Fantasia International Film Festival is coming up fast this summer — taking place from July 17 to August 3 in Montreal — and the highly anticipated genre festival has just announced its first wave of features. While we won’t know the full lineup until early July, the first wave includes titles from directors like Steve Pink and Hwong Wook, as well as the debut feature film from acting legend Al Pacino’s daughter Julie Pacino.
Hot Tub Time Machine director Pink is bringing sci-fi to the reunion film with his new project Terrestrial, which stars Jermaine Fowler as the organizer of a college reunion that goes awry when sudden, uncanny dangers threaten him and his friends. I Fell in Love With a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn is described as a Jim Jarmusch-esque “bloody rom-com” from director Kenichi Ugana, and Julie Pacino makes her directorial debut with I Live Here Now, about a young woman trapped in a motel and forced to face her own trauma in a psychodrama described by the fest as Lynchian.
Cassandra Maud and Barbarian’s Georgina Campbell star in the sequel Influencers, a sequel to Kurtis David Harder’s film Influencer, and William Bagley’s Hold the Fort takes the trauma of living in an HOA community to the next level. Brock Bodell makes his feature debut alongside Pacino with Hellcat, following a woman who wakes injured in the back of a moving camper, the driver of whom insists she must see a mysterious doctor or suffer a terrible fate.
Fantasia Festival’s first wave line-up also includes YA BOY KONGMIN! The Movie, The Woman, The Well, Honkeo Akabane’s Bodyguards, fantasy anime Chao, Anything That Moves, Mother of Flies, Burning, The Bearded Girl, I Am Frankelda, The Last Woman on Earth, and A Grand Mockery.
The 29th Fantasia Festival runs from July 17 to August 3, 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. More information about the first wave lineup can be found on the festival’s website.
