Short Film Programs
Anime no bento 2024
A showcase of wildly varied and innovative short works by Japanese animators—some well established, others taking their first steps forward—demonstrating the incredible possibilities anime can offer.
Are You Afraid of Fantasia? 2024
Are you brave enough to take on these 10 international short films? Join us for a laugh and a thrill...
Born of Woman 2024
Fantasia’s top-shelf showcase of personal auteur genre visions returns with nine works from six countries that will leave you shaken and amazed.
Le cabaret des curiosités 100% international
You've got a date with 30 crazy, wacky shorts, grouped into various blocks. Bloodshot Bill, Growlers Choir, Les Costauds and other guests will also enliven this new-style cabaret.
Celluloid Experiments 2024
You have a rendezvous with shapes, colours, and poetry, on a celluloid journey that takes you from daydreams to explosive experiments to feverish nightmares.
Capsules 2024
Martial arts, mystical fantasy, mordant comedy, and mindbending sci-fi—choice cuts from Bilibili’s CAPSULES series demonstrate the growing quality and diversity of Chinese animation.
CineMapsosa 2024
From science-fiction drama to psychological thriller, the possibilities are endless. A quartet of mid-length South Korean genre films by incredibly talented emerging directors who aren’t afraid to take risks.
Circo Animato 2024
Fantasia’s annual showcase of amazing animated short films from around the world returns with over a dozen dazzling offerings, marvellously multifarious in tone, technique, and perspective.
Collective Delusions 2024
A showcase of underground DIY, outsider, and bizarre cinema from around the world.
EVOL Episodes 1-2-3
A trio of teen suicide survivors have acquired superpowers (however uncool) but they don’t want to save the world—they want to tear it all down. The first half of the manga-adaptation streaming miniseries.
Les Fantastiques week-ends du cinéma québécois 2024
Les Fantastiques week-ends are back with a bang this year, and it's with a festive programme that we celebrate this 100% in-person return. You'll see everything that makes the festival unique: fantasy, horror, and wacky comedy!
International Science-Fiction Short Film Showcase 2024
Seven films. Five countries. Worlds of vision. Fantasia’s annual showcase of soulful and innovative sci-fi shorts returns.
Lantern Blade Episodes 1-2-3
From the thriving landscape of stop-motion wuxia within the Chinese animation industry, a mini-series that seamlessly merges martial-arts adventure and Lovecraftian horror.
My First Fantasia 2024
Children, parents and the young at heart are invited to dive into this free series of short film programs.
Perilous Ports: Tours of Northern Terrors 2024
Fantasia’s showcase of groundbreaking Canadian short films is back!! Sleep paralysis demons, vampires, ghosts, and questionable bath bombs, we have something for everyone to enjoy!
Small Gauge Trauma 2024
Fantasia’s international showcase of cutting-edge genre works is back with ten films from five countries that positively astonish.
Things That Go Bump in the East 2024
Fantasia’s showcase of bite-sized Asian tales of the macabre again offers a celebration of the otherworldly from the other side of the world, split between animation and live-action.