By MICHAEL GINGOLD
Thirty-three more movies round out the lineup of the Brazilian genre showcase.
The folks behind the Fantaspoa Fantastic Film Festival have announced the second and final selection of features showing at the 2023 edition, which runs April 13-30 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, joining the first round we reported on here. There will be a total of 160 features and shorts playing the fest, with the former divided into four different competitive sections: International, Ibero-American, Brazilian and a new section, “Low Budget, Great Films”, dedicated to the filmmakers getting great results from limited finances. According to festival directors João Fleck and Nicolas Tonsho, “‘Low Budget, Great Films’ is a section that emerged from our 2023 entries. There were so many amazing films that applied and blew our minds, and we simply had to acknowledge their abilities to overcome a lack of resources with amazing originality.”
The second-wave movies playing Fantaspoa are:
- ABERRANCE (d. Baatar Batsukh, 2022, Mongolia, Latin American Premiere)
- ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS (d. Alex Phillips, 2022, United States, Latin American Premiere)
- THE ANTARES PARADOX (d. Luis Tinoco Pineda, 2022, Spain, Latin American Premiere)
- THE ARTIFICE GIRL (d. Franklin Ritch, 2022, United States, Latin American Premiere)
- THE BREACH (d. Rodrigo Gudiño, 2022, Canada, Latin American Premiere)
- THE BYSTANDERS (d. Gabriel Foster Prior, 2022, United Kingdom, Latin American Premiere)
- CONVENIENCE STORY (d. Satoshi Miki, 2022, Japan, Latin American Premiere)
- CULT HERO (d. Jesse Thomas Cook, 2022, Canada, Latin American Premiere)
- ENTER MYCEL (d. Daniel Christian Limmer, 2022, Austria, Latin American Premiere)
- EXHIBIT #8 (d. Ruben Broekhuis, 2022, Netherlands, Latin American Premiere)
- THE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA (d. Syeyoung Park, 2022, South Korea, Latin American Premiere)
- GIVE ME AN A (d. Natasha Halevi, Meg Swertlow, Bonnie Discepolo, Danin Jacquay, Erica May Wright, Sarah Kopkin, Monica Moore-Suriyage, Caitlin Hargraves, Megan Rosati, Hannah Alline, Avital Ash, Mary C. Russell, Valerie Finkel, Kelly Nygaard, Loren Escandon and Francesca Maldonado, 2022, United States, International Premiere)
- GOOD BOY (d. Viljar Bøe, 2022, Norway, Latin American Premiere)
- HIDEOUT (d. Yen Kuang Chen, 2002, Taiwan, Latin American Premiere)
- IMMERSION (d. Takashi Shimizu, 2023, Japan, Latin American Premiere)
- IT CAME FROM WATER–APOKAWIXA (d. Xawery Żuławski, 2022, Poland, Latin American Premiere)
- IVAN (d. Dani Manzini, 2022, Brazil, Regional Premiere)
- THE KILLER LASAGNA (d. Ale McHaddo, 2002, Brazil, Regional Premiere)
- LOGGER (d. Steffen Geypens, 2022, Belgium, Latin American Premiere)
- MAD CATS (d. Reiki Tsuno, 2022, Japan, Latin American Premiere)
- MEGALOMANIAC (d. Karim Ouelhaj, 2022, Belgium, Brazilian Premiere)
- MOTHER SUPERIOR (pictured above; d. Marie Alice Wolfszahn, 2022, Austria, Latin American Premiere)
- NEW RELIGION (d. Keishi Kondo, 2022, Japan, Latin American Premiere)
- THE ONES YOU DIDN’T BURN (d. Elise Finnerty, 2022, United States, Latin American Premiere)
- ONIMANJI (d. Yoshihiro Nishimura, 2023, Japan, Latin American Premiere)
- THE OPEN BODY (d. Angeles Huerta, 2022, Spain, Latin American Premiere)
- RAZZENNEST (d. Johannes Grenzfurthner, 2022, Austria, Latin American Premiere)
- SATANIC HISPANICS (d. Mike Mendez, Demian Rugna, Eduardo Sanchez, Gigi Saul Guerrero and Alejandro Brugues, 2022, United States/Mexico/Argentina, International Premiere)
- STEPHANE (d. Timothée Hochet and Lucas Pastor, 2022, France, Latin American Premiere)
- THE STONE TURTLE (d. Ming Jin Woo, 2022, Malaysia, Latin American Premiere)
- SWALLOWED (d. Carter Smith, 2022, United States, Latin American Premiere)
- WORLD WAR III (d. Houman Seyyedi, 2022, Iran, Regional Premiere)
- THE UNCLE (d. David Kapac and Andrija Mardešić, 2022, Croatia, Brazilian Premiere)
Check out the trailer below, and you’ll want to see a lot of ’em!
