2025

Xan 4, 2026

53rd Edition

In 2025, Vilagarcía was transformed into the city where monsters live, establishing itself as a global capital of fantasy capable of standing eye to eye with the great European festivals. The city was literally taken over by monsters: from the impressive Monstrorama exhibition at Salón García, where audiences could see the most celebrated monsters in cinema at life size, to the arrival of iconic vehicles such as the peculiar van of the Ghostbusters from Green Slime and the flying Ford Anglia from Harry Potter. In addition, there was a striking exhibition dedicated to the Marvel universe entitled Infinity Heroes Showroom. This visual display, together with the endorsement of Dread Central, which ranked the festival among the 90 must-see genre festivals in the world, and its inclusion in the international elite by joining the Fédération Méliès, confirmed the status of a festival that has successfully blended tradition with spectacle.

The programme was a feast of pop culture that transcended the screen, bringing together legends such as Marcus Nispel and Paco Plaza alongside muse Diana Peñalver and special effects masters like Arturo Balseiro. Graphic art shone with its own light thanks to talents such as Santipérez and Xermánico. Between silent film screenings accompanied by live music from Caspervek and FX makeup workshops, the festival brought the curtain down with an unprecedented in-house production. In a historic alliance with the Orquestra Clásica de Vigo, the festival reinvented Night of the Living Dead, bringing actors onto the stage to perform new dialogue and providing live music. An apotheotic finale that proved Curtas is not limited to screening cinema, but breathes it, celebrates it and reinvents it.

The poster illustration was created by Flavio Greco.

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