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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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Fantasia Fest 2020: Climate of the Hunter
Two sisters compete for the affections of a man who may be a vampire.
Fantasia Fest 2020: PVT CHAT
Jack is an internet gambler living in NYC who becomes fixated on Scarlet - a cam girl from San Francisco. His obsession reaches a boiling point when fantasy materializes in reality and Jack sees Scarlet on a rainy Chinatown street.
Fantasia Fest 2020: Survival Skills
Survival Skills is a lost training video from the 1980s. In it, Jim, the perfect policeman, gets in over his head when he tries to resolve a domestic violence case outside the law.