“Fim de Festa” (Party Over), by Hilton Lacerda, won the jury vote for Best Fiction Feature in Première Brasil and also the Redentor for screenplay.
Visit Flickr to see all the photos from the prize giving and the entire 2019 festival.
The awards for the 21st Festival do Rio were announced and presented during a Gala ceremony at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio’s port area, on Thursday night, 19 December 2019
Winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes and shortlisted at the Oscars, Ladj Ly's "Les Misérables" screened for the final time Wednesday.
Films at the moment don’t come much bigger than “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” that screened Wednesday at Festival Rio prior to its Brazilian release.
Winner of the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival 2019, Taika Waititi 's “Jo Jo Rabbit” gets a gala screening tonight (18 December) at the Cine Odeon.
The awards for the 21st Festival do Rio were announced and presented during a Gala ceremony at the Museum of Tomorrow, in Rio’s port area, on Thursday, 19 December 2019.The festival had run from 9-19 December and screened almost 200 films.
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The documentary examines Gilberto Gil's body of work between 1968 and 1987. He reveals his worldview and expanding creative power at the beginning of his career in this turbulent Brazilian historic...
Documentary on the life and career of Charlie Brown Jr.’s frontman Chorão. Using testimonials about his private and professional life, and images from personal and media records, the film traces...
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With a week to go before the 2018 presidential election, actress and author Maria Ribeiro decides to record and investigate the last days of a divided country. In conversations with close friends a...
Mel, Xakila, Dani, Charlene, Rosa and Ana Pérola are former convicts of the Women's Prison of Santos. Twelve years later, they return to the now abandoned prison. They revisit the experience and r...
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Faced with the outcome of the last election in Brazil, an actress decides to run for president herself and join a troupe on a passionate trip in defense of a utopia: trying to spend new year´s eve...
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