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In the romantic comedy “I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn“, the Kenichi Ugana showcases his passion for American underground cinema and tells a classical “boy meets girls” story set in the punky environment of New York City.

I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn is screening at Fantasia International Film Festival

Mizuhara Shina is the upcoming star of the Japanese film industry. The big success of “Rebellion of Love” gives her all the opportunities and puts her in the limelight of the press. But fame does not satisfy her. Despite all the attention she gets, Shina is demotivated and cannot find passion for her profession. She leaves her agency and moves to New York with her boyfriend, Ren.

Making their way to all the tourist sights, the couple realises that their relationship is built upon superficiality and they break up. When Shina loses her luggage,...

The 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival has presented its juried awards this evening, with Mother of Flies from filmmakers John Adams, Zelda Adams, and Toby Poser (collectively known as the Adams Family) taking home the festival’s top honor, its Cheval Noir Award for Best Film. The occult thriller was also bestowed with a Cheval Noir Award for Best Motion Picture Score.

Mother of Flies, which World Premiered on July 24th and was acquired by Shudder earlier this month, is the first feature from the United States to win Fantasia‘s Cheval Noir Award for Best Film in the festival’s 29-year history.

Best Director went to Hadrah Daeng Ratu, for her blood-drenched supernatural shocker The Book of Sijjin and Illiyyin, while Best Screenplay was awarded to Connor Diedrich and Samuel Johnson, for their work on Steve Pink’s Terrestrial.

Alexander Ullom’s It Ends took home...

The 29th Fantasia Fest isn’t over yet, but we already know the big winners in Montreal. On Saturday night, filmmakers and jurors gathered in a theater at Cinéma du Musée to award seven of the competition’s eight categories.

“Mother of Flies” took home the Cheval Noir for Best Film — the first film from the U.S. to achieve this feat — as well as Best Score. The haunting feature was a family affair, from filmmakers and punk band John Adams, Zelda Adams, and Toby Poser. They’re collectively known as — wait for it — the Adams Family.

“That’s just good marketing,” joked director Pascal Plante, whose film “Red Rooms” won the Cheval Noir in 2023. Plante served as the section’s jury president in 2025, and announced Best Film.

“I want to put my heart up to the mic, so you can hear how fast it’s going right now,” said Zelda Adams,...

“Mother of Flies,” a small independent film from Fantasia regulars the Adams family, has won the jury-selected Cheval Noir award for best film at the 29th Fantasia Film Festival.

Acquired by Shudder in advance of the festival, “Mother of Flies” is written and directed by John Adams, Zelda Adams, and Toby Posner and also stars the family trio, as well as daughter Lulu Adams. One of the buzziest films at the festival, it is also the first U.S. film to win Fantasia’s coveted Cheval Noir for Best Film.

In the Cheval Noir jury statement, jury president Pascal Plante wrote, “This might not be the film with the most means or the flashiest camerawork, but it’s a film that, in a meta way, reminds us why we even bother to make films in the first place. [It’s] an earnest film; a true indie that feels authentic, vital, and impeccably crafted.

As summertime approaches, anticipation starts to grow for the annual Fantasia International Film Festival, held every year in Montreal. This year makes the festival’s 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, presented by Mels in collaboration with Concordia University. Fantasia returns to their usual venues of Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

Fantasia will announce the full lineup in July, but for now, they’ve provided a delicious list for its first wave of titles, which include Julia Pacino’s feature film debut, the latest from the Adams’ Family, Kurtis David Harder’s sequel film Influencers, and so much more.

Check out the first wave of 2025 Fantasia titles below: Terrestrial (dir. Steve Pink)

World Premiere

As director of the Hot Tub Time Machine films, Accepted, and About Last Night,...

The 29th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to run from from July 17th through August 3rd at the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas in Montreal, with additional screenings and events at Cinéma du Musée – and today the festival announced the first wave of titles that will be screening there this year! The full line-up will be announced in early July, but for here’s a sample of what attendees can expect to see there, with the information coming directly from the Fantasia press release:

Terrestrial Reveals A Different Shade Of (Steve) Pink: As director of the Hot Tub Time Machine films, Accepted, and About Last Night, and the co-writer of High Fidelity and Grosse Point Blank, Steve Pink has made a distinctive name for himself with individualistic comedy works that ooze personality. Now, he’s exploring darker edges of his sensibilities with Terrestrial,...

The Fantasia International Film Festival is one of the very best events to experience the latest and greatest genre films from around the world. There's nothing quite like it, and if you haven't had a chance to attend, I highly recommend planning a visit to Montreal this summer, especially now that the first wave of titles has been officially announced:

From the Press Release: "The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early July but in the meantime, Fantasia is excited to reveal a select first wave of premiere titles.

Terrestrial Reveals A Different Shade Of (Steve) Pink

As director of...

The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 29th edition with another densely packed slate of events and programming running from July 17 through August 3, 2025, returning to the Concordia Hall and J.A. de Sève cinemas and presented by Mels, with additional screenings and events at Montreal’s Cinéma du Musée.

The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early July, but in the meantime, Fantasia 2025 has revealed a select first wave of premiere titles. Highlights include Influencers, writer-director Kurtis David Harder‘s follow up to his 2022 thriller. Actor Al Pacino‘s daughter, film producer Julie Pacino, makes her feature directorial debut with the Lynchian I Live Here Now. From the director behind Hot Tub Time Machine and multiple episodes of “Santa Clarita Diet,” Steve Pink, comes an unconventional sci-fi comedy Terrestrial. The Adams family (Hellbender) is back with Mother of Flies, desrcribed as a personal dark fairy tale.

Trying to get into the college of her choice, Makoto (Ren Komai), a high school student with poor grades but a fondness for science fiction, saw a commercial for the local university in junior high and has since dreamed of designing robots in the future. However, she gets an F on the entry exam. One day, she meets a mysterious young man from the future named Shinichi (Ui Mihara). According to Shinichi, the only way to prevent his dystopian future is for Makoto to go to university and complete a design for a combat robot. Can they save the city from the impending destruction?

On the whole, “Future! Future!” is a serviceable enough comedy short. The central plotline here works perfectly, bringing Makoto and Shinichi together in a quick fashion while also spelling out the main framework of the story throughout. Makoto's geeky charms with her rampant quoting and referencing...