Fantasia Fest 2024: Our Most Anticipated Movies From This Year's Festival
The Fantasia International Film Festival kicks off this week, and these are the films we're most excited about!
Brave Citizen
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Brave Citizen at Fantasia International Film Festival
)"A former boxer, now a part-time teacher, dons a mask and deals with high-school bullying the hard way. A stylishly entertaining Korean action flick with great characters and intense fight scenes!"
Based on the webtoon of the same name
DIRECTOR
Park Jin-pyo
WRITER
Yeo Ji-na
CAST
Shin Hye-sun, Lee Jun-young
Brush of the God
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Brush of the God at Fantasia International Film Festival
)"Two teens must save the world from a many-headed, mythological dragon in master artisan Keizo Murasae's directorial debut, following a lifetime crafting monster suits for all the best-known kaiju films."
DIRECTOR
Keizo Murase
WRITER
Takeshi Nakazawa
CAST
Rio Suzuki, Takeru Narahara, Yumiko Shaku, Takumi Saitoh, Shiro Sano
The G
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The G at Fantasia International Film Festival
)"Abused and deprived by a corrupt legal guardian and an uncaring system, an elderly woman sets out for payback. A dark revenge thriller with a very unconventional protagonist."
DIRECTOR
Karl R. Hearne
CAST
Romane Denis, Dale Dickey, Jonathan Koensgen, Roc Lafortune, Bruce Ramsay
Hell Hole
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Hell hole at Fantasia International Film Festival
)"In this indue rock'n'roll monster movie from the makers of Hellbender, a fracking crew uncover a monster growing inside a 200 year old soldier. It tears through the men on site in search of a new womb."
DIRECTOR
John Adams, Toby Poser
WRITER
John Adams, Lulu Adams, Toby Poser
CAST
John Adams, Marko Filipovic, Anders Hove, Max Portman, Toby Poser
Kryptic
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Kryptic at Fantasia International Film Festival
)"Compelled by a fateful hike in the woods, a woman searches to find a missing cryptozoologist, a creature and possibly a her sanity in this surreal odyssey."
DIRECTOR
Kourtney Roy
WRITER
Paul Bromley
CAST
Chloe Pirrie (The Queen's Gambit, Hanna)
The Silent Planet
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The Silent Planet at Fantasia International Film Festival
)"When a lone prisoner on a penal colony planet finds himself face to face with a new inamte, their fates collide in earth-shattering ways."
DIRECTOR
Jeffrey St Jules
CAST
Elias Koteas, Briana Middleton
Steppenwolf
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Steppenwold at Fantasia International Film Festival
)"A desperate mother teams up with a psychopath to find her son in an apocalyptic landscape consumed by ultraviolence. Spectacular filmmaking. Like a Kazakh Mad Max directed by John Ford."
WRITER/DIRECTOR
Adilkhan Yerzhanov
CAST
Anna Starchenko
Wake Up
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Wake Up at Fantasia International Film Festival
)"The tense, gory new shocker from Fantasia favorites RKSS pits a gang of Gen Z activists against a hulking security guard murderously protecting the store they invade after hours."
DIRECTOR
Whissell Anouk, Simard Francois, Yoann-Karl Whissell
CAST
Benny O. Arthur, Turlough Convery, Tom Gould, Jacqueline Moré