Fantasia International Film Festival 2018

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Petite Avarie and Puppet Master
Aurore (Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Mael Le Mée; Writer: Mael Le Mée; Stars: Manon Valentin, Lorenzo Lefèbvre, Nathan Bensoussan, Fiorella Campanella)
A teenager discovers that she can put her fingers in places where they shouldn't go.
Catcalls (Country: Ireland; Year: 2017; Director: Kate Dolan; Writer: Kate Dolan; Stars: Martin O'Sullivan, Cesca Saunders, Edel Murphy, Sarah Kinlen, Desmond Eastwood)
A man picks the wrong stranger to expose himself to.
The Day My Mother Became A Monster (Le Jour Où Maman Est Devenue Un Monstre) (Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Josephine Darcy Hopkins; Writer: Josephine Darcy Hopkins; Stars: Josephine Bernetti, Gretel Delattre)
A girl celebrating her ninth birthday notices that her mother is beginning to change in a disturbing way.
The Dead Man Speaks (De Dode Spreekt) (Country: Netherlands; Year: 2017; Director: Marcos Mereles; Writer: Marcos Mereles; Stars: Sameer van Alfen)
A man explains what it's like to be dead.
Gardiennage De L'Enfer (Country: Canada; Year: 2018; Director: Camille Monette, Frank Appache; Writer: Frank Appache, Camille Monette)
A former prisoner agrees to look after a baby in exchange for a reduction in the length of his probation.
Nose Nose Nose Eyes! Nose Nose Nose Eyes!
Nose Nose Nose Eyes! and Two Balloons
The Gaze (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ida Joglar; Writer: Ida Joglar; Stars: Josh Caras, Siri Miller, Drew Moore, Jennifer Rostami)
A young scientist finds her instincts taking control after she's sexually assaulted by her supervisor.
The Invaders (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Mateo Márquez; Writer: Mateo Márquez; Stars: Joe Aquino, Keith Boratko, Isra Elsalihie, Sean Kenealy, Alastair Murdoch, Greta Murdoch, Ashley Siflinger, Alvaro Uccello)
A young Muslim woman is followed on her way home.
Lucy's Tale (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Chelsea Lupkin; Writer: Chelsea Lupkin; Stars: Irina Bravo, Zach Fifer, Mary Nepi, Zanny Laird, Daryl Paris Bright, Sandra Lucas)
Between mean girls, her first romance, and budding hormones, Lucy begins to realise that she's not like the other teenagers in her class.
Nose Nose Nose Eyes! (Country: South Korea; Year: 2018; Director: Jiwon Moon; Writer: Jiwon Moon; Stars: Juyeong Lee, Jayeong Kim, Jeongse Oh)
A 10-year-old girl witnesses a horrific incident between her parents.
The Old Woman Who Hid Her Fear Under The Stairs (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Faye Jackson; Writer: Faye Jackson; Stars: Sara Kestelman, Alice Offley)
An old woman finds a way to remove her fear, but can the good times last?
Aurore Aurore
Aurore and Lucy's Tale
Petite Avarie (Country: France; Year: 2018; Director: Manon Alirol, Léo Hardt; Writer: Léo Hardt; Stars: Manda Touré, Léo Hardt, Emilie Guil)
When Laura learns that she has breast cancer, her partner Sylvain doesn't respond in the way she might have hoped.
Puppet Master (Country: Finland; Year: 2018; Director: Hanna Bergholm; Writer: Hanna Bergholm; Stars: Merja Pöyhönen, Jari Virman)
A lonely woman allows a man to transform her into a puppet.
Two Balloons (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Mark C Smith; Writer: Mark C Smith)
Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.
Voyager (Country: Norway; Year: 2017; Director: Kjersti Helen Rasmussen; Writer: Kjersti Helen Rasmussen; Stars: Enok Groven, Siv Torin Knudsen Petersen, Oliander Taule)
A shooting star falls down over the Arctic island of Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault gets an unexpected visitor.
Who's Who In Mycology (Country: US, Czech Republic; Year: 2016; Director: Marie Dvorakova; Writer: Marie Dvorakova, Micah Schaffer; Stars: Joel Brady, Johanka Schmidtmajerová)
A young trombone player spends an adventurous night trying to open an impossible bottle of wine after carrying an unconscious woman back to her flat, in which everything seems to be on the verge of falling over.
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