Let' s hear this fantastic story from the words of its very own founder our friend Mario Dorminsky pictured here with Bruno Chatelin and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira
"The festival was born in 1980 at a table of a small coffee shop in the center of Oporto, heritage world town by UNESCO, in a conversation between the three founders, film critics Mário Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira and the painter José Manuel Pereira. It immediately presented in the first edition (1981)...
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Dear Friend(s) and Colleague(s)
Greetings from Porto
We regret but the submissions to the 45th Porto International Film Festival | Fantasporto 2025 are closed since November 30th.
This year the festival, not working with any platform for submission of films, received for selection more than 600 features (for 80 spots) and around 1300 short films (...
JAPAN won with FROM THE END OF THE WORLD, USA took top honors (BUCKY F*UCKING DENT by DAVID DUCHOVNY), China with THE CREATION OF THE GODS and Portugal with DEPARTURES : the big winners of FANTASPORTO 2024
The 44th edition of Fantasporto – Porto International Film Festival has come to an end, although on Sunday, voting day for the legislative elections, eight of the films awarded by the four Juries of the event, for the competitive Fantastic Cinema Secti...
The closing of the friday night screenings in Fantasporto was Mitesh Kumar Patel's Horror thriller The woman in the Maze starring Meredith VanCuyk, Joey Heyworth, Sean Dillingham... Mitesh also founded the Chandler International Film Festival.
A young woman rents a house in America's largest ghost town, Jerome, Arizona for a business trip, but soon discovers that the house is cursed and traps any woman who enters it. The house transforms into a maze, making it...
Belgian director Karim Ouelhaj , from “Megalomaniac”, winner of the Best Film and Director Awards at Fantasporto 2023, and honored at Fantasporto 2024, talks about his work with producer Florence Saadi.
Karim Ouelhaj is a Belgian director, writer and producer. His first feature film “Parabola” was selected for the Venice Festival in the official Giornatti degli Autori Venice Days section. This film also won the Federico Fellini Prize i...
March 8th - a very rainy Friday in Porto : a perfect alibi to linger in the theatres, and particularly in the brand new and comfortable Batalha Cinema Center which hosts for the second time Fantasporto after decades at Rivoli running films in two rooms all afternoon till late in the night.
Quite frankly the seating and the sound quality are such a major improvement, thank God, and thanks to Mario and Beatriz for moving to this great location.
ROOM 1
14: 15 Baby Assassins 2 &ndas...
Pictured Julian Richards – distributor with Festival founders Mario Dorminsky and Beatriz Paceco Pereira and Bruno Chatelin
Guests of FANTASPORTO flew from all over the world to attend the presentation of their film at Fantasporto 2024
Check below who is in town!
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Jaime Neves- UCP representative
Luisa Alegre- director and Bruno Chatelin
Mariana Machado- team of the film
Joana Carreira - film team
Clara Alegre - film team
Bayan 1 and 2
Tomoyuki Miy...
Fantasporto SCHEDULE on MARCH 7TH AND 8TH (THURSDAY AND FRIDAY)...
Fantasporto 2024/44th Porto International Film Festival presents the program of this new edition . The festival takes place at Batalha Centro de Cinema from the 1st to the 10th of March and shows around 100 films from 34 countries , all unpublished and, in debut national , European , international and even worldwide . They will be Most of the directors and crews of the films in competition , well as representa...
WORLD PREMIERE OF ONE OF THE FUTURE WORLD BLOCKBUSTERS
March 6th - IN THE PRESENCE OF THE FILM CREW
The Floor Plan – Junichi Ishikawa -110´- ( Japan ) CF/OE- WORLD PREMIERE- horror fantastic , vo, leg english , leg port
Amemiya is a Youtuber who specializes in the occult . When your _ advisor him brings a house plan to observe , notice that the house presents compartments that do not they are logical , as if the owners they wanted to hide some thing da...
The Fantasporto 2024/44th Porto International Film Festival offers a very international program for this new edition.
It is also worth mentionning the very strong presence of the Portuguese cinema which stands out with long and short unpublished footage, as well as the films chosen by the higher cinema schools at the Fantasporto Portuguese Cinema Award 2024. Fantasporto decided to extend this visit to the Portuguese cinema by plotting the Porto Portuguese films of 2023 that It has been a ...
Specially dedicated to cinema training. Taking advantage of the availability of some of the national and foreign guests at Fantasporto 2024, a program of debates/conferences/workshops was organized aimed at a younger audience, young filmmakers and film students . The aim of this extra-exhibition program of festival films is to promote debate and gatherings, reflecting and pointing out ways for new filmmakers and film lovers
FREE ENTRY.
Sunday, 3 March , 5pm
AN APPROACH TO AM...
The Forbidden Play – Hideo Nakata - 110’- (Jap) CF/OE – horror, fantástico, v.o., leg ingl, leg. port
Images of a happy family. The young son shows his father the severed tail of a lizard. Following his advice, the boy buries the tail, hoping it will bring the animal back alive. But nothing is as simple when the mother dies and the son repeats the proceedings. A curious young woman director is going to investigate what is g...
Filmfestivals.com returns as media partner of Fantasporto 2024 /44th Porto International Film Festival
The festival reveals the full program of this new edition as well as the official poster.
The festival will be held at Batalha Film Centre from 1 till March 10th and will screen around 100 films from 34 countries, all of them as national première, european, International and World Première. Most of the directors and teams of the films in competition will be present as wel...
MORE THAN 1500 FILMS OF 70 COUNTRIES WERE SUBMITED TO THE FESTIVAL
Fantasporto announced today that the film submissions for the 44th edition of the Porto International Film Festival | Fantasporto'2024 closed end November and the line-up for this edition will be announced in December. The final program will be announced in January.
Fantasporto 2024 will take place from March 1 to 10 at the Batalha Centro de Cinema and, possibly, at other venues in Porto.
Around 90 feature films and 20 s...
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE END OF NOVEMBER
So farmore than 1500 film submissions from over 70 countries
Fantasporto announced today that the film submissions for the 44th edition of the Porto International Film Festival | Fantasporto'2024 will close at the end of this month and the line-up for this edition will be announced in December. The final program will be announced in January.
Fantasporto 2024 will take place from March 1 to 10 at the Batalha Centro de Cinema and, possibly, at other...
Fantasporto 2024 is pleased to announce the complete retrospective of the director who won Fantasporto'2023 with the film MEGALOMANIA. Karim Quelhaj's. The retrospective include the films Parabole, Le Repas du Singe, L'Oeil Silencieux, Une Realité par seconde and, of course, Megalomaniac. There will be a MOVIE TALK with his participation and his producer Florence Saâdi, who has agreed to be a member of the International Jury. A symbolic tribute to the Belgian director is...
Fantasporto was invited to represent Europe at the WORLDCON 2023 | 81st World Science Fiction Convention | HUGO´s AWARDS in CHENGDU, China. A conference will be made about the situation of the SciFi Film Festivals and the documentary Fantasporto - 40 Years by Isabel Pina, a co-production between producer companies Pizzo and Cinema Novo will be screened at this huge event that, like the Oscars, have the famous HUGO Awards that are delivered in the last 81 years. This even...
Encouraging higher goals, Fantasporto, an event that launches Porto and Portugal into the world, also receives praise from abroad. The renowned and respected North American magazine MovieMaker considered it one of the 25 "coolest" festivals in the world and the world's leading fantasy website, also North American, Dread Central, refers to the festival as one of the "20 most outstanding festivals in the horror field", including it in this list after a study carried...
44th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – FANTASPORTO 2024 (March 1 -10 )
SUBMISSIONS CLOSE NOVEMBER 30
To submit a film please send us to info@fantasporto.com the link and password (best in Vimeo) of the film to be seen by the selection committee
FILM ELIGIBILITY:
Features: The films must be produced in 2023.
Shorts (only fantasy films competition) up to 15 minutes produced in 2023
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ENTRIES FOR THE 44th EDITION OF FANTASPORTO ARE OPEN
till the end of November 2023.
We are informing all our friends and colleagues that can submit films to the festival from now on.
The films must be produced only in 2023.
The decisions of the selection jury will be announced over the year and the Final and Definitive
Line Up will be announced on December 15th.
You will find in our site the entry form (compulsory) and regulations for 20...
The teaser for the 44th Porto International Film Festival | Fantasporto´2024
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MEGALOMANIAC AND THE PORTUGUESE INCUBUS WINNERS OF THE FANTASY SECTION AND NARCOSIS OF THE DIRECTOR’S WEEK
The new Multiplex BATALHA received this year the 43rd edition of the iconic and just finished Fantasporto – Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto.
The International Jury of the fantasy section was LAWRENCE TROTT, MÁRTA BÉNYEI, SANDRA HENRIQUES and LUÍS ROSALES and decided to divide their awards between European and Asian Films.
PORTUGUESE...
Mario Dorminsky, Beatriz Pacheco Pereira dn Julian Temple with Bruno Chatelin in Porto enjoying the festival ine a new venue à Centro de Cinema de Batalha!
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Beatriz Pacheco Peirera Fantasporto co founder with Mario Dorminsky handed the carreer tribute to Krystof before the projection of PERFECT NUMBER his latest film, he said with some humour that he was puzzled by (tribute to his career) which he considers not iover and wants to do more films....
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43rd OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | FANTASPORTO’2023
From today till March 5th at Batalha CC
FILMS, GUESTS AND A WARM WELCOME
Fantasporto 2023 opens today. The rush now is creating the best conditions for our guests, coming from all parts of the world. Set in the beautiful restored BATALHA, home of all things cinema in Oporto, Fantasporto is the next meeting place for cinema lovers.
68 countries sent films for selection, resulting in a selection of...
