List of Confirmed Artists at Sitges 2025

This film competition never stops growing. And as proof, here's a button. The list of confirmed special guests for the 58th edition of the SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia includes more than 400 names from all around the world. As of September 22, we have the details of the complete list of our guests. A wide range of artists, from the most veteran to the most promising young talents in the fantastic and horror genres. 

If you are a member of the press accredited for the Festival and would like to request an interview with any of these artists, please send an email to entrevistes@sitgesfilmfestival.com.

AWARDED 

Time Machine Award 

Sean S. Cunningham (director, producer and writer) 

Ben Wheatley (director) 

Benedict Cumberbatch (actor) 

Enzo G. Castellari (director and writer) 

William Fichtner (actor) 

Grand Honorary Awards 

Carmen Maura (actress) 

Terry Gilliam (director) 

Joe Dante (director) 

Peter Chan (director) 

WomanInFan Grand Honorary Award 

Gale Anne Hurd (producer) 

WomanInFan Award 

Mary Harron (director)

WomanInFan Award

Nancy Loomis (actress)

Nosferatu Award 

Hugo Stiglitz (actor) 

Méliès Career Award 

Dominique Pinon (actor) 

JURY 

Official Fantastic In-Competition Award 

Mary Harron (director) 

Peter Chan (director) 

Hernán Findling (producer) 

Jovanka Vuckovic (director) 

Laura Pedro (special effects supervisor) 

Blood Window / Órbita Jury 

Carmen Cuba (casting director) 

Dario Lavia (director) 

Lluís Arcarazo (writer) 

Noves Visions Jury 

Santiago Fillol (writer) 

Alison Peirse (scholar) 

Miguel Llansó (director) 

Anima’t Jury 

Alba Sotorra (producer) 

Anastasiia Falileieva (director) 

José Luis Farias (producer)

Brigadoon Jury 

Carles Torrens (director) 

Marina Queraltó (publicist) 

Xavi Rubí (distributor) 

Film Critics / Méliès d’Or Jury 

Daniela Urzola (film critic) 

Josep Maria Bunyol (film critic) 

Antonio Weinrichter (film critic) 

Méliès d’Argent Jury 

Marcus Stiglegger (scholar) 

Marc Mounier (manager) 

Diana Peñalver (actress)

FILMS

Opening

Alpha

Julia Ducournau (director)

Señuelo (corto)

Martha Ayerbe (director)

Sección Oficial Fantàstic a Competición (SOFC)

Balearic

Ion de Sosa (director)

Leire Apellaniz (producer)

Marina Perales (producer)

Christina Rosenvinge (actress)

Miguel Molina (producer)

Bulk

Ben Wheatley (director)

Sam Riley (actor)

Alexandra Maria Lara (actress)

Andy Starke (producer)

Chien 51

Cédric Jimenez (director)

Decorado

Alberto Vázquez (director)

Chelo Loureiro (producer)

Alessandra Casado (producer)

Iván Miñambres (producer)

José María Fernandez de Vega (producer)

El susurro

Gustavo Hernández Ibáñez (director)

Ana Clara Guanco (actress)

Ignacio García Cucucovich (producer)

Marina Sconocchini (producer)

Roxana Ramos (producer)

Fernando Díaz (producer)

Esa cosa con alas

Dylan Southern (director)

Benedict Cumberbatch (actor)

Eye for an Eye

Colin Tilley (director)

Gaua

Paul Urkijo (director)

Yune Nogueiras (actress)

Elena Irureta (actress)

Ane Gabarain (actress)

Iñake Irastorza (actress)

Fernando Larrondo (producer)

Begoña Alonso (executive producer)

Nerea Torrijos (costume designer)

Good Boy

Ben Leonberg (director)

Kari Fischer (producer)

Her Will Be Done

Julia Kowalski (director)

Simon Beaufils (DOP)

Honey Bunch

Madeleine Sims-Fewer (director)

Dusty Mancinelli (director)

Becky Yeboah (producer)

Andrea Boccadoro (composer)

La hermanastra fea

Emilie Blichfeldt (director)

Lea Myren (actress)

Thea Sophie Loch Naess (actress)

La virgen de la tosquera

Laura Casabé (director)

Isabel Bracamonte (actress)

Agustín Sosa (actor)

Alejandro Israel (producer)

Tomas Eloy Muñoz (producer)

Valeria Bistagnino (producer)

David Matamoros (producer)

Ángeles Hernandez (producer)

Mother’s Baby

Johanna Moder (director)

New Group

Yuta Shimotsu (director)

Opus

Mark Anthony Green (director)

Redux Redux

Kevin McManus (director)

Matthew McManus (director)

Michael McGarry (producer)

Nate Cormier (producer)

PJ McCabe (producer)

Reflection in a Dead Diamond

Hélène Cattet (director)

Bruno Forzani (director)

Singular

Alberto Gastesi (director)

Alejandra Arróspide (executive producer)

Patricia López Arnaiz (actress)

Javier Rey (actor)

Miguel Iriarte (actor)

Sergy Moreno (producer)

Adriana Vera (producer)

Maider Donoso (producer)

Silencio

Eduardo Casanova (director)

Ana Polvorosa (actress)

Lucía Díez (actress)

María León (actress)

Leticia Dolera (actress)

Joan Vilà (composer)

Mariola Fuentes (actress)

Carolina Rubio (actress)

Omar Ayuso (actor)

Marino Pardo (DOP)

Carolina Galiana (costume designer)

Antonio Abeledo (producer)

Javi Prada (producer)

Juan Mata (production director)

Together

Michael Shanks (director)

We Bury the Dead

Zak Hilditch (director)

Daisy Ridley (actress)

Grant Sputore (producer)

Sitges Collection

Re-Animator

Brian Yuzna (productor)

Richard Band (composer)

All You Need Is Kill

Kenichiro Akimoto (director)

Noriko Dohi (producer)

Black Phone 2

Scott Derrickson (director)

Robert Cargill (writer)

Drácula

Luc Besson (director)

Zoe Bleu (actress)

El hombre menguante (l'homme qui rétrécit)

Jan Kounen (director)

Jean Dujardin (actor)

VHS Halloween

Paco Plaza (director)

Vieja loca

Carmen Maura (actress)

Martin Mauregui (director)

Agustina Liendo (actress)

J.A. Bayona (producer)

Belén Atienza (producer)

Anima’t

Another world

Polly Yeung Po Man (producer)

Labyrinth

Shoji Kawamori (director)

Shoko Iwamoto (producer)

Kazuki Oshima (producer)

Taichi Hashimoto (writer)

Memory hotel

Heinrich Sabl (director)

Annedore Dreger (coproducer)

Starman

Robert Stone (director)

Tengosei - Shaman Star

Tomoko Shibahara (producer)

The Square

Kim Bo-Sol (director)

Oh You-Jin (production designer)

Xana y el secreto del tiempo

Ao Yu (director)

Tienan Zhou (director)

Lingyu Sun (executive producer)

Retrospectiva

The Terminator (4K)

Gale Anne Hurd (producer)

[REC] 3: GÉNESIS

Paco Plaza (director)

Brazil

Terry Gilliam (director)

Piranha

Joe Dante (director)

Òrbita

Crushed

Simon Rumley (director)

Find Your Friends

Allison Friedman (producer)

Maxime Pozzi-Garcia (editor)

Izabel Pakzad (director)

The Forbidden City (La città proibita)

Gabriele Mainetti (director)

Luger

Levi Star (music score)

José Luis Rancaño (producer)

Raúl Cerezo (executive producer)

Nuria Dorado (costume designer)

Mauricio Morales (actor)

Ramiro Alonso (actor)

Ángel Acero (actor)

Mario Mayo (actor)

David Sainz (actor)

Bruno Martín (director)

Ana Turpin (actress)

Santiago Taboada (writer)

No One Will Know

Vincent Maël Cardona (director)

The Old Woman With The Knife (Pa-gwa)

Min Kyu-Dong (director)

Tornado

John Maclean (director)

Tristes Tropiques

Suh Youngjoo (CEO Finecut)

Park Hoon-jung (director)

Panorama

Bagworm

Oliver Bernsen (director)

Henry Bernsen (actor)

Peter Falls (actor)

Larson Rainer (actor)

Zoe Rosenberg (producer)

Nicholas Nazmi (editor)

Angus Bernsen (production designer)

Todd Remis (executive producer)

Kyra Rogers (executive producer)

Ashley Wells (executive producer)

Blood Shine

Alex Schepsman (producer)

Emily Bennet (directora)

Justin Brooks (director)

Zeus Kontoyannis (executive producer)

Bokshi

Harsh Vaibhav (writer)

Bhargav Saikia (director)

Delivery Run

Joey Palmroos (director)

El descendiente

Peter Cilella (director)

Hellcat

Brock Bodell (director)

Andrew Duensing (producer/DOP)

It Ends

Evan Barber (producer)

Carrie Carusone (producer)

Alex Ullom (director)

Love Kills

Gabriel Stauffer (actor)

Magali Assenço (producer)

Luiza Shelling Tubaldini (director)

Mag Mag

Daisuke Takahashi (producer)

Yuriyan Retriever (director)

Man Finds Tape

Ashley Landavazo (producer)

Paul Gandersman (director)

Peter Hall (director)

Nell Kesser (actor)

David Lawson (producer)

Marama

Taratoa Stappard (director)

Monster Island

Edward Khoo (second unit director)

Grace Wu (executive producer)

Fumie Suzuki (producer)

Mother of Flies

Toby Poser (director)

Lulu Adams (actress)

Osiris

William Kaufman (director)

Shelby Oaks

Chris Stuckmann (director)

Slanted

Amy Wang (director)

The Curse

Yukino Kaizu (actress)

Yusuke Watanabe (director)

The Vile

Majid Al Ansari (director)

Roy Lee (producer)

Alwiya Thani (casting)

Sarah Taibah (actress)

Nuevas visiones

A Grand Mockery

Adam C. Briggs (director)

About a Hero

Piotr Winiewicz (director)

Anything That Moves

Alex Phillips (director)

Jiana Nicole (actress)

Hal Baum (actor)

Astrid's Saints

Mariano Baino (director)

Coralina Cataldi (actress)

Be a Good Girl

Louiza Zouzias (director)

Léa Catania (cast)

Panos Koronis (cast)

Adrien Bourguignon (DOP)

Maria Kontogianni (producer)

John Henry Hinkel (executive producer)

Christiana Zouzias (executive producer)

Yoshua Shelton (executive producer)

Buffet Infinity

Michael Peterson (producer)

Claire T. Theobald (actress)

Camp

Avalon Fast (director)

Taylor Nodrick (producer)

Zola Grimmer (actress)

Jackie De Niverville (producer)

Eily Sprungman (DOP)

Ben Warren (production designer)

Corazón de las tinieblas (Heart of Darkness)

Sébastien Onomo (producer)

Dawning

Patrik Syversen (director)

Dog of God

Raitis Abele (director)

Lauris Abele (director)

El último arrebato

Marta Medina (director)

Enrique López Lavigne (director)

Jaime Chávarri (actor)

Every Heavy Thing

Barbara Crampton (actress)

David Bond (executive producer)

Feels Like Home

Gábor Holtai (directo)

Éva Kovács (editor)

Forte

Kimbo Kim (director)

Chaeyoung Lim (actress)

Frédéric Alvarez (composer)

Maximilian Selim (producer)

Fucktoys

Annapurna Sriram (director)

La sonrisa del mal (The Holy Boy)

Paolo Strippoli (director)

Giulio Feltri (actor)

The Home

Mattias J. Skoglund (director)

Siri Hjorton Wagner (producer)

Mats Strandberg (writer)

Sitges Documenta

Aquel último tiburón

Enzo G. Castellari (director and writer) 

Víctor Matellano (director)

Ángel Sala (director)

Hammer: Heroes, Legends and monsters

Benjamin Field (director)

Horror and love

Joaquín Oristrell (director)

Sangre del toro

Yves Montmayeur (director)

Starman

Robert Stone (director)

The Degenerate: The Life and Films of Andy Milligan

Josh Johnson (director)

Grayson Johnson (director)

The Python Hunt

Xander Robin (director)

Theatre of Horrors

David Gregory (director)

Amanda Gregory (producer)

Brigadoon

Carlos Cardona, un ibicenco en Hollywood

José Luis Mir (director)

Death Cycle

Gabriel Carrer (director)

Matthew Ninaber (actor)

La noche de Romero

Allan J. Arcal (director)

Masters of The Grind

Jason Rutherford (director)

Stevie Waichulis (producer)

Lawrence David Foldes (producer)

Occupy Cannes

Lily Hayes Kaufman (director)

Catherine Corcoran (actress)

Thinestra

Nathan Hertz (director)

The Devil's Teardrop

César A. Zelada (executive producer)

Tras las huellas de un gigante. Ray Harryhausen en España

Luis Esquinas (director)

Domingo Lizcano (director)

Sebastià D'Arbó (producer)

Tura!

Cody Jarrett (director)

Serial Sitges

33 días

Nausicaa Bonnín (actress)

José Manuel Poga (actor)

Julián Villagrán (actor)

Pau Durà (actor)

Blanca Parés (actress)

Crims

Carles Porta (producer)

Pablo Fernández Masó (producer)

It: Bienvenidos a Derry

Andy Muschietti (director)

Bárbara Muschietti (producer)

Rafaela y su loco mundo

David Verdaguer (actor)

Ingrid Garcia-Jonsson (actress)

Carlos Areces (actor)

Joaquín Reyes (actor)

Arturo Valls (actor)

Carmen Ruiz (actress)

Aníbal Gómez (actor)

Talamasca

Mark Johnson (executive producer)

Talamasca / Premi Time Machine

William Fichtner (actor)

Midnight X-treme

Deathstalker

Matthew Ninaber (actor)

David Bond (executive producer)

Dolly

Rod Blackhurst (director)

Flush

Grégory Morin (director)

Fuck My Son!

Todd Rohal (director)

Laura Wolford (producer)

Tipper Newton (actress)

Tommy Lucente (producer)

Hold The Fort

William Bagley (director)

Karmadonna

Aleksandar Radivojević (director)

Jim Davies (producer)

Nikola Pantelic (line producer)

Meat Kills

Martijn Smits (director)

The Creeps

Marko Mäkilaakso (director)

Touch Me

Addison Heimann (director)

Ut Lan: The Guardian Demon

Dan Trong Tran (director)

Linda Tran (producer)

Sitges Family

Dormilón

Katherine Martinez (producer)

Gökotta

Kay Oceans (director)

L'últim desig

Núria Francisco (director)

Le Petit et Le Géant

Isabela Costa (director)

Olga Maufoy-Mollaret (distributor)

Marquis, Repeat

Halley Linscheid (director)

Mothballs

Aisha Evelyna (director)

Sana

Manu Larios (director)

Ventura

Juan Andrés Cermeño (director)

Short Films

Official Fantastic In-Competition (SOFC)

99 fantasmas

Gonzalo Torrens (director)

Julieta Spinelli (actress)

Amira

Javier Yáñez Sanz (director)

Víctor Martín León (producer)

Animalia

Marius Rolfsvåg (director)

Øystein Stene (writer)

Even the Moon Will Bleed

Stef Meyer (director)

Rémy Barbe (director)

Filther

Simen Nyland (director)

Fumigón

Daniel Asensio (director)

Heirlooms

Dan Abramovici (director)

Zeus Kontoyannis (executive producer)

Imaginary Friends

Belindalee Hope (producer)

Jacques the Giant Slayer

Aaron Moorehead (director)

Justin Benson (director)

Las lágrimas de Sísifo

Luis Larrodera (director)

Masks

Andre LeBlanc (director)

James M. Miller (producer)

Prou bé

Anna Carbonell (director)

Jordi Carbonell (producer)

Terapias y mazmorras

Adrián Pachón (director)

Irene Almirante (guionista)

The Beneath

Lisette Vlassak (director)

Ramon Etman (producer)

The First Hour

Harrison Thomas (director)

Tali Rabinowitz (producer)

The Man that I Wave At

Ben S. Hyland (director)

Tongue

Daseul Lim (director)

Hyunbin Hwang (actress)

Väsen

Kristofer Vishnu Carlsson (director)

Watch Me Burn

Sofia Spotti (director)

Tanya Singh (editor)

¡Pika!

Alex Fischman (director)

Trout Cohen (writer)

Anima’t

Double or Nothing

Tokay Sirin (director)

Dreamwalker

Sinem Vardarli (director)

Luca Schenato (director)

El fantasma de la quinta

James A. Castillo (director)

Raúl Rocha (producer)

First Light

Shusnuke Koyama (director)

Shinnosuke Watanabe (producer)

Lily

Pete Scalzitti (animator)

Luz diabla

Gervasio Canda (director)

Petra y el sol

Stefania Malacchini (director)

Antonia Piña (art director)

Signal

Emma Carré (director)

Mathilde Parquet (director)

The Fling

Jemma Cotter (director)

Todos los futuros

Bárbara Cerro (director)

Paul Senderowitsch (designer)

Wish You Were Ear

Mirjana Balogh (director)

Noves Visions

Blue Flowers

Joseph Pedi (director)

Will Dowsett (producer)

Exhibit

Lars Bürmann (director)

Moritz Marquardt (DOP)

How to Drag a Body

Connor McNamara (director)

Anthony Venturini (actor)

Los elegidos

Fercks Castellani (director)

Maria Cecilia González (executive producer)

Nonameblade

Xiang-Pu Zhu (director)

The New Flesh

Luciana Malavasi (director)

Elisa Bogalheiro (producer)

The Occupant of the Room

Kier-La Janisse (director)

Liane Cunje (producer)

The Well Spouse

Michael Kessler (director)

Lisa Tiger (actress)

Brigadoon

Baby Blues - Going Dark

James P. Gleason (director)

Efflorescence

Sofía Garza-Barba (director)

Ghosting

Yago Casariego (director)

Paspocalypse

Jasper ten Hoor (director)

Ivan Hidayat (director)

Lieuwe van Albaba (producer)

Sam van Eenbergen (DOP)

Speak with the Dead

Stephanie Paris (director)

Tapestry

Jason Sheedy (director)

Tragedium

Gaston Haag (director)

Midnight X-treme

Bidet

James Brylowski (director)

Brick Boy

Scott Vasey (director)

Matt Iacono (DOP)

Rough Cut

Mitchell Slan (director)

Lauren Musgrove (producer)

Sewing Machine

Tyler Hagen (director)

Heather Briganti (actor)

The Big Breakfast

Chris Hyde (director)

Chris Hamilton (producer)

The Saint Antoine

David Masson (director)

Marie Valls (producer)

Wisteria

Ian Garrucho (director)