The Fantastic Pavilion, Blood Window and Mórbido are happy to present the Official Selection for the 2026 Fantastic Vertical Cinema Showcase, focused on horror, fantasy, thriller and science fiction works in the vertical 9:16 format.
Happening within the Marché du Film in Cannes, the Fantastic Vertical Cinema Showcase brings together 21 projects that demonstrate something the industry has been slow to acknowledge: that genre filmmakers are the least afraid of formal risk, and that the vertical format is not a limitation, it’s a new kind of dread for the age of mobile consumption and digital platforms.
“The Fantastic Vertical Cinema Showcase exists because we believe a great horror story told in 9:16 is still a great horror story. The window is different. The dread is the same.” — Pablo Guisa Koestinger, Founder & Executive Director, Fantastic Pavilion.
TAG (Mads Erichsen, Denmark)
Genre: Horror.
Nahuales (Alejandro Cervantes, Mexico)
Genres: Horror, fantasy, thriller.
Snapshot (Joseph Archer, UK)
Genres: Horror, thriller.
My Father’s Son (Miguel Angel Ferrer, USA)
Genres: Science fiction, horror.
Late Night With Me (Baris Fert, Turkey)
Genre: Horror.
A Girl and Her Demons (Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley, USA)
Genres: Horror, thriller.
Tower of Hunger (Kuang Hui, China)
Genres: Science fiction, action, fantasy.
Witness (Lex Ortega, Mexico)
Genre: Horror.
WANA (Quetzalli Bulnes, Mexico)
Genres: Horror, thriller.
Again (Anastasia Sidorova, UK)
Genres: Horror, thriller.
Chat GPTerror (Daniel Escobedo, Mexico)
Genre: Horror.
The Offering (Carlos Meléndez, Mexico)
Genre: Horror.
Dracula Wants to Die (Mauricio Peralta, Chile)
Genres: Horror, drama.
Garlic Clove (Iñaki Aguilar, Spain)
Genres: Horror, fantasy, erotic.
Blind Alley (Carlos Meléndez, Mexico)
Genre: Horror.
Golden Tomb Seeker (Yifan Zhang, Ran Ou, Yong Chen, China)
Genres: Action, fantasy.
Bitten Soon (Lauand Omar, Germany)
Genres: Horror, comedy.
Internal Fatal Error (Elías Nathan, Ecuador)
Genre: Psychological horror.
Fruit (Cristiano Sousa, Brazil)
Genre: Horror.
Alley (Pablo Camaiti, Leandro Mark, Argentina-Uruguay)
Genres: Horror, thriller.
The Walkers (Marcel Rutschmann, Mozambique)
Genres: Horror, comedy.
Fantastic Pavilion: An official space within the Marché du Film (the Cannes Film Festival’s market), which brings together the global fantastic cinema community – producers, distributors, programmers – and studios that bet on the innovation and diversity of the Genre.
Mórbido: LATAM’s leading genre entertainment powerhouse, specializing in horror, fantasy, and sci-fi. With 18 editions of its Film Festival, a 15-year radio show, and a premium TV channel across Latin America. Its production arm has produced, coproduced and released more than 19 films, while its distribution company handles all content licensing, festival programing and theatrical distribution with 17+ releases over six years.
Blood Window: The international platform dedicated to promoting Ibero-American fantastic genre cinema. Through showcases, labs, and industry activities, it promotes new voices in horror, fantasy, and science fiction, strengthening the visibility, development, and circulation of projects in key stages of production and distribution.