The Oporto International Film Festival, now going to its 20th edition, specialised in fantasy and science-fiction films in its Official Competitive section.
This Festival also includes the 10th New Directors Week with an official competition, a Fantasia section dedicated to Eastern films and a Retrospective section. Festival's director, Mário Dorminsky, is preparing, with the help of the Portuguese Film Institute, a programme with Portuguese Films for the benefit of the foreign guests in Fantasporto . The Festival runs now in 8 theatres (2700 seats altogether ) and screens nearly 300 feature films each year. The press coverage of the Festival is made by all the portuguese important newspapers, radio stations and television networks. This allows pressdossiers of about 2000 clippings every year and represents a unique media coverage in Portugal for similar cultural events. Almost 100 000 entries, per year is the average of the Festival's past editions. The edition in 99 scored a number of 95 000 entries.