2019 festival
Discover our entire selection
Fantasia’s flagship juried competition, a global selection of varied genre works from new and established, groundbreaking and unconventional auteurs.
Discover the year's best genre films from all across the globe.
Martial arts, motor madness and hard-boiled heroics hit the screen hard, thrilling big crowds every time!
From experimental enigmas to eye-popping crowd-pleasers, the many tones and techniques of animation are highlighted in this section.
Experimental and audacious, the Camera Lucida section exists at the margins of genre cinema, showcasing its most original, personal, and innovative voices.
Cutting-edge documentaries from pop culture and counter-culture to issue-driven works of illumination and stranger-than-fiction tales of everyday oddness.
Take a look at the films that shaped the history genre cinema.
Bold, super independent outsider works that possess a purity of vision and are wholly unafraid to take risks. The revolution begins here.
A highlight of the talent of Quebec filmmakers, shown here across their feature films.
A vital reflection on Quebec’s cinematic history, offering a worthy showcase for rare films that history has forgotten, neglected and even snubbed.
From Les Utopiales in Nantes, the festival’s favourite short films of recent vintage — a panoply of head-scratchers, heartbreakers, and mindblowers.
Fantasia’s showcase of intimate, auteur genre visions returns to celebrate the unconventional gaze with these extraordinary works.
Some of the year’s very best animated short films from around the world in a unique journey, from childhood's discoveries to the insights of adulthood.
A cornucopia of shorts amid a mix of old TV ads, film snippets and bursts of static, to simulate a productive evening of channel surfing with the gang at home.
Short Films
Short films from home!
Fantasia’s showcase of provocative and character-driven international science-fiction works.
Children, parents and the young at heart are invited to dive into this free series of short film programs.
Discover four works by one of the most exciting Japanese filmmakers to emerge in recent years.
FANTASIA International Film Festival, in collaboration with Woolf + Lapin, the National Film Board and Mont VR, are proud to present the FANTASIA VR Experience
Fantasia’s renowned showcase of provocative and cutting-edge international shorts is back, with these bold works. Skin will crawl.
11 histoires animées asiatiques de fantômes, d’esprits, de monstres et de mystères – un pot-pourri de magie et de macabre via une variété de techniques!
Fantasia is proud to be presenting a special masterclass with Edward R. Pressman, our 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient.
For his special Fantasia Master Class, Keita Amemiya takes a look at the masks, monster and marvels of his imagination!
Critic Michael Gingold and 1984 Publishing present Ad Astra: 20 Years of Newspaper Ads for Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films.
A six-hour bus tour hosted by horror journalist Michael Gingold and author Kier-La Janisse.
Montreal’s OVMF (Orchestre à Vents de Musiques de Films) presents a concert celebrating music by renowned Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi.
David Gregory (Severin Films), Nora Mehenni (Arrow Video) and Joe Rubin (Vinegar Syndrome) discuss trials, thrills and rewards of genre film restoration work.
Spend a fast-and-furious two hours with America’s drive-in movie critic!
This extravagant evening revisits the 15-year career (so far!) of DJ XL5.
