The twenty seventh version of the Fantasia Worldwide Movie Competition is ready to run from from July twentieth by means of August ninth on the Concordia Corridor Cinema in Montreal, with further screens on the Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma du Musée. In Could, they introduced the primary wave of titles that will likely be displaying at this 12 months’s pageant. Final month, the second wave was introduced. Now, the titles that make up the third and last wave have been unveiled – and together with that comes the announcement that Nicolas Cage will likely be receiving the Cheval Noir Profession Achievement Award at this 12 months’s present!
The Fantasia Worldwide Movie Competition has chosen to honor Nicolas Cage this 12 months as a result of he “has introduced all kinds of unforgettable individuals to life in works which are as memorable because the characters he portrayed, with textured performances which were among the many most enjoyable and distinctive from anybody within the final 4 a long time.” And since, as talked about within the second wave announcement, the Cage thriller Sympathy for the Satan will likely be having its world premiere on the present, this appeared like the perfect time for him to obtain the Profession Achievement Award.
Right here’s the knowledge on the third wave of titles, courtesy of the Fantasia press launch:
OFFICIAL CLOSING FILM: RKSS COMES HOME WITH WE ARE ZOMBIES
The twenty seventh version of the pageant will finish on an particularly riotous observe with the World Premiere of WE ARE ZOMBIES, the newest from internationally beloved Quebecois cult collective RKSS (SUMMER OF ’84) – François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell. Primarily based on the comedian LES ZOMBIES QUI ONT MANGÉ LE MONDE (The Zombies that Ate the World), the movie is ready in a society the place zombies, known as “living-impaired,” roam amongst us with no urge to eat flesh. The movie stars Megan Peta Hill (RIVERDALE), Alexandre Nachi (1991) and Derek Johns (THE BOYS). Additionally on board is RKSS mainstay Jean-Philippe Bernier, dealing with each the cinematography and the pulsing electro soundtrack together with his duo Le Matos. RKSS got here of age at Fantasia, first in our viewers after which on our display with their early brief movies changing into on the spot crowd favourites. Their debut TURBO KID emerged from Frontières, premiered at Sundance and rapidly attained rabid cult standing internationally. Nothing makes us prouder than to shut our twenty seventh version with the world premiere of their third function, a particular homecoming with RKSS returning to their earliest viewers. World Premiere.
MS. APOCALYPSE RINGS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Younger-mi works as a bookkeeper for a tech manufacturing unit, the place her awkward disposition has earned her the nickname “Ms. Apocalypse.” Secretly infatuated with a co-worker named Do-young, she is shocked when she finds out that he has been embezzling firm cash; however finally chooses to cowl his tracks. On the final day of 1999, Do-young turns himself in, and they’re each sentenced to jail. When Younger-mi is launched a couple of months later, Do-young’s lovely spouse is ready for her with a compelling supply. Director Lim Solar-ae (AN OLD LADY) returns with a poignant and profoundly human drama about braveness and new beginnings. Cheval Noir Competitors. World Premiere.
A WILDLY INDIVIDUALISTIC, DEEPLY PERSONAL COMEDY OF DISCOMFORT: HIPPO
Loosely based mostly on ‘Hippolytus’ — HIPPO hilariously examines the approaching of age of two homeschooled step-siblings: Hippo (Kimball Farley), a video game-addicted teenager and Buttercup (Silver Bear winner Lilla Kizlinger), a Hungarian immigrant with a love of classical music and Catholicism. Achingly humorous and deeply perverse, this uncomfortable-yet-endearing comedy is steeped in ache and melancholia, with a pair of distinctive performances at its core. Suppose ‘90s Todd Solondz with a nightmare Wes Anderson aesthetic. The function directorial debut of author/director Mark H. Rapaport, producer of THE SCARY OF SIXTY-FIRST and PLEDGE. Additionally starring Eliza Roberts and Jesse Pimentel. Government produced by Danny McBride, David Gordon Inexperienced and Jody Hill. Cheval Noir Competitors. World Premiere.
EMBRACE THE MONSTER WITHIN WITH THE ROARING TIGER STRIPES
The primary amongst her group of associates to hit puberty, 12-year-old Zaffan (Zafreen Zairizal) feels her physique altering. Within the small rural village in Malaysia the place her life is structured across the guidelines of college and Muslim religion, this might turn into an issue…a monstrous downside. The primary Malaysian movie to win the Grand Prize at Cannes’ La Semaine de la Critique, Amanda Nell Eu’s TIGER STRIPES is a pleasant addition to the canon of feminist, horror-tinged coming-of-age movies: a placing debut that showcases an infectiously rebellious filmmaking spirit and aDIY vitality that comes as soon as in a blue moon. Cheval Noir Competitors. North American Premiere.
A GRIPPING, CHARACTER-DRIVEN THRILLER THAT PACKS HEARTSTOPPING SURPRISE: NEW LIFE
A mysterious lady (Hayley Erin) is on the run, a fixer (Sonya Walger) is assigned to carry her in, and the stakes of the pursuit rise to apocalyptic proportions. Author/director John Rosman’s NEW LIFE is a thriller that doubles as an sudden emotional powerhouse, with its dimensioned, atypical duo each struggling to be taught the what and why of their circumstances. NEW LIFE retains the viewer on edge as its many layers start to unravel, conjuring appreciable stress in unpredictable methods. From the producers of SOMETHING IN THE DIRT and THE MORTUARY COLLECTION. World Premiere.
UNMASK THE PHANTOM
The Thirties: a darkish time in Korean historical past. In the course of the Japanese colonization of Korea in 1933, anti-occupation teams resist the oppression of the ruthless Imperial authorities. After a failed assassination try on the newly-appointed Governor Common, safety chief Kaito leads an investigation to search out an skilled spy recognized solely because the “Phantom.” 5 prime suspects are then locked inside a distant lodge and compelled to show their innocence. Lee Hae-young (BELIEVER) returns to the pageant with an edge-of-your-seat spy thriller that includes a who’s-who of insanely proficient actors: Sul Kyung-gu (IDOL), Lee Hanee (EXTREME JOB), Park So-dam (PARASITE), Park Hae-soo (SQUID GAME) and Search engine optimization Hyun-woo (DECISION TO LEAVE). North American Premiere.
A TENSE REVENGE THRILLER RE-INTERPRETATION: FEMME
Performing as Aphrodite Banks, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, CANDYMAN) has turn into one among London’s most celebrated drag artists. After a present, he steps out to get some cigarettes when he’s brutally attacked by a gang of racist homophobes. Jules withdraws from the drag race totally, traumatised and despondent. Months later, whereas at a homosexual sauna, he acknowledges a well-recognized face: his attacker Preston (George MacKay, 1917), whom he begins courting, hatching a plan for revenge. Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s debut FEMME is a jaw-dropping thriller constructed across the notion of code-switching alongside sexual orientation, but in addition racial and ideological traces. A superbly calibrated queer thriller, it subverts the drained trauma narrative and as an alternative focuses on drag as a strong power. Cheval Noir Competitors. North American Premiere.
BOOGER WILL HAVE YOU COUGHING UP MORE THAN JUST FURBALLS
Mary Dauterman’s brief movie, WAKEY WAKEY took Fantasia by storm when it internationally premiered within the Born of Girl showcase in 2019. She’s now again along with her function debut BOOGER, a darkish comedy about misplaced cats, grief, and millennial despair. Anna’s (Grace Glowicki) greatest buddy Izzy simply died, and her landlord received’t cease calling about lease. As her life falls aside, she’s bitten by Izzy’s cat Booger and begins to get stranger daily: she’s hungry for canned fish, she retains swallowing her hair, and her predator instincts are uncontrolled. World Premiere.
THE ANIMALS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT IN ANIME GEM THE CONCIERGE
“The phrase ‘no’ doesn’t exist in a concierge’s dictionary.” That’s simply one of many demanding guidelines that Akino should abide by in her new job as a concierge on the elegant and expansive Arctic Division Retailer, the place the shoppers are all animals and probably the most valued amongst them are of extinct species. This anime gem adapts the much-loved manga by Tsuchika Nishimura. Populated by all method of creatures nice and small, THE CONCIERGE is a vibrant, comical, compassionate treasure of bespoke anime, boasting animation manufacturing by Manufacturing I.G and a script by Satomi Ooshima (FORTUNE FAVORS LADY NIKUKO), marking the feature-film debut of gifted director Yoshimi Itazu (PIGTAILS, Fantasia 2016). Axis Part – North American Premiere.
A PACK OF FAILED CLOWNS HAVE THEIR MOMENT IN THE MAD IRISH CHAOS COMEDY APOCALYPSE CLOWN
A troupe of failed clowns and an intrepid reporter embark on a lunatic street journey of self-discovery after a mysterious photo voltaic occasion plunges the world into anarchy in what would be the funniest (and solely) clowns-and-catastrophe film ever made. A decade after their hilarious DISCOVERDALE, Irish director/co-writer George Kane re-teams with Demian Fox, Shane O’Brien and James Walmsley (of comedy rock band Useless Cat Bounce) with this insane and unique chaos comedy freakout that pays tribute to clowning as a lot because it skewers it. That includes David Earl, Natalie Palamides, Amy De Bhrún, Fionn Foley and Tadgh Murphy. Worldwide Premiere.
BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW THAN THE DEVILS YOU DON’T
Motivated by anger and revenge, murder detective Jae-hwan is hellbent on taking down a harmful serial killer named Jin-hyuk. Throughout a frenzied chase, Jae-hwan lastly captures the perpetrator however a disastrous accident sends him to the hospital. Upon waking, Jae-hwan finds one thing is very off: he now seems to be and feels like Jin-hyuk Director Kim Jae-hoon makes his function debut with the FACE/OFF-inspired body-swap thriller DEVILS: an over-the-top, totally entertaining thrill trip starring Oh Dae-hwan (DELIVER US FROM EVIL) reverse Jang Dong-yoon (PROJECT WOLF HUNTING) in a gory, cinematic showdown for the ages. North American Premiere.
FICKLE FRIENDSHIP AND CLAY CREATIONS: FANTASTIC GOLEM AFFAIRS
Rudderless bachelor Juan (Brays Efe, PAQUITA SALAS) and his greatest buddy David play charades on the rooftop. When David falls to his loss of life, his physique disintegrates right into a thousand clay items.He was…a golem all alongside? Juan González and Nando Martínez’s newest collaboration is an unpredictable sci-fi comedy that feels half telenovela, half sketch comedy – all subverted by unique offbeat humor and wacky world-building. Shot on 16mm and co-starring Spanish superstars Luis Tosar (MIAMI VICE) and Javier Botet ([REC]), THE FANTASTIC GOLEM AFFAIRS is a colourful creation dismantling the façades of on a regular basis life. Digicam Lucida Part. North American Premiere.
LEARN HOW TO FALL IN LOVE WITH MY WORST NEIGHBOR
Seung-jin strikes right into a shabby new flat, searching for one final likelihood to fulfil his dream of breaking into the powerful world of pop music. Nevertheless, two particulars quickly derail him. Firstly, the partitions are product of cardboard. Secondly, his neighbour Rani, an agoraphobic character designer, is decided to eradicate any noise. A warfare of attrition begins, with no face-to-face negotiations potential. A reinterpretation of Clovis Cornillac’s movie UN PEU, BEAUCOUP, AVEUGLÉMENT, Lee Woo-chul’s MY WORST NEIGHBOR stars Okay-pop famous person Han Seung-yeon, of the group Kara, and actor Lee Ji-hoon, as two totally endearing, charismatic neighbors. North American Premiere.
A FEROCIOUS REMINDER THAT PAST CAN BE PROLOGUE: RASCALS
Set throughout the rise of the skinhead motion that swept by means of Paris within the Nineteen Eighties, RASCALS is a searing portrait of a technology caught up in rising facism. A darkish coming of age story like THIS IS ENGLAND or LA HAINE, carried by an iconic interval soundtrack. Director / co-writer Jimmy Laporal-Trésor has crafted a masterful debut, one of the crucial impactful options of the 12 months, by no means overemphasizing violence however focusing brilliantly on its ramifications. The protagonists, fantastically acted by a forged that features Missoum Slimani, Jonathan Feltre, Angelina Woreth and Victor Meutelet, are every victims of circumstances that attain far past them. RASCALS couldn’t be extra topical or affecting. North American Premiere.
A STUDENT FILM WITH SHADES OF WONG KAR-WAI: THE MOON, SKY AND YOU
In Hei Yau Lin’s debut function, THE MOON, SKY AND YOU, highschool lovers battle towards a hitman group. Made for The Hong Kong Polytechnic College, THE MOON, SKY AND YOU broadcasts a brand new voice for style cinema. An electrical experimentation that takes benefit of the complete vary of cinematic potential, the movie balances ironic apathy with painful sincerity because it captures the fleeting innocence of youth. The movie includes a filet-o-fish-eating goldfish, a do-it-yourself carousel and blood-speckled schoolgirls. Underground Part. World Premiere.
A HALLUCINATORY VISION OF HELL: PANDEMONIUM
Winner of Fantasia’s 2016 Jury Prize for Finest Worldwide Quick for A NEARLY PERFECT BLUE SKY, celebrated author/director Quarxx returns to the pageant with the beautiful new function PANDEMONIUM. Drawing on themes present in Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Misplaced, the movie is a multi-textured existential fantasy topped with signature notes of visceral horror, disturbing fairy story, wry comedy, and thrills. Exploring the various faces of loss of life — suicide, homicide, sickness, accident — Quarxx dives deep into the notion of sin with out redemption and the frailty of the human situation by means of the waking nightmare of 1 confused traveler (Hugo Dillon) who refuses to desert all hope as he enters the gates of hell. North American Premiere.
VINEGAR SYNDROME’S DEBUT PRODUCTION MELTS RETINAS WITH EIGHT EYES
On the breaking level of their dysfunctional marriage, Cass (Emily Candy) and Gav (Brad Thomas) make a journey by means of Serbia. After assembly a mysterious native, Saint Peter, who eagerly provides to be their information, the couple embark on an impromptu sightseeing expedition that quickly takes a collection of sinister turns. The inaugural manufacturing from beloved restoration label Vinegar Syndrome, shot on location in 16mm with mind-bending cinematography, EIGHT EYES shocks arduous. Director / co-writer Austin Jennings’ function debut channels the spirits of exploitation cinema’s previous to assemble a movie that’s as ghoulish as it’s fascinating. That includes an unique rating by Morricone Youth. World Premiere.
AKIRA TORIYAMA’S MANGA SAND LAND RETURNS AS AN ANIME FEATURE FILM
Finest recognized for the world-renowned DRAGONBALL, celebrated Japanese manga creator Akira Toriyama’s many different works embrace the mini-epic SAND LAND, a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic screwball romp revealed in 2000. It portrayed a mysterious desert world the place water is probably the most valuable useful resource, and follows Devil’s son Beelzebub and his comrades on a determined, harmful quest. Toriyama’s numerous followers can rejoice as a result of now, 1 / 4 century later, an anime adaptation has additional rekindled SAND LAND’s attraction. Fantasia’s crowd can take explicit pleasure on this information, as a result of the director is the proficient Toshihisa Yokoshima, a deft grasp of CG animation whose brief movie COCOLORS received a Satoshi Kon Award on the pageant in 2017. Axis Part. Canadian Premiere.
BULLETS AND DRUGS COLLIDE IN HERMAN YAU’S WHITE STORM 3: HEAVEN OR HELL
Lock and cargo for this explosive motion extravaganza, a stand alone sequel with all new characters directed by a real grasp of exploitation cinema, Herman Yau (THE LEGEND IS BORN-IP MAN, UNTOLD STORY). Yau directed, produced and photographed over 100 movies, many that are classics that formed Hong Kong cinema. Starring 3 Hong Kong legends together with two Johnnie To regulars, Louis Koo (DRUG WAR) and Lau Ching-Wan (final 12 months’s DETECTIVE VS. SLEUTHS). Canadian Premiere.
SATANIC PANIC, VIDEO DOORBELLS AND THE CRINGIEST FLAVOR OF STAR WARS: A TRIO OF DOCUMENTARIES FROM THE EDGE.
The decision is coming from inside the home in HOME INVASION
“Made in mattress throughout the pandemic” by playful experimentalist Graeme Arnfield, HOME INVASION is among the most chilling cinematic experiences of the 12 months. A nightmarish essay movie doubling as an experiential horror movie framed by means of an oppressive peephole, this genre-defying documentary takes the viewer from the invention of the doorbell to the arrival of Amazon’s ghoulish Ring, displaying how this historical past intertwines with movie know-how, horror cinema and labour struggles. Composed from a mixture of archival patent illustrations, home safety footage and basic movie clips from Hitchcock to Haneke, HOME INVASION asks what occurs when our properties and goals have been invaded. Official Choice: Berlinale 2023. Digicam Lucida Part. North American Premiere.
SATAN WANTS YOU explores the reality about Satanic Panic by means of “Michelle Remembers”
In 1980, a ebook entitled Michelle Remembers rocked popular culture. Written by Michelle Smith and her psychiatrist Larry Pazder, this account reveals Michelle’s suppressed recollections of satanic ritual abuse by the hands of her mother and father. In SATAN WANTS YOU, which debuted at SXSW 2023, administrators Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams interview key witnesses of Michelle’s ordeal to delve into the the reason why this ebook is seen because the catalyst for the Satanic Panic phenomenon. Our screening will embrace a particular Q&A with Fantasia’s 2022 Canadian Trailblazer award winner, Kier-La Janisse in dialog with the filmmakers. Her ebook Satanic Panic: Pop-Tradition Paranoia within the Nineteen Eighties can even be accessible. Septentrion Shadows Part. Quebec Premiere.
The stranger-than-fiction story behind a horrible Star Wars vacation particular: A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE.
There’s little doubt that we’re residing in a golden age of tv. 45 years in the past, nevertheless, we have been most decidedly not, and the proof lies in THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL, a two-hour TV monstrosity that has lengthy been named the worst STAR WARS ever. Jeremy Coon and Steve Kozak’s exhaustively researched and wildly entertaining A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE interviews everybody from the present’s creators and crew to superfans together with “Bizarre Al” Yankovic, Seth Inexperienced and Kevin Smith, revealing the absurd circumstances that led to the ‘70s Selection-style present turning out as disastrously because it did. Worldwide Premiere.
CLASSIC ADDITIONS TO FANTASIA 2023’S SOUTH KOREAN SPOTLIGHT!
Celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations between Canada and the Republic of Korea, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Heart Canada and the Cinémathèque québécoise, Fantasia provides exemplary masterpieces to the retrospective.
PEPPERMINT CANDY (South Korea) – Dir. Lee Chang-dong
As highly effective now as ever, Lee Chang-dong’s 1999 novelistic breakthrough takes us by means of seven key chapters of a person’s unraveling life, and of a rustic’s historical past.
CHILSU AND MANSU (South Korea) – Dir. Park Kwang-su
Billboard painters Chilsu and Mansu tackle a giant job and reckon with a altering society, on this historic landmark of South Korean cinema, launched in 1988.
IO ISLAND (South Korea) – Dir. Kim Ki-young
An government travels to a mysterious, matriarchal island to analyze a loss of life and clear his identify on this 1977 folks horror masterpiece from the director of THE HOUSEMAID.
Additionally screening on this collection: Jeong Jae-un’s TAKE CARE OF MY CAT (2001) and Im Sang-soo’s A GOOD LAWYER’S WIFE (2003) and THE PRESIDENT’S LAST BANG (2005).
ADDITIONAL third WAVE TITLES
THE ABANDONED (Taiwan) – Dir. Tseng Ying-Ting
A grieving detective and her tyro companion search justice for a mysterious collection of murders whose tragic fates might be linked to an unlawful migrant employee ring. From first time director Tseng Ying-Ting. Official choice: Rotterdam Worldwide Movie Competition, Singapore Movie Competition, Udine Far East Competition. Canadian Premiere.
BABY ASSASSINS 2 (Japan) – Dir. Yugo Sakamoto
Have the gun-toting gamines Mahiro and Chisato lastly met their match? The comedic motion concoction BABY ASSASINS returns for spherical two. Canadian Premiere.
BIRTH/REBIRTH (USA) – Dir. Laura Moss
A single mom (Judy Reyes) and a childless morgue technician (Marin Eire) are sure collectively by their relationship with slightly woman they’ve reanimated from the lifeless. An excellent, provocative movie that reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with such a recent understanding that it turns into one thing new and singular. Official Choice: Sundance 2023. Digicam Lucida Part. Quebec Premiere.
THE CHILDE (South Korea) – Dir. Park Hoon-jung
A mixed-race boxer finds himself hunted by a number of assassins. An insane motion movie with a comic book ebook flavour match for a wild crowd. Québec Premiere.
FLAMING CLOUD (China) – Dir. Liu Siyi
Cursed by mischievous deities with a sleep-inducing kiss, Sangui units out on a journey to discover a treatment and his long-lost love in Liu Siyi’s debut function, a particular, whimsical and romantic fantasy. Canadian Premiere.
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (USA) – Dir. Mike Cheslik
A zany and anarchic homage to the silent movie period pits a drunken applejack salesman towards lots of of beavers. An endlessly creative freakout from the makers of the 2019 Fantasia viewers award-winning LAKE MICHIGAN MONSTER. Comparisons vary from Tex Avery to William Fort, because the movie’s relentless tempo captures a mode of filmmaking principally misplaced in our trendy period. Winner of a slew of awards on the pageant circuit. Underground Part. Canadian Premiere.
IT LIVES INSIDE (USA) – Dir. Bishal Dutta
An Indian-American teenager (Megan Suri) struggling along with her cultural id unwittingly releases a demonic entity that grows stronger by feeding on her loneliness. A daunting meshing of the tensions of the immigrant expertise with ferocious supernatural horror, finely crafted and exceptionally well-performed, with contemporary ideas taking the movie into extreme nightmare territory. Winner of SXSW’s Midnighters award. Quebec Premiere.
The twenty seventh version of the Fantasia Worldwide Movie Competition is offered by Videotron in collaboration with Desjardins and is made potential because of the monetary contributions of the Metropolis of Montreal, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Authorities of Quebec, SODEC, Telefilm Canada and Tourisme Montréal.
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