Name: 36 FANCINE — Festival de Cine Fantástico de la Universidad de Málaga
Start: 2026-11-11
End: 2026-11-11
Location: Cine Albéniz

36 FANCINE — Festival de Cine Fantástico de la Universidad de Málaga

Cine Albéniz

FANCINE, the Fantastic Film Festival of the University of Málaga, returns for its **36th edition from 11 to 17 November 2026 at the historic Cine Albéniz**, with parallel activities across other spaces in the city. This year's theme, "Programados para amar" (Programmed to Love), runs the festival's signature fantasy and horror cinema through the most universal and contradictory of human feelings — love in every form, from the romantic and familial to the obsessive, monstrous and even interplanetary. FANCINE is the only film festival held at a Spanish public university and a member of the European Fantasy Film Festivals Federation, gathering the best of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, thriller and animation across features and shorts. The 36th-edition poster is the work of Marvel and DC illustrator Natacha Bustos, staging a First Dates-style dinner between a kawaii alien and Bad Luck, the festival's maneki-neko cat mascot — who discreetly palms a small knife, a reminder that love can hide its own monsters. Tickets: sold on fancine.org and through Unientradas.

WHAT HAPPENS

The shape of it

Programados para amar

The 36th edition takes love — romantic, impossible, familial, obsessive, monstrous and even interplanetary — as its theme, running fantastic and horror cinema through the lens of the most universal and contradictory of human feelings.

Spain's only campus film festival

FANCINE is the only film festival held at a Spanish public university and a member of the European Fantasy Film Festivals Federation, showcasing the best of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, thriller and animation in both features and shorts.

Bad Luck by Natacha Bustos

Marvel and DC illustrator Natacha Bustos designed this year's poster — a First Dates-style dinner between a kawaii alien and Bad Luck, the festival's maneki-neko cat mascot, who hides a small knife to hint that love can harbour its own monsters.

FROM THE FLOOR

What you're walking into

SCHEDULE

When to go

11 November

GOOD TO KNOW

Before you go

Screenings run 11–17 November 2026 at the Cine Albéniz, with parallel activities in other Málaga spaces.

Tickets for the Albéniz screenings are sold on fancine.org and through Unientradas; in recent editions they were a single price of €4 per session with a €30 pass for ten screenings.

Organised by the University of Málaga's Vicerrectorado de Cultura, in alliance with the Festival de Málaga.

GETTING THERE

Where it is

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Cine Albéniz