Born of Woman 2021
Join us after the screening on August 18 at 1:25am EDT for a live Q&A with Directors Thirza Cuthand (SHE WHISTLES), Lucía Forner Segarra (DANA), Annalise Lockhart (INHERITANCE), Alyssa Loh (OTHER BODIES), Nancy Menagh (VICTIM NO. 6), Deanna Milligan (LUCID), Emanuela Ponzano (A NEW PERSPECTIVE) as well as Producers Sera-Lys McArthur (SHE WHISTLES) and Heather Brittain O’Scanlon (VICTIM NO. 6).
Fantasia’s annual showcase of intimate, auteur genre visions returns with eight extraordinary works from five countries, conjured by a pack of phenomenal filmmaking talents whose names should be etched into your mind’s eye. – Mitch Davis
Lucid
Deanna Milligan
At an art school in the ’90s, a young outsider embarks on a morbid quest for pure self-expression.
Inheritance
Annalise Lockhart
A black family strive to shield their rural Vermont home from the eyes of ghosts that surround it.
She Whistles
Thirza Cuthand
An Indigenous girl whose mother has vanished is attacked by her cab driver. An anguished work, with supernatural energies.
Victim No. 6
Nancy Menagh
A serial killer stalks 1975 NYC. That’s not going to stop New Yorkers from having fun in this largely bar-set short.
Dana
Lucía Forner Segarra
An assault victim becomes the avenger of battered and molested women across town, taking back the night in blood.
Other Bodies
Alyssa Loh
A series of interpersonal misreadings bring a young man’s suppressed inclinations to the surface.
The Expected
Carolina Sandvik
A pregnant woman has a miscarriage in her bathtub. Her partner struggles to care for the skin that remains.
A New Perspective
Emanuela Ponzano
A boy playing in the forest comes across terrified people of a different race in the midst of nightmarish circumstances.