'I Love Paris' Vampire Mockumentary Tops 2026 Fantasia Awards
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- Nicky Murphy's vampire mockumentary "I Love Paris" (France/Australia) won Gold for Best International Feature at the 2026 Fantasia International Film Festival audience awards
- Masanao Kawajiri's "Cherry and Virgin" (Japan) won Gold for Best Animated Feature
- The 2026 Fantasia International Film Festival ran from July 16 to Aug. 2 in Montreal, with audience awards following the juried winners
- "The Seoul Guardians" (dirs. Cho Chul-young, Kim Jong-woo, and Kim Shin-wan, South Korea) won Best Documentary
- "Suzuki=Bakudan" (dir. Akira Nagai, Japan) took the Écran Fantastique award
- Winners were named across 12 categories spanning international, Asian, Canadian, and Québec features and shorts, plus animated and documentary races
Why it matters: Fantasia — a flagship genre festival — crowning a vampire mockumentary as its top international feature over 35 other nominated films shows continued audience appetite for genre-blending, comedic outsider entries from international co-productions. The 12-category slate also spotlighted a strong Asian contingent (Japan dominated animated and Asian feature categories) and a deep Canadian/Québec field, reinforcing Montreal's role as a launchpad for genre cinema beyond Hollywood.
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