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Fantastic 7

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A program offering a glimpse into upcoming productions in the global fantastic genre film industry, facilitating connections between these projects and international production and distribution representatives.

The Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, in collaboration with the Marché du Film – Cannes Film Festival and Bernardo Bergeret, International Affairs Manager of the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA), present the 8th edition of Fantastic 7, a program offering a glimpse of upcoming productions in the global fantastic genre film industry, facilitating connections between these projects and international production and distribution representatives.

Fantastic 7 is designed to connect projects at different stages of production—or that have already been completed—with international investors, for the purpose of promoting their final commercialization. Seven top-tier festivals present a genre film project from their respective regions at a pitching session held annually during the Marché du Film – Cannes Film Festival. 

Fantastic 7 showcases the most promising genre projects worldwide, representing the new trends from each continent.

Discover everything about the Fantastic 7 in our booklet
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Selected projects 2026

Héctor is a Spanish engineer living in Paris who left his hometown as a teenager after his parents died in a strange accident. When the company he works for sends him back to his village to fix the data center they’ve built nearby, his pregnant girlfriend, Hélène, travels with him to support him in this trip back to his roots. 

After air pollution wipes out all life on Earth, bioengineer Dae-seung lives in a bunker with Sina, whom he subjects to brutal experiments to create a human who can survive outside. 

When a survivor, Taeo, appears and vanishes, Sina discovers she is only an experiment and escapes in search of freedom.

Rock paper sea is set in the summer of 2001 by the Egyptian Mediterranean, we follow Maha, an 11 year old girl with a wild imagination who learns that her beloved father, who she shares her love for writing and drawing with, will not be returning home for her birthday as he’s stuck in an oil rich country. 

Ángel, Mishiko, Daniel, and Mike, four aspiring metalheads, travel to a remote town to film a music video in a house marked by a brutal murder. Upon arrival, they encounter door-to-door preachers. 

Roy Bound, a timid and deeply cowardly horticulturist, longs only for a quiet, unremarkable life but finds himself thrust into unwanted attention after a drunken night he barely remembers. He wakes to discover he has somehow challenged the feared outlaw Lee “Guarantee” Garrett to a duel, and the town now celebrates him as a hero. 

Northern Italy, 1918. As she tries to escape from an institution for war orphans, Marilì forms a bond with Ting, a dark and unsettling creature born from the traumas of the First World War. 

In a cult profiting from staged exorcisms, darkness descends when the pastor’s daughter becomes genuinely possessed, forcing her brother to confront his father’s authority.