This year’s Festival will dedicate its retrospective to one of the biggest names to have emerged from the fantasy genre in the last thirty years, Canadian director David Cronenberg. Born in Toronto in 1943, his interest in the movies was born in the 60s, towards the end of which he made his first two underground films, Stereo (1969) and Crimes of the Future (1970). Launching his first commercial movie, Shivers, in 1975, he went on to regale us with Rabid (1977) and The Brood (1979), becoming a name to watch in the horror field. The Dead Zone (1983), according to Stephen King, his remake of Kurt Neumann’s classic The Fly (1986), and the recent A History of Violence (2005), to name but a few, have earned him a privileged position in today’s cinema, placing him among fantasy movie elite the world over. In addition to publishing a book to accompany the retrospective, we will screen all of his feature films.

Stereo (1969)

Crimes of the Future (1970)

Shivers (1975)

Rabid (1977)

The Brood (1979)

Fast Company (1979)

Scanners (1981)

Videodrome (1983)

The Dead Zone (1983)

The Fly (1986)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Naked Lunch (1991)

M. Butterfly (1993)

Crash (1996)

eXistenZ (1999)

Spider (2002)

A History of Violence (2005)