WINNERS FANTASPORTO     1981 (Non-Competitive Festival)   1982 Grand Prix Fantasporto 82:  The Redemeer - Krsto Papic (Jugoslavia)   1983 Grand Prix Fantasporto 83: Scanners - David Cronenberg (Canada)   1984 Grand Prix Fantasporto 84: Le Dernier Combat - Luc Besson (France)   1985 Grand Prix Fantasporto 95: The Company of the Wolves - Neil Jordan (UK)   1986 Grand Prix Fantasporto 86: ...

Biografilm Festival – International Celebration of Lives is the first international event entirely dedicated to biographies and life tales. The sixth edition (Bologna, June 9-14, 2010) was a major success with both critics and audience, with over 30.000 visitors in 6 days and nearly 400 films submitted from all over the world. As usual, in 2010, Biografilm has shown a rich premiere calendar.During its six editions, Biografilm presented to the Italian audience films such as The Cats of Mirikita...

It has been quite a year for director Roman Polanski…..house arrest in Switzerland, Silver Bear at the Berlinale, legal victory and return to his adopted home of Paris, and film adaptation of the international theatre sensation “God Of Carnage”. Now, Polanski caps a year full of ups and downs with a sixtuplet win at the European Film Awards, held this evening in the Nokia Concert Hall in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn. “The Ghost Writer”, Polanski’s adaptation of the Thomas Ha...

21st Stockholm International Film Festival will take place 17-28 november 2010 The Stockholm International Film Festival is now established as one of the leading competitive film festivals in Europe. It is the only Nordic festival accredited by FIAPF and hosts a FIPRESCI-jury.  Last year 180 films from over 50 countries were presented to more than 130.000 public visitors, 450 journalists and 500 film professionals, directors, producers and actors. Among them were Andrea Arnold, Luc Besson, Lee...

 Jaco van Dormael’s ambitious new film MR. NOBODY, his first in English, continues its sixth month shoot, moving to Germany at the end of October. The shoot started this June in Belgium, moving on to Montreal in Canada. Van Dormael, director of the award-winning hits TOTO THE HERO (1991) and THE EIGHTH DAY (1996), has assembled a very strong cast including Jared LETO (REQUIEM OF THE DREAM, AMERICAN PSyCHO, ALEXANDER, LORD OF WAR); Sarah POLLEY (The Secret Life of Words, eXistenZ, MY LIFE WIT...

27th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - FANTASPORTO 2007. (held in Oporto Portugalbetween the 19th February and the 4th March) is the occasion for a look back into the prestigious list of filmmakers discovered at Fantasporto in the genre that the festival specialized.Fantasporto 81David Cronenberg with "Shivers"André Tarkovsky with "Solaris"Brian de Palma with "Carrie"John Carpenter with "Dark Star"Alan Resnais with "Providence"Fantasporto 82Peter Fleishman with "O Mal de Hamburgo"David Lynch...

Going now to its 25th edition, Fantasporto has brought to Portugal for the first time the films of such names as David Cronenberg, André Tarkovsky, Brian de Palma, John Carpenter, Alain Resnais, David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Andrzej Zulawski, Ridley Scott, Luc Besson, Peter Greenaway, Neil Jordan, Jean-Jacques Beneix, Joel and Ethan Cohen, Sam Raimi, Brian Yuzna, Peter Jackson, Hal Hartley, Anthony Minghella, Quentin Tarantino, Roberto Rodriguez, Danny Boyle, Paul Anderson, David Fincher, James...