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Strong start for Fantasporto : the audience is back After an opening of a great show and a lot of public that almost filled the Rivoli and where xxxHOLIC was shown in the world premiere in an Official Session preceded by an intervention by Beatriz Pacheco Pereira, founder and co-director of Fantasporto with Mário Dorminsky, a room with about than 500 people saw or rewatched Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER, in celebration of its 40th anniversary of its European premiere in 1982, also at FANTASPORTO, but in the old Carlos Alberto, room that hosted the Festival for about 15 years.
This weekend there is a lot of good cinema unpublished in Portugal, which includes six of the films in the World and European Premiere to be shown, makes Fantasporto, a rare luxury "bubble" for the new world cinema, in Porto, something that welcomes around 40 foreign journalists who seek to see, first of all, the films to be shown in order to talk about them around the world.
This surprise for many, a real slap for many in Portugal, elevates the festival to a level identical to competitions like Cannes, Venice or Toronto, an unprecedented situation in Portugal.
But let's go to the movies. In the Grand Auditorium of Rivoli the day begins with a European premiere that will be presented by its producer, It is The Laws of the Universe – The Age of Elohim Isamu by the Japanese Imakake, the second film coming from Japan), to be shown. It is a film adapted from a famous manga or comic book, as they say in Portuguese. an Anime, the name given to animated cinema. Intended mainly for the youngest, it is shown at
4 pm.
Far beyond industrialized Japanese animation, this film takes us to see a careful and beautiful animation but still in the manga spirit. Yaizael is sent to protect Earth. The proverbial struggle between Good and Evil in the era of defending our planet and its beauty. Contest in the Fantastic Cinema section.
At 18:15, the contest in the Directors' Week section shows an almost Portuguese film from our neighbor Galicia, presented by its director and two of its protagonists, JACINTO. It deals with the peaceful life of a Galician village when it is shaken by the arrival of a local daughter and a Swedish friend, both belonging to a “heavy metal” band. For Jacinto, a young man with a mental disability who believes in the priest of the land, they are the devil himself. This film won the Panorama Section Audience Award at the Sitges Festival and the Jury Prize at the Austin Festival.
At the beginning of the night the horror film "The House" by Rick Ostermann, German is also the first of the films of this Science Fiction Fantas to be shown. In Germany in 2029, a star journalist banned from writing, having fallen from grace, and his wife take refuge in their home on the island that has advanced technology and where they think they are safe. As the political situation worsens, the house transforms from a safe haven into a powerful adversary. A realistic image of a technological future that uses progress for much more ancient purposes, the manipulation of power.
At 11 pm, at 3 pm, the new film by the winner of last year's Fantasporto Grand Prix appears, at the World Premiere, in competition in the Fantastic Cinema Section. This is Takashi Shimizu's "Ox–Head Village", the third Japanese film to screen at the Festival. A horror movie, with eventually shocking scenes for some audience. Some young students go to an abandoned building to broadcast to their followers on the net. A dull prank made to one of them is the starting point to reveal a story of horrors and the discovery of ancient customs.
In the SMALL AUDITORIUM we will have the following program in the afternoon and from
4.15 pm:
"Riku" by Masatsugu Arakawa of Japan a children's animation in World Preview. A work that prepares children for the loss of a pet. Riku is a puppy found thin and shaking. Taken to a house where there are already other dogs, he meets his owner's love and a pack life. But illness sets in and soon he dies surrounded by his friends. This film preceded by Fledge • Hanni Dombe, Tom Kouris, 15'25'' (Isr) – Animation, Elena • Biruté Sodeikaité, 13' (Lit/Fra/Croá) Animation and Grandpa by Valentine Rolland, Théo Bongiovanni, Hugo Martins, Sophie Ouvrard, Thomas Piot and Nell Molinier, 6' 46'' (Fra) – Animation, in a session integrated in the ANIMA-TE section of Fantas
At 18.15, another World Premiere of the production team of this year's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film and also one of the seven candidates for Best Film at the Oscars follows. This is The Good fanter, the fifth Japanese film to be shown, directed by Sho Kataoka, one of Horror branch. Doctor Shiro Kubo, whose family suffered a major car accident, leaving his wife in a coma, is called in to treat a mysterious illness. The daughter is suspicious of her mother when she finally leaves the hospital. Who is the woman who plays her mother? A father has to do everything to bring peace to the family.
At 21.15, the fabulous Vortex appears; The Dawn of Sovereignty by Michel Rousseau coming from Science Fiction. Michel Rousseau and his vision of our distant future in a fabulous animated film. Young Serena invented glasses that allow her to detect vertices that lead to fabulous worlds, full of robots and androids. The film has already won 29 international awards, including the Cannes World Film Festival (Best Science Fiction Film), Hollywood Film Awards (Best Film, Editing, Soundtrack, Sound), Los Angeles Film Awards or New York Film Awards. The director's first feature film.
In the evening comes another world premiere of Ms Lupine a.k.a. Hideki Takeuchi's Daughter of Lupine a Fantastic Comedy.
Fun cinema, lots of action and burlesque delirium that pays homage to the dramas between criminal families, but also to Japanese anime. A family of thieves knows that their patriarch intends to retire, but there is still the final blow: the theft of the real Habsburg crown. Because the fake one they already stole. For that, everyone has to come to Europe. Robberies of Arsene Lupin, the celebrated French thief, but in manga style.
SUNDAY
Annular Eclipse by Zhang Chi, 97’ (China) – Science Fiction in European Preview
Set in 2030, in a metropolis reminiscent of “Blade Runner, the film tells the story of an assassin, Ge, who is trying to regain his memory while carrying out missions for his organization. A great Chinese production that shows a fabulous version of the architecture of the future. Busan Festival Selection.
at 18:00 The Unburied / El Cadaver Insepulto by Alejandro Cohen Arazi, 84’ (Arg) with Eventually Shocking Scenes another Horror film.
Maximiliano returns to the land where he lived for his father's funeral and paperwork. There, the brothers and the body of the father, who is still where he died, await him. But you have to respect his wishes. And everyone on earth seems to care little about everything. The past returns in an atmosphere of horror and triviality. First feature film by this Argentinian director.
At 21.15 "Baby Assassins" the sixth Japanese film at the Hugo Sakamoto Festival a new European Premiere.
The alienation of youth, dressplay and Japanese technology at a time when the desensitization of youth is promoted in games and movies. Chisato and Mahiro are two teenage students on the verge of finishing their studies. They are also two high-caliber assassins. When the organization that hired them orders them to live together, the perfect partnership is created.
At 23:00 the most talked about film in Asia and Russia where it debuted beating all box office records "The Exorcism of God" by Alejandro Hidalgo (USA/Mex/Venez) Horror movie also with shocking scenes. An American priest is called to perform an exorcism. But nothing goes as planned and years later he is still suffering the consequences of what he did. Director Alejandro Hidalgo visited Fantasporto in 2014 to present his first feature, “La Casa del Fin de los Tiempos”, the next multi-award winning film, at the world premiere.
In the Small Auditorium the program will be
16:15 Chicken of the Mound by Xi Chen, 83’ – (Chi) – Science Fiction in European Preview
Robots dominate the Earth but they don't hide the nostalgia for humans who no longer exist. And they do what they did – fight. Infernal machines, crabs and humanoids, in a fabulous science fiction animation, selected for the Annecy Festival and the Ottawa Festival.
At 18:15 CL a fabulous Classic in the Fantas Classics section • Hollywood Stars "High Society" by Charles Walters, 101’ (USA), 1956
In this musical comedy, a young woman of high society (Grace Kelly) hesitates between remarriage and her ex-husband, a jazz singer. Gene Kelly and the “Old Blue Eyes”, Frank Sinatra, share the favors of the “socialite” while the fantastic Louis Armstrong plays and sings. This is the last film of Hitchcock's favorite actress, who leaves the cinema this year to marry the prince of Monaco. With fabulous music by Cole Porter, this film was nominated for two Oscars.
At 21:15 the horror film "Night at the Eagle Inn" by Erik Bloomquist, coming from (USA).
Two twins, a boy and a girl, travel to the remote Eagle Inn, after a life with foster families, looking to find out what happened to their parents. Classic horror directed by Erik Bloomquist who at Fantasporto 2021 presented the very interesting “Ten Minutes to Midnight”. The director won an Emmy with the TV series “The Cobblestone Corridor”.
And at 23:15 also in the Fantas Classics section • Filme Culto, "A Praga" by José Mojica Marins, 52’ (Brazil)
– Horror – Restored version
Zé do Caixão (Mojica Marins) warns at the beginning of the film. One should not play with the unknown. Marina, Juvenal's wife, doesn't understand the nightmares of the man she loves, but she knows that it all started after taking pictures in the countryside, next to a witch's house. Disappeared for many years, this is the only unreleased film by the Brazilian horror master, now digitized and restored, who visited Fantas in 2000.
Preceded by...
The Last Plague of Mojica Marins, 17´ (Bra)
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