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The International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre delivers another two week event packed with local talent, exciting new international productions and classics from the archives. It's a great chance to find out about the innovative genre work currently being done in South America, and to get a flavour of an industry which is increasingly coming into its own.
The festival runs from 13 to 29 April.
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Fantaspoa Latest Reviews
When an influx of illegal weapons trafficking explodes onto the scene, a grieving blind police officer must purge the city streets or risk mass chaos breaking loose.
There is an ancient villa where desperate people have the opportunity to solve their fate by selling their body to a mysterious entity in exchange for money. When enormous, centuries-old creatures emerge from the deep woods surrounding the villa, a series of strange and sinister events pushes three unlikely guests to band together to attempt a desperate escape.
Mitchell Morse's investigation into a serial killer in a sleepy beach town is complicated by a severed foot on the beach, his fracturing relationship with his wife, and his own slipping sanity.
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
A burned out young woman joins a secret society of traumatised adults who heal through childlike play.
A group of thieves is recruited for a dangerous mission which turns out to have a personal twist.
A young woman follows a mysterious melody onto a remote tidal island. When she crosses back over at the next low tide, she emerges into a world where 25 years have passed.
A raptor created as part of a top secret military experiment escapes from the lab and threatens the residents of a small town. Oh, and it's also invisible.
The kick-ass assassins with slacker tendencies are back.
One winter in Kibune, Kyoto, people find themselves stuck in a two minute time loop. As others try to work together to find out what's going on, one woman finds herself increasingly isolated.
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