Fantasy Movies

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

This film stays very faithful to the original down to the smallest details, save for the kangaroo-rat that suddenly appears twenty minutes into the movie and subsequently follows Aladdin around, serving no purpose in the story but fulfilling the role of token animal mascot. The story takes some illogical and confusing jumps at the point where Aladdin begins to court the princess, and the extravagant animation that had characterised Toei films of the 60s, when Toei had the best animators around, had become a thing of the past long before this point; but this is still an above-average film, in large part because of the screenplay that stays so faithful to the original. The character designs are slightly more western-looking than one is accustomed to seeing in anime.

The Master and Margarita

The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.

The Tip

Jamie, an innocent pizza guy, awakens to find himself tied to a chair in the middle of a garage at the mercy of two suburban cultists.

The Mermaid

A story of Yang Fan who fell into the sea when chasing a mermaid, Xiaoyu. Yang Fan fell in love with a half fish, half girl. But the mermaid have to say bye bye because she want a half fish half human boyfriend.

Declive

Electric Fish

A surrealist queer experience. Sweder, one day as he prepares to cut a fish, feels somehow touched by the commercial that is playing on TV about the consumption of animal flesh and violence, so he decides to adopt the fish and treat it like a son.

The Keris

A battle over the Keris Tempa Melaka, a legendary blade linked to warrior Hang Tuah, drawing in a Muay Thai practitioner and a Russian mafia syndicate.

Le voyageur

A castle lost in the middle of the woods. A train track cutting through the countryside. No train ever stops at the tiny station that serves the castle. A young woman, with paralysed legs, spends her time watching out for the train's passing. One day, the train stops and a young man gets out. He seems to know the place. What did he come to do ?

El retrato

A repressed woman, unable to give love, is possessed by the spirit of her lewd grandmother.

In the Air

A man tries various ways to achieve flight, with sometimes unexpected results.

Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fulfill her mother's wish.

L’Échappée

Trans

Minyoung is a shy high school girl suffering from depression and bulimia. She is mercilessly bullied by her classmates, especially the sadistic Taeyong and his posse. One day, she is rescued by a sympathetic classmate who introduces her to transhumanism, a process where electrical shocks to the brain cause a person to "wake up to reality" through electrical baptism. Now, fully empowered, she plans revenge for the boys that have brutally bullied her. But when Taeyong turns up murdered, Minyoung must travel back in time using the Tesla coil to reveal the killer... even if the killer might be herself.

Discipline

The film examines girlhood as inherited performance-costumes worn before identity forms. Mona frames femininity as simultaneous nurture and constraint, exploring how intimacy between girls and garments becomes predetermined theatre. Clothing functions as ritual and control, dictating movement before self-knowledge arrives.

Khooni Murdaa

Ranjit, a violent stalker, is killed by the friends of his source of affection, Rekha. What follows are strange supernatural attacks on his killers, with roses left for Rekha as her friends are slaughtered one by one, leading to the consultation of a wizard...

Lincoln in the Bardo

In 1862, a grieving Abraham Lincoln visits his son Willie's grave, sparking a supernatural moment where ghosts in the "bardo" must help the boy move on before he is trapped forever.

Dream Fossil

A Horrible Train

No signs of life. A man at the train station cuts his way through the passengers standing still as if time stopped.

Taro the Dragon Boy

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations

Ikki, Touma, and their allies fight against a Devil with ties to Shocker while attempting to help a Kamen Rider from the future reconcile with his now elderly son.