2018: 9.1. Fantasporto
FANTASPORTO’2018 - 38th 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:
-Director’s Week Competition:
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:
-Director’s Week Competition:
- True Fiction, Dir: Jin-Mook Kim, (Director's Week Best Film Award, Director's Week Best Screenplay Award) (Orient Express Competition) [South Korea].
- A.L., Dir: Cashell Horgan [Ireland];
- Yemanja, Dir: Frédéric Gaudin, Marceau Leger, Tanguy Lemonnier, Patrick Martini, Diana Nikitina, Flora Silve [France];
- BEC, Dir: Tony Morales [Spain].
- Entretons, Dir: Luís Miranda [Portugal];
- Não Desculpo, Dir: Sofia Almeida Ferreira, Pedro Marta [Portugal].
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- DirectorRobin AubertStarsMarc-André GrondinMonia ChokriCharlotte St-MartinIn the aftermath of an infectious outbreak, inhabitants of a village in rural Quebec find themselves confronting an invasion of ravenous zombie-like beings.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Best Film Award
- Best Direction Award
- DirectorRainer SarnetStarsRea LestJörgen LiikArvo KukumägiIn a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Jury’s Special Award
- Best Cinematography Award
- DirectorJo Sun-hoStarsKim Myung-minByun Yo-hanShin Hye-sunA mystery drama revolving around a father who commits an unethical act in an attempt to save his daughter's life. Three years later, his actions return to haunt him, trapping him in an endless time loop.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Jury’s Special Mention
[South Korea] - DirectorKatsuyuki MotohiroStarsTakeru SatohMinami HamabeMamoru MiyanoA high school student discovers he is an Ajin, a demi-human being. He ends up a fugitive on the run because of his powers.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Best Visual Effects Award
- Orient Express Best Film Award
- DirectorJeremy LutterStarsJess McLeodHannah CheramyJohn Emmet TracyA troubled foster teen, Samantha, works to expose a dangerous supernatural impostor in her new family and rescue her foster sister.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Best Actress Award
- DirectorDan VillegasStarsIan VeneracionIza CalzadoXyriel ManabatIn this story of a family's breakdown amid a demonic attack, reporter Dennis accidentally invites the ilawod, a water spirit, into his home, where it attaches to his son Ben.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Best Actor Award
[Philippines] - DirectorSu-won ShinStarsMoon Geun-youngKim Tae-hoonSin Dong-ryeokDespite her disabled leg, Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns her back on the world and goes deep into the forest to live alone in a glass garden.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Best Screenplay Award
[South Korea] - DirectorMichael MelskiStarsSuzanne ClémentAllan HawcoShelley ThompsonAn expectant couple's intimate weekend turns to terror as they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where infants and mothers were murdered.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features- Audience Award
- DirectorPavel KhvaleevStarsRyan MassonDennis HurleyAlyona KonstantinovaA future that's reality is a far cry from the one we live in today. The Earth has been sent out of control, affected by a cruel and inhuman mechanism that turns back Darwin's theory of Evolution.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Russia / Germany] - DirectorPreston DeFrancisStarsMarcienne DwyerMatt DellapinaChris HillAlexandra reluctantly tags along for Slasher Sleepout, an extreme event that is part camping trip, part haunted house, and part escape room. But when the fun turns deadly, Alex has to play the game if she wants to make it out alive.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[USA] - DirectorBrian A. MetcalfStarsEsmé BiancoJordan DangerWilliam SadlerVampires have just made themselves public. Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to learn how they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew realize their very lives are in danger.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[USA] - DirectorBrandon ChristensenStarsChristie BurkeJesse MossRebecca OlsonMary, a new mother, gives birth to twins, but only one of them is alive. While taking care of her living child, Adam, she suspects that something, a supernatural entity, has chosen him and will stop at nothing to take him from her.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Canada] - DirectorNorbert KeilStarsRebecca ForsytheLucie AronBarbara CramptonKira's skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else's.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Canada / Germany] - DirectorToni VenturiStarsMurilo RosaMonica IozziThiago MendonçaThe Devil himself comes to Earth to open his own church and the world becomes a pandemonium of delights and confusions. Based on a short story by Machado de Assis, the most famous realistic Brazilian writer of the XIX century.Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
[Brazil] - DirectorPrime CruzStarsRyza CenonMartin Del RosarioVangie LabalanJewel is a mysterious woman who lives alone in the city. She has a secret which has led her to settle into a lonely existence. That is, until she meets Nico, a broken-hearted, down-and-out guy who also feels unlovable like she does. Jewel is torn between wanting to love him and wanting to save him from herself. Will he accept her if he knew the truth about her? Can she ever find love, or is she destined to be alone forever?Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
Orient Express Competition
[Philippines] - DirectorFrogmanStarsTakayuki YamadaKen YasudaKang Ji-youngJoker has come to Japan to steal the Eagle Talon Society's secret weapons in his continued scheme for pure chaos. However, the Justice League is on his trail, but there's something off with Batman. Now, it's up to Eagle Talon to go find out what's wrong with Batman, and that means going back in time to Bruce Wayne's most traumatic experience, the murder of his parents. If that wasn't enough to worry about, the Eagle Talon Society also have to keep their eyes on their production budget, especially with most of that money going towards the licensing fee for DC's popular characters. Will the Eagle Talon Society and the Justice League be able to stop the Joker before their budget dries up, and they're reduced to simple stick figures!?Fantasporto 2018:
Fantasy Films In Competition Features
Orient Express Competition
[Japan] - DirectorMilcho ManchevskiStarsDola RashadSarah GoldbergWill JanowitzA charismatic but mentally unstable vet captures the attention of a documentary film crew who are ready to exploit her story for their own shot at independent movie fame in this very modern, urban fairy tale set amidst a fractured ideal of family.Fantasporto 2018: Director’s Week Competition
- Director’s Week Jury’s Special Award
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsMaged El-KidwaniMenna ShalabiKhaled El-SawiSamir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life.Fantasporto 2018: Director’s Week Competition
- Director’s Week Best Director Award
- DirectorMilad AlamiStarsArdalan EsmailiSoho RezanejadLars BrygmannEsmail, a young Iranian man, is desperately looking for a woman who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out, he falls in love and his past catches up with him.Fantasporto 2018: Director’s Week Competition
- Director’s Week Best Actress Award
- DirectorLuís DiogoStarsEric da SilvaSusie FilipeRui OliveiraDr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or will they have unforeseeable side effects?Fantasporto 2018:
Director’s Week Competition- Director’s Week Best Actor Award
[Portugal] - DirectorFernando VendrellStarsJaime FreitasVictoria GuerraRita MartinsA writer becomes the main character in the story he intended to writeFantasporto 2018:
Director’s Week Competition
Portuguese Film Awards Competition Features- Best Portuguese Film Award
- DirectorJoel LamanganStarsRS FranciscoRonwaldo MartinJeric RavalTwo small-time felons with disparate personas cross paths: One's a principled tough gay; the other is a scheming, street-smart teenager. Together, they get caught up in a string of petty exploits while managing to forge a stronger bond. Can they survive the ordeal?Fantasporto 2018:
Director’s Week Competition
Orient Express Competition- Orient Express Special Jury Award
- DirectorÉva GárdosStarsKrisztián KolovratnikRéka TenkiJános KulkaA murder mystery set in Budapest, 1936. Just as Hungary was preparing to allign itself with Hitler, a young beautiful girl is found dead and no one wants to investigate - except Gordon a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they seem.Fantasporto 2018: Director’s Week Competition
- Critics Award
- DirectorKaren ShakhnazarovStarsElizaveta BoyarskayaMariel ChledowskaKirill GrebenshchikovDuring Russian-Japanese War, the head of the hospital Sergey Karenin learns that the wounded officer Count Vronsky is the person who ruined his mother Anna Karenina.Fantasporto 2018: Director’s Week Competition
(Opening Of The Competitive Sections)
[Russia] - DirectorJános SzászStarsZsolt NagyDorka GryllusGéza D. HegedüsDepicts the slow decline of three individuals as they are sucked into a world of sinful existence. It is the story of a wild and voracious love triangleFantasporto 2018: Director’s Week Competition
[Hungary]