34th INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PORTO | FANTASPORTO 2014

PROGRAM  February 28 ^th till March 9 ^th

RIVOLI - MUNICIPAL THEATRE

Friday, February 28

Grand Auditorium

OFFICIAL OPENING FANTASPORTO 2014

21:00 - Vampire Academy by Mark Waters (USA) - P & P - ingl VO leg. port.

Rose Hathaway a dhampir, half-vampire and half-human, is in training to be Keeper, with many other candidates. Its mission is to protect the good vampires (the Moloi) the evil Strigoi ...

TRIBUTE TO VICTOR FLEMING

23:15 - Fantas Classics: The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming (USA) - 102 min - FC - VO ingl. leg. port.

In this new section of Fantas, a tribute to one of the great masters of world cinema, Victor Fleming. "The Wizard of Oz" premiered 75 years ago, has to know one of the biggest movie stars, the beautiful Judy Garland, and was a candidate for Oscar movies. Will be displayed in 2D restored digital version support.

Small Auditorium

21:00 - La Casa del Fin de Los Tiempos Alejandro Hidalgo (Venezuela) - 100 min - CF (WORLD premiere) - leg VO. ingl.

A mother returns to her old family home where witnesses strange apparitions that fulfill a prophecy already with 30 years. The lady looking decipher the mystery and tragedy that plagued both his life ... Chills coming from a country so far unprecedented in Fantas.

23:00 - Industry Screenings - Jinga Films - Deranged Neil Jones (Spain) - ingl VO.

Saturday, March 1

Grand Auditorium

14:00 - Bloodlust Richard Johnstone (GB) [WORLD premiere] - 78 min - CF - ingl VO leg. Port

This new production of Raven was completed a few days ago. It will be the first film in competition. Have chills. Bring warm clothes!

15:45 - Cheatin ' Bill Plympton (USA) - 76 min - CF - ingl VO leg. port

A couple in love with a long and exemplary relationship, encounters a wicked woman who conceives a web of events that increases the suspicion, jealousy and hatred between husband and wife ... It's a pleasure to have Bill Plympton in Porto.

17.00 - The Crypt Mark Murphy (GB) [WORLD premiere] - 83 min - CF - ingl VO leg. port

The Church instructs a group of researchers to question the circumstances of the death of a youth group in the crypt of a monastery.

19:00 - The Thorn Rose Filipe Henriques (Portugal / Guinea Bissau) [WORLD premiere] - 97 min - CF / CFP - VO leg port. ingl

The Public Prosecutor David Lunga is threatened by the terrible secrets of Rose, a beautiful and mysterious woman he is in love. What mysteries hide the beautiful woman?

Preceded by ... Project Gideon Fabrizio de Carvalho (Portugal) [WORLD premiere] - 2 min - Short CF / CFP

21:15 - Sugar Kisses Carlos Cuaron (Mexico) [EUROPEAN premiere] - SR - VO leg. ingl | port

A youthful love a Mexican metropolis with deteriorated neighborhoods, altars to Santa Muerte and all the events that can contaminate a family from the evil unwarranted abuse to sexual violence ...

23:15 - Haunter Vincenzo Natali (Canada / France) 97 min - SR - ingl VO leg. port

A horror thriller in which the ghost of a dead teenager for several years returns to the living world. Natali is back to Port ... To win the festival for the third time? 

Preceded by ... Anger of the Dead Francesco Picone (Italy) - 15 min - Short CF + Blind Date Claudia Clemente (Portugal) - 9 min - Short CF / CFP

Small Auditorium

15:15 - Johnny Christ Mark Maggiore (USA) - 99 min - P & P - VO ingl

Larry Dagger is a former racing driver unemployed who one night finds a man lying in the road, wounded and naked, with an uncanny resemblance to Christ. This incident will ultimately change the lives of Larry and his family forever ... One of the surprises of this fantas.

17:15 - Short of Catalonia - 99 min - FS - VO leg. ingl:

The Disorganized Crime Stephan Hofmann - 15 min

The Olive Tree Frederic Menchón - 16 min

Mundane Interests Bar Mut Christian Molina and Ramses Albiñana - 16 min

Dystopia Jeffrey Frigula - 13 min

You Are a Terrorist Antoni Solé - 11 min

Blue Division of Malta's Sergi Marti - 13 min

Scuffle Alex Brendemühl - 14 min

21:00 - Viral Lucas Figueroa (France) [WORLD premiere] - 95 min - SR - leg VO. ingl

An action comedy thriller in which a young man is selected to be the image of a large area in the center of Madrid (one FNAC store) for a week. Only playing host to strange phenomena.

23:00 - Industry Screenings - Vision Cyclope - Preaching to the Prevert (Remastered) by Stuart Urban (GB) - 100 min - ingl VO

Sunday, March 2

Grand Auditorium

14:30 - Sparks Todd Burrows and Christopher Folino (USA) [EUROPEAN premiere] - 97 min - CF - ingl VO leg. port

Sparks is a masked vigilante who discovers the dark side of heroism. The persecution of the nation's most notorious criminal gets life and reputation ruined ... Sparks Another adaptation of the superhero comic to film.

Preceded by ... Drunker Than a Skunk Bill Plympton (USA) 4 min - Short CF

16:30 - Kung Fu Divas of Onat Diaz (Philippines) [EUROPEAN premiere] - 115 min - CF / OE - VO leg. ingl | port

Filipino action comedy in which the protagonist Charlotte, the only one of a family of beauty queens who do not yet have a title, is to achieve a competition that will be your last chance to help her mother ... Funny, full of action and beautiful.

18:30 - Fatal Sin Diogo Luis (Portugal) [WORLD premiere] - 90 min - SR / CFP - VO port leg. ingl

A boy and a girl fall in love. The man takes her for a night of quick sex in a friend's house. Since the girl is still asleep, he leaves home, leaving her to the care of his friend. But events precipitate and when his friend falls for the woman, things get even more complicated ...

21:15 - Cold Comes The Night Tze Chun (USA) - 90 min - SR - VO leg. port

The owner of a motel and daughter are kidnapped by a criminal with wide register which is almost blind and seeks to use them as a way to recover the money that was stolen from him by a corrupt police ... A thriller with "Fargo".

23:15 - Shield Of Straw Takashi Miike (Japan) - 124 min - CF - leg VO. ingl | port

Miike is one of the sons of Fantas. Since "Fudoh", his first feature film, which have passed through the port with many of his films. Was in the Official Selection at Cannes. In this plot, the psychopath Kunihide Kyomaru surrenders to police after murdering a girl of seven years, but the rich victim's father offers a reward to anyone who kills Kunihide.

Preceded by ... Honeymoon Suite Zao Wang (China) - 14 min - Short CF + Rabbitland Ana Nedeljkovic and Nichola Majdak (Serbia) - 8 min - Short CF

Small Auditorium

15:15 - French Short  1 - Unifrance - 92 min - FS - VO fra

As it used to be Gonzalez Clement - 8 min

Batz Max Maled - 8 min

Blue Me Up Estelle Charrié - 3 min

Eve Fait de la Resistance Cleo Biasini - 4 min

I'm a Sharpener Mahdi Lepart - 14 min

Veille sur Je Vous Elodie Fiabane - 18 min

L'Usine, l'Autre Nuit Nathalie Giraud and Timothée Corteggiani - 16 min

La Boîte Bruno Richaud - 15 min

La Femme en Rouge Greg Soussan - 4 min

17:15 - Special Film Society Brodick (Portugal) - 84 min - FS - VO port

Only Nuno Frigate - 6 min

Palui Carlos Silva and Pedro Carvalho de Almeida - 4 min

X & Y by João Costa - 15 min

Reason for Zebras of John Costa - 26 min

Threads of Time to Joaquim Peacock - 31 min

21:00 - Hors Saison Daniel Schmid (France, Switzerland, Germany) - 95 min - RETROSPECTIVE HENRY HOLY SPIRIT - leg VO. ingl

23:00 - Industry Screenings - Cyclope Vision - May I Kill U? Stuart Urban (GB) - 87 min - ingl VO