Fantasia’s Final Wave Titles for 2022 Festival Include A New Dario Argento Giallo and A French Remake of ONE CUT OF THE DEAD

The Fantasia Worldwide Movie Competition simply introduced its ultimate wave titles for the 2022 program, giving everybody dwelling outdoors of Montreal some critical Fantasia FOMO. 12 months over yr, Fantasia has confirmed itself to be *the* vacation spot for style movie followers, and to get the complete expertise, you actually gotta be there. Included on this ultimate wave announcement is Ultimate Minimize Michel Hazanavicius’s remake of One Cut of The Dead, Halina Reijn’s A24-produced Our bodies, Our bodies, Our bodies, and Dario Argento’s Darkish Glasses amongst many, many others.

The twenty sixth Version of the Fantasia Worldwide Movie Competition kicks off July 14th. Extra information on this yr’s official choices, and tickets, will be discovered HERE.

From the Press Launch:

June 30, 2022 // Montreal, Quebec – The Fantasia Worldwide Movie Competition will likely be celebrating its twenty sixth Anniversary in Montreal this summer time, going down from July 14 – August 3, with its Frontières Worldwide Co-Manufacturing Market being held July 21 – 24. Screenings, panels and particular occasions will likely be going down on the Concordia Corridor and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with further screens on the Cinémathèque Québécoise, Cinéma du Musée and the McCord Museum. Ticket pre-sales will open on July 9, at 1PM.

The competition is proud to announce a large new assortment of function movies, together with particulars on scheduled panels, talks, tributes, and particular occasions. As well as, the competition web site is now stay with the entire lineup of over 130 options and 200+ shorts obtainable to be explored.

 

PRIX DENIS-HÉROUX: PIERRE DAVID

Fantasia will likely be presenting this yr’s PRIX DENIS-HÉROUX, an award recognizing distinctive contribution to the event of style and unbiased cinema in Quebec, to producer Pierre David, recognized for his shut collaboration with administrators David Cronenberg and Jean-Claude Lord, amongst many others. Fantasia will current two of his collaborations with Lord, who handed away earlier this yr: BINGO (1974) and VISITING HOURS (1982). The competition can even current a uncommon 35mm print of MUSTANG (1975), an eccentric trendy western directed by Marcel Lefebvre. David directed the cult traditional SCANNER COP (1994) and produced over 200 function movies and TV films over the course of his lengthy and fruitful profession, together with PARLEZ NOUS D’AMOUR, PANIQUE, THE BROOD, SCANNERS, VIDEODROME, OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN, GOING BERSERK, PIN, MY DEMON LOVER, WISHMASTER, THE DENTIST and SMASH CUT. Nonetheless lively, he will likely be taking pictures his 218th manufacturing in Ottawa this summer time

 

CLOSING FILM: STRAIGHT OUT OF CANNES, NEXT SOHEE IS AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE

Sohee (Kim Si-eun), a bubbly and tenacious high-school pupil, spirals into deadly despair when pressured by her college to work for an abusive name heart. Enraged by this tragedy, Detective Yoo-jin (Bae Doona) begins a campaign towards all those that exploit weak teenage women. This highly effective and important work obtained a seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes, the place it closed Critics’ Week 2022. NEXT SOHEE is a real masterpiece and an absolute must-see, masterfully directed by July Jung and that includes great performances by newcomer Kim Si-eun in a career-defining flip and South Korean movie icon Bae Doona (KINGDOM). North American Premiere.

 

CLOSING NIGHT WILL BE LIT WITH BODIES, BODIES, BODIES

Additionally screening as a part of Fantasia’s closing night time occasions will likely be Halina Reijn’s wildly entertaining and gloriously twisted BODIES BODIES BODIES. A celebration recreation results in homicide when younger and rich associates collect at a distant household mansion on this immediate traditional comedy horror joyride that maintains a taut steadiness of uneasy rigidity and depraved humor. Starring Amandla Stenberg (THE HATE U GIVE), Maria Bakalova (BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM), Myha’la Herrold (INDUSTRY), Rachel Sennott (SHIVA BABY) and comedy famous person Pete Davidson. Particular Screening.

 

FEAR THE ELDERLY IN THIS NEXT LEVEL SPANISH HORROR NIGHTMARE

An octogenarian named Manuel (Zorion Eguileor) falls right into a state of dementia after the sudden suicide of his spouse, sparking a collection of paranormal occasions that may put his household’s lives in danger. Beginning as a grounded drama exploring the indignities of previous age, THE ELDERLY step by step snaps off one guardrail after one other, constructing to a crescendo of sheer terror with imagery that may by no means be unseen. This chilling new imaginative and prescient in Spanish horror from administrators Raúl Cerezo and Fernando González Gómez (THE PASSENGER) contains a heart-stopping lead efficiency from Eguileor (ALL THE MOONS, THE PLATFORM). World Premiere.

 

THE RINGU WRAITH RETURNS IN SADAKO DX

The curse has mutated, spreading at nice velocity by way of the web, and there are just a few hours left for skeptical TV persona Ayaka to resolve the puzzle. Returning to the world of RINGU, which kicked off the Asian horror renaissance of the ’90s, director Hisashi Kimura’s SADAKO DX isn’t afraid to chuckle somewhat on the quirks of the franchise it emerges from whereas nonetheless bringing the horror that hardcore followers crave. From the meta leap scares to the weird new look of our favorite wraith, SADAKO DX delivers shrieks and chuckles alike. World Premiere.

 

ONE (FINAL) CUT OF THE DEAD. COUPEZ!

After opening this yr’s Cannes, FINAL CUT (Coupez!), Michel Hazanavicius’s riotous remake of Shinichirou Ueda’s ONE CUT OF THE DEAD, is coming to North America. Starring Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, and Yoshiko Takehara reprising her beloved position from the unique movie as a producer, this hilarious ode to the do-or-die spirit of filmmaking is a pleasure to behold. It’s particularly noteworthy for the movie’s North American journey to be beginning at Fantasia, because the competition was among the many first to popularize the unique Viewers Award-winning ONE CUT OF THE DEAD within the West. Poetically, Ueda’s newest, POPRAN, can even be having its North American Premiere on the competition this yr. Wager your viewfinder that FINAL CUT goes to carry the home down in cheers. North American Premiere.

 

THE DEBUT OF EMOTIONALLY POWERFUL MANGA ADAPTATION MY BROKEN MARIKO

Hirako Waka’s highly effective internet manga lastly arrives on the massive display screen. With MY BROKEN MARIKO, director Yuki Tanada (MOURNING RECIPE) merges previous and current to perfection in a devoted, visually wealthy live-action adaptation. Mei Nagano (OFFICE ROYALE) delivers a visceral efficiency, exhibiting unimaginable versatility in portraying the numerous sides of Tomoyo, who’s pushed to a revelatory pilgrimage by the suicide of her childhood greatest buddy. Emotionally difficult however by no means despairing, the movie sketches lovely characters in all their humanity and mild eccentricity. World Premiere.

 

JUSTICE TAKES MANY FORMS IN DETECTIVE VS. SLEUTHS, WAI KA-FAI’S GRAND RETURN

Disgraced cop Jun (Lau Ching-Wan) and pregnant police detective Yee (Charlene Choi) should clear up instances new and previous to carry a crew of killer vigilantes to justice in DETECTIVE VS. SLEUTHS, the brand new movie from Hong Kong filmmaker Wai Ka-Fai, whose idiosyncratic brilliance has been absent from screens for greater than a decade. This characteristically intense and gritty movie reconnects Wai with Lau, the star of his second-to-last function earlier than his hiatus, 2007’s MAD DETECTIVE, which, like lots of Wai’s movies, was co-directed by Jonnie To. This time, nevertheless, he steers the ship by himself, writing, producing, and directing a particular and wholly participating crime thriller that when once more explores the road between genius and insanity. North American Premiere.

 

AN ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE-FICTION THRILLER FOR THE AGES: VESPER

Ten years after their groundbreaking masterpiece VANISHING WAVES, Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and France’s Bruno Samper have returned with the immersive fungal world of VESPER. After the collapse of Earth’s ecosystem, Vesper (Raffiella Chapman), a 13-year-old lady struggling to outlive together with her Father (Richard Brake), should use her wits, energy and bio-hacking talents to combat for the longer term. This breathtakingly expansive Sci-Fi/thriller imaginative and prescient was constructed with years of painstaking element. Additionally starring Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen and Melanie Gaydos. Official Choice: Karlovy Fluctuate Worldwide Movie Competition 2022. North American Premiere.

 

LIKE FISH OUT OF WATER: THE FISH TALE

Meebo (Non) loves fish. Scratch that, she’s an authorized, card-carrying “fish-a-holic.” As her aquatic obsession develops and follows her into the beginnings of grownup life, her ardour will persuade you that fish make for fairly a captivating life! Primarily based on the memoirs of celeb ichthyologist, illustrator and “fish ambassador” Sakana-kun (think about a cross between Jacques Cousteau and Nardwuar) THE FISH TALE is the surprising feel-good movie of the summer time. It additional cements Shuichi Okita’s (THE STORY OF YONOSUKE) means to carry a teary-eyed smile to his viewers’s face. World Premiere.

 

THE HOMECOMING OF DENIS CÔTÉ’S TRANSGRESSIVE DRAMA: THAT KIND OF SUMMER

Together with his newest movie, THAT KIND OF SUMMER (Un été comme ça), the good Denis Côté (SOCIAL HYGIENE) explores the hyperlinks between intercourse and trauma in an intimate, transgressive drama. Removed from the overstimulation of the town, three ladies—Léonie (Larissa Corriveau), Eugénie (Laure Giappiconi), and Geisha (Aude Mathieu)—are being handled for his or her “hypersexuality.” In an attractive cabin by a lake, the ladies seek for therapeutic with the assistance of a soft-spoken therapist, Octavia (Anne Ratte-Polle) and a by-the-books social employee, Sami (Samir Guesmi). Côté’s movie attracts the viewers right into a world of enjoyment, nightmares, and fantasy as time collapses and vivid imagery blurs the road between actual and unreal. Official Choice: Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition 2022 (competitors). North American Premiere.

 

SPECIAL DELIVERY PUTS THE PEDAL TO THE METAL FOLLOWING POLARIS ON OPENING NIGHT

Jang is an ace driver of unmatched sangfroid, however when she finds a child within the backseat of her automobile with the important thing to a corrupt cop’s illicit stash in his pocket, she is swarmed by a gang of murderous henchmen., Getting the child (and herself)out of this mess alive will imply pushing her vehicular expertise to absolutely the restrict… and past! SPECIAL DELIVERY riffs on DRIVE and BABY DRIVER however takes the automotive motion, the hand-to-hand fight, and the emotional stakes to new heights. Having helmed the interval items PRIVATE EYE and SEONDAL: THE MAN WHO SELLS THE RIVER, director Park Dae-min isn’t any stranger to comedy-infused crime thrillers, and shifts gears to the fashionable period with ease. The completely fulfilling solid is led by Park So-dam (PARASITE) within the driver’s seat. North American Premiere.

 

TIME GETS TWISTED IN ANURAG KASHYAP’S EXCITING THRILLER DOBAARAA

Jolts of high-voltage rigidity crackle alongside the traces between previous and current, proper and unsuitable, science and the supernatural in DOBAARAA. Director/screenwriter/producer Anurag Kashyap, beloved by worldwide audiences for his no-nonsense method to the crime drama (India’s first Netflix Authentic collection SACRED GAMES, the epic GANGS OF WASSEYPUR), this time infuses his trademark thrills with a twist of science fiction. This high-stakes drama is led by a gripping efficiency from Taapsee Pannu (GAME OVER, NAAM SHABANA). (North American Premiere)

 

MY GRANDFATHER’S DEMONS IS PORTUGAL’S FIRST STOP-MOTION FEATURE

Wealthy within the Celtic folklore of northern Portugal, MY GRANDFATHER’S DEMONS is the nation’s first-ever stop-motion function, an engrossing drama concerning the push and pull of household ties, how roots can each nourish and entangle, advised with impressed technical prospers and a luminous sense of magic. This feature-length debut from award-winning animator Nuno Beato tells the story of city skilled Rosa who inherits the farm that was her childhood residence, and discovers that it’s suffering from demonic ceramic collectible figurines and clues pointing to troubling secrets and techniques buried prior to now. North American Premiere.

 

ADMIRAL YI RIDES THE WAVES AGAIN IN HANSAN: RISING DRAGON

Nearly a decade after THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS sailed into the historical past books because the most-watched and highest-grossing movie of all time in South Korea, director Kim Han-min returns with HANSAN: RISING DRAGON, the long-awaited second chapter on this trilogy tells the story of naval hero Admiral Yi Solar-sin. Surrounded by a solid of notable Korean stars, Park Hae-il (DECISION TO LEAVE) portrays Yi on this spectacular epic of wood-on-water warfare. There are few issues in life as satisfying as a well-executed big-screen demolition derby between battleships, and so they don’t come any larger, higher, or wetter than HANSAN: RISING DRAGON. North American Premiere.

 

A HAUNTING VISION OF PREGNANCY AND WITCHCRAFT : HUESERA

Pregnant together with her first baby and consumed by terrifying visions, Valeria (Natalia Solián) believes that she could also be cursed by a supernatural entity. An excellent and horrifying breakout debut as essential as Jennifer Kent’s THE BABADOOK, HUESERA firmly declares Mexico’s Michelle Garza Cervera as one of many main new voices of the style. A scorching private imaginative and prescient that asks advanced questions with ferocious honesty, this profound, nightmarish blessing involves Fantasia scorching off its award-winning Tribeca launch, and is already one of the vital talked-about style works of the yr. Canadian Premiere.

 

TANG AND ME DELIVERS SWEET AND HEARTWARMING SCI-FI FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

In a sensible future, Ken has determined to surrender his dream of turning into a health care provider following the tragic dying of his father. When his spouse throws him out of the home, he’s caught with Tang, a clunky robotic who follows him regardless of his annoyance. However this droid has far more worth than he lets on. Kazunari Ninomiya (GANTZ), the chief of the J-Pop behemoth Arashi, groups up with the cutest robotic in recent times, a form of a rusted Child Yoda, within the lovely really feel good film TANG AND ME, directed by Takahiro Miki. Worldwide Premiere.

 

LIVING IN HARMONY? WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD

Few know the hell of social integration higher than Anna (Ioana Iacob), the beloved safety officer of an unique, “curated” residence tower within the German countryside, who quickly finds herself in an imbroglio. Her daughter grows satisfied she harbours an historical evil, a canine disappears, and a panic spreads throughout the constructing like wildfire. Natalia Sinelnikova’s chilling debut WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD is a carefully-observed dystopia reflecting on modern-day xenophobia and antisemitism in Germany. Canadian premiere. Digital camera Lucida part.

 

FANTASIA’S FIRST KOREAN SERIES IS THE FASCINATING AND TWISTED LIVE-ACTION ADAPTATION OF THE KING OF PIGS

Murder detective Jong-suk (Kim Sung-kyu, HANSAN), should catch his childhood buddy Kyung-min (Kim Dong-wook, ALONG WITH THE GODS) who’s on a rampage, looking and killing the bullies chargeable for their distress once they have been overwhelmed and humiliated at college. Tailored from TRAIN TO BUSAN director Yeon Sang-ho’s masterful animation movie THE KING OF PIGS and produced by Studio Dragon, this live-action Ok-Drama by director Kim Dae-jin a impresses not solely with its narrative and cinematography, but in addition with the relevance of its dialogue of faculty bullying, lifelong trauma, and sophistication wrestle. North American Premiere

 

COMING OF AGE IN MY SMALL LAND

When requested, 17-year-old Sarya (Lina Arashi) would like to say she’s German. It’s a handy reply, simpler than explaining she is a Kurdish minority from Turkey whose household immigrated to Japan. When she learns that her father’s refugee standing is being declined, Sarya is put within the tough place of offering for her younger brother and sister. An outstanding debut from Emma Kawawada (produced by Hirokazu Kore-eda), MY SMALL LAND is an distinctive breath of recent air within the context of Japanese cinema and its notable lack of range. North American premiere.

 

THE NEXT EXIT IS ONE THAT CAN’T BE MISSED

By the groundbreaking expertise found by Dr. Stevenson (Karen Gillan, OCULUS), deceased individuals can now be recognized and tracked within the afterlife. When a name goes out for volunteers to additional her analysis, two strangers, Rose (Katie Parker, THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE) and Teddy (Rahul Kohli, MIDNIGHT MASS), every battling private demons, select to enroll. Destiny has them splitting a rental automobile, and so they embark on a drive throughout America to fulfill their destinies. Equal elements ghost story, misfit street film, speculative science-fiction and tragicomedy, NEXT EXIT is an exceptional debut from writer-director Mali Elfman. Worldwide Premiere.

 

BEHOLD MARTIAL-ARTS PUPPETRY IN TAIWANESE FILM DEMIGOD: THE LEGEND BEGINS!

Briskly-paced, elaborately ornamented, and surprisingly bloody, the Taiwanese function movie DEMIGOD: THE LEGEND BEGINS is the newest from Pili Worldwide Multimedia. Led by generations of the Huang household of puppeteers, Pili has maintained and modernized the centuries-old custom of budaixi—Chinese language opera by the use of glove puppetry—which stays alive in Taiwan to at the present time. Director Huang Wen-Chang’s wuxia epic of intrigue, horror, martial arts and mysticism is above all an beautiful ocular feast for followers of the high-quality artwork of miniature figurine sculpture and costume design. North American Premiere.

 

SEIRE WILL SHAKE ANY AUDIENCE WITH ITS CREEPY AMBIANCE

A Korean folkloric perception dictates that folks ought to by no means enterprise down a taboo path when their baby is born, as this might result in a curse referred to as Seire. Woo-jin decides to disregard the hazard and attend the funeral of a former lover, which brings chaos to his household. With this primary directorial effort, a masterful and oppressive psychological horror movie, Park Kang proves that he can work miracles with a restricted finances. A good script,, minimalist music, nuanced appearing, and meticulous course all come collectively to create this beautiful nightmare. North American Premiere.

 

TIME TRAVEL, BARE-KNUCKLE FIGHTS, AND HIDDEN DANGERS IN THE ROCKIES ROUND OUT THE SEPTENTRION SHADOWS PROGRAM.

RELUCTANT HEIRS SQUARE UP IN THE FIGHT MACHINE.

Horror writer Craig Davidson’s 2007 novel “The Fighter” involves the massive display screen in THE FIGHT MACHINE. Two younger males from completely different walks of life face their households and destinies on the dusty flooring of an underground preventing ring. Director Andrew T. Hunt, who co-wrote the screenplay with Davidson, delves into household obligation, poisonous masculinity, and the intertwining fates of a child from a working-class background and a spoiled wealthy boy. This gritty noir accommodates a contact of the fantastical, with earnest performances by lead actors Dempsey Bryk and Greg Hovanessian and the star energy of Michael Ironside, Natasha Henstridge, Greg Bryk and Noah Dalton Danby. World Premiere.

 

MEET YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOOD TIME TRAVELLER IN RELAX, I’M FROM THE FUTURE

It’s all enjoyable and video games till the world is in jeopardy and goofy time traveller Casper (Rhys Darby, WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS, OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH) is the one one who can do one thing about it. When he stumbles into Holly’s (Gabrielle Graham, POSSESSOR) life, a nutty plan unfolds involving a cartoonist and a nasty time journey agent. Director Luke Higginson’s first function movie is a captivating and quirky tackle unlikely friendships and unwavering optimism. Comedic chemistry bubbles between Darby and Graham, and no unhinged plan could be full and not using a juicy villain performed with cruel fervour by Janine Theriault. Followers can even get Canadian style vet Julian Richings who provides his gravitas to this zany caper. World Premiere.

 

DARK NATURE TAKES YOU TO THE ROCKIES, WHERE SOMETHING SINISTER LURKS

Berkley Brady’s first horror function is a suspenseful and gory journey into the darkest corners of our minds. When Pleasure (Hannah Emily Anderson, JIGSAW, X-MEN: DARK PHEONIX) escapes an abusive relationship, her buddy Carmen (Madison Walsh, DON’T SAY ITS NAME) talks her right into a retreat for ladies surviving trauma within the Rocky Mountains with the acclaimed Dr. Dunnely (Kyra Harper, ORPHAN BLACK). As they transfer deeper into the wilderness and their remedy, Pleasure thinks her violent ex-boyfriend is on the market someplace, or maybe one thing even worse. Part of Cannes’ Implausible 7 for 2022, DARK NATURE tackles traditional survival horror with a contemporary method, aided by a terrific ensemble solid. World Premiere.

 

MOULD, DRUGS AND NIGHTMARES: THE UNDERGROUND SECTION COMES TOGETHER

THE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA

In his function debut, THE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA, South Korean filmmaker Park Syeyoung tells the story of mould left behind on a mattress after a pair splits. Structured round a countdown to a mysterious delivery, the movie follows the lifetime of the mould because it slowly grows right into a creature that steals the vertebrae of people who inhabit the mattress. A singular monster film that embraces soft-romanticism and new lifeforms’ fuzzy strangeness, THE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA imagines a world of sounds and textures from the attitude of one other life kind. Worldwide Premiere.

 

SKINAMARINK

Together with his function debut Skinamarink, director Kyle Edward Ball plunges us into these limitless childhood nights on this expressionistic and experimental horror imaginative and prescient. Two kids get up in the course of the night time to seek out their father is lacking, and all of the home windows and doorways of their residence have vanished. In SKINAMARINK, childhood recollections grow to be the backdrops of horrible imaginings, and the panorama of more and more disturbing incidents. World Premiere.

 

FRÁGIL
In FRÁGIL, a bunch of disillusioned youths in Lisbon are consumed by the promise of the “membership.” Irreverent, alien and playful, the movie takes the viewers on a visit by means of the underground of Portugal’s capital as its younger characters get excessive and unleash their unpredictable vitality on the streets. In his function debut, Pedro Henrique’s chaotic type makes use of voice-overs, dance sequences, animation, and elaborate units to create a uniquely adolescent and ecstatic expertise. Canadian Premiere.

 

HONEYCOMB

Within the warmth of summer time, someplace distant within the countryside, a bunch of younger ladies depart their lives behind to inhabit an deserted cabin surrounded by infinite open fields. The younger hive’s social experiment is at first idyllic, although quickly “guidelines” come up and the unhealthy journey begins. A masterclass of DIY cinema that achieves beautiful pictures with a gritty and highly effective aesthetic, HONEYCOMB, from Canada’s Avalon Quick, is a melancholic sensory expertise, a captivating nightmare within the type of THE LORD OF THE FLIES… Come and be a part of her highness of bees! Quebec Premiere.

 

EUROCULT CINEMA AND WEIRD VHS VLOGS: THE FINAL TWO DOCS FROM THE EDGE TITLES ARE HERE!

ORCHESTRATOR OF STORMS: THE FANTASTIQUE WORLD OF JEAN ROLLIN

Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger’s years-in-the-making documentary tells the story of certainly one of Eurocult cinema’s most singular voices, Jean Rollin, recipient of Fantasia’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Deeply misunderstood and broadly misrepresented, throughout his decades-long profession as a movie director, Rollin’s works have been in contrast to any others. When you dig into his life and passions, what emerges is a robust connection to the French surrealists, to symbolist artwork, to the poetry of Tristan Corbière, to the French anarchist scene within the sixties, and counterculture. Working intently with Rollin’s household, ORCHESTRATOR OF STORMS makes an attempt to raise the director’s work by exploring it in depth alongside these main influences, presenting the filmmaker’s story as by no means seen earlier than, with the assistance of a few of his key collaborators, shut associates, and specialists in each movie and cultural historical past – together with Fantasia’s 2022 Canadian Trailblazer Kier-La Janisse, who additionally co-executive-produced. A miracle of a documentary achievement. World Premiere.

 

A LIFE ON THE FARM SHOWCASES AN UNLIKELY FILMMAKER’S LONG-LOST TAPE

Discovered-footage fanatics will adore this crowdfunded documentary that’s equal elements morbid and hilarious. Sixteen years in the past, filmmaker Oscar Harding’s grandfather, who lived in rural England, handed away. Amongst his possessions was a dusty VHS tape from his quirky farmer neighbour, Charles Carson, who loved documenting his on a regular basis life in a wildly imaginative style. Between cat funerals, skeleton tractor races, and classes in cow birthing, Carson’s movie was oddly endearing. A tribute to all of the aspiring filmmakers whose work stays within the shadows, A LIFE ON THE FARM celebrates the legacy and surprisingly deep teachings of a real undiscovered artist. Quebec Premiere.

 

ADDITIONAL third WAVE TITLES

ALIENOID (South Korea) – Dir. Choi Dong-hoon

Alien infiltrators and a portal between trendy occasions and medieval Korea unleash a whirlwind of blades, bullets, and brutal arcane fury! This primary half of the epic new two-parter from Choi Dong-hoon (ASSASSINATION, THE THIEVES), a dependable supply of smash-hit South Korean blockbusters, may have you on the sting of your seat. Canadian Premiere.

 

CHILLI LAUGH STORY (Hong Kong) – Dir. Coba Cheng)

Prepare for a spicy comedy about household, entrepreneurship, and a particular scorching sauce referred to as Chiu Chiu Chiu that begins to promote like scorching desserts. Sizzling off its Hong Kong launch, don’t miss Coba Cheng’s first function. Canadian Premiere

 

CONFESSION (South Korea) – Dir.: Yoon Jong-seok

Yoon Jong-seok’s joyride of a homicide thriller, which was the Closing Movie at Udine Competition, is elevated to new ranges by its cleverly reconstructed flashbacks and nice performances by So Ji-sub (ALIENOID) and Yunjin Kim (LOST). Canadian Premiere

 

DARK GLASSES (Italy) – Dir: Dario Argento

A blinded intercourse employee (Ilenia Pastorelli) finds herself focused by a psychopath in Dario Argento’s first function in a decade. Again within the giallo style, the maestro –who scripted DARK GLASSES along with his frequent writing companion Franco Ferrini– eschews the advanced plotting of his previous homicide mysteries to ship a extra stripped-down and targeted story of survival within the face of insanity. Co-Starring Andrea Gherpelli and Asia Argento. Official Choice: Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition 2022. Canadian Premiere.

 

FREAKS OUT (Italy) – Dir: Gabriele Mainetti

Rome, 1943. A pack of sideshow performers with supernatural powers face off towards occupying Nazis in probably the most uncommon superhero movie you’ll ever see. This fantastical and gutsy celebration of the completely different that walks an electrifying tightrope between blockbuster filmmaking and edgier, extra subversive style work. From the director of THEY CALL ME JEEG. Winner of the Leoncino d’Oro finally fall’s Venice Movie Competition. Canadian Premiere.

 

THE KILLER (South Korea) – Dir: Choi Jae-hun

A retired murderer regains his murderous instincts following the kidnapping of the teenage lady he’s babysitting on this brutal and thrilling actioner, paying homage to the JOHN WICK saga and TAKEN, directed by Choi Jae-hun (THE SWORDSMAN). Canadian Premiere

 

LEGENDARY IN ACTION! (Hong Kong) – dirs. Justin Cheung & Li Ho

Shaw Brothers legend and real-life kung-fu champion Chen Kuan-Tai shines in a uncommon position that celebrates motion stars of the golden period of the ’70s and ’80s. This can be a real love letter to the style, but in addition to the loopy behind-the-scenes drama that comes with mounting a movie. Canadian Premiere.

 

ONE AND FOUR (China) – Dir. Jigme Trinley
Jinpa, a forest ranger, has his hangover interrupted by a bloody man who enters his cabin on this wintertime Tibetan movie that blends the western style with the huis-clos. Official choice: Tokyo Worldwide Movie Competition 2021. Canadian premiere.

 

THE WITCH: PART 2. THE OTHER ONE (South Korea) – Dir. Park Hoon-jung

The saga of transgressive science, secret organizations, and superpowered, telekinetic teenage sociopaths returns! The primary movie set a brand new customary for teen superhero films, and this new burst of horror, motion, and thrills solely raises that bar additional. Quebec Premiere

 

FANTASIA RETRO PRESENTS A FISTFUL OF RESTORATION PREMIERES

Fantasia is proud to announce the next old fashioned gems, resurrected to the massive display screen with beautiful new transfers and restorations. Titles with an Asterix are screening in our Fantasia Midnights collection, sponsored by Synapse Movies.

 

ACCIÓN MUTANTE (Spain, 1993) – Dir. Álex de la Iglesia*

In a futuristic Spain lorded over by the wealthy and surgically-enhanced handsome, a bunch calling themselves Accion Mutante (Mutant Motion) begins a violent rebellion. Álex de la Iglesia’s outrageous debut, produced by Pedro Almodóvar, modified Spanish style cinema eternally. Witness the start of certainly one of cinefantastique’s nice careers. World Premiere of Severin Movies’ new 4K restoration.

 

BLUE SUNSHINE (USA, 1978) – Dir: Jeff Lieberman*

Unhealthy acid taken years in the past sees individuals all of a sudden shedding their minds throughout the USA. Director Jeff Lieberman (SQUIRM) takes the premise of delayed reactions to ’60s drug-taking and runs with it, by means of a situation that blends moments of brutal violence with political commentary and social satire. Followers can flash again to their discovery of this acid-horror opus, and newcomers can take their first journey at our screening, hosted by Lieberman in-person. North American Premiere of New 4K restoration, courtesy of Jeff Lieberman and Synapse Movies.

 

THE DEADLY SPAWN (USA, 1983) – Dir. Douglas McKeown*

It’s a typical day within the lifetime of a New Jersey household—till Mother and Dad are devoured by a creature with three heads, no eyes, and one million sharp enamel. An exemplar of the form of practical-effects creature options that thrilled drive-in audiences and VHS viewers within the Nineteen Eighties, results creator John Dods’ low-budget bestiary impresses early and infrequently, chomping its method by means of the solid. World Premiere of Synapse Movies’ new 4K restoration.

 

DR. LAMB (Hong Kong, 1992) Dir. Danny Lee & Billy Tang*

An irregular taxi driver (Simon Yam) lusts for blood each wet night time. The infamous Class III shocker that began Hong Kong’s based-on-a-true-story serial-killer craze of the ’90s, DR. LAMB returns to Fantasia the place it dumbfounded unsuspecting audiences in 1999. This new restoration contains footage reduce from the unique Hong Kong launch prints. Co-directed by co-star Danny Lee (INFRA-MAN, THE KILLER). World Premiere of Unearthed Movies’ new 2K restoration.

 

THE HEROIC TRIO (Hong Kong, 1993) – Dir. Johnnie To

Three queens of Hong Kong screens—the late Anita Mui (DRUNKEN MASTER II), Wong Kar-Wai common Maggie Cheung (IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE) and naturally Michelle Yeoh (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON)—ignite like dynamite on this bonkers Hong Kong traditional from the good Johnnie To. THE HEROIC TRIO mashes up wuxia, superheroics,, a Terminator homage, insane stunts, pyrotechnics and a contact of horror into one wild experience. An viewers favorite throughout Fantasia’s first yr, this traditional is now heroically restored from the unique digicam damaging and able to thrill a complete new Fantasia crowd. Quebec Premiere of New 4K restoration, courtesy of Janus Movies.

 

KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (Hong Kong, 1979) Dir. Chang Cheh

The cruel Golden Arm and his kung fu buddies are wreaking havoc in previous China. Think about Sam Peckinpah meets John Woo with a great deal of blood and hints of Chinese language opera brilliantly infused. Director Chang Cheh (FIVE VENOMS), a pioneer in Hong Kong motion cinema, elevated the wuxia and grindhouse kung-fu genres to new ranges of innovation through the Golden Age. World Premiere of Arrow Movies’ new 2K restoration.

 

MERCENARIES FROM HONG KONG (Hong Kong, 1982) – Dir. Wong Jing*

An avalanche of continuous gunfire, pyrotechnics, wild bike stunts, and barrels of bloody pleasure from Wong Jing, in true 80s type. Starring a number of the most well-known Shaw legends: Ti Lung (THE DUEL), Lo Lieh (FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH), Wong Yu (DIRTY HO), and Wang Lung-Wei (HONG KONG GODFATHER). Unseen on Canadian screens for over 35 years. World Premiere of Arrow Movie’s new 2K restoration.

 

SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED (USA, 1974) – Dir. Michael Findlay*

“On the prowl, hear him howl, right here comes the Yeti now!” This gem of ’70s exploitation sees a bunch of school college students heading into the woods with their crackpot professor looking for the Yeti. A lot carnage ensues. His spouse, notorious filmmaker Roberta Findlay (TENEMENT, A WOMAN’S TORMENT), serves because the movie’s DOP, guiding the digicam by means of dense woods and electrical bathtubs whereas Michael Findlay directs by means of furry twists and turns. Monster hunters and conspiracy theorists alike gained’t need to miss it.World Premiere of Vinegar Syndrome’s new 4K restoration.

 

SPACE MONSTER WANGMAGWI (South Korea, 1967) – Dir. Gwon Hyeok-jinn

Alien attackers drop a huge, remote-controlled cosmo-creep by means of our stratosphere in South Korea’s oldest surviving homegrown kaiju flick! All however unseen outdoors of archival screenings for many years now, WANGMAGWI (“Large Satan”) has a legendary popularity. Its Seoul-stomping B-movie delirium is now unleashed on the world as soon as once more. North American Premiere of SRS Cinema’s Restoration.

 

WHAT’S UP CONNECTION (Japan/Hong Kong, 1990) – Dir. Masashi Yamamoto
When Hong Kong teenager Chi Gau Shin wins a visit to Japan, he unleashes a series of occasions that carry him from his secluded fishing village of Po Toi O to Tokyo, by the use of the so-called slums of Osaka… and finds his household of resourceful counterfeiters on the verge of expropriation. from director Masashi Yamamoto, it is a hardly ever seen bilingual Japan-Hong Kong co manufacturing from 1990 that unfolds as half unhinged globalization mini-epic, fringe documentary and portrait of a loopy household. Worldwide Premiere of recent 2K restoration.

Beforehand introduced restorations that may Premiere at this yr’s competition within the Home of Psychotic Girls screening collection: FOOTPRINTS (Italy, 1975), IDENTIKIT (Italy, 1974), IL DEMONIO (Italy, 1963), I LIKE BATS (Poland, 1986).

 

PANELS AND ARTIST TALKS

Fantasia is happy to be presenting the next free stay occasions

Artist speak: John Woo
Saturday July 16, 3PM, Cinema du Musée, free admission
Be part of us for a stay artist speak with legendary Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo, recipient of this yr’s Profession Achievement Award.

Artist speak: Kier-La Janisse
Friday July 22, 5:30PM. York Amphitheatre, free admission
A career-spanning dialogue with writer/filmmaker/curator/writer Kier-La Janisse, recipient of our 2022 Canadian Trailblazer Award.

Kim Kangmin Cease-Movement Masterclass
Tuesday, July 26, 7pm, York Amphitheatre, free admission
As a part of Fantasia’s Korean animation highlight, stop-motion animation director Kim Kangmin will discuss the place his concepts come from, and methods to incorporate them into quick movies utilizing numerous strategies.

Cease F*%#king up the planet: Concrete steps the movie trade can take to scale back our carbon and waste footprint
July 20, 6PM, York Amphitheatre, free admission
We’re in a local weather and ecological emergency. The United Nations’ IPCC Report tells us we’ve lower than 3 years to start decarbonizing our societies to keep away from catastrophic local weather change. The movie trade, which to this point has been vastly wasteful and polluting, should do its half to quickly and drastically cut back its fossil gas consumption and waste. Invited friends at this particular panel presentation will inform us on how greatest to vary trade practices, from the macro to the micro degree, utilizing sensible and achievable options.

Audio system will embrace: Dr. Heather Quick, PhD Earth Sciences and Local weather Science Educator; a consultant of Rolling Inexperienced (“On tourne vert”), a program which facilitates the adoption of eco-friendly measures for audiovisual productions in Québec; Adrian Knight, Location Supervisor and member of the Administrators’ Guild of Canada’s Nationwide Sustainable Local weather Motion Committee; Elza Kephart (SLAXX), filmmaker and local weather activist. Different friends to be introduced shortly.

Particular Occasion: The Movie Society of Montreal presents
THE POE MORGUE: A JOURNEY INTO FEAR WITH FILM, MUSIC AND THEATRE
Monday, August 1, 9:30PM, J.A. de Sève cinema
No writer has influenced the horror style greater than Edgar Allan Poe. His vivid creativeness has impressed tons of of movies within the final 110 years by administrators equivalent to Federico Fellini, Dario Argento, George Romero, Roger Corman and Robert Eggers.

Anticipate an immersive multi-dimensional expertise of quick movies unearthed from Montreal’s Movie Society archives. See a 1928 silent model of FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER with stay piano together with different shorts on 16mm and 35mm. Plus, on stage, actor James Malloch (of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE) will recite two beloved poems by Poe. For followers of the macabre, this will likely be a night of disturbing delights.

 

JURIES AND COMPETITIONS

Fantasia is happy to announce our 2022 juries and competitors titles:

CHEVAL NOIR COMPETITION

THE ARTIFICE GIRL (USA) – Dir. Franklin Ritch
CONVENIENCE STORY (Japan) – Dir. Satoshi Miki
COUPEZ! (FINAL CUT) (France) – Michel Hazanavicius
DETECTIVE VS SLEUTHS (Hong Kong) – Dir. Wai Ka-Fai
THE ELDERLY (Spain) – Dir. Raul Cerezo & Fernando Gonzalez Gomez
THE FISH TALE (Japan) – Dir. Shuichi Okita
THE HARBINGER (USA) – Dir. Andy Mitton
HOUSE OF DARKNESS (USA) – Dir. Neil LaBute
MEGALOMANIAC (Belgium) – Dir. Karim Ouelhaj
MY BROKEN MARIKO (Japan) – Dir. Yuki Tanada
NEXT SOHEE (South Korea) – Dir. July Jung
POLARIS (Canada) – Dir. KC Carthew
POPRAN (Japan) – Dir. Shinichiro Ueda
SPECIAL DELIVERY (South Korea) – Dir. Park Dae-min

NEW FLESH COMPETITION FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE

THE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA (South Korea) – Dir. Syeyoung Park
HUESERA (Mexico/Peru) – Dir. Michelle Garza Cervera
HYPOCHONDRIAC (USA) – Dir. Addison Heimann
KAPPEI (Japan) – Dir. Takashi Hirano
MOLOCH (Netherlands) – Dir. Nico van den Brink
MY SMALL LAND (Japan) – Dir. Emma Kawawada
NEXT DOOR (South Korea) – Dir. Yeom Ji-ho
ONE AND FOUR (China) – Dir. Jigme Trinley
LES PAS D’ALLURE (Québec) – Dir. Alexandre Leblanc
RELAX, I’M FROM THE FUTURE (Canada) – Dir. Luke Higginson
SEIRE (South Korea) – Dir. Park Kang
SISSY (Australia) – Hannah Barlow, Kane Senses
SKINEMARINK (Canada) – Dir. Kyle Edward Ball

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION

AMANDA, FOREVER & ALWAYS (USA) – Dir. Joshua Mozes
THE ASTRONAUT AND HIS PARROT (India) – Dir. Arati Kadav
BAD ACID (USA) – Dir. Sam Fox
BLACKBEAR (Canada) – Dir. Bryce Hodgson
DARKER (Belgium/Netherlands) – Dir. Frank Van den Bogaart
DAUGHTER OF WITCHES (Mexico/USA) – Faride Schroeder
THE ELEVATOR (Germany) – Dir. Benjamin Hujawa
EVERYTHING AT ONCE (USA) – Dir. Noel David Taylor
FROM.BEYOND (Norway) – Dir: Fredrik S. Hana
LA GUÊPE (Québec) – Dir. Marc Beaupré
HAIRSUCKER (Australia) – Dir. Paddy Jay, Michael Jones
HALVES THROUGH NIGHT (France) – Dir. Lina Laraki
HYSTERIC (USA) – Dir. Rod Blackhurst
KATMANDU (Uruguay) – Dir. Ana Clara Rodríguez Dova
MARA (USA) – Dir. Catharina Schürenberg
PUNCH DRUNK (USA) – Dir. Emily Lerer
ROOTED (USA) – Dir. Sean Addo
TILL (Germany) – Dir. Marc Philip Ginolas
WHAT IS IN THE OCEAN? (USA) – Dir. Preston Moss
WILD CARD (USA) – Dir. Tipper Newton

 

The next trade professionals make up the Fantasia 2022 juries:

CHEVAL NOIR JURY

Jury President: C. Robert Cargill (Screenwriter, Writer, Critic, Co-Founding father of CROOKED HIGHWAY)
Charles Bramesco (Writer, Critic)
Elza Kephart (Director, Screenwriter)
Maitland McDonagh (Writer, Critic, Writer, Founding father of 120 Days Books)
Heather O’Neill (Writer, Essayist)

NEW FLESH COMPETITION FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE

Jury President: Jenn Wexler (Director, Screenwriter, Producer)
Justyna Koronkiewicz (Worldwide Gross sales Agent, Media Transfer)
Eric Lavallée (Producer, Critic, Founding father of Ioncinema)
Tim Molloy (Journalist, Critic, Editor of MovieMaker Journal)
Katie Rife (Author, Critic, Programmer)

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM COMPETITION JURY

Jury President: Adam Koehler (Supervisor, Acquisitions & Productions, IFC Movies)
Valerie Barnhart (Director, Animator, Screenwriter, Visible Artist)
Céline Gobert (Critic, Journalist)
David Gregory (Director, Producer, Co-Founder / CEO of Severin Movies)
Michael Peterson (Director, Screenwriter, Producer)

SATOSHI KON AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ANIMATION

Jury President: Mina Lee (Studio Supervisor and Content material Specialist, E.D. FILMS)
Stephen Melagrano (Head of Animation, Steamroller Animation)
Jay Stephens (Comedian Artist, Animator)

AQCC CAMERA LUCIDA JURY

Samy Benammar (Movie Critic, Photographer, Filmmaker)
Pascal Grenier (Movie Critic, Programmer)
Jérôme Michaud (Movie Critic, Programmer)

 

The twenty sixth Annual Fantasia Movie Competition kicks off July 14th in Montreal, Canada. Extra data and tickets will be discovered HERE. Are you planning on attending this yr’s competition? Which films are you most excited to see? Share your picks with us over on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and within the official Nightmare on Movie Avenue Discord. Not a social media fan? Get extra horror delivered straight to your inbox by becoming a member of the Neighbourhood Watch Newsletter.