Author: Anders E Larsson

The festival is just a month behind us, but it is already time for our next event. Once again, we will screen a short film package at KINO in Lund.

This time we present a collection of short films that we couldn’t fit into our program during this year’s festival. They are all films that were favourites among our short film programming team.

The eight films are:

Stuck
Year: 2020
Country: United States
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Runtime: 13 min 51 sec
Director: David Mikalson

The Tenant
Year: 2021
Country: Spain
Genre: Horror
Runtime: 9 min 46 sec
Director: Lucas Paulino, Ángel Torres

The Departure
Year: 2020
Country: The Netherlands
Genre: supernatural/drama
Runtime: 10 min 30 sec
Director: Nico van den Brink

Take Me Home, Country Roads
Year: 2021
Country: Republic of Korea
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Runtime: 19 min 47 sec
Director: Shihyoung Jeon

Pipo and Blind Love
Year: 2020
Country: France
Genre: science fiction, romance
Runtime: 12 min
Director: Hugo Le Gourrierec

Orogenesis
Year: 2021
Country: France
Genre: Sci-fi
Runtime: 6 min 26 sec

FACES
Year: 2020
Country: Spain
Genre: Sci-fi
Runtime: 9 min 2 sec
Director: Iván Sáinz-Pardo

The Removal
Year: 2021
Country: UK
Genre: Surreal
Runtime: 10 min 55 sec

Read about the films and book your FREE ticket at
https://kino.nu/lund-fantastic-presents.

See you at KINO on December 21st at 19.30!

On last night’s joyous closing ceremony, before the screening of Satoshi Kon’s anime masterpiece Paprika, the winners of Lund Fantastic Film Festival were announced:

THE SEINE’S TEARS was awarded the Méliès d’Argent short film award.

CODE NAME: NAGASAKI was awarded the Lund Fantastic Special Award.

Read more here!

Read about the three jurors here.

Ticket sales are handled by KINO through their website:
https://kino.nu/lund-fantastic-2021
This hybrid year we have a total of eight physical feature screenings and seven short films, spread out over seven days.

Our online program can be found at TriArtPlay.
Here you will find an additional nine features and nearly 50 short films!

Watch the FESTIVAL TRAILER and see which films to pick!

This year we are doing a re-branding of the festival, its concept and appearance.

A significant part of this is the audiovisual face of Lund Fantastic Film Festival – this is our signature that portrays the vision we have as a festival and organisation.

Enjoy the new trailer below, and make sure to attend this year’s festival – physically or virtually or both. Welcome to Lund Fantastic!

Credits:
Albina Sjöberg – logotype and artwork
Thea Arnman – animation and editing
Anders E Larsson – music

(This is the version of the trailer that’s already running wild at our home cinema Kino. More versions will follow!)

On October 30^th and 31^st, the 27^th edition of Lund Fantastic Film Festival starts off with a Halloween weekend full of treats and scares.

The first two days of the festival, which continues until November 5^th, offers both Scandinavian and European premieres of features and short films.

Lund Fantastic 2021 opens its doors with Medusa, the powerful and relevant satire lead by Mariana and her self-righteous girl gang, which violently hunt the “promiscuous” women around. The sophomore film by Brazilian director Anita Rocha da Silveira arrives after its premiere at Cannes 2021 and it should be leaving us all with a new-found sense of self-awareness and inclusive empowerment.

In Anything For Jackson (directed by Justin G. Dyck) we enter the domestic abyss where grief turns into occult longing for a loved one. You can sense the restrained and disturbed vibe from a classic chamber piece like Rosemary’s Baby – but with palpable bloody additions. The excellent leading couple presents a deadpan apparition that almost makes you believe the plan they are carrying out is completely sane and normal.

We are very excited to present our Halloween Horror short film package. In the spirit of last year’s edition we can promise lots of frights and a variety of horrors, such as cosmic powers, hellish portals, stalking spirits and plenty of things that go bump in the night. Among the titles you find the fantasy tinged The Light (directed by Iago de Soto) from Spain and the comedic Shiny New World (directed by Jan van Gorkum) from The Netherlands. Halloween Horror features seven films that all will contribute to a fantastic Halloween experience.

The weekend is rounded off with a secret screening of a truly subversively fun and highly entertaining reimagining of a cult classic slasher from the eighties. All we can say is: Don’t forget to bring your pyjamas…

For the online portion of our program we are happy to be collaborating with TriArt, one of Sweden’s leading distributors and producers of quality films.

Details of the rest of the physical and online program will follow, as well as information on where and how to buy tickets.

After a busy period finalizing the film bookings for this year’s festival,
we are now happy to present the date for
the first title announcements:

September 30th is the day to remember.

On this date we will unveil the films that will be showing physically
during our opening weekend.

Information on how to buy tickets for both the physical and
online screenings will follow after this date.