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NOV 20-21, 2026
Official Selection
Los Angeles FANTASY Fest 2026 - Nov 20-21
Welcome to the Official Selection of Los Angeles Fantasy Fest 2026.
We have already begun announcing selected films, with titles being revealed in batches as the process continues. This page will gradually showcase the lineup representing the best in animation, horror, sci-fi, thriller, and suspense — leading up to the festival this November in Los Angeles. Check back regularly for updates.
Our festival is divided into two sections:
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LIVE - For filmmakers who have confirmed their attendance at the festival in Los Angeles - Nov 20-21, 2026.
Enjoy in-person screenings, filmmaker Q&As, networking opportunities, and the official Award Ceremony at Skiptown Playhouse.
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ONLINE: Your film will screen in our secure digital platform, accessible worldwide, giving international audiences the opportunity to experience your work and vote for the Online Audience Award.
ONLINE – For filmmakers who cannot attend the festival in Los Angeles - Nov 19-21, 2026. Online Screening End Time: All online screenings will conclude on November 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM Pacific Time (PT). After this time, the Online Edition will close and access will no longer be available.
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Horror - Thriller / Sci-Fi Feature Film
Amnesia - It's Time to Forget - Dir. Dario Boldrini - 01:53:00 min - Italy
View From The Edge - Dir. Michael Lippert - 02:00:00 min - Canada
The First Shapeshifter - Dir. Raúl Coria Martínez - 01:16:00 min - Spain
Tongues of Fire - Dir. Zé Kielwagen - 01:10:00 min - Brazil
ReLive - Dir. Steve Lee Taylor - 01:20:00 min - USA
DEBONE - Dir. LEE DAEHAN - 02:01:38 min - South Korea
Mommy I don't want to - Dir. Asif Pervez - 01:33:40 min - United Kingdom, United States
Unsavory Elements... - Dir. Tom Carter - 01:40:00 min - USA
She Lives at School - Dir. SAMUEL CRISTOBAL MONTES DE OCA LEON - 01:00:00 min - Mexico
The Yellow Balloon - Dir. Jason D. Morris - 01:27:00 min - USA
The Attack Of The Astroharvesters - Dir. Xander Phillips - 01:21:04 min - United Kingdom
Backwards Dad - Dir. Felix Nunez - 01:02:00 min - USA
You Could Be Famous - Dir. Boogiewhip - 01:23:42 min - USA
Infernal - Dir. Darien Andreas Brown, Brandon Self - 02:13:57 min - USA
All Things Come To Night - Dir. Lilton Stewart III - 01:20:41 min - USA
Horror/THRILLER Short Film
Happy Birthday - Dir. Vania Vasquez, Cynthia Bergen -2:24 min - USA
The Return of the Lifeblood - Dir. Arnold Sotomayor - 29:58 min - Peru
Garden Valley - Dir. Manuel Navarro - 27:36 min - USA
Rise of the Succubus (Part 2) - Dir. Jason Hough - 18:35 min - USA
The Magic Trick - Dir. Leyla Chykulina - 14:13 min - Switzerland
The Last Sunset - Dir. Jamila Jackson - 5:08 min - USA
The Devil Wears Pants - Dir. Daffa Mangussara - 21:51 min - Indonesia
The Year You Looked at Me - Dir. Karlos Alastruey - 29:00 min - Spain
"Bugaboo" - Dir. Benjamin Morehead - 5:24 min - USA
Sunday Bloom - Dir. Joy Ludwig - 14:28 min - USA
Continued Existence - Dir. Thiago Avilez - 14:55 min - USA
Into the Fold - Dir. Andrea Manners - 8:32 min - USA
Superhost - Dir. A.P. P. Bergeron, Sophie Edell - 12:17 min - Canada
Bullet and Lace - Dir. Nick Noyes - 15:57 min - USA
Bad Apples - Dir. Craig Montalbano, Sean Hall - 17:05 min - USA
Four Itchy Boys - Dir. Andrew Hebert - 12:48 min - USA
DEAD EXPOSURE - Dir. Billy Caldwell - 8:15 min - USA
Garden of an Angry God - Dir. Matthew David Roe - 12:25 min - USA
Thysia - Dir. Raphaël Hérault - 13:48 min - France
Trudy - Dir. Xaimary Torres Ortiz - 14:51 min - USA
OUTWIT THE DEVIL - Dir. Anthony Nicholas Moore - 12:24 min - USA
The Seven Philosophies - Dir. Jackson Shemwell - 22:38 min - USA
The Living Note - Dir. juwon Bae - 9:02 min - South Korea
Comparable - Dir. Max Radbill - 9:58 min - USA
Luiz Miguel against the Swamp Monster - Dir. Thiago Henrique Ferreira - 14:29 min - Brazil
La Hora Azul - Dir. Lucía Giner González - 6:11 min - Spain
The Cure - Dir. Trix StarT - 13:00 min - United Kingdom
Transfert - Dir. Emeric Gallego - 8:00 min - France
D3STRO - Dir. Joshua Torresvalle - 7:12 min - Mexico
Uzeta - Dir. Robert Meza - 19:58 min - USA
Autonomous - Dir. Jennifer Mosier - 10:47 min - Canada
Case 076 - Dir. Moises Suarez, Javier Carreon - 15:40 min - Mexico
Blood In The Pines: Clown Lunacy - Dir. Luke Robert - 4:00 min - USA
OUR MOTHER - Dir. Daniele Paglia - 27:41 min - Italy
Luna - Dir. Marty Agabob - 8:02 min - Canada
THE SNEAKERS - Dir. Jonathan Rodríguez - 30:00 min - Argentina
The Storyteller - Dir. Patrick McGinley - 9:40 min - Ireland
Dogs reign - Dir. Axel Zeltser - 13:24 min - France
The Pact Under the Full Moon - Dir. Vitor Meloni - 19:38 min - Brazil
EGG - Dir. Max Larsson - 3:24 min - Sweden
Blood In The Pines: The Conjuring - Dir. Luke Robert - 4:12 min - USA
FINAL CHAPTER - Dir. Chloe Selvey - 18:22 min - USA
Meat Locker - Dir. Mark G. Lakatos - 7:25 min - Hungary
The Quiet Beside Me - Dir. Sau - 6:02 miin - Indonesia
Black Marrow - Dir. Sergio Pazos Conde - 8:46 min - Spain
Loop Hole - Dir. Hannah Riggs - 9:00 min - USA
Imprecation - Dir. Ari Moretz - 3:00 min - Canada
Rise of the Succubus (Part 1) - Dir. Jason Hough - 16:06 min - USA
At the foot of the bed - Dir. Nicola Pignatale - 6:14 min - Italy
Jakob - Dir. Jason Robert Kidder - 5:06 min - USA
20% - Dir. Jonathan Ruggiero - 10:00 min - USA
Knitting Club - Diogo Abrantes, João Rito - 4:36 min - Portugal
Amber - Dir. Elisha Christopher Cecil, Jaren Hemphill - 7:21 min - USA
The Liar - Dir. Sank Roshan - 17:08 min - Poland
Home Sweet Home - Dir. Dylan Russ - 13:44 min - USA
Persephone - Dir. Jean-Sebastien BERNARD - 4:57 min - France
MEDICINE FOR GHOSTS - Dir. Daniel Canales Serrano - 29:00 min - Mexico
FATHER! - Dir. Abe Smyth, Sophia Adli - 18:51 min - Ireland
Never Trust A Charming Man - Dir. Reanna Cameron, Amanda Spinosa 11:24 min - Canada
To Nora - Dir. Brandon Maxwell - 4:00 min - USA
Follow Me Home - Dir. Stanislav Puzdriak - 10:00 min - USA
Dance the Light Away - Dir. Annabelle Snelling - 19:51 min - New Zealand
INTO NOWHERE - Dir. Iurii Karasev - 22:35 min - USA
The Dream Keeper - Dir. Rain Nikolla - 11:47 min - Greece
Level One - Dir. Roxy Shih - 7:11 min - USA
Emerald Triangle - Dir. Mena Elizabeth Santos - 13:35 min - USA
PARARTSITE - Dir. Alejandro Massó 13:00 min - USA
Secret Admirer - Dir. Stephen Chen -11:02 min - USA
I'M GOING TO BE LATE - Dir. Sophea Bethel - 18:05 min - USA
Acacio's Arm - Dir. Alonso Valdez I. - 5:00 min - Mexico
Skins: A Devil's Dancers Story - Dir. Jason Hough - 15:31 min - USA
The Ringing - Dir. Brandon Scullion - 8:44 min - USA
HOWLIN FIELDS - Dir. Billy Caldwell - 15:40 min - USA
The Ghost of the Seine - Dir. Martin Pizarro Veglia - 4:00 min - France
It was a bad dream - Dir. Almir Ismaili - 3:39 min - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo
If you were light - Dir. Maurilio Rodríguez - 22:21 min - Mexico
Dolls and Drinks - Dir. Benedicte Kolberg - 10:38 min - Norway
Bedlock - Dir. Carlos Vela-Martinez - 6:40 min - Canada
The Awake - Dir. Mari Cielo Pajares - 13:04 min - Spain
BEHIND THE DOOR - Dir. Leonardo Valenti - 4:52 min - France
DM - Dir. George Navarro - 6:47 min - USA
Out of Character - Dir. Alisa Zichuck - 15:00 min - Ukraine
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Final Exam - Dir. Surapong Wetsuwanmanee - 5:00 min - Thailand
Night Crawling - Dir. Austin Peay State University Animation + VFX - 3:55 min - USA
Burning Rope - Dir. Juan Belardi - 11:07 min - USA
The Decline and Fall of Holly Dew and Walter Melon - Dir. Lorin Morgan-Richards - 4:02 min - USA
Bloodline - Dir. Mia Lang, Nia Chantana - 5:38 min - USA
Paty - Dir. Maria Luiza Staut - 5:15 min - Brazil
The Scavenger - Dir. Seth Savage - 14:30 min - USA
Whisper of the well - Dir. Elif DOKUR - 6:20 min - Türkiye
The necklace of blood - Dir. German L Ramos-Briñez - 25:19 min - Venezuela
A Woodcutter's Promise - Dir. Salina Tjhan - 6:13 min - USA
The Planet That Doesn't Exist - Dir. Nadav Embon - 8:00 min - Israel
Nice Spare! - Dir. Katie Steuernagel - 7:00 min - USA
Commander Fame - Dir. Austin Peay State University Animation + VFX - 2:57 min - USA
Final Act - Dir. Babi Astolfi, Lisa Soares - 13:00 min - Brazil
Soar Buddies - Dir. Soar Buddies - 5:41 min - Malaysia
Flower Bot - Dir. Director - Celio Dubus, Margaux Hallot, Tiphaine Houdeau, Loïs Pastor, Marie Piazza, Clémence Thomire, Ludovic Vasse, Aurélia Zerhouni - 6:50 min - France
The Great Adventure of Bati, the Bat Knight - Dir. Jesús Pertíñez, Maria Carmen Hidalgo - 7:25 min - Spain
The Saccharine Fabulist - Dir. Wayne Howe - 5:23 min - United Kingdom
Entities - Dir. Marcin Pospiech - 2:50 min - United Kingdom, USA
The Bounty - Dir. Austin Peay State University Animation + VFX - 2:18 min - USA
Kopavi4 - Dir. Satoshi Inukai - 17:56 min - Japan
Zhong Kui Slaying Demons - Dir. 小东 王 - 8:33 min - China
Dreadful Delivery - Dir. Austin Peay State University Animation + VFX - 3:17 min - USA
Dream Defenders - Dir. Nicole Nowel - 4:18 min - USA
Outer Space Maniacs From Another World - Dir. Brandon Serneck - 3:28 min - USA
Journey To Something Somewhere... - Dir. Isabelle Yu - 2:43 min - Canada
Look At Me - Dir. Xuefan Cao - 2:24 min - Australia
DOA - Dir. Basile Vallet-Petit - 2:30 min - France
AutoPilot - Dir. Micah Buzan - 4:13 min - USA
Bo The Horror - Dir. Austin Peay State University Animation + VFX - 2:30 min - USA
Phantominon: Community Service - Dir. Nathan Cadelina - 9:01 min - USA
creAtIon - Dir. Sav Vivanco, Angela Grace Aguas - 6:07 min - USA
DEMO DAY - Dir. Ar Ducao - 25:11 min - Canada
Comb Story - Dir. Ernesto Rodriguez Cruz - 3:00 min - USA
Angel & Meow - Dir. Clemhyn Escosora - 15:00 min - Japan, Slovakia
Feral Melody - Dir. Juan Paulín Lara - 5:42 min - Mexico
Mo-Sin-A(MOXINA) - Dir. ChillyA Chiu - 3:05 min - Taiwan
SCI-FI SHORT FILM
Cosmic Horror of Dating - Dir. Kilián Bognár - 22:34 min - Hungary
CHAIKA - Dir. Ingrid Paola Bonilla Rodriguez - 14:35 min - Colombia
The Hunt - Dir. Stephen Bigot - 5:00 min - France
RUH - Dir. Prashant Singh - 25:00 min - India
Special Report - Dir. Bruno Koerner - 2:02 min - France
Beyond the Void with Captain Dalton Mattix - Dir. Ben Kurstin - 14:50 min - USA
Pleroma - Dir. Chris Browne - 6:00 min - Canada
Blood In The Pines: The Conjuring - Dir. Luke Robert - 4:12 min - USA
Before Us. The Silicon Bible - Dir. Iskra Pinchuk - 10:00 min - USA
One Night in Reinhold City - Dir. Matt J Bond - 19:48 min - USA
Love & Lazarite - Dir. Krí Schafer - 6:35 min - USA
The Lake - Dir. Brandon White, Zack White - 5:44 min - USA
NIXIE - Dir. Mary Rachel Gardner - 7:22 min - USA
Knights & Relationships - Dir. Sam Tung - 11:08 min - USA
Love Machine - Dir. Nicholas Gearin - 9:15 min - USA
The 7th Kind - Dir. Ericka Page - 13:23 min - USA
2050 REBEL VOICES - Dir. WEL Theater and Movie - 16:34 min - Italy
DRONES - Dir. Steve Acevedo - 22:30 min - USA
MINE - Dir. Brandon Flyte - 8:08 min - USA
ISH - Dir. Lyne COURTOIS - 12:44 min - France
333 - Dir. J. Julian Vacas - 13:00 min - Spain
Rammr - Dir. Kyle Grogan - 13:40 min - USA
All Your Sisters - Dir. David A. Daniels - 9:07 min - USA
ARTIFICIAL PUNISHMENT - Dir. ONUR ONAY - 18:32 min - Türkiye
Children at the rooftop cinema - Dir. 侑紀 刷場 - 9:54 min - Japan
Too Cheap - Dir. David Alejandro D'Urso - 10:50 min - Venezuela
STARPOST - Dir. Nick Trivundza, Lexie Trivundza - 6:27 min - USA
She Fell From Space - Dir. Seriina Covarrubias - 15:00 min - USA
The Astronaut - Dir. Adam Wells - 11:19 min - USA
Triggered 3.0: The Final Cut - Dir. Mario Ricardo Rodriguez, Marcus Nel-Jamal Hamm - 36:22 min - USA
Lovebug - Dir. Jalaludin Trautmann, David Mahmoudieh - 11:00 min - Germany
Apocalyptic Amulet - Dir. Stephen Paul Stelmach Jr - 8:30 min - USA
ALONE - Dir. Jamie Twyman - 6:20 min - United Kingdom
Out of the smoke - Dir. Anne Koolen - 4:00 min - USA
Aroma-Vision - Dir. Shun Powell - 11:18 min - USA
Kill Truth - Dir. Bjorn Kenneth Weedbrook - 25:00 min - Australia
Alien AI Armageddon - Dir. Trix StarT - 4:59 - USA
ILMIØ - Dir. Tuomas Järvenpää - 29:00 min - Finland
Memory of Paris - Dir. Alesander Lune Sokolov - 14:10 min - France
Legend - Dir. Ryan Patterson - 19:00 min - Canada
Prehistoric Players - Dir. Narwhal Zhou, Jing Peng - 9:18 min - China
Kirikko vs Kitsune - Dir. Pai Chen - 2:09 min - Taiwan
血債 BLOOD DEBT - Dir. Arthur Liew - - 8:08 min Malaysia
Vending Machine - Dir. Hanting Wang - 8:22 min - China
The Weaker Brother Will Drown - Dir. Miroslav Trifonov - 4:53 min - Bulgaria
Sous la lune - Dir. Pai Chen - 3:24 min - Taiwan
SCRIPT FEATURE
Children of the Eternal Summer - Wri. Jerzy P. Suchocki - USA
Battle of Planets: The 4th Circle of Hell - Wri. Rain Story - USA
Saturday Night Slaughter - Wri. Michael Hansen - USA
Drums of Freedom - Dir. Gabriel Mora Rodriguez - Costa Rica
The Evil Order - Wri. Salvador Ochoa Lemus - Mexico
Rattlesnake Ridge - Wri. Steven Lee Taylor - USA
The Last Days of the Phillipian - Wri. Chris Bennetts - Australia
Grad Nite - Wri. Sion-Raize - USA
She Got Out - Wri. Nikki Durbin - XXXXXX
Zombies In The Wood - Wri. Felicia Ann Mead - USA
Our Land - Dir. Laughlin McKee - Spain
Bleed Over - Wri. Daniel Phillips - USA
Karma - Wri. Marco Antonio - Brazil
TOWNSHIP: LIANA - Dir. Darby Ellis Lewis Wilson, Chris Obershaw - USA
Lazarus Code - Wri. Carlos Garcia Moreno - Spain
Compression - Wri. Nikki Durbin - XXXXX
Leather Bound - Wri. Kelsey Nie - XXXXX
Cold West - Wri. Jason Myers - USA
Bishop's Day - Wri. Christopher Kelly - USA
SCRIPT Short
The Seal Below: A Key of Melusine Prequel - Wri. TK - USA
Patibulum - Wri. Mark A. C. Brown - United Kingdom
Dead Hearts - Wri. Jerzy P. Suchocki - USA
Undying - Wri. David Creighton - Canada
This Email Could Have Been a Knife Fight - Wri. Elijah Jamil Broughton - USA
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth - Wri. Hayes Davis - USA
Mala Gente - Wri. Nilson Bernardi Ferreira - Brazil
Sadie + Sam Forever - Dir. Scott Bastedo - USA
Feeding the Foxes - Wri. Ross Dean Lovell - XXXXX
It's a Curse - Wri. Cécile Duclos - United Kingdom
Coriaria - Wri. Kylos August Brannon - USA
CROSSROADS WAITING ROOM - Wri. Michael J Volpe - USA
Serious Applicants Only - Wri. Cara McWilliam-Richardson - United Kingdom
Winston Can't Let Go - Wri. Ben G. Bronson - USA
Sundowning - Wri. Nicola Stuart-Hill - United Kingdom
Write Your Heart Out - Dir. Amanda L. Andrei - XXXXXX
Mala Gente - Wri. Nilson Bernardi Ferreira - Brazil
The Thunder Troll - Wri. Jondaniel Cornett - USA
Official Selection 2026: Below you will find all the posters for the selected films.
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