34th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | FANTASPORTO 2014 PROGRAM
RIVOLI – MUNICIPAL THEATRE March 5th
Main Theatre
14.30 - The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas de Elina Psykou (Grécia) – 88 min -
TV news anchorman, a high profile public persona mysteriously disappears off the face of the earth. He has gone into a luxury hotel and has as a purpose to stay there for a while and then come back with greater viewership, be more famous after. In the process, however, the trick doues not turn around as planned. With this film, the director’s first feature, she was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize and the Hellenic Association of Film Critics Award (Best Film). Actor Christos Stregioglou acting in this film got the prize for Best Actor in the Thessaloniki Film Festival 2013.It was first presented at the Berlin Film Festival.
16.30 - LFO de Antonio Tublen (Suécia, Dinamarca) – 94 min -
LFO is a dark comedy/drama/Sci-Fi about a man who realizes that he can hypnotize with sound. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse of power takes over and, eventually, severe consequences for mankind are at stake.
18.30 – Chimères de Olivier Beguin (Suiça) – 80 min -
A classic storyline in horror films, involving the descent into madness of a couple in which the guy was infected by a vampire… Feeling the drastic trnsformations, his problem is to know how to keep his relationship with his beloved. This first feature by Olivier Beguin was presented at the Neuchatel Film Festival and at Screamfest in London, having been awarded in both.
Antecedido por... Dentro del Tunel de Sergio Roman (Espanha) - 15 min -
Some doors are better not to be opened, some places are better not to go. A small boy is travelling by train and finds very strange what is happening concerning the next carriage.
21.15 - The Strange Colours of Your Body’s Tears de Hélène Cattet e Bruno Forzani (Belgica, França e Luxamburgo) – 102 min -
Dan Kristensen (Klaus Tange) returns home one day to find that his wife Edwige disappeared. As Dan investigates Edwige's disappearance, he notices the strange and mysterious people living in his apartment complex. Did she leave him? Is she dead? Also, what the hell is going on with his creepy neighbors? Police can't help him, they just don't believe him. Soon his search and obsession plunge him into a world of madness where fact and fiction become harder and harder to distinguish. This couple of directors is well known of Fantasporto and received here an award for their short “La Fin de Notre Amour” in 2004.
23.15 - Miss Zombie de Hiroyuki Tanaka (Japão) – 85 min -
Set in a futuristic Japan where zombies are domesticated as house pets and servants, “Miss Zombie” is a deadpan social satire, an ode to motherhood, and a self-consciously grungy homage to classic silent horror-thrillers depicting a mail-order zombie’s ordeals and retaliation with black humor as well as compassion… One more film by the director known as Sabu, introduced by Fantasporto with his first film “Dangan ranna” (Non-Stop/Dangan Runner) in 1999.
Antecedido por... Premier Automne de Carlos de Carvalho e Aude Danset (França) – 11 min -
Abel lives in the winter and Apolline lives in the summer. Isolated in their 'natures', they never met each other. They are not even supposed to meet. So when Abel crosses the border and discovers Apolline, curiosity is overwhelming
On/Off de Piotr Ludwik (Polónia) – 6 min - CF Curtas
Awful green wallpapers on the walls, TV in each room and a few mechanical improvements made not to waste time for shaving, cooking, washing up. Why should you lose time if you can spend it watching TV? Mr Potato has everything organised to devote himself to his new passion – staring at the box. But one day…
Small Theatre
15.15 – Escolas – Soares dos Reis (Porto) – 71 min - PCP – VO port
Moon Kissing Mountain Tale de Bernardo Estevinho – 7 min
Saving Dafne de Catarina Silva – 4 min
Cuidado Com Aquilo Que Desejas de Tiago Manuel Braga – 8 min
Fio de Nylon de Ana Patrícia Moreira – 6 min
10/06/13 de Rita Costa Marinho – 5 min
Persephone de João Luís Ribeiro – 7 min
Revejo-me de João Pedro Costa Pinto – 6 min
Um Peixe Fora de Agua, Dentro de um Aquário de João Pinto Seabra – 5 min
Escolas - ESAP – Escola Superior Artística do Porto – 57 min -
Monstro de Alex Barone – 10 min
Liberdade Condicional de Pedro Crispim – 17 min
Lázaro de Miguel Pinho – 15 min
O Filho da Mãe de Gonçalo Loureiro – 14 min
17.15 – Escolas - Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (Amadora) – 100 min -
Um Conto de Inverno de Alexandra Côrte-Real de Almeida – 22 min
Um Cadáver Chamado Alfredo de João Estrada – 12 min
Tanto Para Andar até Dormir de Rui Esperança – 21 min
Fora de competição: Estranhamento de Pedro Cabeleira – 45 min –
21.00 - O Recado de José Fonseca e Costa (Portugal) – 110 min -
“O Recado” is the first feature by José Fonseca e Costa. It is one of the most representative of the Portuguese Cinema Novo because, although within the realistic tradition, it approaches it in a new frontal language with cleverly drawn social portraits, showing the old regime fascist police, now under the name of “marcelism” after the name of the 1st prime minister who came after Salazar. Lúcia has a suitor of her own social class, António, but still keeps in her heart the loving memory of Francisco, an adventurous and socially rejected man. Long gone, Francisco sends her the message of his return by the homeless Maldevivre but is killed by a gang, perhaps in a settlement of a dispute. Lúcia waits for him in vain in the place and time accorded, a deserted beach, till the day she knows by Maldevivre of his death. This forces her to let go forever of the chance of touching a strange world that fascinates her. Disenchanted, Lúcia gives up in front of the rules and values that António represents. On the other hand, Maldevivre is just waiting for his own anger to grow and burst.
23.00 - Industry Screenings - Jinga Films - On Tender Hooks de Kate Shenton (GB) – 70 min -
An eye-opening documentary exploring the world of human suspension which challenges the perceptions and squeamishness of even the most hardened viewer. This act of body modification involves piercing different parts of the human body with hooks attached to wires, before lifting the subject into mid air, their body weight completely suspended by the hooks that pierce their flesh.