FANTASPORTO 2021 from February 26th till March 6th
INSPIRING WORLD CINEMA RETURNS TO PORTO
Considering the circumstances imposed by the present pandemic, FANTASPORTO/ 41st Porto International Film Festival has made the decision to maintain the 2021 festival edition in person, with a live audience. Cinema is to be seen preferentially inside theatres, in a big screen. Fantasporto’2021 continues its mission to bring audiences and film creatives together, to celebrate cinema in the best possible way. Fantasporto International Film Festival 2021 remains an unmissable event in the national & international film calendar.
The Porto International Film Festival Line Up will has its usual sections, presenting a huge diversity of some of the most important films, features and shorts made in 2020, all screened in National, International or World Premières.
The festival has screened the first films of some of the greatest film creators of all times, one of the merits of the event. David Cronenberg, André Tarkovsky, Brian de Palma, John Carpenter, Alain Resnais, David Lynch, Andrezj Zulawski, Bigas Luna, Ridley Scott, Luc Besson, Peter Greenaway, Jean-Jacques Beinex, Neil Jordan, Joel and Ethan Coen or Lars von Trier showed their first films in the first 5 years of Fantasporto.
Also Pedro Almodóvar, Sam Raimi, Leos Carax, Vincent Ward, Peter Jackson, Hal Hartley, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, Anthony Minghella, Peter Weir, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Robbins, Guillermo del Toro, Roberto Rodriguez, Vincenzo Natali, Danny Boyle, Lee Tamahori, the Waschowski brothers, Nick Cassevetes, Scott Hicks, David Fincher screened their first films in Fantasporto, making it a special place for the discovery of new talent.
Last year Oscar Winner Bong Joon Ho also started at the Porto Festival. Among these discoveries are 7 Best Film Oscar Winners!
The Festival will be held from February 26th till March 6th (international dates) at the Rivoli Theatre in Oporto. The festival will be presential, that is with an audience, following all possible safety rules due to the pandemic. Please notice that, as the restrictions at the time of the festival are not yet known, further decisions will be taken accordingly, if necessary.
Is a huge pleasure to announce the final Official Line Up for the 2021 edition. More news will be announced in the next few days.
FANTASPORTO´2021
41ST PORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
LINE UP
Filme Abertura Oficial / Opening Film: Morte em Veneza – Luchino Visconti- 130’ – (Ita/Fra)
Por ocasião do 50º aniversário da sua produção /50 years celebration
Filme Encerramento / Closing Film: No Man’s Land / Terra de Ninguém - Conor Allyn - (EUA)
COMPETITIVE OFICIAL SECTIONS
SECÇÃO OFICIAL DE CINEMA FANTÁSTICO / OFICIAL COMPETITIVE FANTASY SECTION
The Reckoning/O Derradeiro Julgamento - Neil Marshall – 110’ (GB)
Ten Minutes to Midnight- Erik Bloomquist - 73’ (EUA)
LX 2048 – Guy Moshe- 104’ (EUA / Lituânia)
O Cemitério das Almas Perdidas – Rodrigo Aragão- 95’ (Brasil)
The Trouble with Being Born- Sandra Wollner- 94’ (Alem)
Post Mortem – Péter Bergendy- 115’ (Hungria)
Get The Hell Out – I-Fan Wang - 96’ (Taiwan)
Marionette – Elbert van Strien- 112’ (Hol/Reino Unido/Luxemburgo)
Suicide Forest Village – Takashi Shimizu- 116’ (Jap)
Tin Can- Seth A. Smith- 105’ (Can)
The Funeral Home/La Funeraria – Mauro Iván Ojeda- 86’ (Arg)
CURTAS METRAGENS FANTÁSTICAS/ FANTASY SHORTS COMPETITION
Zealandia- Bruno Du Bois- 15’ (N.Zelândia/ Bélgica)
Pandora- Matthias Lerch- 6’59’’ (Alem)
Regarde Ce Que Tu As Fait! – Monica de Almeida- 9’58’’ (Suiça)
Conversaciones con un Mono- Grojo- 15’(Esp)
[Out of Sync] - Sasuke Sayama- 14’ 10’’ (Jap)
3 Murs & Un Toit- Mathilde Dugardin, Orane Laffra, Hugo de Magalhães, Wassim El Hammami – 9’10’’ (Fra)
Tongue with Capers/ Llengua amb Tàperes- David Mataró – 15’ (Esp)
Carmentis- Anthony Webb- 15’ (Australia)
Out At Night - Christopher Hewitt- 15’ (Reino Unido)
No Podrás Volver Nunca- Mónica Mateo- 14’ (Esp)
Dar-Dar- Paul Urkijo Alijo- 10’ (Esp)
SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES / DIIRECTOR´S WEEK
In the Quarry / En el Pozo- Rafael e Bernardo Antonaccio - 82’ (Uruguai)
Exquisite Corpse/ Cadáver Exquisito- Lucía Vassallo- 88’ (Argentina)
Paper Spiders- Inon Shampanier- 110’- (EUA)
Preparations To Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time - 95’ (Hungria)
Wildcat- Jonathan W. Stokes - 93’ (EUA)
Dinner in America- Adam Rehmeier - 108’ (EUA)
Awauta- Mile Nagaoka- 71’ (Jap)
ORIENT EXPRESS SECTION
Get The Hell Out – I-Fan Wang - 96’ (Taiwan)
Suicide Forest Village – Takashi Shimizu- 116’ (Jap)
Awauta- Mile Nagaoka- 71’ (Jap)
PCP - MELHOR FILME / PORTUGUESE FILM AWARD
Longas metragens /Features
Toponímia- As Memórias do Porto- António Pinto – 82’ (Port)
Um Quadro do Pollock com Sangue - Rui António - 146´ (Port)
A Mulher Sem Corpo- António Borges Correia – 80’ (Port)
40 Anos de Fantasporto- Isabel Pina- 110’ (Port)
Curtas-Metragens /Short Films
Stepless- Nadège Jankowicz – 3’ 8’’ (Port)
Experimental Horror Film # 1: Skull- Luís Miranda- 1’ 49’’ -(Port)
Aldeia Do Diabo- Bruno Acosta, Marcos Kontze, Melissa Gomes, Tom Freitas- 10’ 50’’ (Port)
Area 51?52! – Alexandra Prates, Tânia Prates- 2’24’ (Port)
Guarda-fato – Gonçalo Silva- 27’ (Port)
Exício- Carolina Ferreira-10’ (Port)
Detetive Volkov – Jorge Sousa e Manuel Pedro Gil- 19’32’’ (Port)
Pequena Desordem Silenciosa- Pedro Senna Nunes – 9’ (Port)
OUT OF COMPETITION
FANTAS CLASSICS / FILMES CULTO
The Fight Club- David Fincher- 139’ (EUA/Alem/ Ita) -1999
Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned to Love the Bomb- Stanley Kubrick – 95’ (G.B./EUA)- 1964
Morte em Veneza (Morte a Venezia) – Luchino Visconti- 130’ – (Ita/Fra) -1971
O Leopardo (Il Gattopardo) – Luchino Visconti – 186’ (Ita/Fra)- 1963
41º FANTASPORTO - FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA DO PORTO
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Rua Anibal Cunha, 121- 4050-048 Porto - Portugal
contactos: info@fantasporto.com
THE OFFICIAL CATALOGUE 2020: https://issuu.com/fantasportofilmfestival/docs/fantasporto2020_catalogue
12.01.2021 | Fantasporto's blog
Cat. : FESTIVALS