After Toronto , the film screened at 29 film festivals around the world , including the Sitges Film Festival in Spain , the Santa Barbara Film Festival , the Cinequest Film Festival , Cleveland Film Festival , and the Vancouver International Film Festival , where it was awarded the Emerging Director award . The Vancouver festival programmers wrote " Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein 's skewed sci-fi thriller ratchets up the go-for-broke audacity as it laces the family drama of '' Room '' with genre confections indebted to vintage Spielberg . " '' Freaks '' won the Asteroide Award , the top prize at the Trieste Science Fiction Festival in Italy , and the Audience Award at Utopiales in France . It won Best Film and the Audience Award at the Paris International Fantastic Film Festival and won the Silver Raven Jury Prize at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Freaks (2018 film)