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 HughesCharlotte Le BonMarc 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
- DirectorAte de JongEmily HarrisStarsJessica GunningJohnny FlynnLydia WilsonVida and Arthur come from vastly different backgrounds. Sensitive and touching, sometimes quirky and tragic, always uncompromisingly truthful, a fresh look how conflicting family ties challenge love in a modern day Romeo and Juliet tale.Fantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition
[UK] - DirectorSteve BaldersonStarsSusan TraylorAnslem RichardsonMark BookerIdentity and self-discovery evolve in an epic journey through the majesty of a Mexico rarely seen. EL GANZO chronicles a brief and intense connection between two lonely travelers: a struggling artist on the verge of a creative breakthrough and a mysterious woman with a hidden and unknown past.Fantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition
[USA] - DirectorLicínio AzevedoStarsMatamba JoaquimMelanie de Vales RafaelThiago JustinoA very dangerous train journey through war torn Mozambique. Civilian passengers are both protected and harassed by a troop of ill-disciplined soldiers on board to fight off a rebel army in the bush. All must work together to repair sabotaged track and reach safety.Fantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition
Portuguese Film Awards Competition Features
[Portugal / Mozambique / South Africa / France / Brazil] - DirectorJosé Pedro LopesStarsDaniela LoveJorge MotaMafalda BanquartThe Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. On a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.Fantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition
Portuguese Film Awards Competition Features
[Portugal] - DirectorVasilis MazomenosStarsThemis PanouTasos NousiasAnna KalaitzidouA operator endeavors to help people keep on living and hoping.Fantasporto 2017:
Director’s Week Competition
[Greece] - DirectorWalter Lima Jr.StarsVirginia CavendishDomingos MontagnerMel MaiaLaura is hired as a teacher to two orphans who live in coffee farm. Gradually, she feels that the children are being influenced by hostile spirits that lived there.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
(Closing Night)
[Brazil] - DirectorDamien MacéAlexis WajsbrotStarsGregg SulkinGarrett ClaytonBella DayneAn evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for two teenagers when a stranger turns their own game against them, with deadly consequences.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[UK] - DirectorKyle RankinStarsMaria ThayerMichael CassidyJulie BristerAfter a girls' night out, endearingly awkward Deb wakes up in the apartment of the most attractive guy in Portland, Maine. Pretty boy Ryan only knows it was a mistake and ushers her out the door into a full-scale zombie apocalypse.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[USA] - DirectorChris ScheuermanStarsAndrew JenkinsMelissa RoxburghLeah GibsonSpence Cutler is a psychopath. He's never felt empathy or guilt. However, a fateful encounter with a new drug is about to give him a dose of too much reality, and he takes a mind-bending trip down the psychedelic highway of consciousness to come face to face with his own morality and his own twisted soul.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[USA] - DirectorPatrick ReaStarsFiona DourifKevin RyanJake BuseyAn adventurous woman with a secret from her husband insists the couple go camping to reconnect. Something in the woods wipes out a group of hunters nearby, preventing the couple from leaving their tent. Secrets and supernatural stories come to light, and they must determine if the real threat is inside or outside their enclosure.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[USA] - DirectorSevé SchelenzStarsWren WalkerCaz Odin DarkoMadison J. LoosA small town strip club owner must defend her bar, her strippers and her life when violent infected patrons show up on the final closing night and all hell breaks loose.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[Canada] - DirectorSteven KastrissiosStarsGëzim RudiEmiljano PalaliSuela BakoA struggling family in Albania, wrestling with tradition, must unite against a mysterious clan's aggressions, leading to a 'blood feud' that is all too familiar in the Balkans.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[Australia / Albania] - DirectorJohannes NaberStarsFrederick LauHenriette ConfuriusDavid SchütterGerman tale about a man who sells his heart to a forest-dwelling warlock for money and power.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[Germany] - DirectorDavid RufStarsNoor KaysonNajem Edden Al KassemJawa Al KassemFive children running from the war in Syria set out on a journey that soon leaves the realms of reality. Acted completely by Syrian children who themselves fled to Turkey, this film is a multi-layered parable for what war does to children.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[Germany / Syria / Turkey] - DirectorWojciech KasperskiStarsMarcin DorocinskiAndrzej ChyraAndrzej GrabowskiA father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male-bonding adventure. When a mysterious stranger arrives at the cabin, their outing turns into a struggle for survival.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[Poland] - DirectorVirgil WidrichStarsLaurence RuppAmira CasarJohann Adam OestWhen the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of his dead ancestors. In the course of a long night, during which there is a murder, an illicit love affair and a game with false identities, Philip uncovers a closely guarded family secret.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[Austria / Luxembourg / Netherlands] - DirectorDominik HartlStarsLaurie Paul CalvertGabriela MarcinkováOscar Dyekjær GieseZombie action in the Alps: a group of young snowboarder is stuck in a remote mountain ski resort, where an all-night aprés-ski party soon turns into a hellish nightmare of zombie mayhem.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[Austria] - DirectorDejan ZecevicStarsKen ForeeKatarina CasMonte MarkhamAn American military satellite crash lands in Eastern Serbia and a team of US and Serbian agents are dispatched to secure the remains of the satellite, but when they locate the crash site all is not as it seems.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[Serbia] - DirectorAntónio de MacedoStarsFernanda AlvesEugénia BettencourtManuel CavacoIn a isolated village in Alentejo, a conflict is experienced. José Vitorino, one of the biggest landowners in the region rich in prehistoric monuments, plans to build a luxurious manor on a site of ancient stones, a place of devotion and practice of sacred rites. Indifferent to the protests of the people, who believe in the magical powers of the "holy stones" and attribute to their destruction the prolonged drought that has been felt in the region, Jose Vitorino hires an architect to make the project for the new house. On Christmas Eve, in the midst of winter solstice, a strange ceremony around a tapir, an altar of bloody sacrifices in the earliest times of prehistory, unleashes a nefarious spell. A struggle "against time" is initiated to nullify the effects of the defective ritual.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
[Portugal] - DirectorMattie DoStarsAmphaiphun PhommapunyaVilouna PhetmanyTambet TuiskA village girl travels to the Lao capital, Vientiane, to care for her rich cousin who has lost her sight and gained the ability to communicate with the dead.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
Orient Express Competition- Orient Express Special Jury Award
- DirectorYeon Sang-hoStarsRyu Seung-ryongShim Eun-kyungLee JoonSeveral groups of people try to survive a zombie pandemic that unleashes itself in downtown Seoul.Fantasporto 2017:
Out of Competition Première & Panorama
Orient Express Competition
[South Korea] - DirectorJon Mikel CaballeroStarsAdam QuinteroAinhoa TorneroAlex MoreuAsh made a very important promise to his wife: Protect the house from any threat. But Ema's father is not a hero, and protecting their home is not a sci-fi adventure.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts- Best Short Film Award
- DirectorFlorian BabikianVincent BayouxVictor CaireIn a deserted rich house, a couple of amphibians explore their surroundings and follow their primal instincts.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts- Jury’s Special Mention
- DirectorMat JohnsStarsGarth MaundersHazel GibsonChristopher JordanUnexpectedly reunited with his daughter amongst the ruins of the world as they knew it, a father is determined to make this day special, even if they are already dead.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[UK] - DirectorSteven and Wayne BensonStarsNick HardinKerri QuinnMichael LiebmannA woman is drawn in by a mysterious stranger she meets at a bar, fascinated by what could be his intriguing story - or sinister warning.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[UK] - DirectorGabriel Kalim MucciStarsLila GuimarãesPaulo GeraissateRony KorenLunatique is a sci-fi shortfilm about a lonely woman who fights daily for survival in a post apocalyptic world.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[Brazil] - DirectorDavid UlothStarsMiro LacasseCatherine RuelJulie De LafrenièreLa Voce is inspired by Donizetti's opera, Lucia Di Lammermoor, and the Silent Film era. It is a satiric fable that tells the story of Edgar, a butcher who works in slaughterhouse that kills pigs on an industrial scale. He loves his job. He loves to sing opera, despite his awful off-key singing voice. And above all he loves Ginette, the stripper of his dreams. However, the day when Edgar is going to ask her to marry him is the day he surprises her with her legs in the air, bedding her boss. The shock is such that he loses his voice and unfortunately finds himself with the voice of a pig from his slaughterhouse. Edgar thought that he had lost the love of his life but it's his own identity that is disintegrating. Yet what if Edgar wasn't the only one suffering from this malady? Can this forsaken soul find love again?Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[Canada] - DirectorDonato SansoneAn artistic improvisation in real time led day in and day out, inspired by international events as taken from the pages of the French daily newspaper "Libération".Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[France] - DirectorOndrej SvadlenaTime rodent is a grotesque, strongly visually and colourfully stylized short film. Using distinctive animation, it tells the story of the world in 5, 10 or even 100,000 years in an abstract parable, a kind of civilizational, comic anti-fairy-tale about the gradual decay of the world and further possible evolutional transformation of its inhabitants. The protagonist of this story is a witness to this process - a half humanoid, half animal creature going through the individual periods of our future on earth. In his art Ondrej Svadlena pushes the boundaries of modern 3D animation, that can withstand even the most exacting critical standards. It builds on loose, emotional storytelling and impeccable 3D animation to evoke apocalyptic, romantic and surreal fantasies. He is connected to Czech culture by his dark humor and sense of absurdity which is reflected in his dizzyingly morbid, wordless carnivals of futuristic imagination and echoes of the atmosphere of communist era industrialism.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[France] - DirectorNorma VilaStarsJordi BrauIzan MailloLucía PollánDreams die. Blood is eternal.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[Spain] - DirectorTony MoralesStarsEva IsantaFernando BozaMichel HerráizTonight Hada comes to visit Daniel because his last child tooth has fallen out. What Daniel doesn't expect is that his worst enemy is the light.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[Spain] - DirectorSergio MorcilloStarsMónica AragónAntonio ZancadaFrancisco ReyesA woman enjoys the pleasure of a hot bath while enjoying her own body. A call from a stranger interrupts the peace. The worst night of her life has begun with just a few simple words; "You're gonna die tonight"Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[Spain] - DirectorLonan GarcíaStarsLloll BertranAnna BriansóJoe LewisFantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[Spain] - DirectorJonna NilssonStarsSiham ShurafaA woman returns home only to realize there is no water in the house. Later that night, the water returns in the form of a steady drip.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[Sweden] - DirectorSanghak LeeStarsLee Da-yeongEun Min KoAerim comes to her senses on asphalt and finds a man bleeding to death.Fantasporto 2017:
Fantasy Films In Competition Shorts
[South Korea] - DirectorJoão LourençoStarsMargarida MoreiraVictor GonçalvesPatrícia CandosoNídia is a woman going through a depression due to lack of affection from her husband and the growing solitary environment that becomes unbearable. In the midst of all this, Nídia begins to have visions of a child who seems to be the only thing that comforts in your day and it will change the course and your inner perspective.Fantasporto 2017:
Portuguese Film Awards Competition Shorts- Best Portuguese Film Award
- DirectorPaulo ZumachStarsJosé Pedro AlfaiateJoão CraveiroAlexandre FerreiraA discussion between close friends in a cheap hotel room in Prague. Stories and memories that don't tell the same tale about the events of the recent past.Fantasporto 2017:
Portuguese Film Awards Competition Shorts