Fantasia International Film Festival Official poster of the 2011 Fantasia International Film Festival Opening film The Suicide Squad Closing film 🏵 The Great Yokai War: Guardians Location Montreal, Quebec, Canada Founded 1996 Festival date 14 July to 3 August, 2024 Language 🏵 International Website fantasiafest Current: 26th Fantasia International Film Festival 27th 25th

Fantasia International Film Festival (also known as Fantasia-fest, FanTasia, 🏵 and Fant-Asia) is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. It 🏵 focuses on niche, B-rated and low budget movies in various genres, from horror to sci-fi. Regularly held in July/August, by 🏵 2024 its annual audience had already surpassed 100,000 viewers and outgrown even the Montreal World Film Festival.

By virtue of the 🏵 reputation developed over the last two decades, Fantasia has been called the "most outstanding and largest genre film festival in 🏵 North America". Its mission is to promote genre, anti-Hollywood cinema and assist independent filmmakers. Fantasia has launched the careers of 🏵 many modern auteurs. Since 2012, the festival has also held the Frontières cinema market that allows promising projects to find 🏵 potential producers and distributors. In 2024 the Frontières announced collaboration with Marché du Film led by Cannes Film Festival.

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Fantasia focuses on niche, B-rated and low-budget films of various genres, from horror to science fiction, most of them 🏵 non-PG. It grew from the Asian Film scene in Montreal and still has a significant shift to Asian cinematograph.[1]