31 October7 November
2025
31 October
2025.10.24
The San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, Fancine, TerrorMolins and Isla Calavera première previously unseen content available free of charge via the channel from November onwards.
Autumn once again opens the gateway into the world of fantasy with a new season of Noviembre Fantasma, the collaborative project bringing together San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, Fancine – Malaga Fantasy Film Festival, TerrorMolins – Molins de Rei Fantasy Film Festival, and Isla Calavera – Canary Islands Fantastic Film Festival City of La Laguna. In its sixth edition, the venture further strengthens the ties among the four events, continuing to expand its offering with more than twenty previously unseen audiovisual features, which will be gradually uploaded to the project website from this month onwards. This serves to consolidate for a further year this shared platform to enjoy the genre throughout the year, with interviews, talks, concerts and other activities presenting a little of each festival to lovers of the genre from all around.
All these videos will be available free of charge on the platform www.noviembrefantasma.com
Programme
The San Sebastian Horror Film Festival (31 October - 7 November) takes us on a journey through the legacy and evolution of horror in popular culture, with names ranging from anime to classic cinema. One of these initiatives will be One Piece: Luffy and Luffy, two voices, two generations, a dialogue between Xabier Alkiza and Jon Samaniego, the dubbing actors who breathed life into the charismatic pirate both in the series in Basque and the Netflix live action version. Illustrator Fernando Vicente, three times a Society for News Design award-winner, will be looking back on his career and his fascination with horror film legends, while the acclaimed director Paco Plaza, the name behind such successful titles as Veronica, La abuela and the first three [REC] films (the first two of them together with Jaume Balagueró), will be chatting with journalist Begoña del Teso about his "favourite horrors" and the films that have shaped his imagination. Rounding off the content from the Basque Festival we have Shark Horror, an encounter between Ángel Sala and Víctor Matellano to discuss their documentary Aquel último tiburón and the fiftieth anniversary of Spielberg's classic, Jaws, looking back over half a century of sea creatures and briny terror.
Meanwhile, TerrorMolins (7-16 November) will be serving up an instructive and contemporary view of the techniques and geographical roots of fear. Visual effects artist Pablo Otero will be revealing the inner workings of a top tier VFX studio. There will also be two further offerings with a Japanese tint. Asian cinema specialists Gloria Fernández and Enrique Garcelán, from CineAsia, will be analysing the arrival and consolidation of J-Horror in the West, while researcher Víctor Navarro Remesal will, in Playable J-Horror, be tackling the way in which videogames such as Silent Hill and Fatal Frame have reinterpreted fear through Japanese aesthetics and tradition, in collaboration with the Japón Madrid Foundation.
From the Canaries, Isla Calavera (7-16 November) will be showcasing a real carnival of genre film legends for the whole world of fantasy. Director Randal Kleiser will receive the Isla Calavera 2025 Honorary Award and look back over his career at a gathering with the public. Actors Jenette Goldstein and William Hope, the unforgettable Vasquez and Lt Gorman in Aliens, will be reliving the secrets of the saga's filming together with fans. Filmmaker Rodrigo Cortés will be marking the 15th anniversary of Buried, while actress Ornella Muti, the eternal Princesa Aura from Flash Gordon, will be the star of an event featuring her career. The discussion Fantaterror, with Marian Salgado and Víctor Matellano, will bring the event to a close, paying tribute to the 50th anniversary of Demon Witch Child.
Lastly, Fancine – Malaga Fantasy Film Festival (12-18 November) will be casting its gaze on other languages and regions. Ireland's Damian McCarthy, director of Caveat and Oddity, is featured in an interview about the echoes of folk horror in his films. Eric Rodríguez, presenter and creator of the channel Leyendas & Videojuegos, will be exploring the intersection between mythology and gamer culture. Scriptwriter and National Comic Award-winner Antonio Altarriba will be sharing his experience in the creation of visual narratives, while music will once again be the star of the university-based festival, with a live performance by Silver Lignings, a space-psych rock band from Malaga, along with the soundtrack concert Paisajes Sonoros del Futuro, where the Malaga Symphony Orchestra will be performing a number of film scores on a musical journey through cinematic science fiction.
About Noviembre Fantasma
Founded in 2020 as a digital meeting point for festivals during the pandemic, Noviembre Fantasma has over the years established itself as a living archive of fantasy and horror film in Spanish. Over a hundred talks, interviews, concerts and debates now make up its video library, open to the public free of charge throughout the year. This sixth season underpins its long-term ambitions, extending the boundaries of the genre beyond the cinema screen, and championing partnership as a form of cultural resistance.
