# 28th Fantasia International Film Festival

The 28th Fantasia International Film Festival was held from 18 July to 4 August 2024 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

## Juries
### Compétition Cheval Noir

* Matt Johnson, Canadian filmmaker – Jury President
* Steve Dollar, American film critic
* Rob Jabbaz, Canadian filmmaker
* Kristina Klebe, American actress and filmmaker
* Ariane Louis-Seize, French-Canadian filmmaker

### New Flesh Competition for Best First Feature

* Rain Rannu, Estonian filmmaker – Jury President
* Sapna Moti Bhavnani, Indian filmmaker
* Éric S. Boisvert, Canadian filmmaker
* Amelia Moses, Canadian filmmaker

### International Short Film Competition

* Heidi Honeycutt, American film critic – Jury President
* Jean Anne Lauer, American professor and festival programmer
* Emily Lerer, Canadian filmmaker
* Gary Pullin, American illustrator
* Alex Williams, American film acquisitions executive

### Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation

* Johane Matte, Canadian story artist – Jury President
* Jonathan Alvarez, American film acquisitions executive
* Elizabeth E. Schuch, American filmmaker

### DGC Audience Award for Best Canadian Film

* Philip Kalin-Hajdu, Canadian filmmaker – Jury President
* Caroline Labrèche, Canadian filmmaker
* Francesco Giannini, Canadian filmmaker
* Serena Whitney, Canadian film programmer and filmmaker
* Trevor Anderson, Canadian filmmaker

### Poulain Noir

* Luca Jalbert, French-Canadian filmmaker – Jury President
* Livia Gilbert, French-Canadian comedian
* Vincent Feller, French-Canadian comedian

### Jury AQCC – Camera Lucida

* Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau, French-Canadian film critic – Jury President
* Prune Paycha, French-Canadian film critic and photographer
* Guillaume Potvin, French-Canadian film critic

### L'écran Fantastique Jury

* Yves Rivard, French-Canadian film critic

## Films
### Selection 2024

| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 100 Yards | Haofeng Xu and Junfeng Xu | China |
| The A-Frame | Calvin Reeder | United States |
| Azrael | E. L. Katz | United States |
| Baby Assassins Nice Days | Yugo Sakamoto | Japan |
| The Beast Within | Alexander J. Farrell | United Kingdom |
| Black Eyed Susan | Scooter McCrae | United States |
| Brave Citizen | Park Jin-pyo | South Korea |
| Brush of the God | Keizō Murase | Japan |
| The Chapel | Carlota Pereda | Spain |
| Cuckoo | Tilman Singer | Germany |
| Dead Dead Full Dead | Pratul Gaikwad | India |
| The Dead Thing | Elric Kane | United States |
| Don't Call it Mystery | Hiroaki Matsuyama | Japan |
| FAQ | Damin Kim | South Korea |
| Fly Me to the Saitama: From Biwa Lake with Love | Hideki Takeuchi | Japan |
| Hanu-Man | Prasanth Varma | India |
| Haze | Matthew Fifer | United States |
| Heavens: The Boy and His Robot | Rich Ho | Singapore |
| Hell Hole | Toby Poser & John Adams | United States / Serbia |
| House of Sayuri | Kōji Shiraishi | Japan |
| The Killers | Kim Jong-kwan, Roh Deok, Chang Hang-jun, and Lee Myung-se | South Korea |
| A Legend | Stanley Tong | China |
| Meanwhile on Earth | Jérémy Clapin | France |
| Not Friends | Atta Hemwadee | Thailand |
| Oddity | Damian McCarthy | United Kingdom |
| The Paragon | Michael Duignan | New Zealand |
| Rats! | Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry | United States |
| The Roundup: Punishment | Heo Myeong Haeng | South Korea |
| Shelby Oaks | Chris Stuckmann | United States |
| The Soul Eater | Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo | France |
| Swimming in a Sand Pool | Nobuhiro Yamashita | Japan |
| Tatsumi | Hiroshi Shoji | Japan |
| Teasing Master Takagi-san Movie | Rikiya Imaizumi | Japan |
| The Tenants | Eunkyoung Yoon | South Korea |
| This Man | Tomojiro Amano | Japan |
| Timestalker | Alice Lowe | United Kingdom |
| Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In | Soi Cheang | China |
| Vulcanizadora | Joel Potrykus | United States |
| Witchboard | Chuck Russell | Canada |
| The Yin Yang Master Zero | Shimako Satō | Japan |

### Compétition Cheval Noir

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| 4PM | 오후 네시 | Jay Song | South Korea |
| Ababooned | Ababouiné | André Forcier | Canada |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Le Comte de Monte-Cristo | Alexandre de la Patelière, Matthieu Delaporte | France |
| Confession | 告白 (Kokuhaku) | Nobuhiro Yamashita | Japan |
| Electrophilia | Los Impactados | Lucía Puenzo | Argentina |
| In Our Blood | In Our Blood | Pedro Kos | United States |
| Infinite Summer | Infinite Summer | Miguel Llansó | Estonia, Spain |
| Mash Ville | 매쉬빌 | Hwang Wook | South Korea |
| Out of the Shadow | 臥底的退隱生活 | Ricky Ko | Hong Kong |
| Párvulos | Párvulos | Isaac Ezban | Mexico |
| Penalty Loop | ペナルティループ | Shinji Araki | Japan |
| Rita | Rita | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala |
| A Samurai in Time | A Samurai in Time | Junichi Yasuda | Japan |
| Steppenwolf | Steppenwolf | Adilkhan Yerzhanov | Kazakhstan |

### New Flesh Competition

| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Brush of the God | Keizō Murase | Japan |
| Chainsaws were Singing | Sander Maran | Estonia |
| Dead Dead Full Dead | Pratul Gaikwad | India |
| Heavens: The Boy and His Robot | Rich Ho | Singapore |
| Hunting Daze (Jour de chasse) | Annick Blanc | Canada |
| Kidnapping Inc. | Bruno Mourral | Canada / Haiti / France |
| Kryptic | Kourtney Roy | Canada |
| Me and My Victim | Maurane Dubois and Billy Pedlow | Canada |
| Not Friends | Atta Hemwadee | Thailand |
| The Paragon | Michael Duignan | New Zealand |
| Rats! | Maxwell Nalevansky and Carl Fry | United States |
| Self Driver | Michael Pierro | United States |
| Shelby Oaks | Chris Stuckmann | United States |

### Animation Plus
#### Feature films

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Animalia Paradoxa | Animalia Paradoxa | Niles Atallah | Chile |
| Ghost Cat Anzu | 化け猫あんずちゃん (Bakeneko Anzu-chan) | Yōko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita | Japan |
| KIZUMONOGATARI - Koyomi Vamp | 傷物語 こよみヴァンプ | Tatsuya Oishi | Japan |
| Mantra Warrior: The Legend of the Eight Moons | นักรบมนตรา: ตำนานแปดดวงจันทร์ | Veerapatra Jinanavin | Thailand |
| The Missing | Iti Mapukpukaw | Carl Joseph Papa | Philippines |
| Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain | 劇場版モノノ怪 唐傘 (Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa) | Kenji Nakamura | Japan |
| Sunburnt Unicorn | Sunburnt Unicorn | Nick Johnson | Canada |
| The Umbrella Fairy | 伞少女 | Jie Shen | China |

#### Short films

| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Amy and Frog | Paul Williams | United Kingdom, China |
| Bottled Thunder | Leong Jo | China |
| Bulusan and Agigngay: The Cry of Mampak | Gary George Clotario | Philippines |
| The Exorcist, Kim Rina | Yeonhoo Kim, Sugyeon Shin, Sumin Lim | South Korea |
| Game Show | Fei Chen | China |
| I'm Not a Robot | Victoria Warmerdam | Belgium, Netherlands |
| Lantern Blade Episode 1 | Ziqi Zhu | China |
| Lantern Blade Episode 2 | Ziqi Zhu | China |
| Lantern Blade Episode 3 | Ziqi Zhu | China |
| Macguffin | Jihye Yang | South Korea |
| Maidens of the Ripples | Soma Michiko | Japan |
| Mecha-Ude Episode 1 | Sae Okamoto | Japan |

### Documentaries From The Edge

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Adrianne and the Castle | Adrianne and the Castle | Shannon Walsh | Canada |
| From My Cold Dead Hands | From My Cold Dead Hands | Javier Horcajada Fontecha | Spain |
| VOÏVOD: We Are Connected | VOÏVOD: We Are Connected | Felipe Belalcazar | Canada |

### Fantasia Retro

The Fantasia Retro section honors feature works that shaped the history of genre filmmaking.

#### Feature films

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Avenging Eagle (1978) | 冷血十三鷹 (Léngxuě Shísān Yīng) | Sun Chung | Hong Kong |
| A Chinese Ghost Story II (1990) | 倩女幽魂 II：人間道 | Ching Siu-tung | Hong Kong |
| Cockfighter (1974) | Cockfighter (1974) | Monte Hellman | United States |
| Cube (1997) | Cube (1997) | Vincenzo Natali | Canada |
| Devil Times Five (1974) | Devil Times Five (1974) | Sean MacGregor | United States |
| Hollywood 90028 (1973) | Hollywood 90028 (1973) | Christina Hornisher | United States |
| Killer Constable (1980) | 萬人斬 (Wàn Rén Zhǎn) | Chih-Hung Kwei | Hong Kong |
| My Financial Career (1962) | My Financial Career (1962) | Gerald Potterton | Canada |
| Tiki Tiki (1971) | Tiki Tiki (1971) | Gerald Potterton | Canada |

#### Short films

| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Jean Pierre Lefebvre (2013) | Simon Galiero | Quebec |
| Hors-d'oeuvre (1960) | Gerald Potterton, Robert Verrall, Arthur Lipsett, Derek Lamb, Jeff Hale, Kaj Pindal | Canada |
| My Financial Career (1962) | Gerald Potterton | Canada |

### Genre Du Pays

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
| The Carpenter (1988) | The Carpenter (1988) | David Wellington | Canada |
| Song for Julie (1976) | Chanson pour Julie | Jacques Vallée | Canada |
| Snake Eater (1989) | L'Indomptable | George Erschbamer | Canada |
| The Pig's Law (2001) | La Loi du cochon | Érik Canuel | Canada |
| The Night with Hortense (1988) | Nuit avec Hortense, La | Jean Chabot | Canada |
| Pigs Are Seldom Clean (1973) | On n'engraisse pas les cochons à l'eau claire | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | Canada |
| The Rubber Gun (1977) | The Rubber Gun (1977) | Allan Moyle | Canada |

### Anime no bento 2024

The Anime no bento program features highlights from new anime releases.
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| First Line | Tina | Japan |
| Maidens of the Ripples | Soma Michiko | Japan |
| The True Shape of a Daisy | Naoki Arata | Japan |
| Kamigoroshi: Prologue | Tomoyuki Niho | Japan |
| Okuninushi and Sukunabikona | Akitoshi Yokoyama | Japan |
| String Dance from the film TAISU | Shuhei Morita | Japan |

### Circo Animato 2024

The Circo Animato section of the festival showcases new animated short films from around the world.
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| African American Express | Sydnie Baynes | Canada |
| Anthropocene | Huang Yun-Sian, Raitow Low | Taiwan |
| The Beasts | Michael Granberry | United States |
| Extremely Short | Kōji Yamamura | United States, Japan |
| Formes | Tsz-wing Ho | Hong Kong |
| Haru-tsuge Fish and Fu-rai Boy | Takeshi Yashiro | Japan |
| Itch | Maggie Zeng | Canada |
| Mothership: The Awakening | Joseph Burrascano | United States |
| A New Account of Tales of the World | Meiyi Che | China |
| Number 32. Giant Fish | Seunghyun Si | South Korea |
| Pantheon Bird | Eunyoung Choi, Asami Murakoshi | Japan |
| The Parade | Ryan Benjamin Lee | United States, Singapore |
| Trumpet Voice | David Monarte Serna, Pilar Smoje Gueico | Chile |
| The Wedding Veil of the Proud Princes | Anna-Ester Volozh | United Kingdom |
| Weiqi Fantasy | Yuanru Liu | China |
| The Yearbook | Charlie Galea McClure | Canada |

### Sepentrion Shadows

The Sepentrion Shadows program features works from the northern regions of Canada.

#### Feature films

| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Dark Match | Lowell Dean | Canada |
| Darkest Miriam | Naomi Jaye | Canada |
| Frankie Freako | Steven Kostanski | Canada |
| The G | Karl R. Hearne | Canada |
| Kryptic | Kourtney Roy | Canada |
| Scared Shitless | Vivieno Caldinelli | Canada |
| Self Driver | Michael Pierro | Canada |
| The Silent Planet | Jeffrey St. Jules | Canada |
| Sunburnt Unicorn | Nick Johnson | Canada |

#### Short films

| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Art Baby | Pony Nicole Herauf | Canada |
| Bath Bomb | Colin G. Cooper | Canada |
| Bladder Shy | Joel Goundry | Canada |
| Can't Sleep | Liam O'Connor-Savaria | Canada |
| Dealer | Alfio Foti | Canada |
| Dirty Bad Wrong | Erica Orofino | Canada |
| The Door | Alexander Seltzer | Canada |
| For Rent | Michèle Kaye | Canada |
| Hell Is a Teenage Girl | Stephen Sawchuk | Canada |
| How To Stay Awake | Vanessa Magic | Canada |
| My Son Went Quiet | Ian Bawa | Canada |
| Ring Neck | Vasili Manikas | Canada |
| The Second | Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou | Canada |
| The Shitty Ride | Cole Doran | Canada |
| Shiva | Josh Saltzman | Canada |
| Thank You | Summer Lynn Gillespie and Carlo Quicho | Canada |
| What the Hell | Valerie Barnhart | Canada |
| Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area | Solmund MacPherson | Canada |
| You Don't Read Enough | Noa Kozulin | Canada |
| You Have Reached Your Destination | Ryan Couldrey | Canada |

### Underground

The Underground program features works from international regions of the world.
| Title | Director(s) | Production country |
| Animalia Paradoxa | Niles Atallah | Chile |
| Carnage for Christmas | Alice Maio Mackay | Australia |
| Chainsaws Were Singing | Sander Maran | Estonia |
| The Code | Eugene Kotlyarenko | United States |
| Love & Pop | Hideaki Anno | Japan |
| Me and My Victim | Maurane and Billy Pedlow | Canada |
| The Old Man and the Demon Sword | Fábio Powers | Portugal |

## Awards
### Special Prizes

* Prix Denis-Héroux Award — André Forcier
* Trailblazer Award — Vincenzo Natali
* Cheval Noir Award — Mike Flanagan

### Cheval Noir competition

* Best Film — The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre de la Patelière, Matthieu Delaporte
** Special Jury Mention — Electrophilia — Lucía Puenzo
* Best Director — Mash Ville — Hwang Wook
* Best Screenplay — Electrophilia — Lucía Puenzo, Lorena Ventimiglia
* Best Cinematography — Inti Briones, Rita (dir. Jayro Bustamante)
* Best Editing — Penalty Loop (dir. Shinji Araki)
* Best Motion Picture Score — Penalty Loop (dir. Shinji Araki)
* Outstanding Performance Award — Mariana di Girolamo, Electrophilia; Anna Starchenko, Steppenwolf; Berik Aitzhanov, Steppenwolf

### New Flesh competition

* Best First Feature — Self Driver — Michael Pierro
* Special Jury Mentions — Chainsaws Were Singing — Sander Maran); Kidnapping Inc. — Bruno Mourral

### International Short Film Competition

* Best Film — Empty Jars — Guillermo Ribbeck
* Best Director — Björn Schagerström, Headache
* Best Screenplay — Iván Maureira and Guillermo Ribbeck, Empty Jars (dir. Guillermo Ribbeck)
* Best Cinematography — Be Right Back (dirs. Gabe Ibañez and Lucas Paulino)
* Best Editing — Night Fishing (dir. Moon Byoung-gon)
* Best Score — Blitzmusik (dir. Martin Amiot)
* Outstanding Performance — Ana Burgos, Empty Jars; Amed Bozan, Jenny Gustavsson, and Torkel Petersson, Headache
* Special Jury Mention (Best Film) — The Streetlight — Sophia Parella

### Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation

* Best Animated Feature — Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain — Kenji Nakamura
* Special Jury Mention (Best Animated Feature) — The Missing — Carl Joseph Papa
* Best Animated Short
** Gold — Wild Animal — Tianyun Lyu
** Silver – Itch — Maggie Zeng
** Bronze — Trumpet Voice — David Monarte Serna. Pilar Smoje Gueico

### Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Director

* Best Director (Feature Film) — Naomi Jaye, Darkest Miriam
* Special Jury Mention — Karl R. Hearne, The G

### Quebec Critics Choice Association Award

* Best Film – Me and My Victim — Maurane, Billy Pedlow
* Special Jury Mention – Vulcanizadora — Joel Potrykus

### Poulain Noir - My First Fantasia Award

* Best Film
** Gold – Eyes — Yoojae Choi, Hyokyoung Nam
** Silver – Two One Two — Shira Avni
** Bronze – The Girl with the Occupied Eyes — Andre Carrilho

### L’Écran Fantastique Award

* The Beast Within — Alexander J. Farrell

### Audience Awards

* Best International Feature
** Gold: Bookworm — Ant Timpson
** Silver: The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre de la Patelière, Matthieu Delaporte
** Bronze: RATS! — Maxwell Nalevansky, Carl Fry
* Best International Short
** Gold: Faces
** Silver: Streetlight
** Bronze: Les yeux d’Olga
* Best Asian Feature
** Gold: A Samurai in Time — Junichi Yasuda
** Silver: Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In — Soi Cheang
** Bronze: Penalty Loop — Shinji Araki
* Best Asian Short
** Gold: Memory
** Silver: Wanna Die Wanna Kill
** Bronze: Night Fishing
* Best Documentary Feature: Voïvod: We Are Connected — Felipe Belalcazar
* Best Animated Feature
** Gold: Ghost Cat Anzu — Yōko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita
** Silver: The Missing — Carl Joseph Papa
** Bronze: Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain — Kenji Nakamura
* Best Animated Short
** Gold: Ruthless Blade
** Silver: Lantern Blade, Episode Three
** Bronze: Les Bêtes; Number 32. Giant Fish (tie)
* Best Canadian Feature
** Gold: Self Driver — Michael Pierro
** Silver: The Silent Planet — Jeffrey St. Jules
** Bronze: Scared Shitless — Vivieno Caldinelli
* Best Canadian Short
** Gold: The Shitty Ride — Cole Doran
** Silver: Dirty Bad Wrong — Erica Orofino
** Bronze: Bath Bomb — Colin G. Cooper
* Best Quebec Feature
** Gold: Kidnapping Inc. — Bruno Mourral
** Silver: Hunting Daze (Jour de chasse) — Annick Blanc
** Bronze: Ababooned (Ababouiné) — André Forcier
* Best Quebec Short
** Gold: The Image Seller
** Silver: Mourir en silence
** Bronze: Réinsertion; Bring Back Guillaume (tie)