All 18 films of the Fantasy Film Festival Nights at a glance

All 18 films of the Fantasy Film Festival Nights at

After the Fantasy Film Festival in autumn and the Fantasy Film Festival White Nights in winter, the Genre Festival is back in May 2025 with new canvas adventures for horror, fantasy, sci-fi, thriller and action fans. Here we put the program of the Fantasy Film Festival Nights 2025 before.

These 18 films run in the program of the Fantasy Film Festival Nights 2025

Harry Potter’s new Dumbledore actor John Lithgow wants to scary you again before taking office in Hogwarts and the fairy tale Cinderella is very bloody from the perspective of Cinderella’s stepsister. In addition, Luc Besson’s new film unleash an odyssey of a different kind and a whale gives a contract killer supernatural forces. In short: the Fantasy film festival is back and the Ticket pre-sale For the 18 new films, Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

As always, seven German cities take part in the tour of the Fantasy Film Festival. This time the nights will be held in the following locations on two weekends:

  • 8th to May 11th, 2025: Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Nuremberg
  • 15th to May 18, 2025: Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart
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    As with the past highlights of the Fantasy Film Festival, with one-time zombie entertainment or a breathless action night, there are again varied genre films to discover this time. Get to know the 2025 Nights program here at a glance:

  • A girl with closed eye -Korean thriller about a murdered bestselling author whose potential murderer claims that he had kidnapped her years ago.
  • A whale – A Spanish contract killer draws her supernatural power from a mysterious sea creature.
  • Bring Them Down -Non-linear told, escalating feuds of two Irish sheep farms with secrets, with Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) and Christopher Abbott (Wolfman).
  • Clown in A Cornfield -Murder mascot “Frendo” of a closed US Kleinstadt factory is hunting for young people.
  • The Damned -Horror mystery as a final film: A widow makes an impossible decision on Iceland when a ship sinks off the coast.
  • The Gesuidouz -Japanese horror punk band moves to the country and wants to write the ultimate hit anthem before turning 27.
  • Jimmy and Stiggs – Filmmaker Jimmy was allegedly kidnapped by Aliens and is looking for help with buddy Stiggs if the aliens come back.
  • June and John – Romantic thriller by Luc Besson, in which love drives a young man to extreme.
  • Kung fu in rome -Opening film: Gabriele Mainetti (Freaks Out) Kung fu master and indebted restaurant owners on the Italian underworld.
  • Locked -Autodieb Bill Skarsgård is trapped in luxury bodies, whose owner (Anthony Hopkins) maltreated him with the latest technology; by Brightburn director David Yarovesky.

  • Memoirs of a snail -Oscarnominated stop motion about traumatized snail collectors as a dark animated film for adults; By Mary & Max maker Adam Elliot.

  • Mermaid -US horror comedy about a drug-dependent aquarium nurse who saves a monstrous mermaid.
  • Noise -Korean ghost shocker, who creeps and attacks above all the soundtrack: a hearing-impaired woman is looking for her sister.

  • Orang Ikan -Fantasy horror from Singapore: After their shipwreck, a Japanese and a Brit have to alleviate themselves against a blood-thirsty monster in World War II.
  • Redux Redux – A mother travels through parallel worlds to kill her daughter’s murderer again and again.
  • The Rule of Jenny Pen -Psycho duel in the nursing home between Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow with doll as a torture instrument.
  • The Ugly Stepsister -Gore Cinderella from the perspective of the stepsister, who really does everything for beauty.

  • The Weekend -Rican Nigerian horror thriller: The presentation of the in-laws escalates my bride, her father and I.

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