40 Years of Fantasporto (2021)

5.0/10 110 min Documentary

Overview

A journey through 40 years of life of the most important Film Festival in Portugal, through the voice of its President and Director, Mário Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira. Born at a coffee shop table in the "Invicta" - Porto City, with a subsidy of 15 "contos" (75EUR), since 1981 it hasn't stopped bringing us cinema, and given its weight and peculiarity, The project developed and soon became a reality, with the screening of several sessions a day, the realization of retrospectives and, also, in parallel, the promotion of concerts and art exhibitions. It is considered the biggest film festival in Portugal, and internationally recognized as one of the most important worldwide, and is now entering its 40th edition.

Cast

Lauro António

Self

Georgia Chara

Self (archive footage)

Ivan Cardoso

Self (archive footage)

João Alves

Self

Vasilis Mazomenos

Self

Milan Todorović

Self

António-Pedro Vasconcelos

Self

Károly Ujj Mészáros

Self

Fernando Vendrell

Self

Rui Reininho

Self

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