Sitges Film Festival 2025
Auditori (Sitges Film Festival), Hotel Melia Sitges Joan Salvat Papasseit 38, 08870 Sitges
The number one fantasy film festival in the world is back for another year, as Sitges turns into a film lovers' paradise for a week of screenings, exhibitions and presentations of fantasy films from across the world. Born in 1968 as the 1st International Week of Fantasy and Horror Movies, today the festival is an essential rendezvous for movie lovers and audiences eager to come into contact with new tendencies and technologies applied to film and the audiovisual world.
The festival combines the best genre cinema of the moment with a look at films that have traced the history of fantastic, as well as adding tributes to film personalities with a special connection to fantastic. With a solid track record, the event offers a stimulating framework for meetings, exhibitions, presentations and projections.
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2025 Program Highlights
The french body horror drama Alpha by Julia Ducournau opens the festival and is joined by Johanna Moder's Mother's Baby, a horrifying thriller about motherhood; Ben Leonberg's Good Boy offers us a terrifying horror story told from a totally new point of view; and Collin Tilley's Eye for an Eye constructs a fascinating horror universe with some of the most shocking images of the year.
The Thing with Feathers, directed by Dylan Southern and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, takes a verse by Emily Dickinson as its starting point to construct a story about loss, faith and the invisible presences that inhabit silences. Mike Flanagan adapts Stephen King in The Life of Chuck, a modern fable that tells the story of Charles Krantz’s life—played by Tom Hiddleston in his adult version—in reverse order, from his death back to his childhood in a haunted house. James DeMonaco's The Home turns a nursing home into a space where everyday life becomes twisted.
Japanese horror returns to Sitges with three projects that demonstrate this genre's validity and ability to re-invent itself. Exit 8 turns a subway ride into a first-class psychological nightmare inspired by the video game of the same name. New Group envelops viewers in a claustrophobic atmosphere where human tensions explode without warning and The Curse recovers the spirit of the traditional Taiwanese curse to take it to new heights of tension. Three films that confirm that J-Horror continues to be an endless source of nightmares.
Other outstanding projects include Dead Lover, a gothic horror comedy with an unexpected protagonist: a gravedigger who finds herself trapped in an impossible romance. Touch Me, on the other hand, banks on a blend of sci-fi, polyamorous relationships with visitors from other planets and campy aesthetics. Mermaid offers a dark tale of marginality, which begins when an addict finds an injured mermaid off the coast of Florida. And The Ugly Stepsister re-imagines the classic tale of Cinderella from a dark, feminist, sarcastic and very painful perspective.
Films will be screened at the Hotel Meliá Sitges, Cinema Casino Prado, Escorxador –Centre Cultural and Mercat Vell. Tickets start at €11.00 a session and can be purchased on the festival website.
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