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Fantasia International Film Festival

18 July – 4 August 2024

The 2024 Fantasia International Film Festival had a packed line-up full of big names and big stories. There was new work from Jayro Bustamente, Alice Maio Mackay and the Adams Family, while the stars included Elijah Wood, Yang Ik-joon and Kit Harington. It opened with the world première of Bookworm and closed with André Forcier's Ababouiné. Special events included conversations with filmmaker Mike Flanagan and artist Gary Pullin and a panel discussion on female directors in horror.

The festival ran from 18 July to 4 August.

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  • Meanwhile On Earth
    Review preview for Meanwhile On Earth

    There’s a sweet, melancholy flavour to Clapin’s work.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Siblings Elsa and Franck were very close. Since Franck disappeared during a space mission three years ago, Elsa has struggled to move on with her life. Until one day she is contacted by an unidentified life form.
  • House Of Sayuri
    Review preview for House Of Sayuri

    House of Sayuri plays like a peculiar rather than fully accomplished movie

    Marko Stojiljkovic · 3 out of 5
    A vengeful ghost decimates a family until a counterattack from a bold grandmother brings a startling new dynamic into the house.
  • Vulcanizadora
    Review preview for Vulcanizadora

    Although its characters are middle aged, their childish games in the first half signal a kind of coming of age; and yet unlike most films on that theme, which end when childhood is left behind, it keeps us there to explore what it means to be an adult.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Two friends embark on a disturbing mission in the Michigan woods. When their plan unravels, one must face the surreal and unsettling consequences back home.
  • The Count Of Monte-Cristo
    Review preview for The Count Of Monte-Cristo

    Perhaps the most impressive version to date.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    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
    Review preview for Rita

    There is blistering anger in its melange of baubles and feathers and tulle.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    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.
  • Azrael
    Review preview for Azrael

    We get demonstrations of skill, from the weaving of a bracelet to the use of herbs to treat a wound, and these elements reinforce the idea that this is a real society which has developed organically over time.

    Jennie Kermode · 2.5 out of 5
    Many years following the apocalypse, a devout cult of mute zealots hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment.
  • The Paragon
    Review preview for The Paragon

    A small film capable of generating some big laughs.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    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.
  • Scared Shitless
    Review preview for Scared Shitless

    This may present itself as a B-movie but it’s very well crafted, at every level from the dramatic to the cinematographic.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    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.
  • Shelby Oaks
    Review preview for Shelby Oaks

    Stuckmann and co-writer Sam Liz keep it all under tight control, even when the imagery suggests chaos or excess.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    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.
  • Timestalker
    Review preview for Timestalker

    Lowe’s approach is an exhiliarating, if sometimes a bit scrappy, mix of high and low brow.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A woman continuously seeks out the presumed love of her life across time, in one incarnation after another.

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