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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
A strange disease threatens to kill anyone with any sort of fortune.
A filmmaker spirals into an out of control bender, during which he comes to believe that he has been abducted by aliens. Fearing they’ll come back, he contacts an old friend to help him gear up for war.
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.
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