The 30th Fantasia International Film Festival took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from July 16 to August 2, 2026.Payton Turkletaub, "‘The Last Temptation of Becky,’ ‘The Eyes,’ ‘Hot Spot’ and ‘Ferine’ Among Fantasia 2026 First Wave Line-Up". Variety, May 5, 2026. The festival opened with Nicholas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell, and closed with Freaks Part II by Adam Stein and Zach Lipovsky, the sequel to their 2018 film Freaks.Alison Foreman, "Fantasia’s 30th Edition Will Open with Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Her Private Hell’ — Final Lineup". IndieWire, July 2, 2026.
The full schedule was announced on July 2, 2026.Jamie Casemore, "Fantasia International Film Festival reveals full 2026 lineup". Playback, July 3, 2026.
In honour of the festival's landmark 30th anniversary, it will be followed by a special five-week screening series of standout films from throughout the festival's history, at the Cinémathèque québécoise from August 7 to September 19.
Competition juries Cheval noir: Youngjoo Suh (president), Catherine Corcoran, Karim Hussain, Bob Murawski, Jennie Punter New Flesh: Brandon Hill (president), Jasper Basch, Julian Fonfrède, Markus Keuschnigg, Hilary Webber International Short Film: Adele Banks (president), Abraham Castillo Flores, Fatima Hayward, Terry Leung, Nick McCabe Satoshi Kon Award: Sylvie Trouvé (president), Peter Ferguson, Jeff Waye Northern Excellence: Kier-La Janisse (president), Matthew Hays, Kelly Kay Hurcomb, Naomi Jaye, Mike Peterson, James Watts Fantastic Weekends of Quebec Cinema: Manon Dumais (president), Marc-Antoine Lemire, Marie-Chantal Perron AQCC: Alexandre Blasquez, Rachel Goulet, Sylvian Lavallée Poulain noir: Vincent Gosselin, Sébastien Latour, Rui Ting Ji, Laura Venditti, Simon Yeretsian
Films Opening Film
English title Original title Director(s) Production country Her Private Hell Nicholas Winding Refn Denmark, United States
Closing Film
English title Original title Director(s) Production country Freaks Part II Adam Stein, Zach Lipovsky Canada
Compétition Cheval Noir
English title Original title Director(s) Production country AnyMart Yusuke Iwasaki Japan Beasts Clutching at Straws Hideo Jojo Japan Corpus Corrin Evans United States Ferine Andrea Corsini Italy Freaks Part II Adam Stein, Zach Lipovsky Canada Hot Spot Agnieszka Smoczyńska Poland, Greece, Sweden, Norway Nightborn Yön lapsi Hanna Bergholm Finland, Lithuania, France, United Kingdom No Rest for the Wicked Kasper Kalle Denmark, Faroe Islands, Iceland Sleep No More Monster Pabrik Rambut Edwin Indonesia, France, Germany, Japan, Singapore Someone's Daughter Wiebke von Carolsfeld Canada Sour Minnows Harrison Atkins United States Tokyo Burst: Crime City Eiji Uchida Japan Unidentified Murder Kwok Ka-Hei, Jack Lee Chun-Kit Hong Kong
New Flesh Competition
English title Original title Director(s) Production country After School Straf Merijn Scholte Albers, Tobias Smeets Netherlands Backstage Madness Shermendelik karnavaly Amanbek Azhymat Kyrgyzstan Big Break Ian Faria United States Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant THUNDERLIPS New Zealand Never After Dark Dave Boyle Japan Penny Lane Is Dead Mia'kate Russell Australia Recluse Henry Chaisson United States Sicko Aitore Zholdaskali Kazakhstan Tight Lettuce Tissé serré Harrison Houde Canada Unholy Night Michael Gabriele Canada When You Open the Door Katagiri Eriko Japan You Are the Film Makoto Ueda Japan
International Short Film Competition
English title Original title Director(s) Production country Boyfriend Fish Martin Ekelund Sweden Bruised Sky Gary Kent United Kingdom Dirtmouths Breehn Burns United States Echoes in Time Gemma Lee Australia Exhibit Lars Bürmann Germany Exsanguina Jonas Brisé France Fester Max Parr Canada Happydeal Les Frères Lopez France I Love Your Alter Ego! Lee Chan-bee South Korea Idols Matt Halsall South Korea, Japan, United Kingdom idyll Austin Cauldwell United States Imprint Ran Jing United States The Last Jiangshi Yu Chih Chieh China, Hong Kong, Taiwan Mancave Fredrik S. Hana Norway Manhole Jake Low Singapore Pile On Hu Lu China Purge Andrew Hamilton Canada Reset Jerry Hsu, Celine Tien United States Sam Catharina Schürenberg United States Sleep Through Summer Erin Mick Canada Something Borrowed Findlay Ironside Canada Tamasira Clare Chong Singapore, Malaysia This Is a Zombie Movie Elizabeth Perla United States Tropic Park Jung-yoon South Korea Veterano Patrick Epino United States Wish You Were Dead Lee Min-hyuk South Korea
Horizon 2026 Feature films English title Original title Director(s) Production country After School Straf Merijn Scholte Albers, Tobias Smeets Netherlands Attack on Paradise Bob Colaers Belgium, Netherlands Backstage Madness Shermendelik karnavaly Amanbek Azhymat Kyrgyzstan Bagworm Oliver Bernsen United States Big Break Ian Faria United States Blades of the Guardians Biāo Rén：Fēng Qǐ Dàmò Yuen Woo-ping China, Hong Kong Bowels of Hell Gustavo Vinagre, Gurcius Gewdner Brazil Break Free Odore! Yakuza Yu Nakamoto Japan Buddy Casper Kelly United States Cape Fear Amanda Marsalis, Jonathan van Tulleken United States Captured! Tore! Koichi Japan Colony Gunche Yeon Sang-ho South Korea Drag Raviv Ullman, Greg Yagolnitzer United States The Eyes Nundongja Yeom Ji-ho South Korea The Fox Dario Russo Australia The Glorious Dead Toby Poser, John Adams United States God Skin Paween Purijitpanya Thailand The Journey to Gyeongju Kim Mi-jo South Korea Kung Fu Gong Fu Giddens Ko Taiwan The Last Footage Arkar Soe Oo Myanmar The Last Temptation of Becky Jenn Wexler United States, United Kingdom The Leader Michael Gallagher Canada, United States Levitating Para Perasuk Wregas Bhanuteja Indonesia, Singapore, France Motherwitch Δωδεκάμερον Minos Papas Cyprus, North Macedonia, United States The Mouths Kuchi Ni Kansuru Enquete Takashi Shimizu Japan Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant THUNDERLIPS New Zealand The Mutation Sa-rang-eui-tan-saeng Shin Su-won South Korea Nameless Nanashi Hideo Jojo Japan Never After Dark Dave Boyle Japan Niko Julien Birban Levy South Korea Penny Lane Is Dead Mia'kate Russell Australia Recluse Henry Chaisson United States The Samurai and the Prisoner Kiyoshi Kurosawa Japan Sicko Aitore Zholdaskali Kazakhstan The Specials Eiji Uchida Japan Suzuki=Bakudan Akira Nagai Japan Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Jane Schoenbrun United States Trauma Or, Monsters All Larry Fessenden United States Tristes Tropiques Seulpeun-Yeoldae Park Hoon-jung South Korea Tunnels: Sun in the Dark Dia Dao: Mat Troi Trong Bong Toi Chuyen Bui Thac Vietnam Los Vampires Craig Mitchell United States Village of Eight Gravestones YatsuhakaMura Takashi Shimizu Japan We're Nothing At All Herman Yau Hong Kong Wind Breaker Kentaro Hagiwara Japan You Are the Film Makoto Ueda Japan
Short films
English title Original title Director(s) Production country 175 Sepehr Nosrati Sweden The 5 Second Rule Invisible Friends Collective Armenia Algorithm Lena Isabella Deisenberger Austria L'Ami raton Rémi Fréchette Canada Angels Sam Mandich United States Animalies Divocina vola ! Katerina Karhankova, Marek Naprstek Czechia Avant de rentrer... Arthur Bonneau France Best Friends with the Devil Hugo de Sousa United States Boyfriend Fish Utan Efter Med Martin Ekelund Sweden Breeder Sapphire Sandalo United States Bruised Sky Gary Kent United Kingdom The Candle Ren Ariel Sano United States Capitaine Magique William Tran Canada Cardigan! Aled Owen United Kingdom Ce qui se passe sous les cimes Ludovic Brillon Canada Ceiling King Mats Udd Sweden Chaar Diwaari Syed Shadan India CHÄIR Chris McInroy United States Cherubs Pietro Zuercher, Anna Pieri Zuercher Switzerland Claddah Anna Drezen United States Clube de Tricot Diogo Abrantes, João Rito Portugal Collateral Damage Matt Farren United States Le Collectionneur Aude Bolte Canada The Company Card Myles Hodder Canada The Corridor Le Corridor Mathieu Samson Canada Dagnabbit! Jason Sheedy, Joshua David Matthews United States Day of the Dad James III United States Dirtmouths Breehn Burns United States DJ Bouche (Le Director's Daft Cut) Dominic Asselin Canada Echoes in Time Gemma Lee Australia The End Is at Hand Japhet E. Velazquez United States Exhibit Lars Bürmann Germany Exit Jérémie Dagenais, Victor Watier-Berthiaume Canada Exsanguina Jonas Brisé France Face Thief Yuta Shimotsu Japan The Fated Hour Peter Hengl United States, Austria Flavor of the Month Nathan Xia United States Flowers Bloom When Touched Priyanka Krishnan United States, India Fu Peyton Elizabeth Lee United States Goodbye, Monster Luke Barnett United States HappyDeal Alexis Lopez France Headphones Stephen Arriagada Australia Horse Fly Alex Park United States How to: Make a Pizza on Hypnosis Fred Lavigne Canada I Love Your Alter Ego! Lee Chan-bee South Korea Idols Matt Halsall Japan, South Korea, United Kingdom Idyll Austin Cauldwell United States Imago Mark Steger United States Imprint Ran Jing United States In and Out of the Hornbeam Maze Tomas Stark Sweden Jingle Jangle Sionne Elise United States Kakek Sven Peetoom Netherlands Kill Ada Sha Si Ai Da Cai Kunyu China KPOP Smoothie Haneol Lee United States Lasagna Run James Livitski Canada The Last Jiangshi Mo Dai Jiang Shi Yu Chih Chieh Taiwan, China, Hong Kong The Man That I Wave At Ben S. Hyland United Kingdom Mancave Fredrik S. Hana Norway Manon Maria Belen Person Kalauz Canada May I Henri Cheung Canada My Blue Heaven Mia Gueli, Alegria Bishop Saldana Canada Needle Sofie Somoroff United States The New Flesh Novo Corpo Luciana Malavasi Brazil, Portugal Night Whispers Adrian Ramírez León United Kingdom Noise of Waves Szum fal Tomasz Wróbel Poland Pandémonium Épisode 1 et 8 Jimmy Genest Pettigrew Canada The Parrot Mathieu Fortin Canada Partys de famine Fred Lavigne Canada Phase IV - A Poetic Remix DJ XL5 Canada, United States The Pigs Underneath Charlie Dennis United Kingdom Pile On Die Luo Han Hu Lu China Ping Pong Simone Emolo Italy Please and Thank You Hal Kirkland United States Le potager secret de Clitorin Fred Lavigne Canada Primus le Robot Max Delagrave France Rebrand Edoardo Ranaboldo United States Redneck Alexandria Basso United States Reset Jerry Hsu, Celine Tien United States The Rib Woman Yuta Shimotsu Japan Le Salon funéraire Dominique Lortie Canada Sam Catharina Schürenberg Germany, United States Scissors Hannah Alline United States Scorching Dan Chen Ri Wang Beidi China Screen of the Dead Martin Bruyère Canada Season's Greetings Michael Dougherty United States A Shadow in the Corner of the Room Mercies May United States Shibuya Underground, Sasebo Evolution Narushi Takeda Japan Sleep Tight Grace Presse United States The Soaker Siana Marquis-Bilquard, Julianna La Rosa Canada Soulmate Jens-Julius Dall Denmark Speedy! Oh Ji-in South Korea Strange Egg Liv Mershon United States Suzie, Vampiresse Kevin Miclette Canada Tamasira Claire Chong Singapore, Malaysia Term Chadrick Preuss United States This House That Bears No Fruit Chantal Leong Canada This Is a Zombie Movie Elizabeth Perla United States Timber Dominic Asselin Canada Tongue Lim Da-seul South Korea Tornado, in Loving Memory David Connor Canada, United States Tropic Park Jung-yoon South Korea The Two Year Rule Carly Balestreri Canada Ugh Ai Ni Ma Scarlett Wang Yuan China, United States Ultraviolet Damage Pola Rader Germany Veterano Patrick Epino United States Vomit Roi Cydulkin United States We Will Follow the Wind Tai Feng Jiang Luo Zhi Qian Demon Wong France, China, Hong Kong Weak in the Knees Shivers & Viking United States Wish You Were Dead Lee Min-hyuk South Korea A Woman Like This James Kenward Germany You Deserve More! Béla Baptiste France, United States
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