34th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | FANTASPORTO 2014 PROGRAM

RIVOLI – MUNICIPAL THEATRE Saturday March 8^th

Main Theatre

13.30 - The Fake de Sang–Ho Yeon (Corea do Sul) – 110 min - CF/OE – VO leg. ingl|port

The sophomore feature from South Korean animator Sang-ho Yeon (The King of Pigs) is a blistering critique of organized religion, set in a rural village where a manipulative church minister schemes to defraud his flock.

15.30 - Johnny Christ de Mark Maggiori (EUA) - 99 min - P&P – VO leg. port

Chloride, Arizona, Larry Dagger, forty years old, is an unemployed, ex demolition derby pilot, trying to support his wife and two children. Driving home one night, he saves a man, Johnny, who is Christlike in appearance and that he finds lying naked and wounded in the road. Vera, Larry's wife, stitches, cleans his wounds. This stranger's arrival in the Daggers home will change their lives forever.

17.15 – Savaged de Michael S. Ojeda (EUA) – 95 min - CF – VO leg. port

A deaf girl is brutalized by a murderous gang who are then hunted by her when the bloodthirsty spirit of an Apache warrior inhabits her lifeless body…A story of vengeance and redemption.

19.00 – Scintilla de Billy O’Brien (GB) [ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL] – 95 min - CF – VO leg. Port

Mixing the moods of the action thriller, “Scintilla” also belongs to science fiction and war films.  With a World première in Fantasporto, it was directed by Billi O’Brien, who had previously  presented  in competiton in the festival the Bafta  awarded  short “The Tale of the Mouse That Wrote”. Freed from an infernal African jail set up by a mysterious corporation, Powell has a new job: to set up a team of fighters to infiltrate an old subterranean military base in a former Soviet republic, kidnap a scientist (Dr. Irvine), steal his investigation and get up back to the surface in six hours…

21.00 – The Railway Man de Jonathan Teplitzky (EUA) – 116 min - P&P – VO leg. port

Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences left him traumatized and shut off from the world. Years later, he met Patti, a beautiful woman, on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of his demons. Discovering that the young Japanese officer who haunted her husband was still alive, she faced a terrible decision. Should Eric be given a chance to confront his tormentor? Oscar- winners Nicole Kidman (“The Hours”) and Colin Firth (“The King’s Speech”) in magnificent performances.

00.15 – Filme premiado / Awarded film. VO ou leg. Ingl|leg port

Small Theatre

15.15 – Black&White Festival 2013 - 79 min - FS – VO leg. Ingl

Uma das mais importantes escolas de cinema de animação e um dos aliados mais antigos do Fantasporto.

This partnership gives the Fantasporto audience a glimpse of the winners of this Oporto film festival dedicated to films in black and white.

Hermeneuticus de Alexei Dmitriev (Rússia) – 3 min

Warmth de Viktor Asiluk (Rússia) – 20 min

Andersartig de Dennis Stein-Schomburg (Alemanha) – 4 min

1949 de Paul Florian Muller (Alemanha) – 17 min

Fontelonga de Luís Costa (Portugal) – 14 min

The Final Bell de Lionel Michaud (França) – 19 min

17.15 – Cinanima 2013 - 86 min - FS – VO leg. Ingl

The Espinho Animation Film Festival has been around for 40 years as the top Animation Film Festival in Portugal and one of the best in the world. The partnership with Fantasporto symbolizes the unity of two top national and international quality festivals.

Brincar do Colectivo de crianças e Jovens de Guimarães (Portugal) – 8 min

Três Semanas em Dezembro de Laura Gonçalves (Portugal) – 6 min

Ana- Um Palíndrome de Joana Toste (Portugal) – 5 min

Boles de Spela Cadez (Eslovénia) – 12 min

Gernika de Angel Sandinas (Espanha)  - 13 min

My Mum is an Airplane de Yulia Aronova (Rússia) – 6 min

Hearth de Bálint (Hungria) - 6 min

Baths de Tomek Ducki (Polónia) – 4 min

Ziegenort de Tomasz Popakul (Polónia) – 19 min

Plug & Play de Michael Frei (Suiça) – 6 min

21.00 - The Human Race de Paul Hough (EUA) – 90 min - CF -  VO ingl

Veronica suddenly finds herself in an undisclosed location together with a group of 80 people, all of them ripped out of their daily lives. They are in a surreal and horrifying marathon race. The rules are simple. If you are lapped, you die. If you step off the path, you die. Many will start but only one may cross the finish line alive. A very unusual story of science fiction  with episodes of our humanity. Winner at the Long Island Film festival.

23.00 – Kung Fu Divas de Onat Diaz (Filipinas) – 115 min - CF/OE - VO leg. ingl

 “Kung Fu Divas” is an action comedy film centered in Charlotte, a girl from a family of beauty queens, who has yet to win a title of her own. Her final chance is the Dalampasigan Pageant, and her mother has taken steps to make sure that she wins. But the mysterious Samantha suddenly joins the contest. The two become bitter enemies, but they are soon forced by destiny to team up. It turns out the two have a hidden connection to a mystical past, and must work together to discover the truth about their heritage.