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Imagine is the largest film festival for Fantastic film in the Netherlands, showcasing the best in fantasy, horror, sci-fi and everything in between. Imagine is all about the imagination. We believe dreaming big is best, because Weird Is Wonderful. After the 2025 festival, Imagine is touring the country with five favourites from this year’s programme. The Best of Imagine will be screened in Louis Hartlooper Complex on November 15th.
Unique genre mash-up by fan favourite Gabriele Mainetti. Entertainment of the highest order! During China’s one-child policy era, the Xiao family secretly raises sisters Yun and Mei, training them in martial arts. Twenty years later, Mei travels to Italy in search of the missing Yun. Her arrival sparks a gang war that forces Mei to put her parents’ teachings to use.
A Māori Gothic revenge horror, set in Victorian England, 1859. When young Māori woman Mary Stevens is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is driven to kill the titled Englishman who devastated her family.
Two delusional musicians accidentally fracture the fabric of time in their quest to play one gig. Matt and Jay are still chasing the same impossible dream they’ve pursued for seventeen years: booking a show at Toronto’s Rivoli bar, despite never writing a single song. After their latest overcomplicated scheme goes haywire, they’re hurled back to 2008, unleashing chaos across time while remaining blissfully unaware of the destruction they’re causing.
Anchor is released after serving fifteen years in prison. His brother Manfred buried the loot from their old bank robbery and is the only one who knows where it is. Unfortunately, Manfred has developed a mental disorder that causes him to forget everything. One moment he believes he’s a Viking, the next he’s the reincarnated John Lennon. With a bloodthirsty rival on their heels, a race against time begins, and the brothers set out in search of both the money and themselves.
A guy gets locked in a filthy toilet with a LOT of cocaine in this gleefully gory rollercoaster ride. Fortysomething Luc doesn’t mind the occasional line of coke. He’s in a club to make up with his ex but soon finds himself locked in the men’s bathroom. And he’s not alone – his dealer’s coke supply is stashed there too. Better buckle up.