Fantasporto
| Location | Porto, Portugal |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1981 |
| Founded by | Mário Dorminsky, Beatriz Pacheco Pereira, José Manuel Pereira |
| Most recent | 2025 |
| Directors | Mário Dorminsky, Beatriz Pacheco Pereira |
| Festival date | Annually in March |
| Language | International, Portuguese |
| Website | fantasporto |
Fantasporto International Film Festival (Portuguese: Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto) is an international genre film festival, annually organized since 1981 in Porto, Portugal.
Screening and awarding fantasy, sci-fi and horror oriented commercial productions, auteur and experimental films from all over the world, Fantasporto has gained a cult following of enthusiastic audiences, ranging from cinephiles to more popular spectators. It has built the reputation of a discovery festival, premiering films which went on to achieve a cult status themselves.
Fantasporto has been cited as one of the world's most prestigious genre film festivals, being often featured in Variety and named one of Dread Central's Best Horror Festivals in the World in both 2022 and 2021, as well as one of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World by MovieMaker Magazine in 2023.