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The Fantaspoa Film Festival has unveiled its top award winners for 2025, Variety can exclusively reveal. The festival’s 21st edition wrapped on April 21 and had record-breaking attendance.

For 19 days, Latin America’s largest genre film festival played over 200 films across five different venues, garnering over 500,000 attendees. The winners range from “Scared Shitless” in the Midnight Films Competition, “The Lonely Musketeer” in the International Competition to “The Instinct” in the Ibero-American Competition. Annapurna Sriram‘s “Fucktoys,” which had its world premiere at this year’s SXSW, was recognized for Caroline Keenan Russell’s art direction.

The main categories include both shorts and feature-length films. See the full list of winners below.

Short Film Competition

Best Brazilian Short Film: “Carne Fresca”

Best International Animation Short Film: “Tinkerhell”

Best International Live-Action Short Film: “Help, I’m Alien Pregnant”

Mèliés D’Argent Award: “L’ essence de la Sirène”

Honorable Mentions:

“A Corte da Cúpula...

Stars: Esteban Prol, Horacio Fontova, Sergio Podelei, Gastón Cocchiarale, Fini Bocchino, Verónica Intile | Written by Daniel de la Vega, Pablo Parés, Paulo Soria | Directed by Daniel de la Vega, Pablo Parés

Directed by Daniel de la Vega (Dead End) and Pablo Parés (Plaga Zombie), Spanish language horror I Am Toxic was also penned by the two directors along with Paulo Soria. It’s a story of a man lost in a world of death and impending doom, fighting and running for his life. It’s safe to say I was very curious about this movie and I was right to be. It’s a very peculiar film, and there are some incredibly unique and bizarre things going on.

I Am Toxic starts with a lost man waking up in a pile of bones and dead bodies and he appears to be out in the middle of nowhere. He doesn’t appear to remember anything,...

Stars: Esteban Prol, Horacio Fontova, Sergio Podelei, Gastón Cocchiarale, Fini Bocchino, Verónica Intile | Written by Daniel de la Vega, Pablo Parés, Paulo Soria | Directed by Daniel de la Vega, Pablo Parés

Directed by Daniel de la Vega (Dead End) and Pablo Parés (Plaga Zombie), this Spanish language film, called Soy tóxico in it’s native Argentina, was also penned by the two directors along with Paulo Soria. It’s a story of a man lost in a world of death and impending doom, fighting and running for his life.

I was very curious about this movie, and I was right to be. It’s a very peculiar film, and there are some incredibly unique and bizarre things going on.

I Am Toxic starts with a lost man waking up in a pile of bones and dead bodies and he appears to be out in the middle of nowhere. He doesn’t appear to remember anything,...