The 30th edition of the Fantastic Film Festival unveils an 11‑film slate for its flagship competition, now called Bucheon Choice: World - Features. The program highlights recent festival hits, with a strong queer sensibility, and includes titles from Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Spain, Ireland, Finland and Australia, ranging from psychological horror to animated musical adaptations. The festival runs July 2‑12, with a press conference on June 9 to reveal the rest of the 2026 lineup.
Fantastic Film Festival has set an 11-film lineup for the international competition of its 30th edition. Curry Barker’s smash-hit psychological horrorThe competition — rebranded “ Bucheon Choice : World — Features” as part of a programming overhaul for this year’s milestone edition — is the festival’s flagship strand, deciding its top prize, the “Best of Bucheon.
” Founded in 1997 and now amongGraydon Carter Invited Ron Howard to a Yacht Party in Cannes. It Wasn't Exactly Smooth Sailing The lineup leans on recent festival-circuit standouts. From Cannes, alongside Schoenbrun’s meta-slasher — which reworks the 1980s summer-camp subgenre through a queer lens — comes Marion Le Coroller’swith rare, late-run weekend gains, traces how forbidden desire spirals into supernatural terror.
A queer sensibility runs through much of the selection, which spans countries including Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Spain, Ireland, Finland and Australia. , a Korea-Taiwan co-production set in a reimagined future Seoul that features Tiffany Young of K-pop group Girls’ Generation. Elsewhere, Finnish director Hanna Bergholm’s, a Filipino animated musical adapted from the cult comic about a gay hairdresser who transforms into a female superhero.
BIFAN will hold a press conference on June 9 to unveil the remainder of its 2026 lineup. This year’s edition runs July 2-12.
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