FanTasia, a festival showcasing contemporary international genre cinema with an emphasis on unveiling films very rarely seen in North America, wrapped up on July 25, 2005, in Montreal, awarding Yuasa Masaaki’s MIND GAME the prize for best animated film. The film also took home the silver prize in the most groundbreaking film category as well.

For its ninth edition, FanTasia jury was of the following members:
* Érik Canuel (creator of films LA LOI DU COCHON, LE DERNIER TUNNEL and LE SURVENANT)
* Patrick Masbourian (actor, host and collaborator on many television shows)
* Pierre Dalpé (creator of advertisements for Molson, Home Dépôt, Coca Cola, Labatt bleue dry, McDonald and Bell Express Vu)
* Michèle Grondin (President and founder of Radar Films, producing music videos nationally, in collaboration with American and French companies)
* Daniel Andréani (artistic director for the Montreal-based agency Diesel)
* Nabi-Alexandre Chartier (VJ at Musique Plus and writer for Famous Québec)

FanTasia 2005 Public's Prizes

Best Asian Film
Golden Prize: Ex æquo
SURVIVE STYLE 5 + (Gen Sekiguchi, Japan, 2004)
THE TASTE OF TEA (Katsuhito Ishii, Japan, 2004)

Silver Prize:
CRYING FIST (Ryoo Seung-wan, South-Korea, 2005)

Bronze Prize: Ex æquo
ARAHAN (Ryoo Seung-wan, South-Korea, 2004)
GODZILLA – FINAL WARS (Ryuhei Kitamura, Japan 2005)

Best European / North - South American Film
Golden Prize: Ex aequo
EL LOBO (Miguel Courtois, Spain, 2005)
TROUBLE (Harry Cleven, Belgium/France, 2004)

Silver Prize:
THE DEVIL’S REJECTS (Rob Zombie, USA, 2005)

Bronze Prize:
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DORKS (Matthias Dinter, Germany, 2004)

Best Animated Film
Golden Prize:
MIND GAME (Yuasa Masaaki, Japan, 2004)

Silver Prize:
THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS (Makoto Shinkai, Japan, 2005)

Bronze Prize:
LIVE FREAKY! DIE FREAKY! (John Roecker, USA, 2004)

Most Groundbreaking Film
Golden Prize:
SURVIVE STYLE 5 + (Gen Sekiguchi, Japan, 2004)

Silver Prize:
MIND GAME (Yuasa Masaaki, Japan, 2004)

Bronze Prize:
THE TASTE OF TEA (Katsuhito Ishii, Japan, 2004)

Best Short Film
Golden Prize:
KAKURENBO (Shuhei Morita, Japan, 2005)

Silver Prize:
FLAT LIFE (Jonas Geirnaert, Belgium, 2004)

Bronze Prize:
REDRAT: LA RATA RETOBADA (Guillermo Kloetzer,Uruguay, 2004 )

Best Quebec DIY Short:
Golden Prize:
ALEX VAMPIRE SLAYER (Al Kratina, Québec, 2005)

Silver Prize:
COGNE FOU (Donald Caron, Quebec, 2005)

Bronze Prize:
SÉQUESTRÉE (Denis-Steve Giguère, Québec, 2005)