Special Session
O Apóstolo – Fernando Cortizo – 85’ (Esp)
March 1 – 3pm – Room 2
The best of Spanish digital animation with an original score by Philip Glass. A convict who escaped from jail takes off to a remote village to recover an old loot that was hidden years earlier. But what he finds there involves him in a fate much worse than the one he had been doomed to. Sinister old people, odd disappearances, spirits, a strange parish priest and even the archpriest of Santiago de Compostela will all meet in a tale full of terror, humor, and fantasy. This is the first European stereoscopic stop motion feature film. It was awarded the Audience Award in Annecy and received the Special Prize of the Jury in Fantasporto 2013. What happened afterwards? That is the subject of the documentary “Buscando a La Santa Compaña”, also screening in Fantasporto 2025.
Fernando Cortizo
Born in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain 40 years ago. Fernando Cortizo Rodríguez took its first steps in film direction in the mid-90s with a short “El Monstruo de la playa”. In 2007 he founded the production company Artefacto Producciones and began working on his own projects: “Leo” (2007) and “El Cuidador de Gatos” (2009). In 2009 he started the work on “O Apóstolo” which screened in Fantasporto 2013, the winner of the Special Award of the Jury.
