Fantasia International Film Festival has revealed its second wave of films for this year’s edition including festival opener Bookworm , Cannes sensation The Count of Monte-Cristo , and more. The Montreal-based festival announced the next set of films late on Thursday for this summer’s festival which also include the werewolf film The Beast Within starring Kit Harington, the Samara Weaving starrer Azrael , and more. You can see the full announcement of second wave films below for this year, which is the 28th annual iteration of the genre film festival.
This year’s edition will honor Vincenzo Natali with the Canadian Trailblazer award as well. The full list of films will be announced next month, and the festival runs from July 18th through August 4th. OPENING FILM: ANT TIMPSON’S BOOKWORM, STARRING ELIJAH WOOD AND NELL FISHER Fantasia’s 28th edition will open with a joyride into the wild, celebrating the World Premiere of Ant Timpson’s moving and hilarious BOOKWORM.
Reuniting the celebrated New Zealand filmmaker with his COME TO DADDY star Elijah Wood (Showtime’s Yellowjackets) – who matches through-the-roof comic chemistry of gifted his young co-star Nell Fisher (EVIL DEAD RISE) – BOOKWORM is as entertaining as it is richly cinematic. Mildred (Fisher), a precocious eleven-year-old bookworm, escapes her humdrum existence by immersing herself in novels where literary adventures abound, with a long-dreamed quest to capture proof of a mythological beast known as T.
