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The Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its upcoming 29th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and launch events running from July 16 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 full film lineup will be revealed in early July, but in the meantime, Fantasia is excited to announce its select second wave of features.

All The Asian Titles In The Second Wave

A Takashi Miike Triple Threat! “Nyaight Of The Living Cat“, “Blazing Fists” And “Sham“

A perennial of the festival’s programming since its earliest days, and recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016, maverick, genre-jumping Japanese director Takashi Miike makes his mark at Fantasia again this year with not one but three titles—including an adorable J-horror anime series, with World Premiere episodes!

Adapting the manga written by Hawkman and drawn by Mecha-Roots,...

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 its second wave of premiere titles. Highlights include Ari Aster’s Eddington as the opening film, a trio of new releases from prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike, festival favorites like upcoming body horror movie Together, and so much more. Also be sure to catch up on the first wave of programming here.

The second wave of select titles, from the press release:

Official Opening Film: Eddington

Fantasia’s 29th edition will open with a special screening of Ari Aster’s Eddington. In...

Fresh from its Cannes Competition world premiere, Ari Aster’s Eddington will open the 29th Fantasia International Film Festival, which begins a day earlier than previously announced and runs in Montreal from July 16 to August 3.

Pedro Pascal and Joaquin Phoenix star in the tale of a stand-off between a small town sheriff and the mayor that ignites wider tensions in a New Mexico community. A24 will release in the US on July 18.

The second wave of titles announced on Thursday includes three new works from Japanese genre master Takashi Miike led by the world premiere of episodes from J-horror anime...

Stars: Lorrie Bacon, Chris Spinelli, Mark Carter, Oselito Joseph, Phil Godeck, Rita Maria, Adriana Medina, Gabbi Mendelsohn, Eric Michaelian, Brent Northup, Nick Sheldon, Jesse Waegelein-Hall, Pawel Watracz | Written and Directed by Geno McGahee

Massachusetts filmmaker Geno McGahee returns to the Scary Tales franchise he created in 2014 with the third film in the series, Scary Tales: Dead Zone, after an 8-year hiatus. Which means that yes, we’re in anthology territory once again – a once-dead format which seems to be gaining momentum as the end of 2023 approaches.

Scary Tales: Dead Zone opens with a couple, Allison and Jay, who are out on a drive when their car runs out of gas. Seemingly lost, they walk through the woods and discover a house in the middle of nowhere. Inside, a friendly man, Wes, with an interesting past as a cop has some tales to tell…

First up in Scary Tales: Dead Zone...