Fantasporto runs from April 26 to May 4 at Hard Club
Fantasporto will be held in a single room at the Hard Club, with a limited capacity due to the rules of containment of the covid-19 pandemic.
Due to these restrictions, the organization draws attention to the fact that there is no repetition of the exhibition of films, all of which are in competition with the exception of the classics.
The programming had to undergo changes, but the official opening remains and will be done with a classic, in the case “Death in Venice”, by Luchino Visconti, regarding the 50 years of its production, while the closing will be in charge of ” No Man’s Land “, by Conor Allyn.
The official fantastic cinema section includes films such as “The Last Judgment”, by Neil Marshall, “Ten Minutes to Midnight”, by Erik Bloomquist, and “The Cemetery of Lost Souls“, by Brazilian Rodrigo Aragão, among others.
In addition to the short film competition, Fantasporto will include the usual Directors’ Week and Orient Express, the latter with three films: “Get The Hell Out”, by I-Fan Wang, “Suicide Forest Village”, by Takashi Shimizu, and “Awauta“, by Mile Nagaoka.
In the competition for the best Portuguese feature film there will be “Toponímia – As Memórias do Porto”, by António Pinto, “Um Quadro do Pollock com Sangue“, by Rui António, “A Mulher Sem Corpo”, by António Borges Correia, and ” 40 Years of Fantasporto “, by Isabel Pina.
In addition to “Death in Venice”, “Fantas Classics” will also include another work by Visconti: “The Leopard”. Additionally, as classics, David Fincher’s “Combat Club” and Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Estranhoamor” will also be shown.
