Riders of Justice
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Fantasia Festival, we present a film series in the image of this now-unmissable event: eclectic and exhilarating. These works, which have shaped the festival’s history over the years, reflect the variety of its programming – from cult classics to hidden gems, from masters of genre cinema to the audacious fringes of arthouse film, charting a fantastic journey across eras, styles, and cultures.
The films presented in September will be announced in August.
Riders of Justice follows recently-deployed Markus, who is forced to return home to his care for his teenage daughter after his wife is killed in a tragic train accident. But when a survivor of the wrecked train surfaces claiming foul play, Markus begins to suspect his wife was murdered and embarks on a mission to find those responsible.
Anders Thomas Jensen
Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his 1998 film Election Night. He also received Academy Awards nominations in the same category for his films Ernst & the Light (1996) and Wolfgang (1997). From the end of the 1990s and into the new millennium he wrote the screenplays for most of the Danish movie blockbusters of the period, including Mifune (1999), co-written with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, In China They Eat Dogs (1999), Open Hearts (2002), Stealing Rembrandt (2003), and Brothers (2004). In 2000, he directed his first feature film, the action-comedy Flickering Lights, and since then directed The Green Butchers (2003), Adam's Apples (2005), Men & Chicken (2015), Riders of Justice (2020) and The Last Viking (2025).
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