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The 21st edition of South America's biggest genre film festival returns to Porto Alegre with a packed line-up of fantasy, science-fiction, horror and more. With films from 61 countries screening, it includes 11 world premières. As always, there's also a great collection of retrospectives, including a centenary screening of Lon Chaney Jr silent classic The Phantom of the Opera.
The festival runs from 9 to 27 April.
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Fantaspoa Latest Reviews
In a suburban village, a house belonging to a young family who recently lost their firstborn is burning. Neighbours say that the house bears the mark of a curse, as no one understands how the fire started, and eyewitnesses to the incident each have entirely different versions of what happened.
A bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA.
A man who finds contentment in the simple pleasures - buttered toast, bicycle rides and walking his dog - discovers that his beloved dog park has been transformed into a 'blog park', a digital sanctuary where youths gather to open their laptops. He feels compelled to take action, to set things right.
A silent film director forms a bond with a woman who has a hidden agenda.
A girl in an orphanage employs fantasy as a means of escape.
Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whisper about a strange 'Beast' that lives in the forest.
A home invasion thriller featuring a dog trainer trying to modify a human's brain.
An aging lumberjack lives all alone in desperate, cursed woods. Fifteen years ago, a mysterious tribe killed his wife and kidnapped his daughter. For years, he traveled the continent to find and rescue her, in vain. Years later, she is the one who finds him. But she was followed.
As aliens descend to study humans, the people caught up in their investigations face turning points in their own lives. Two women take part-time jobs being dissected by the cosmic visitors; a woman fleeing an abusive relationship takes shelter in a muscle mummy’s giant-spider-ridden apartment; and a young man begins an affair with the domineering, alluring woman across the street while his mother seeks fulfillment in an expensive vacuum cleaner.
Hoping to bring their dead mother back to life, three brothers build a time machine.
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