Nouvelles

16 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : Wotakoi : love is hard for Otaku, North American Premiere on August 28th

    After wowing Fantasia audiences with several landmark works, including HK: Forbidden supr hero and HK2: The abnormal crisis (which can be found in the Fantasia 2020 classics section), director and screenwriter Yuichi Fukuda returns with the superb musical/romantic comedy Wotakoi: love is hard for Otaku, adapted from Fujita's hugely popular web comic. The man behind the diptych Gintama surpasses himself here by delivering an extremely funny and delightful work where...

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16 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020: Wildland, North American Premiere on August 30th

    Danish director Jeanette Nordahl’s debut feature is nothing short of a visually striking and emotionally intense work of art. Casting-wise, there’s immense talent across the board, starting with Elliott Crosset Hove (Sons od Danmark, 2019), Carla Philip Røder (Queen of Hearts, 2019), newcomer Sandra Guldberg Kampp (as Ida), and the grandiose matriarch Sidse Babett Knudsen (The Duke of Burgundy (2014); In Fabric (2018)), all portraying a strangely...

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16 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : Hail to the deadites, World Premiere

    In 1981 Sam Raimi's horror film The Evil Dead was released and quickly became a cult film. Six years later came Evil Dead II, then in 1992, the third part Army of Darkness, still produced by the same team. Three films that made a big impact in fantasy cinema, and built up a huge fan community over the years. Hail to the deadites is about them, the Deadites which is the name given to demons in the film universe, but also the name borrowed by the biggest fans of the...

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16 august 2020

  • Festivals

    Fantasia 2020 : The legend of Barion To’a North September 2

    Following a strong run of Kiwi television, director Kiel McNaughton makes his feature debut with an action-comedy small in scale but big on stakes. Uli Latukefu (soon to appear in Taika Waititi’s Next goal wins) gives a charismatic turn as Fritz, supported by a talented Polynesian cast (including THE Matrix Reloaded’s Nathaniel Lees and Attack of the Clones’ Jay Laga’aia) that delivers comedy and pathos in a seamless blend of English and...

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16 august 2020

  • VOD

    The honeymoon phase : a good sci-fi paranoiac thriller , August 21st theatrical/digital release

    “Our film explores what happens when the honeymoon phase ends and strips down a relationship to it’s very core - two people with selfish desires for each other. It dives deep into what relationship gaslighting looks like as a form of control and examines how people can hide their true selves from their partner. It’s an occurrence that is unfortunately all too common in many toxic relationships. Through the lens of a sci-fi thriller, we hope to...

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