At Fantasia 2025, Foreigner emerges as a quietly powerful meditation on belonging and otherness. Set in the early 2000s, the film follows Yasamin, a Persian newcomer navigating the fraught social landscape of a Canadian high school. What begins as a tentative coming-of-age drama steadily unfurls into an undercurrent of unease, as subtle acts of exclusion and coded microaggressions build toward a simmering sense of dread.

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$POSITIONS doesn’t scream for your attention; it lingers, waits, and then quietly guts you.

The Bearded Girl is a thoughtful and original take on identity, legacy, and self-definition. It uses its peculiar setting not for shock or novelty, but to ask meaningful questions about how we choose who we are—especially when the world tries to decide for us. With a queer-friendly undercurrent and a refreshing visual voice, Wilson delivers a debut that’s as moving as it is distinct.

For fans of the bizarre, the brave, and the beautifully baffling.