Curtas Festival do Imaxinario once again places short films at the heart of its programming. The 54th edition will bring together 85 short-format works, including 78 short films and 7 music videos, hailing from 29 countries.
The selection maintains one of the defining working lines of the festival: discovering new voices and offering the Galician public access to works that have not yet had a run in our territory. In this edition, 78 of the selected works will arrive with some type of premiere: 12 of them will be world premieres, 3 will be the work’s first international screening, 5 will be a European premiere, 25 in Spain, and 33 will have their premiere in Galicia.
With this selection, the International Fantastic Film Festival of Galicia reinforces its commitment to a fantastic cinema open to new perspectives, languages, and forms of expression, with special attention to emerging voices and proposals that explore the limits of the genre.
The Fantastic Official Section, featuring 66 short films, brings together a broad representation of contemporary fantastic cinema, with works coming from Europe, America, Asia, and Oceania. Horror, science fiction, fantasy, dark humor, and harder-to-classify proposals coexist in a selection that combines emerging filmmakers with established auteurs.
Among the section’s world premieres are Carne, by Pasquale Russo; Dagon, by Olivier Beguin; Dark Night, by Nafiseh Zohari; Period., by Nikola Petrovic; Plato Estrella, by Roberto Del Castar; Sakana, by Yun-Rei Chuang; Sheep Code, by Ali Rahmati; Oumuamua, by Iker Iturria; and Turn it down, by Niels Bourgonje.
The programming is completed by Made in Galicia, which brings together six works of Galician creation; Fantastic Vertical Contest, a new section dedicated to the 9:16 format, with six selected proposals; and Fantastic Videoclips, which incorporates seven music videos into the program.
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
FANTASTIC OFFICIAL SECTION
- 27B, David Talon — France, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- A Hand to Hold, Philip Clyde-Smith — United Kingdom, 2025 — Premiere in Spain
- Amor de Padre, Caye Casas — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Banshee, Peter Vaas — Ireland, 2025 — Premiere in Galicia
- Behind the Door, Justus van den Elsen — Netherlands, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Brainrot, Nathan Martin — Australia, 2026 — International premiere
- Breathwork, Erik Westerström — Sweden, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Canguro, David Hebrero — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Cap al Cel, Nicolás Solé — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Carne, Pasquale Russo — Italy, 2026 — World premiere
- Cat in the Gut, Buğra Mert Alkayalar — Turkey, 2026 — European premiere
- Charlie is Not a Boy, Pol Kurucz — France / Hungary / United States, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Compost, by Jennifer Lumbroso — France, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Dagon, Olivier Beguin — Switzerland, 2026 — World premiere
- Dark Night, Nafiseh Zohari — Iran, 2026 — World premiere
- Donde el viaje termina, Víctor D. Somoza and Nadia Mata — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Dormant, Cris Gavrilova — Russia, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Dosenmutter Vol. 1, Alexander Peskador — Germany, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Exit, Lieven Vanhove — Belgium, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Favela Amarela, Nícolas Lobato and Thiago Tuchu — Brazil, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Frame, Olivia Cordell and Libby Morris — United Kingdom, 2025 — European premiere
- Gimme, Steven Schloss — United States, 2025 — Premiere in Galicia
- Hambre, Imanol Ortiz Lépez — Spain, N/D — Premiere in Galicia
- Happy, Victor Basallote — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Imprint, Ran Jing — United States, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- influenZer, Jandro (Alejandro López García) — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Just One Minute, Norah Alexandra Vega — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- L’Ultim Reflex, Pablo Jimenez Gallardo — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Last Call, Christopher Carson Smith and Peter Sawyer — United States, 2026 — European premiere
- Legend Has It, Thomas Lorber — Canada, 2025 — Premiere in Spain
- Loop, Chuan Lin — Taiwan, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Mermelada, Xanti Rodríguez — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Mi Juego, David Navarro Bravo — Spain, 2025 — Premiere in Galicia
- Michelle, Julia Hernandez De La Cruz, Lautaro Ezequiel Machuca Leiba and Inés Matos López-jáuregui — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Open Mic, Jano Pita — Spain, 2025 — Premiere in Galicia
- Oumuamua, Iker Iturria — Spain, 2026 — World premiere
- Parasomnia, Henrique Faria — Brazil, 2026 — International premiere
- Period., Nikola Petrovic — Serbia, 2026 — World premiere
- Plato Estrella, Roberto Del Castar — Spain, 2026 — World premiere
- Quemar al padre, Rafa Piqueras — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Relieved, Steffen Geypens — Belgium, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Sakana, Yun-Rei Chuang — Taiwan, 2026 — World premiere
- Señuelo, Martha G. Ayerbe — Spain, 2025 — Premiere in Galicia
- Sheep Code, Ali Rahmati — Iran, 2026 — World premiere
- Stay In, Michael Buran — United States, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Strive, Jussi Rautaniemi — Finland, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Switch Off, Sandeep Francis — India, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Ten to Six, Alessio Rupalti — United Kingdom, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- The Afters, Jamie O Rourke — Ireland, 2025 — Premiere in Spain
- The Call, Kiko Prada — Spain, 2025 — Premiere in Galicia
- The Fabric of Darkness, Maciej Wladyslaw Herzog — Poland, 2026 — International premiere
- The Inheritance, Destinee Stewart — United States, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- The Last Cheap House, Meg Favreau — United States, 2025 — Premiere in Spain
- The One Minute Problem, Nick Delgado — Spain, 2025 — Premiere in Galicia
- The Sorrows of Young Charlotte, Shir Ariya — United Kingdom, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- The Wake Up, Clara Veci — United Kingdom, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- The Whisperer in Darkness, Andrew G. Cooper — Canada, 2026 — International premiere
- The Witch Doctor, Nikita Voronin — Latvia, 2025 — Premiere in Spain
- Tria Fata, Leslie Crocqeufere and Camille Tello — France, 2025 — Premiere in Spain
- Turn it down, Niels Bourgonje — Netherlands, 2026 — World premiere
- Último superviviente a bordo, Jorge Blas Borroy — Spain, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Una langosta llamada deseo, Sol Moreno and Risseth Yanguez — Panama, 2025 — Premiere in Spain
- Vape Glow, Steven Schloss — United States, 2026 — Premiere in Galicia
- Waking, Tingmu Yang — China, 2025 — Premiere in Spain
- WHITCH, Hoku Uchiyama — United States, N/D — Premiere in Galicia
- Yo primero, Pedro Gusmão — Spain, 2026 — World premiere
MADE IN GALICIA
- 8 portas, Miguel R. Berride — Spain, 2025
- Ante o avesío, Xaime Miranda — Spain, 2026
- Cara de Cona, Guillermo de Oliveira — Spain, 2025
- Cena Familiar, Oscar Abalo — Spain, 2026 — World premiere
- Lucus, David Fidalgo — Spain, 2025
- No son sus ojos, Varo López and Alejandro Guisado González — Spain, 2026
VERTICAL CONTEST
- Again, Anastasia Sidorova — United Kingdom, 2026 — World premiere
- Derrière la porte, Leonardo Valenti — France, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Find my phone, Christopher Jorna — United Kingdom, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Greystanes Chapters 01-07, Ryan Cauchi — Australia, 2024 — Premiere in Galicia
- Internal Fatal Ærror, Elias Nathan Suarez — Ecuador, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Nahuales, Alejandro Cervantes — Mexico, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
FANTASTIC VIDEOCLIPS
- Jota de Noche, Saúl González Abejón — Spain, 2025 — Premiere in Galicia
- Likho – Nightmare, Patryk Dróżdż — Poland, 2026
- Mama Doom “Woven Linen”, Anne Hickey — United States, 2026 — International premiere
- Radiation April, Sabrina Mendoza — United States, 2026 — European premiere
- StAD – Ik kin hier gainaine, Manon Dessainte and Kai Phan — Netherlands, 2025
- Take It Back, Lee Daehan — South Korea, 2026 — Premiere in Spain
- Thinkin’ About, Maurilio Rodríguez — Mexico, 2025 — European premiere