LSFF: Fantastic Fictions (2026)

Fantastic Fictions returns with a grab bag of genre delights, inviting you to lose yourself in the uncanny spaces that defy categorisation.

Meet a woman convinced that God is trying to communicate via her sleep-talking husband; a barber who discovers his local politician is a donkey; a woman spanked into spectral ecstasy; a metal singer’s biotech comeback gone awry; a Palestinian doctor whose night drive turns feral; and a suave spy taking on an unexpectedly tender road trip - with a ghost.

Featuring work starring Nabhaan Rizwan (In Camera) and the latest from Federico Barni (Arctic Diva), this is genre cinema at its most unpredictable.

The attending filmmakers will join us for a Q&A following the screening.

- God Is Shy, dir. Jocelyn Charles, France 2025, 15mins

- Party Animal, dir. Ali Gill, UK 2025, 13mins

- Spanked by a Ghost, dir. Katelyn Douglass, US 2025, 12mins

- Gossamer, dir. Federico Barni, UK 2025, 14mins

- Coyotes, dir. Said Zagha, France, Jordan, Palestine, State of, UK 2025, 20mins

- The Sentry, dir. Jake Wachtel, Cambodia, Norway, US 2025, 18mins

Content / Trigger Warnings: Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury, homophobic attitudes and language, and themes of death.