girl pursues a mysterious stranger after an innocent act results in her friend’s suspicious suicide.
The first wave includes Mother Of Flies from John and Zelda Adams and Toby Poser (former Fantasia selections Hellbender, Where The Devil Roams), about a woman who seeks gloomy magic from a witch when she is given a terminal diagnosis.
Pink, the director of Hot Tub Time Machine and About Last Night, presents Terrestrial, a thriller with sci-fi elements about a reunion weekend that spirals out of control for four college friends. Jermaine Fowler, James Morosini, Pauline Chalamet, and Edy Modica are among the cast.
Pacino’s debut I Live Here Now is styled as a nightmarish psychodrama with echoes of David Lynch, Dario Argento, and the Coen brothers. Lucy Fry plays a woman haunted by trauma and trapped in a motel where reality unravels. Madeline Brewer, Sheryl Lee, Cara Seymour, and comedian Matt Rife round out the cast.
Bodell’s Hellcat stars Dakota Gorman as a woman who awakens in a moving camper trailer with a badly infected wound and is told by a voice from the truck that they need to reach a doctor before a horrific fate befalls her. Todd Terry, SNL’s James Austin Johnson, Jordan Mullins and Liz Atwater also star in the filmmaker’s follow-up to his Fantasia 2021 selection Ultrasound.
The first wave includes world premieres from Kenichi Ugana (romantic comedy I Fell In Love With A Z-Grade Director In Brooklyn), William Bagley (Hold The Fort), and Yasuhiro Aoki (fantasy rom-com anime Chao), among others.
Running from July 17 to August 3 at Montreal’s Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Cinéma du Musée, Fantasia will features screenings, workshops, and launch events. Organisers will announce the full line-up in July.
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