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Fantastic 7 2025

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Program that previews upcoming productions in the global genre industry, promoting the connection of these films with international distribution and production representatives.

Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, together with the partnership of the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes and INCAA International Affairs Manager Bernardo Bergeret, present the 7th edition of Fantastic 7, a program that previews upcoming productions in the global genre industry, promoting the connection of these films with international distribution and production representatives.

Fantastic 7 is designed to bring together projects in different stages of production -or that have been already completed- with investors from around the world, with the purpose of promoting their final commercialization. Seven top-notch festivals present one genre film project of their respective region at a pitching session that annually takes place during the Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes.

Fantastic 7 showcases the most promising genre projects worldwide, representing the new trends of each territory.

The 7 Fantastic Festivals are:

Festival de sitges

SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia

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Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival

Cairo internacional film festival

Cairo International Film Festival

FICG

Guadalajara International Film Festival

Hong Kong International Film Festival

Hong Kong International Film Festival

Poff Blank nights festival

PÖFF - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

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South by Southwest – Film & TV Festival

Selected projects 2025

Abel, a 30-year-old from Barcelona, has a troubling suspicion: was he exorcised as a child? Determined to uncover the truth, he embarks on a gripping journey to track down the ten active exorcists still practicing in Catalonia. This will lead Abel to open the door to an obsession: What if what supposedly possessed him is still inside?

Yulhee, a mystery novelist, and her daughter Sohee move to a country house after a difficult divorce. As looking forward to their new routine, they are befriended by a local college student, Mijee, who discovers that she is a fan of Yulhee’s novel, Sisterhood.

A brutal water war leads to the sacrifice of five virgins, whose restless spirits become vengeful creatures cursing the land with drought and dust storms. The key to breaking the curse lies in a hidden magical island, revealed only through the dreams of a chosen maiden.

In the border city of Mexicali, a lonely veterinarian discovers a newborn wolf pup abandoned at her doorstep, forging an unbreakable bond.

Christmas, 1981. At the big holiday house party, 18-year-old Kim discovers that this gathering — with its mixture of alcohol, flirting, and teenage embarrassment — is the perfect feeding ground for the mistletoe-inhabited demon, which seems to be thriving off of the teens’ hormones and anxieties by attaching itself like a parasite.

On the night of a full moon, Max, 35, invites his estranged brother, Fred, 31, to their remote family home to reveal the shocking news that he was attacked by a werewolf. As the evening unfolds, it becomes clear to Fred that Max lured him out to the house to trick him into shooting him with a silver bullet. Why?

Four Sichuan bizarre tales: A Funeral Feast 4000 years ago—on the verge of death, a grandma severs her tail and gifts it to her descendants; A Spring Festival 3000 years ago—a former king returns as a cuckoo, only to cough up blood in solitude amidst the feast; A Mid-Autumn Banquet in the 1990s—spirits gather to honour a millennium-old beleaguered epicurean poet; A Birthday Feast from a century