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The 27th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is set to commence from July 20 through August 9, 2023, and this year’s Frontières Market lineup has been announced.

The genre-themed line up has been revealed by Variety this afternoon, and it includes films about everything from Krampus to pregnancy, deadly novels, and a blood transfusion app.

Here’s the full Fantasia 2023 Frontières Market lineup…

Official Selection: Market Projects

“Alice”

The Netherlands

Director: Jan Verdijk

Genre: Psychological Horror

Vincent van der Valk stars in this horror, now in pre-production, about parents who, faced with their unborn daughter’s dire complications, turn to a mysterious midwife. What begins as harmless alternative therapies soon descends into life-threatening rituals. “It delves into the profound desires and fears of every aspiring parent,” says producer Daniel Dow of Dpplr. “It is a deeply personal narrative for the filmmakers, inspired by their own challenging journeys towards parenthood. The...

At Frontières Market and Forum, it’s all about the exploding heads.

“Big, bloody and messy explosions of heads. Old-school style explosions à la ‘Scanners’,” enthuses director Olivier Godin, who will bring neo-noir comedy “Anna Will Talk to Us” to its official selection, about a book that literally blows people’s minds.

The much-anticipated event, back for its 15th edition, is bound to satisfy the oddest of tastes, delivering the likes of “Animal Realm” – “Full on Wuxia. Total cyberpunk. Stop-motion animation in full action,” teases director Caochong Maing – or vampire story “Drawn” in which the bloodsuckers don’t actually drink blood.

“They infuse it, fueled not by visceral needs but capitalist demands for youth and beauty. The horror portrayed in this film is in equal parts beautiful, grotesque and unflinching,” says Cosmo Salovaara about his “class exploitation buttressed by vampiric motifs.”

Many projects, however, will also reflect current reality from the perspective of women,...

Selections include Ryan Ward’s Canadian magic realism tale Pure Science Fiction, Maria Arida’s Brazilian psychological thriller The Eyes Of Another.

Screen can exclusively reveal the second wave of titles at the upcoming Frontieres genre international co-production market and forum scheduled for July in Montreal.

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Market selections include Ashlea Wessel’s horror Light Of The Void, Ryan Ward’s magic realism tale Pure Science Fiction, and James Watt’s horror Worm all from Canada, alongside Jan Verdijk’s Dutch psychological horror Alice, Peter Modestij’s Sweden-Denmark body horror drama Sub, and Maria Arida...

"Savour this place and after this weekend maybe you'll never want to leave." Oh yes. This is one of those short films that delivers with a "holy shit" ending. Wild is a Dutch short film from filmmaker Jan Verdijk, and it originally premiered in 2018 and went on to win the "Best European Short Film" award at the Sitges Film Festival. And boy oh boy does it deserve that win. Toine, Iris and their son Jacco seek the hilly and picturesque south of The Netherlands for a weekend of quality time and relaxation. Toine – clearly the self-proclaimed head of the family – starts to behave erratically. His manners seem to look out of place in these idyllic surroundings. It won't take long before his family will have enough of his behavior. Ha! Ahahahaha. Just wait. Starring Wouter Hendrickx, Hannah van Lunteren, and Jago Hensema. Such a deranged and entirely satisfying short, and that ending is a doozy.