Fantasia Film Festival 2021: Most Anticipated Films & Full Lineup

Fantasia Film Festival 2021 has a great lineup for its 25th edition including Prisoners of Ghostland and a special screening of The Suicide Squad.

Fantasia Film Festival 2021 is running from August 5th to August 25th and it is packed with many highly anticipated titles. The festival kicks off with a special screening event for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad at 7pm on August 4th.

The full lineup is pretty incredible. The Beta Test is one of my most anticipated films because I have heard a lot about it, and missed out on viewing it earlier this year. other films that I am really looking forward to include Martyrs Lane and Hotel Poseidon because I am a huge fan of horror movies. Both of these look intriguing and creepy.

Reviews for Fantasia 2021 films I have already seen:

• Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunchbreak
• Prisoners of Ghostland
• Cryptozoo
• Strawberry Mansion
• Coming Home In The Dark
• Agnes
• We’re All Going To The World’s Fair

Full Lineup for Fantasia Film Festival 2021

Below is a list of films that will be featured during the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival. 

• “King Knight” ( Richard Bates Jr.)
• “Love, Life and Goldfish” (Yukinori Makabe, Japan)
• “Martyrs Lane” (Ruth Platt, U.K.)
• “Poupelle of Chimney Town” (Hirota Yusuke, Japan)
• “Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko” (Ayumu Watanabe, Japan)
• “#Blue_Whale” (Anna Zaytseva, Russia)
• “Yakuza Princess” (Vicente Amorim, Brazil)
• “It’s a Summer Film” (Soushi Matsumoto, Japan)
• “Ghosting Gloria” (Marcela Matta, Mauro Sarser, Uruguay)
• “Voice of Silence” (Hon Eui-Jeong, South Korea)
• “Jigoku-no-Hanazono: Office Royale” (Seki Kazuaki, Japan)
• “Hotel Poseidon” (Stefan Lernous, Belgium)
• “Sakura” (Hitoshi Yazaki, Japan)
• “Stanleyville” (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Canada)
• “Hello! Tapir” (Kethsvin Chee, Taiwan)
• “Back to the Wharf” (Xiaofeng Li, China)
• “The Beta Test” (Jim Cummings, PK McCabe, U.S.)
• “Broadcast Signal Intrusion” (Jacob Gentry, U.S.)
• “Collectors” (Park Jung-bae, South Korea)
• “Dreams on Fire” (Philippe McKie, Canada, Japan)
• “Georama Boy Panorama Girl” (Natsuki Seta, Japan)
• “Hold Me Back” (Akiko Ohku, Japan)
• “Mother Schmuckers” (Lenny Guit, Harpo Guit, Belgium)
• “Ora, Ora, Be Goin’ Alone” (Shuichi Okita, Japan)
• “Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break” (Nick Gillespie, U.K.)
• “Prisoners of the Ghostland” (Sion Sono, U.S.)
• “Sexual Drive” (Kota Yoshida, Japan)
• “Strawberry Mansion” (Albert Birney, Kentucker Audley, U.S.)
• “Time” (Ricky Ko, Hong Kong)
• “The Slug” (Choi Jin-young, South Korea)
• “The Story of Southern Islet” (Chong Keat Aun, Malaysia)
• “Tiong Bahru Social Club” (Bee Thiam Tan, Singapore)
• “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” (Jane Schoenbrun, U.S.)
• “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror” (Kier-La Janisse, U.S.)
• “You Can’t Kill Meme” (Hayley Garrigus, U.S.)
• “Pompo: The Cinéphile” (Takayuki Hirao, Japan)
• “Satoshi Kon, The Illusionist” (Pascal-Alex Vincent, France)
• “The Spine of Night” (Philip Gelatt, Morgan Galen King, U.S.)
• “Cryptozoo” (Dash Shaw, U.S.)
• “Junk Head” (Takahide Hori, Japan)
• “The Beta Test” (Jim Cummings, PK McCabe, U.S.)
• “Broadcast Signal Intrusion” (Jacob Gentry, U.S.)
• “Collectors” (Park Jung-bae, South Korea)
• “Dreams on Fire” (Philippe McKie, Canada, Japan)
• “Georama Boy Panorama Girl” (Natsuki Seta, Japan)
• “Hold Me Back” (Akiko Ohku, Japan)
• “Mother Schmuckers” (Lenny Guit, Harpo Guit, Belgium)
• “Ora, Ora, Be Goin’ Alone” (Shuichi Okita, Japan)
• “Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break” (Nick Gillespie, U.K.)
• “Prisoners of the Ghostland” (Sion Sono, U.S.)
• “Sexual Drive” (Kota Yoshida, Japan)
• “Strawberry Mansion” (Albert Birney, Kentucker Audley, U.S.)
• “Time” (Ricky Ko, Hong Kong)
• “Alien on Stage” (Lucy Harvey, Danielle Kummer, U.K.)
• “Baby, Don’t Cry” (Jesse Dvorak, U.S.)
• “Bull,” (Paul Andrew Williams, U.K.)
• “Catch the Fair One” (Josef Kubota Wladyka, U.S.)
• “Coming Home in the Dark” (James Ashcroft, New Zealand)
• “Dear Hacker” (Alice Lenay, France)
• “The Deep House” (Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury, France)
• “The Deer King” (Masashi Ando, Masayuki Miyaji, Japan)
• “The Devil’s Deal” (Lee Won-Tae, South Korea)
• “Don’t Say Its Name” (Rueben Martell, Canada)
• “The Feast” (Lee Haven Jones, U.K.)
• “Fighter” (Jéro Yun, South Korea)
• “Follow the Light” (Yoichi Narita, Japan)
• “Frank & Zed” (Jesse Blanchard, U.S.)
• “Giving Birth to a Butterfly” (Theodore Schaefer, U.S.)
• “Glasshouse” (Kelsey Egan, South Africa)
• “Grand Blue Dreaming” (Tsutomu Hanabusa, Japan)
• “The Great Yokai War – Guardians” (Takashi Miike, Japan)
• “Hand Rolled Cigarette” (Chan Kin-Long, Hong Kong)
• “Ida Red” (John Swab, U.S.)
• “Josee” (Kin Jeong-kwan, South Korea)
• “Lost Boys” (Joonas Neuvonen, Sadri Centinkaya, Finland)
• “Mad God” (Phil Tippett, U.S.)
• “Midnight” (Kwon Oh-seung, South Korea)
• “Midnight in a Perfect World” (Dodo Dayao, Philippines)
• “The Night House” (David Bruckner, U.S.)
• “On the 3rd Day” (Daniel de la Vega, Argentina)
• “One Second Champion” (Chiu Sin-Hang, Hong Kong)
• “Operation Luchador” (Alain Vézina, Candada)
• “Polyu Styrene: I am a Cliché” (Celeste Bell, Paul Sng, U.K.)
• “The Sadness” (Rob Jabbaz, Taiwan)
• “Septet: The Story of Hong Kong” (Patrick Tam, Ringo Lam, Ann Hui, Johnnie To, Yuen Woo-ping, Tsui Hark, Sammo Hung, Hong Kong)
• “Seobok” (Lee Young-joo, South Korea)
• “Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It” (Yernar Nurgaliyev, Kazakhstan)
• “Tokyo Revengers” (Tsutomu Hanabusa, Japan)
• “Under the Open Sky” (Miwa Nishikawa, Japan)
• “What Josiah Saw” (Vincent Garshaw, U.S.)
• “When I Consume You” (Perry Blackshear, U.S.)
• “Wild Men” (Thomas Daneskov, Denmark)

Stay tuned for reviews of the films I catch during the festival. 

About Fantasia Film Festival

In August 2021, the Fantasia International Film Festival will celebrate its 25th edition. Located in the heart of beautiful Montreal, Fantasia is a cultural and professional destination point, and since its first edition, the festival’s ever-growing popularity has attracted the attention of the international film industry alongside a legion of attendees from across the world. Every facet of the filmmaking chain is increasingly represented with in-person delegates at the festival: directors, actors, producers, studio representatives, distributors and festival programmers, who get to experience the legendarily enthusiastic, taste-making audience of Fantasia.

Learn more about the Fantasia Film Festival.