"the future of humanity may depend on an ordinary woman turned fugitive": John Rosman's genre-inf(l)ected chase movie NEW LIFE had its world première last night at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival, screens again 2.30pm today. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/new-life-review-at-fantasia-a-tense-breathless-chase-movie

"an adolescent Indian-American risks losing her own soul to cultural conformity": Bishal Dutta's horror hybrid IT LIVES INSIDE , Quebec première at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/it-lives-inside-review-at-fantasia-cross-cultural-identity-assimilation-and-absorption/

Daniel's denial nailed: Quarxx’s “dark and grotesque (divine) comedy” PANDEMONIUM screens again, 4.30pm this afternoon at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival . Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/exclusive/pandemonium-review-at-fantasia-a-dark-and-grotesque-divine-comedy/

"In Ann Oren’s tale of transformation, a young woman takes on the foley work of her transsexual sister and undergoes her own changes": PIAFFE (2022) screens 2.15pm today at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2022/10/10/piaffe-2022/

"I'm going back!": Lee Chang-dong's PEPPERMINT CANDY (1999) shows personal and national tragedy in reverse. Screening retrospectively, 1pm today at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2015/09/09/peppermint-candy-1999

"In Ann Oren’s tale of transformation, a young woman takes on the foley work of her transsexual sister and undergoes her own changes": PIAFFE (2022) screens 9.45pm tonight at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2022/10/10/piaffe-2022/

"Andrew Bowser’s comedy horror lets an arrested incel act out his occult fantasies": ONYX THE FORTUITOUS AND THE TALISMAN OF SOULS (2023) screens 7.30pm this evening at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2023/03/11/onyx-the-fortuitous-and-the-talisman-of-souls-2023/

"a retrofuturist lo-fi sci-fi romantic comedy satirising the here and now": Michael Lukk Litwak’s feature debut MOLLI AND MAX IN THE FUTURE (2023) screens 4.45pm today at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival https://projectedfigures.com/2023/03/11/molli-and-max-in-the-future-2023/

Next-gen clueless: Jennifer Reeder's PERPETRATOR "assumes the mask of a slasher/superhero film to expose a patriarchal system that feeds on the exploitation of women." Canadian première 9.30pm tonight at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival. Review for #SightAndSound https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/perpetrator-this-feminist-flick-puts-gory-allegory

In Paris Zarcilla's modern gothic feature debut RAGING GRACE (2023), "a Filipino carer tries to make a home for herself and her daughter in her employers’ dysfunctional houses": screens again 4.35pm today at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival. Review for #SciFiNow https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/raging-grace-review-at-fantasia-2023-creepy-portrait-of-family-and-class-divides/

"In Junta Yamaguchi’s second looping SF feature, an inn’s staff and residents, frozen in a recurring two minutes, desperately seek a future": RIVER (2023) had its North American première at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival. Full review for #SciFiNow
https://www.scifinow.co.uk/events/river-review-at-fantasia-2023-looping-sci-fi-adventure/

"Larry Fessenden’s werewolf allegory uses a small town to stage the polarisations dividing America from its own humanity": BLACKOUT (2023) screens 11.30am today at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival
https://projectedfigures.com/2023/07/20/blackout-2023-fantasia/

Full of stylised retrofuturism and monochrome surrealism, Eddie Alcazar's allegorical sci-fi DIVINITY (2023) imagines an evolutionary cul de sac at the end of birth. Screens 9.40pm tonight at #FantasiaInternationalFilmFestival. Review for #SignalHorizon https://signalhorizon.com/boston-underground-divinity-2023/