Fantasia International Film Festival is doing something very exciting this year. While many film fests have postponed or been cancelled outright in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fantasia is keeping the spotlight on the indie an international genre movies that too often fly under the radar by bringing the entire film festival online. From screenings to Q&As and seminars, Fantasia attempting to keep the cinephile festival experience alive digitally (though the fest will be geo-locked to Canadian viewers) and they just unveiled a pretty impressive second wave of titles.

If you missed it, you can scope out the first wave announcement here. Some of the standouts among the new titles include PVT Chat, which stars Uncut Gems breakout Julia Fox as a camgirl with a customer that might be a little too devoted, The Strangers and The Monster filmmaker Bryan Bertino's next horror film The Dark and the Wickedand Crazy Samurai Musashi, which stars martial artist Tak Sakaguchi in "a long-in-the-making, unique take on swordsman Musashi Miyamoto’s most fabled battle," which is shot as a single 77-minute action sequence. That's Fantasia, folks! Always a wild and wonderful assortment of films.

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Check out the full list of second wave titles below and head to the

Alone (US)

Dir. Marc Menchaca

International premiere

 

Beauty Water (South Korea)

Dir. Cho Kyung-hun

North American premiere

 

Bleed With Me (Can)

Dir. Amelia Moses

World premiere

 

The Block Island Sound (US)

Dirs. Kevin & Matthew McManus

World premiere

 

Class Action Park (US)

Dirs. Seth Porges & Chris Charles Scott III

International premiere

 

Climate Of The Hunter (US) 

Dir. Mickey Reece

Quebec premiere

 

The Columnist (Neth)

Dir. Ivo van Aart

North American premiere

 

Crazy Sumari Musahi (Jap) 

Dir. Yûji Shimomura

Canadian premiere

 

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The Dark And The Wicked (US)

Dir. Bryan Bertino

International premiere

 

Detention (Taiwan)

Dir. John Hsu

Canadian premiere

 

La Dosis (Arg) 

Dir. Martin Kraut

North American premiere

 

The Five Rules Of Success (US)

Dir. Orson Oblowitz

World Premiere

 

For The Sake Of Vicious (Can)

Dirs. Gabriel Carrer & Reese Eveneshen

World premiere

 

Fugitive Dreams (US)

Dir. Jason Neulander

World premiere

 

I Weirdo (Taiwan)

Dir. Liao Ming-Yi

Canadian premiere

 

Jesters: The Game Changers  (South Korea)

Dir. Kim Joo-ho

North American premiere

 

Life: Untitled (Japan)

Dir. Kana Yamada

Canadian premiere

 

Me And Me (South Korea)

Dir. Jung Jin-young

North American premiere

 

A Mermaid In Paris (Fr)

Dir. Mathias Malzieu

North American premiere

 

Minor Premise (US)

Dir. Eric Schultz

World premiere

 

My Punch-Drunk Boxer (South Korea)

Dir. Jung Hyuk-ki

North American premiere

 

The Oak Room (Can)

Dir. Cody Calahan

World premiere

 

Project Dreams -How To Build Mazinger Z’s Hangar (Jap)

Dir. Tsutomu Hanabusa

International premiere

 

The Prophet And The Space Aliens (Isr-Aust-South Africa)

Dir. Yoav Shamir

North American premiere

 

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PVT Chat (US)

Dir. Ben Hozie

World Premiere

 

Sanzaru (US)

Dir. Xia Magnus

International Premiere

 

Savage State (Fr-Can-Bel)

Dir. David Perrault

North American premiere

 

Slaxx (Can)

Dir. Elza Kephart

World premiere

 

Vertigo (South Korea)

Dir. Jeon Gye-soo

Canadian premiere