Another edition of the Oporto International Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Filme Fantástico do Porto) - FANTASPORTO - is being held in Oporto, Portugal for its 27th year, on FEBRUARY 19 - MARCH 4.
The festival is divided into 8 sections regarding the characteristics and aim of the various films that it presents to its audience
- Official Section - Competition for Fantasy Films - feature and short films (maximum 15 minutes length) and European Fantasy Film "Méliès d"Argent" Award
- Directors Week - Competition for Feature Films (no thematic strings attached)
- Orient Express Official Section (for asiatic feature films)
- Panorama & Première/Films of the World (Non Competitive)
- Love Connection (Non Competitive)
- Anima-te (Animation Feature, Non Competitive)
- Porto in Shorts (Non Competitive)
- Retrospectives (Non Competitive)
This festival is responsible for bringing recognition to talents such as:
- David Cronenberg - "Shivers" (1981)
- Brian de Palma - "Carrie" (1981)
- John Carpenter - "Dark Star" (1981)
- Ridley Scott - "Blade Runner" (1983)
- Luc Besson - "Le Dernier Withbat" (1984)
- Joel & Ethan Cohen - "Blood Simple" (1986)
- Pedro Almodovar - "Matador" (1987)
- Freddy Krugger - "Nightmare On Elm Street" (1987)
- Stephen King - "Maximum Overdrive" (1988)
- Peter Jackson - "Bad Taste" (1990)
- Quentin Tarantino - "Reservoir Dogs" (1993)
- Guillermo Del Toro - "Cronos" (1994)
- Danny Boyle - "Shallow Grave" (1995)
- David Fincher - "Seven" / "Alien 3 " (1996)
- Takashi Miike - "Fudoh - The New Generations" (1998)
- Vincenzo Natali - "Cube" (1999)
- Bill Plympton - "I Married a Strange Person" (1999)
- Ben Hopkins - "The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz" (2000)
- Pitof - "Vidocq" (2001)
- Eli Roth - "Cabin Fever" (2004)
- Rob Zombie - "House of 1000 Corpses" (2004)
- Chan Wook Park - with "Oldboy" (2005)
- Anders Banke - "Frostbitten" (2006)
- Eric Khoo - "Be With Me" (2006)
It also brought to my attention masterpieces like:
 | "A Tale Of Two Sisters" (Janghwa, Hongryeon) by Ji-woon Kim |  | "28 Days Later" by Danny Boyle | |
 | "Room 36" by Jim Groom |  | "Hypercube: Cube 2" by Andrzej Sekula | |
 | "Ghost In The Shell 2" (Inosensu: Kôkaku kidôtai) by Mamoru Oshii |  | "Hostel" by Eli Roth | |
 | "3 Extremes" (Saam Gaang Yi) by Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike and Chan-Wook Park | |||
You can see the festival's program and all other information in its »» Official Website««
