2017: 9.1. Fantasporto
FANTASPORTO’2017 - 37th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival annually organized in Porto, Portugal, with a special taste for Fantasy/Horror/Science Fiction genres, giving screen space to commercial feature films, auteur films and experimental projects from all over the world.
* Films missing on IMDB:
-Out of Competition Première & Panorama:
* Films missing on IMDB:
-Out of Competition Première & Panorama:
- Land of the Good Children, Dir: Olga Kaptur Tomenko [Russia].
- Les Animaux Domestiques, Dir: Jean Lecointre [France];
- Roller Monster, Dir: Manu Gomez [France].
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- DirectorMateo GilStarsOona ChaplinTom HughesRafael CebriánMarc will die of cancer and chooses cryogenic freeze and hopes to be thawed, when there's a solution to his condition. He's the first human brought back 68 years later. Can he adapt mentally and physically?Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Best Film Award
- Best Screenplay Award
- DirectorAvid LiongorenStarsRhian RamosEnzo MarcosTJ TrinidadA geeky wannabe comic book artist has a hopeless crush on a beautiful and spunky inventor.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Jury’s Special Award
- Audience Award
- Orient Express Jury’s Special Mention
- DirectorLiam GavinStarsSteve OramCatherine WalkerSusan LoughnaneA determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Best Direction Award
- Best Actress Award
- DirectorAndrew GettyStarsSean Patrick FlaneryDina MeyerFrederick KoehlerA lonely, mentally handicapped boy befriends his reflection in an antique mirror. This demonic creature orders him to go on a murderous rampage to kill the people he loves most.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Best Actor Award
- DirectorSantiago DellapeStarsEdu MoraesEucir de SouzaBianca MüllerIn a forgotten corner of the vast Brazilian bureaucracy, a psychotic boss uses a time machine to enslave his lazy employees and increase productivity.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Jury’s Special Mention
- DirectorS.A. HalewoodStarsAlison DoodyLinus RoacheLotte Verbeek2039: Anonymity/living off the grid is a crime. Punishment is "disappearance". Following the lives of convicts becomes entertainment on TV. A group of young men called Division 19 works against the system.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Critics Award
- DirectorJamie PattersonStarsApril PearsonCian BarryAaron DavisThe film tells the story of a journalist couple who invite a man and woman into their idyllic village home, but what begins with an informal interview descends into a nightmarish fight for survival.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Critics Award
- DirectorDrew CassonStarsBethan LeadleyCherry WallisJess CleverlyThe story of two sisters, as Britain descends into an alien apocalypse.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Best Visual Effects Award
- DirectorNa Hong-jinStarsJun KunimuraHwang Jung-minKwak Do-wonSoon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
Orient Express Competition
[South Korea] - DirectorAlex HelfrechtJörg TittelStarsÓlafur Darri ÓlafssonFiona ShawOlivia WilliamsA 12-year-old boy rebels after a brutal government labels his father a traitor and imprisons him.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[UK / Hungary / Germany / Sweden] - DirectorRob TaylorStarsDavid Ogden StiersRob TaylorNic CostaIn a madcap future era, the world's greatest secret agent struggles to rescue his young son from the clutches of his infamous former mentor.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[USA] - DirectorIsti MadarászStarsDénes SzárazDorina MartinovicsZsolt AngerA drug dealer and his girlfriend betray their boss on their last mission, and the lead gets stuck in a timeloop.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Hungary] - DirectorTal GoldbergGal ZelezniakStarsYotam IshayHili YalonTzahi GradDanny is amazed to find out he is a deadly robot. With renewed hopes and robotic forces, and with the help of his macho boss and a small Jewish "R2D2" (Dubbed by Rob Schneider), Danny sets off to rescue the love of his life.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Israel] - DirectorPedro JoaquimStarsAlice BauerRicardo CarvalhoRamon GastlA mysterious natural phenomenon sets an end to the party night of a group of young adults. The morning after begins with far more than just a hangover.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Switzerland] - DirectorJorge AntónioStarsÂngelo TorresMiguel HurstNicolau BreynerTwo Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
Portuguese Film Awards Competition Features
[Portugal / Angola / São Tomé and Príncipe] - DirectorOleg AsadulinStarsPavel ChinaryovSvetlana UstinovaVitaliya KornienkoContemporary Russia. A young couple finds a great deal on a used BMW. Unfortunately, it's haunted.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Russia] - DirectorFilip KovacevicStarsStojan DjordjevicDacha VidosavljevicSten ZendorA man wakes up in a square of an unknown city again and again, after each failed attempt to escape four masked assassins. Through the never ending chase, he tries to recover his identity, and find out who set him up.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Serbia / Macedonia] - DirectorRoderick CabridoStarsElora EspañoBarbie FortezaNora AunorElena fights for Letty's right to live her own life, confronting the ghosts of a tradition that shackled her into solitary confinement.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
Orient Express Competition
[Philippines] - DirectorDaniel de la VegaStarsJulieta CardinaliEleonora WexlerRafael FerroVirginia will do the impossible in order to rescue her daughter, who has been abducted. After a lethal accident, she is given the the chance to live one day more. On her path, she will find out that there are worse fates than death.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Argentina] - DirectorFabián ForteStarsDiego GentileMariana AnghileriEmilia AttíasA sisterhood of Celtic goddesses have under their control men who have attacked somehow the female gender. Angel is addicted to women, his life will turn into a calvary as he become slave of their plan to install the universal matriarchy.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Argentina] - DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsLee Byung-hunSong Kang-hoGong YooKorean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller.Fantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition- Director’s Week Best Director Award
(Opening Night)
[South Korea] - DirectorKim Ki-dukStarsRyu Seung-beomLee Won-geunKim Young-minA North Korean fisherman breaks his boat engine by accident and drifts down to South Korea. After enduring brutal investigations in the South, he eventually gets sent back to North Korea.Fantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition- Director’s Week Best Actor Award
- Orient Express Best Film Award
- DirectorEduardo W. Roy Jr.StarsRonwaldo MartinHasmine KillipJohn Kenji MontoroJane and Aries are teenage parents. They make a living out of stealing on the streets... until fate hits back at them.Fantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition- Director’s Week Best Film Award
- Director’s Week Best Actress Award
[Philippines] - DirectorKhaled El HagarStarsSalwa Mohamed AliNahed El SebaïMahmoud El-BizzawyWhen misuse of power , passion and poverty destroy human values during a revolutionFantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition- Director’s Week Jury’s Special Award
- Director’s Week Best Actress Award
- DirectorRoland VranikStarsCake-Baly MarceloÁgnes MáhrArghavan ShekariWilson, a black man in his late fifties, has been living as a refugee in Hungary for years. He works as a security guard in Budapest and his main desire is to acquire Hungarian citizenship, but he keeps failing the exams that are required for his application. In preparing for the next exam, he is helped by Mari, a Hungarian woman of roughly the same age who is a history teacher. Unexpectedly the teacher and her pupil start to develop deep affection towards each other.Fantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition- Director’s Week Best Screenplay Award