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FantasportoFilmfestivals.com returns as the official Media Partner of Fantasporto. OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FANTASPORTO 2023 Oporto Film Festival promotes films that seek new forms and methods of film making. 43rd OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – FANTASPORTO 2023 February 24 -5 March 2023 Fantasporto and Porto Pictures Gallery and the recent ones here Video Gallery Fantasporto 2017 2018 2019 Watch ambiance and trailers. 2020 Ambiance and Trailers ![]() FANTASPORTO 2008 - PORTO AGAIN THE CAPITAL OF THE FILM WORLD
The Opening Night is on the 25th with the awarded feature “No Country for Old Men” by Joel e Ethan Coen. Before the Coen’s film, an Homage to Max von Sydow in the presence of the artist and in the year of Ingmar Bergman’s death, for whom he was one of his favourite actors. The big marathon begins with over 357 features, (also in 10 Lusomundo Theatres with sidebar programmes in 7 other cities in Portugal), turning this festival into an unique event. There are films for all tastes in the competitions and in the main retrospectives. “Breath” by Kim Ki Duk, the well known director of “The Isle” or “The Bow” integrates the Directors Week competition, with Chan Wook Park’s “I’m a Cyborg, But That’s Ok” as highlight of the Fantasy competition. The Fantasy Competitive Section also brings the Russian box-office hit “Wolfhound” by Nicolai Lebedev, the latest by the awarded director Jaume Balagueró, “REC”, Guillermo del Toro’s production “The Orphanage”, as well as “Mother of Tears” by Dario Argento, among many others . Some 20 shorts complete this official section, all running for the Meliès d’ Argent for the best European feature and short film. Portuguese cinema receives full homours with 87 short and feature films and the Retrospective of director Fernando Lopes with some of his films, such as Belarmino” (1964), “Crónica dos Bons Malandros”, or the more recent “O Delfim” (2002) and “98 Octanas”. The 25th February is also the date of the opening of the exhibition by celebrated painter Agostinho Santos, one of the best in Portugal contemporary art scene, and of the space Movietown at the square facing the Rivoli. And to finish the menu, the hugely popular Vampires Ball on the 8th March at the Sá da Bandeira. Welcome to Portugal’s greatest Film Festival in the UNESCO World Heritage City of Portwine, the River Douro and the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean! Welcome to Oporto! Welcome to Fantasporto! 04.02.2008 | Fantasporto's blog Cat. : 1 Alejandro Jodorowski Bruno de Almeida Cinema of Portugal Dario Argento Entertainment Entertainment Ethan Coen Europe fantasporto Fantasporto Fantasporto Fernando Lopes Fernando Lopes Film Geography of Europe Guillermo Del Toro Human Interest Human Interest Ingmar Bergman Irwin Winkler Jaume Balagueró Jaume Balagueró John Ventimiglia Kim Ki Duk Max von Sydow Michael Imperioli Movietown Porto Portugal Portwine Rivoli Theatre Santos Steve Buscemi United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization FESTIVALS
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