Fantasporto

 

34th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | FANTASPORTO 2014 | PROGRAM

RIVOLI – MUNICIPAL THEATRE

 

Friday,  March 7^th

 

Main Theatre

14.00 - Fantas Classics: Gone With The Wind de Victor Fleming (EUA) remastered- – 102 min - FC - VO leg. Port

In our tribute to Victor Fleming, this masterpiece couldn’t be out of our selection. “Gone With the Wind” was the film that won the highest number of Oscars 75 years ago. We can see on the big screen one of the main productions of all time, now in a digital remastered version. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh go through a difficult relationship during the Civil War.

 

18.30 - La Casa del Fin de Los Tiempos de Alejandro Hidalgo (Venezuela) [ANTESTREIA MUNDIAL] – 100 min - CF – VO leg. ingl|port

World première of a film from Venezuela, a country that is new in Fantasporto. Housewife Dulce comes back to her old house where a 30 year old prophecy is about to unfold. The old lady tries to understand the mystery and the tragedies that tormented her life… Mysteries in a South American style with top production values, a box-office hit in its country.

Antecedido por... Lonely Bones de Rosto (França, Holanda) – 10 min - CF Curtas

Hail to all souls that are hidden on the floors. Little do they know if they would make it today. An allegory about life and death coming from Fantas well known and awarded director Rosto (“The Monster of Nix”).

 

21.15 - Violet & Daisy de Geoffrey  Fletcher (EUA) – 88 min - P&P – VO leg. port

Action/comedy-drama film is about two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan. The two young assassins face a series of opponents, including one unusually mysterious man named Michael (James Gandolfini), who is their next target. Things get complicated as this initially easy hit becomes a life-altering encounter. The leading actress is Saoirse Ronan , nominated for an Oscar for her role in “Atonement”.

 

23.15 - Eclipse em Portugal de Alexandre Cebrian Valente (Portugal) – 92 min - PCP [Fora de Competição] - VO port

The legend says that God only allows the Devil to come to earth as a goat.  Tó Quim has killed both his father and mother and is now in prison. Everything he did was for the love of Anita, a girl who lives under the law of Evil.

 

1.15 - Hansel & Gretel Get Baked de Duane Journey (EUA) – 86 min - P&P – VO leg. port

A brother and sister battle a witch who lures teenagers into her suburban home with her special blend of marijuana where she then proceeds to kill and eat them to maintain her youth and beauty. With actress Molly C.Quinn who plays Castle’s daughter in the TV Series with the same name.

 

Pequeno Auditório / Small Theatre

15.15 – Escolas - EPI/ETIC (Lisboa) - 62 min - PCP – VO port

Do Outro Lado de Artur Maurício – 12 min

Love in Film de José Maria Júdice – 15 min

Mind Map de Daniela Ascensão – 9 min

O Conflito de Diogo Pereira – 14 min

Segunda Porta à Direita de José Nogueira – 14 min

 

Escolas - Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha do Instituto

Politécnico de Leiria – 48 min - PCP – VO port

Plateia de Ricardo Neves – 7 min

Quadro de Óscar Faria – 5 min

Ermo de Rafael Calisto – 5 min

Cabra Cósmica de Bruno Martins – 15 min

Dentes e Garras de Francisco Lacerda – 14 min

 

17.15 –  PORTUGUESE CINEMA AWARD – BEST FILM – 108 min - PCP – VO port ANTESTREIAS MUNDIAIS

Blind Date de Claudia Clemente – 9 min

In the end of the 19th century, a woman receives an invitation to travel through time along the River Douro, to meet a man in the 21st century.

 Walking Dead Infrared de Luís Miranda – 3 min

O filme é um video-musical experimental, uma rendição desconstruidora do mito dos mortos-vivos. Não somos nós os mortos-vivos? Se sim, porque não podemos nós ser vistos a infravermelhos?

An experimental music video. Are we walking dead?  If so, why can’t we be seen in infrared?

Salomé de Sofia Beirão – 16 min

This is the story of a girl who has lost her best friend and only a year later accepts the fact. In love with people, she insists in remembering those who were important to her.

O que Eu Entendo por Amor de Ricardo Martins – 14 min

Julieta acorda na cama com o Marido morto na cama. Idosa e gravemente debilitada, Julieta recorda uma vida de desamor. A casa, o casamento, foram prisões.

Julieta wakes up to find her husband dead in bed.  An elderly woman and already debilitated, Julieta recalls a life of abuse. Her home and marriage were her own prison.

Lado Nenhum de Rui António – 12 min

A mother and his son wander the city. They have no longer a home or anything to eat. But that is unimportant. What matters is to keep up appearances.

Esquizophonia de André Miranda e Diogo Leitão – 13 min

In the middle of a concert, a composer is hit by a strange disease – sound frequencies mingle and all notes produce an unbearable cacophony of noises. It is during this that he hears in his head the sound of his “perfect simphony “, a music piece that he can no longer reproduce.

Navegar de Carlos Silva e Pedro Carvalho de Almeida – 5 min

A set of drawings sketched by the hand of the very author and performer, Helena Caspurro, when she was 5 years old, reveals us, to the sound of a love song, that the reason for existence is a perpetual and translucent movement in the cycle of life.

José, Combustão dos Porcos de José Magro – 18 min

Once everything was possible in remote hamlets in the interior of Portugal.  People talked about humans born out of animals. Nostalgic times in which there were no objective certainties.

Project Gideon de Fabricio de Carvalho – 2 min

The film is a sci-fi trailer of what happens in 2055 Portugal, in a reconstructed Lisbon after the earthquake in 2013, now under attack from aliens.

Joaquim, o Abóbora de José Pando Lucas – 10 min

A psychiatrist is trying to find the cure for a longterm patient of his, Joaquim, whose strange but healthy obsession is to wear a pumpkin in his head.

 

 21.00 – Cerromaior de Luís Filipe Rocha (Portugal) – 90 min – RETROSPECTIVA HENRIQUE ESPÍRITO SANTO– VO port

 “Cerromaior” is the name of the first novel by Manuel da Fonseca, published in 1943. Cerromaior is the name of a small town and Although it is an imaginary place, there are a lot of similarities with the hometown of the writer, Santiago de Cacém.  It is a city surrounded by fields and the reality of Alentejo in the 30’s and 40’s. As a film, this is one of the first films after the revolution on the 25th Abril 1974, to have a social subject expressed in total freedom of speech.

 

23.00 - Industry Screenings – Cinemavault – Roadie de Michael Cuesta (EUA) – 95 min - VO ingl