Fantastic 7 sheds light on new trends and influences in genre cinema by bringing together new genre works from all parts of the world, all while demonstrating the power of creativity and cultural expression. This year’s selection makes no exception and the audiences will truly see it all!

Fantastic 7
Projects
Showcase details
Key Dates: 18 May 2025 | 12:00
Access: Marché du Film badge holders
Main Venue: Palais K (Palais des Festivals)
Projects

1999
Directed by: David Casademunt
Produced by: Marta Ramírez (Coming Soon) & Beatriz Campos (Anonymous Content Spain)
Country of production: Spain
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Language: Catalan
Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia
What if one day you discovered that you had an exorcism performed on you as a child? This is what happens to Abel, a Barcelona native who seeks the truth about the supposed possession he experienced at the age of four, plunging into a spiral of paranoia and madness.

Original title: 시스터후드
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Language: Korean
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
A young woman enters the lives of a mystery novelist and her daughter, who have moved to a house after a divorce, causing a subtle rift in the mother-daughter relationship.

Evil Eye
Directed by: Yasir Kareem
Produced by: Abdulla Al-al-Atrakche (Iraq) | Mays Al-Reem (Jordan)
Country of production: Iraq, Jordan
Original title: Ayin Hara
Genre: Folk Horror
Language: Arabic
Cairo International Film Festival
In the near future, Dunia must find a mystical island to break a curse drying Iraq’s rivers. Torn between love and duty, she must choose: save her beloved or restore life to the land.

Genre: Horror, Science-fiction
Language: Spanish, English
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
A veterinarian in Mexicali bonds with a mysterious wolf pup, only to uncover a secret border experiment that puts them both in danger. To survive, she must embrace her wild nature.

FUXI: Joy in Four Chapters
Directed by: Qiu Jiongjiong
Produced by: Ding Ningyuan, Zhao Jin, David Tang
Country of production: Taiwan (China), France, Japan
Original title: 腹喜
Genre: Black Comedy, Fantasy
Language: Chinese
Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)
Inside a circus tent, a ragtag film crew is busy shooting a film of four Sichuan bizarre tales. Spanning four millennia, and told through the chronicles of four celebrations, it invites us to feast with the living, the dying, the dead, and the long dead.

Mistletoe
Directed by: Emily Hagins
Produced by: Jon Michael Simpson, Ben Hanks
Country of production: USA
Genre: Body Horror, Christmas Horror, Horror
Language: English
SXSW Film & TV Festival
Kissing under the mistletoe should be a warm Christmas tradition, but for awkward teen Kim and her friends, this holiday ritual turns deadly when they discover a mistletoe-inhabited demon is feeding off of their hormone-driven anxieties.

The Last Moon
Directed by: Sean McConville
Produced by: Stéphanie Joalland
Country of production: UK
Genre: Supernatural, Thriller
Language: English
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Told in real time, The Last Moon follows the desperate bid for help from one brother to another when one of them is convinced he is cursed by a supernatural creature.