Steve Pink’s “Terrestrial” and Julie Pacino’s “I Live Here Now” are among the 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival’s first wave line-up, the festival announced.
This year’s Fantasia runs July 17-Aug. 3, bringing a wide range of genre film screenings, workshops and launch events to Montreal. Of the first wave of films, “Terrestrial” marks Pink’s (“Hot Tub Time Machine”) first time directing a thriller, while Al Pacino’s daughter Julie Pacino makes her directorial debut with “I Live Here Now,” featuring “Twin Peaks” star Sheryl Lee along with Lucy Fry and Madeline Brewer. The line-up also includes Mexico’s first stop-motion feature “I Am Frankleda” and the latest Adams Family filmmaking collaboration, “Mother of Flies.”
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Last year’s Fantasia included world premieres like Chris Stuckmann’s “Shelby Oaks,” “The Beast Within” starring Kit Harington and “Bookworm” starring Elijah Wood and Nell Fisher.
The full line-up will be unveiled in early July. Check out the full list of first wave announcements below.
FIRST WAVE TITLES
“Terrestrial” directed by Steve Pink (World Premiere)
“I Live Here Now” directed by Julie Pacino (World Premiere)
“I Fell in Love With a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn” directed by MacGyver Kenichi Ugana (World Premiere)
“The Woman” directed by Hwang Wook (World Premiere)
“Mother of Flies” directed by John and Zelda Adams and Toby Poser (World Premiere)
“The Bearded Girl” directed by Jody Wilson (World Premiere)
“The Well” directed by Hubert Davis (World Premiere)
“Influencers” directed by Kurtis David Harder (World Premiere)
“Anything That Moves” directed by Alex Phillips (World Premiere)
“Hellcat” directed by Brock Bodell (World Premiere)
“Hold the Fort” directed by William Bagley (World Premiere)
“A Grand Mockery” directed by Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon (International Premiere)
“The Last Woman on Earth” directed by Yeum Moon-kyoung and Lee Jong-min (International Premiere)
“I Am Frankelda” directed by Roy Ambriz and Arturo Ambriz (North American Premiere)
“Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie” directed by Shū Honma (North American Premiere)
“Chao” directed by Yasuhiro Aoki (North American Premiere)
“Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards” directed by Jun Ishikawa (North American Premiere)
“Burning” directed by Radik Eshimov (North American Premiere)
“Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage” directed by Kenji Nakamura (North American Premiere)
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