Fantasporto is back for its 35th edition. For a week containing 173 films from 28 countries the city of Porto was the world capital of all things horror and fantasy in the world of film, with audiences packing into the Rivoli and other cinemas in this port city in the north of Portugal.

This year’s big winner came from Hungary, grabbing the festival’s top prize.

“Liza, the Fox Fairy” by Károly Ujj Mészáros is a delicious comedy that had its world premiere in Porto. Liza is a young nurse looking for a man, but the problem is all her boyfriends-to-be somehow die and she remains single. She believes she is a fox fairy, a Japanese mythological creature.

“We had many special guests who came here for the films, we had 48 world or European premieres. Taking into account that Portugal is a small country in terms of cinema production, this is very good. We had great works, especially from Europe, eastern Europe more precisely, from countries like Georgia and Hungary and, of course, Portug