FILM PATHS: ANIME-TION ✧ Grotesqqque - 30 Oct & 4 Nov ✧ Light Pillar - 31 Oct & 3 Nov ✧ A New Dawn - 2 & 3 Nov ✧ Ghost in the Shell - 30 Oct & 5 Nov (with introductions of Payal Arora and Kaboom Animation Festival)

THE LOST INTERNET IS STILL ONLINE: SUBMIT YOUR FAVOURITE INTERNET HORROR & WIN TICKETS COMMENT BELOW the Internet horror moment that still lives rent-free in your head. 2 submissions will be on the big screen, and the people who sent them in will receive free tickets to the programme.

TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! 👻 The feed is open, the ghosts are waiting, and it’s officially time to start building your Imagine 2026 schedule. Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 29 October – 8 November 2026 Amsterdam Tickets and full programme are available now on our website.

Ticket sales go live tomorrow. 12:00 Noon, October 6 Stay tuned on our website

In 2026, the ghosts are already in the feed. This year, Imagine explores the fears and fascinations that recur whenever a new form of media enters our lives. Check our website for the full programme and more information. Join us from 29-10 to 8-11 in Amsterdam. Trailer credit: Bariz Azman

IMAGINE RECOMMENDS: RESIDENT EVIL – LOST IN THE GAME ✧ Alien (1979) ✧ Exit 8 (2025) ✧ Clue (1985) ✧ Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) ✧ Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) ✧ Hardcore Henry (2015) ✧ Edge of Tomorrow (2014) ✧ Cube (1997)

We’re celebrating his work with a special retrospective featuring The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026), Pulse (2001), Creepy (2016) and two more titles still to be revealed. Kurosawa will be in Amsterdam from 29 October to 2 November.

KIYOSHI KUROSAWA is GUEST OF HONOUR at the Imagine Fantastic Film Festival 2026 This year, Kiyoshi Kurosawa joins Imagine 2026 as our Guest of Honour and will receive the Imagine Career Achievement Award.

IMAGINE RECOMMENDS: REDUX REDUX – LOFI SCI-FI: Strange futures at 2 AM ✧ Possessor (2020) ✧ The Assessment (2024) ✧ They Cloned Tyrone (2023) ✧ Gattaca (1997) ✧ The Lobster (2015) ✧ Upstream Color (2013) ✧ Twelve Monkeys (1995) Honorable mention ✧ Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025)

IMAGINE RECOMMENDS: AKIRA (4K RESTORATION) The Anime Blueprint: Classics That Rewired Cinema ✧ Ghost in the Shell (1995) ✧ Perfect Blue (1997) ✧ Paprika (2006) ✧ Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) ✧ Princess Mononoke (1997)

IMAGINE RECOMMENDS: LEVITICUS - HUNTED FOR WANTING: Queer desire, punishment & survival ✧ Thelma (2017) ✧ Attachment (2020) ✧ My Animal (2023) ✧ What Keeps You Alive (2018) ✧ Fear Street: 1666 (2021) ✧ The Vampire Lovers (1970) ✧ Saint Maud (2019)

IMAGINE RECOMMENDS: KOKUHO The Final Girls (2015) ✧ Burning (2018) ✧ Perfect Blue (1997) ✧ A Different Man (2024) ✧ Vertigo (1958) ✧ Together (2025) ✧ Enemy (2013) Honorable mention: ✧ Suspiria (1977) ✧ Millennium Actress (2001)