The city of Porto, overlooking the River Douro and close to the Atlantic Ocean, and a World Heritage City, welcomes once again one of the most prestigious film festivals in Europe and in the World. Fantasporto, Porto International Film Festival celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2020 and it will be held in 25th February- 8th March at the Rivoli Theatre, with the support of the Town City Hall. Here are the film that were selected for the Oficial Fantasy Competition Section:
Bulle...
40 YEARS OF FANTASPORTO IN PORTUGAL’S CAPITAL OF CINEMA WILL BEGIN WITH THE WORLD OPENING OF ADVERSE WITH MICKEY ROURKE
The city of Porto, overlooking the River Douro and close to the Atlantic Ocean, and a World Heritage City, welcomes once again one of the most prestigious film festivals in Europe and in the World. Fantasporto, Porto International Film Festival celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2020 and it will be held in 25th February- 8th March at the...
The city of Porto, overlooking the River Douro and close to the Atlantic Ocean, and a World Heritage City, welcomes once again one of the most prestigious film festivals in Europe and in the World. Fantasporto, Porto International Film Festival celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2020 and it will be held in 25th February- 8th March at the Rivoli Theatre, with the support of the Town City Hall. Here are the film that were selected for the Oficial Fantasy Competition Section:
Bulle...
The city of Porto, overlooking the River Douro and close to the Atlantic Ocean, and a World Heritage City, welcomes once again one of the most prestigious film festivals in Europe and in the World. Fantasporto, Porto International Film Festival celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2020 and it will be held in 25th February- 8th March at the Rivoli Theatre, with the support of the Town City Hall.
Thirteen days of celebration of the Film World, where producers, director, actors, dis...
Wen ren with festival founders Mario Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Peirera
"Last Sunrise," the first feature by Chinese director Wen Ren, who made his world premiere at Fantasporto'2019, is the grand winner of the 39th Fantasporto - Porto International Film Festival. In this film, astronomer Sun Yang and his young assistant Chen Mu discover an icy world where they project the future of humanity after the sun disappears.
One of the first science fict...
Carnival parade organized by the Brazilian percussion group Batucada Radical, held in the city of Oporto March 2nd.
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VIDEO GALLERY I PHOTO GALLERY I THE CATALOG I LINE UP I AWARDS
THE FULL REPORT OF FANTASPORTO DAY BY DAY
VIDEO 39th Fantasporto closed with the Awards Ceremony
IN 2019, THE 39TH OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – FANTASPORTO AWARDED CHINA, POLAND AND THE PHILIPINES. CHINESE “LAST SUNRISE” WINS MAIN FANTASY SECTION. “Last Sunrise” by Chinese first time director Wen Ren wa...
IN 2019, THE 39TH OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – FANTASPORTO AWARDED CHINA, POLAND AND THE PHILIPINES.
CHINESE “LAST SUNRISE” WINS MAIN FANTASY SECTION.
“Last Sunrise” by Chinese first time director Wen Ren was the big winner of the main section, Fantasy Cinema, of Fantasporto with a sci-fi story about the day the sun stops shining forever. The Best Director award went to British Julian Richards, for two films, &ldq...
Click to view! And below is the ad I took in the catalog, offering filmmakers to pick my brains
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Oksana Orlan is the producer and main actress of The Russian Bride The Closing Film of Fantasporto, she spoke briefly with Bruno Chatelin just a few minutes before introducing her latest movie on stage in Fantasporto as the closing ceremony treat.
Originally from Ukraine, she started her career as a model before entering the film industry, she is based in LA and in the pre production stage for her next movie.
In the Russian Bride she marries a billionnaire, played b...
BIJU KUMAR DAMODARAN Director of Painting Life (India) winner of of Critics Prize with the founders of the festival Mario Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira.
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Rodrigo Aragão Mayra Alarcón (Fabulas Negras) were in beautiful city of Porto to present their latest film A Mata Negra: shot at home, entirely in the amazon forest The jury awarded the film with best screenplay. See how proud they are about the win, on stage and in an exclusive interview along the Douro River with Bruno Chatelin.
With Mario Dorminsky festival President
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Julian Richards screened two films in competition Daddy's Girl and Reborn and won BEST DIRECTOR Fantasporto 2019 Fantastic competition.
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Special Jury Award Orient Express SCHOOL SERVICE – LOUIE IGNACIO LAGDAMEO- FILIPINAS Directors Week Best Actress Award EX- AEQUO: AI-AI DE LAS ALAS- SCHOOL SERVICE – FILIPINAS INA RAYMUNDO – KUYA WES - FILIPINAS
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Click Fantasporto 2019 best Actress Georgia Chara to view the album :-)
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39th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
FANTASY INTERNATIONAL JURY
The International Jury of the Fantasy Section of the 39th Oporto International Film Festival - Fantasporto was composed of Milan Todorovic, Anton Bitel, Bruno Chatelin and Josep Maria Contel Ruiz The jury has decided to grant the following awards:
Best Film Award Fantasporto
LAST SUNRISE- WEN REN - CHINA
Jury’s Special Award
IN FABRIC...
The Russian Bride will have its European premiere at the Fantasporto Film Festival in Portugal! Closing film at 9pm at Rivoli Theatre Grand Auditorium. Producers and lead character Oksana Orlan in attendance.
Superb performance by Oksana.
A film about love, marriage and children beeing the ultimate wealth and treasure...of course a few guns here and there :-)
Here is The Russian Bride Trailer!
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GREAT AUDITORIUM
15:30 • The Sonata
Andrew Desmond - 88 '(GB / Fra) - CF - WORLD PREMIÈRE - Mystery / Fantasy
Andrew Desmond's first feature film, a classic tale of magic and horror. A young and talented violinist discovers the unfamiliar history of her father's past, releasing dark forces beyond imagination. With Rutger Hauer ("Blade Runner"), James Faulkner ("Game of Thrones")
and Freya Tingley ("Jersey Boys&qu...
"In the ensuing pandemonium, Aragão proves the old adages that it takes a village to raise a child, and that there is nothing more global than the local. It may start small, but by the end, A Mata Negra has expanded its themes to a universal, apocalyptic scale. The film is bloody bananas (and includes bunches of both in its exuberant narrative), using its limited budget to craft a gorily unhinged world of hell with a diabolically compromised innocent at its centre. In the end, the ...
Review by Anton Bitel
"In Adrian Panek’s film, the ‘Werewolf’ of the title is a metaphor.
The first meal that the children share in the palace is a tin of dog food, which they fight over and spill all over the floor before picking it up again with their hands and mouths to devour hungrily. Inured to Camp life, they have become brutalised, b...
Fantasporto enters the final stretch with the presentation of films that show the varied and imaginative cinematographic production that takes place outside the Hollywood matrix, which dominates the world cinema exhibition. From Taiwan to Hungary, from Russia to the United Arab Emirates, from Brazil to the Philippines, it is a challenge to the 'unique model' of the American film industry that is offered to the Portuguese cinema audience in these two weeks of cinema that Fantasporto pr...
3:30 PM • Lust
Severin Eskeland - 84 '(Norway) - 2017 - P & P - Terror
Lisa, a famous writer of violent and erotic books, isolates herself at home after being raped. When nightmares increase, he begins to wonder about what is reality or fiction. Few can help. Selection of the Night Visions Festival.
17:30 • Decision: Liquidation
Alexander Aravin - 97 '(Russia) - P & P - War / Action
Based on real facts. After the attack on the...
Dorminsky Mario 
