Monks using smartphones in Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, premiering at this year’s AFI Docs. (CInetic Media)

The AFI Silver is launching a new film festival in June, just a few weeks before its signature festival comes back for another run.

The first annual Washington DC Fantastic Film Showcase comes from the people who brought you the Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival. This new fest presents the best in genre cinema, including fantasy, sci-fi, action, animation—and more horror. The festival opens June 2 with the comedy Hunt for the Wilderpeople, director Taika Waititi’s followup to the hilarious vampire mock-doc What We Do in the Shadows..

Fantastic Film also offers classic fantastic titles, including a 50th anniversary screening of Batman: The Movie (June 3 at 11:45 p.m.), a digitally restored presentation of the 1954 3D classic Gog (June 4 at 5:15 p.m.), a midnight screening of the Paul Williams horror musical Phantom of the Paradise (June 5 at midnight), and a restored version of the rare Japanese animated feature Belladonna of Sadness (June 3 at 11:30 p.m.). Fantastic Film runs from June 2-5 at the AFI Silver. For detailed film listings and tickets, go here.

Today, the AFI also announced the full slate for this year’s AFI Docs. Now in it’s 14th year, the festival runs only five days, from June 22-26, but that schedule is packed with 94 films from 30 countries.

This year’s opening film is the cyberwarfare documentary Zero Days (June 22 at the Newseum), the latest from prolific director Alex Gibney. As previously announced, the festival is paying homage to director Werner Herzog this year, who will appear at the Newseum on June 24 for a symposium before a screening of his latest film Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. This year’s festival closes with a profile of one of the great figures in American television, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (June 26 at the Newseum).

Between high-profile titles, which will likely see a commercial release, are dozens of films that you may not have a chance to see on the big screen again. Whatever your subject interest, you will find something of value here. Stay tuned to this channel for more AFI DOCS coverage in June.

The Washington DC Fantastic Film Showcase runs from June 2-5 at the AFI Silver. Tickets are available here. AFI Docs runs from June 22-26 at the Newseum and the AFi Silver, among other venues. Tickets are already available for AFI members. Individual tickets will be on sale to the general public starting May 17, but all-festival passes are already available for purchase here.