Hungarian film wins Fantasporto – Express

A fantastic and fun comedy Hungarian director Karoly Meszaros, “Liza, the Fox Fairy-,” won the official section of fantastic cinema at the 35th edition of Fantasporto closing Saturday night. This film also took the award for best special effects.

“Wolfcop” Canadian Lowell Dean, a horror comedy about a failed police that even after becoming a werewolf, continues to pursue criminals, received the special prize of the jury of the main section of the Fantastic Film Festival of Porto.

The best short film was Cuban science fiction film “Habana”, a tale about what can happen when creating monsters to fight our enemies.

In the week of directors in Iraqi-German production “Memories on Stone” of Shakwat Amin korki got the grand prize, had the best argument and a special mention of the Jury of the Critic.

On registration between documentary and fiction tells the story of two friends who have to move worlds, backgrounds and prejudices to make a film about the Kurdish revolt against Saddam Hussein.

If it were necessary to confirm that the fictionalized documentary is thriving, other work in that register, “Hassan’s Way”, the Spanish Ernesto de Nova, reached the special jury prize. The saga of an immigrant Moroccan who just wants to go back to their land riding his tractor.

Section Orient Express the victory went to “Hae Moo” South Korean Shim Sung-Bo, a dramatic story of fishermen led to traffic emigrants on their trawler.

The Philippine cinema, revealed in this 35th edition of Fantasporto, was entitled to a special award that distinguished “Children’s Show” Roderick Cabrido on poor children dragged into illegal fighting.

The criticism of the jury gave its award to French director Tierry Seban, author of “Pseudonym”, a disturbing film about what can hide behind the couplings on the Internet. The film Nuno fiance and John Fanfas “Renaissance” won the award Portuguese cinema.

Making the festival swing this year Mario Dorminsky said the biggest “flaw” was “having been too many movies “, admitting the possibility of a slightly larger format for the 2016 Olympics, scheduled for 26 February.

Beatriz Pacheco Pereira, another festival organizer said the Fantasporto continue “in its mission to train the next generation of moviegoers,” and that the issue of the year that comes and classic the retrospective will have a larger space, “giving great last movies the dignity they deserve: a large living room, a large screen and public.”