Another big step towards expanding the Festival's international image

WORLD PREMIERES WIN FANTASPORTO 2025

DOLLHOUSE IS THE GRAND PRIZE

 

This year, the four juries of the 45th edition of the OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL- FANTASPORTO  have given us a truly astonishing list of winners, which only goes to show the quality of the event's program, with the awards distributed among a wide variety of films. Asian and North American cinema were clear winners of the festival.

Japan, with the film DOLLHOUSE won Best Fantasy Film. It was produced by the renowned TOHO production company which brought to Fantasporto several journalists and a major TV station, again choosing Porto to launch worldwide its production DOLLHOUSE,  soon to be premiered throughout Asia. The beautiful CIELO was highlighted by the International Jury, which awarded it the Special Jury Prize. CIELO also won the Audience Award, ex-aequo with MR.K, one of the great surprises to come out of European cinema. 

Moving on to the Directors' Week section, the Best Film went to the American film ZERO and the Special Jury Prize to the Japanese WELCOME TO THE VILLAGE by Hideo Jôjô, one of the directors traditionally selected films for Festivals such as Cannes or Venice. The jury of the Orient Express section awarded the Best Film Award to the Japanese film RIVER RETURNS and the Special Prize to SANA: LET ME HEAR by the multiple Fantasporto winner director Takashi Shimizu. The Portuguese Film Award went to O CRIADOR DE ÍDOLOS by Luis Diogo and the Critics' Award went to Steven Sonderberg's US production COLD WALLET. 

 

Other award-winning directors in the main sections were Chinese director Sam QUAH for his work on A PLACE CALLED SILENCE and Japanese director Junichi Ishikawa for HONEKO AKABANE'S BODYGUARDS, a good cinematic interpretation of the popular manga. The acting awards  were varied, In the Fantasy Film section, the Asian star, Judy Ann Santos won  for her performance in SCARECROW and American Brendan Bradley  for SUCCUBUS. In the Directors' Week, the decisions primed Japanese actress Yuri Nakamura in SAMURAI DETECTIVE ONIHEI: BLOOD FOR BLOOD and actor Tomoki Kimura in RANSHIMA BOUND. The short  fantasy film chosen by the International Jury from among 27 films in the competition, was the Hungarian HAPPY PEOPLE The Fantasy Jury also gave a special mention to the Portuguese film GOSTO DE TE VER DORMIR by Hugo Pinto.

 

 FULL LIST OF AWARD WINNERS BELOW. 

You can access the Festival drive via the link fantasporto.com/presskit where you can find texts, images and other information about the complete Fantasporto 2025 program.

 

 

FANTASPORTO  2025 | 45st PORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

 

PRÉMIOS - AWARDS

 

JURI INTERNACIONAL CINEMA FANTÁSTICO

FANTASY INTERNATIONAL FANTASY JURY

 

O Juri Internacional da Secção Oficial de Cinema Fantástico da 45ª edição do FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA DO PORTO, decidiu atribuir os seguintes Prémios:

The International Jury of the Fantasy Section of the 45th Porto International Film Festival – Fantasporto 2025 has decided to grant the following awards:

SECÇÃO OFICIAL DE CINEMA FANTÁSTICO GRANDE PRÉMIO CINEMA FANTASTICO (Best Film Award- Fantasporto 2025)

 

Dollhouse - Shinobu Yaguchi, (Japão) 

 

PRÉMIO ESPECIAL JURI CF (Jury’s Special Award)

 

Cielo - Alberto Sciamma, 107’ (Reino Unido)

MELHOR REALIZAÇÃO CF (Best Direction)

 

Sam Quah - A Place Called Silence - (China)

 

MELHOR ACTOR CF (Best Actor)  

Brendan Bradley (Succubus) de/of R.J.Daniel Hanna (E.U.A.)

MELHOR ACTRIZ CF (Best Actress)

 

Judy Ann Santos (Scarecrow) de/of Chito S. Roño  (Filipinas)

MELHOR ARGUMENTO  CF (Best Screenplay) 

 

Yugo Sakamoto (Ghost Killer) 

MELHOR FOTOGRAFIA (Best Cinematography/Special Effects)

 

Alex Metcalfe- Cielo - Alberto Sciamma (UK)

MELHOR CURTA-METRAGEM FANTASPORTO 2024 (Best Short Film) 

 

Happy People by Budavári Balázs (Hungria)

 

MENÇÃO ESPECIAL DO JÚRI (special mention of the fantasy jury for a short film)

 

Gosto de Te Ver Dormir - Hugo Pinto (Portugal)

 

SECÇÃO OFICIAL COMPETITIVA SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES / 

OFFICIAL COMPETIVE SECTION DIRECTORS WEEK

Prémio Manoel de Oliveira / Manoel de Oliveira Award

 

O Júri Internacional da SECÇÃO OFICIAL COMPETITIVA SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES do FANTASPORTO decidiu atribuir os seguintes prémios:

The international jury of the OFFICIAL COMPETIIVE SECTION DIRECTORS’ WEEK of FANTASPORTO has decided to grant the following awards:

PRÉMIO MELHOR FILME DA SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES (Directors Week Best Film Award) 

Zero - Jean Luc Herbulot  (E.U.A.)

 

PRÉMIO ESPECIAL DO JURI DA SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES (Directors Week Jury’s Special Award) 

 

Welcome to the Village – Hideo Jôjô, (Japão)

MELHOR REALIZADOR DA SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES (Directors Week Best Director Award)

Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards -Junichi Ishikawa (Japão)

 

MELHOR ARGUMENTO DA SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES (Directors Week Best Screenplay Award)

Jean Luc Herbulot  e Hus  Miller- Zero - Jean Luc Herbulot  (E.U.A.)

 

MELHOR ACTOR DA SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES (Directors Week Best Actor Award)

Tomoki Kimura- Ranshima Bound - Yoshitaka Kamada, (Japão)

MELHOR ACTRIZ DA SEMANA DOS REALIZADORES (Directors Week Best Actress Award)

 

Yuri Nakamura - Samurai Detective Onihei: Blood for Blood- Tomohiko Yamashita-  (Japão)

 

SECÇÃO OFICIAL COMPETITIVA ORIENT EXPRESS /

OFFICIAL COMPETITIVE SECTION ORIENT EXPRESS

 

O Júri Internacional da SECÇÃO OFICIAL COMPETITIVA ORIENT EXPRESS do FANTASPORTO decidiu atribuir os seguintes prémios:

The international jury of the OFFICIAL COMPETIIVE SECTION ORIENT EXPRESS of FANTASPORTO has decided to grant the following awards:

MELHOR FILME DA SECÇÃO OFICIAL COMPETITIVA ORIENT EXPRESS 

(Orient Express Best Film Award) 

River Returns - Masakasu Kaneko, 108’ (Japão)

 

PRÉMIO ESPECIAL DO JURI DA SECÇÃO OFICIAL COMPETITIVA ORIENT EXPRESS 

(Orient Express Jury Special Award) 

 

Sana: Let me hear - Takashi Shimizu, 107’ (Japão)

 

PRÉMIO CINEMA PORTUGUÊS | PORTUGUESE FILM AWARD

 

O Júri da SECÇÃO OFICIAL COMPETITIVA da secção PRÉMIO DE CINEMA PORTUGUÊS do FANTASPORTO decidiu atribuir os seguintes prémios:

The jury of the OFFICIAL COMPETITIVE SECTION PORTUGUESE CINEMA AWARD of FANTASPORTO has decided to grant the following awards:

 

MELHOR FILME PORTUGUÊS 

(Best Portuguese Film Award)

 

Criadores de Ídolos - Luís Diogo (Portugal) 

 

MELHOR FILME DE ESCOLA DE CINEMA

(Best School Film Award)

 

Umbral - Miguel Andrade, (Portugal) - ESMAD

 

MENÇÃO ESPECIAL DO JURI PCP para filme de Escola

(Special Mention for a School Film)

 

O Compositor - Afonso Lucas, Rodrigo Motty, (Portugal)- Universidade Lusófona de Lisboa

 

PRÉMIOS NÃO OFICIAIS | NON-OFFICIAL AWARDS

 

PRÉMIO DO PÚBLICO

(Audience Award)

 

Mister K - Tallulah H. Schwalb (Países Baixos/Noruega/Bélgica)

 

Ex-aequo with

 

Cielo - Alberto Sciamma (Reino Unido)

 

PRÉMIO DA CRÍTICA

(Critics Award)

 

Cold Wallet - Cutter Hodierne (E.U.A)

 

PRÉMIO ESPECIAL FANTASPORTO 2025

(Fantasporto Special Awards)

 

HELENA OLIVA- Chefe das Relações Públicas do Fantasporto há 35 anos / Head of the Public Relations team for 35 years

 

 

FANTASPORTO 2025 | PROGRAMA 2025

https://www.yumpu.com/pt/document/view/69892506/fantasporto-2025-programa