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This year's Fantasia International Film Festival has a packed line-up full of big names and big stories. There's new work from Jayro Bustamente, Alice Maio Mackay and the Adams Family, while the stars include Elijah Wood, Yang Ik-joon and Kit Harington. Fans can look forward to thrills, chills and a feast of creature features. It will open with the world première of Bookworm and close with André Forcier's Ababouiné. Special events include conversations with filmmaker Mike Flanagan and artist Gary Pullin, a panel discussion on female directors in horror, and a chance to learn how to make your own makgeolli, Korean rice wine.
The festival runs from 18 July to 4 August.
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Aa adaptation of the Dumas classic in which a man betrayed and left to rot in prison escapes, acquires a fortune and sets out in pursuit of justice - or revenge.
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment.
The crippled and angry victim of a hit and run, who takes a course on how to be psychic so he can find the car that hit him and take revenge on the driver. But when his teacher draws him into her search for a mysterious crystal known as the paragon, he finds himself trapped in a parallel universe and on the run from her evil brother and his band of enslaved psychics.
A father and son plumbing duo face a gruesome challenge: rid a building of a toilet-dwelling creature before it unleashes itself to the rest of the world.
A woman's desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realising that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.
A woman continuously seeks out the presumed love of her life across time, in one incarnation after another.
Tamara searches for her missing son in a violent town. She hires a morally questionable ex-detective to find him. His methods are cruel but she is determined to find her son whatever the cost.
A woman decides to put her trauma to rest by dealing with the man who hurt her, once and for all.
Lost in an endless desert, an injured teenager adopts the identity of a mythical unicorn to survive surreal encounters and rescue his abducted father.
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