Première Brasil’s competition continues Wednesday with the screening of Heitor Dhalia’s "Anna" and Tatiana Lohmann documentary "Minha Fortaleza, os Filhos de Fulano" (My Fortress).
The Rio Othon Palace on Copacabana Beach is the festival and RioMarket HQ for 2019 with a range of events and activities.
Find out where to see films during the 21st Festival do Rio that runs through 19 December
Cinema goers in Rio can look forward to a strong and compact selection of international films at the 2019 festival
An album of special festival images from the last ten of Festival do Rio's 20 editions. Click on the image to visit.
During the 10 days of Festival do Rio 2018 more than 2,500 photos were posted to the festival's Flickr accounts from the festival's own photographers, Click on photo to visit.
Première Brasil Debates give the cinema going public at Festival do Rio the chance to get up close and meet and talk with the filmmakers and the cast and crew of the films screening in competition in Première Brasil, as well as in New Trends and Portraits.
A sensitive recut of the Caravana da Anistia apologies to all who have had their lives affected by the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil. Amnestia uses only archival material and is narrated by Pa...
​A documentary about film producer Luiz Carlos Barreto, better known as Barretão. Narrated in first person, the film shows the artistic and political trajectory of this great “cultural agitatorâ€...
​Abe is a 12 year-old boy who is half Jewish and half Muslim. He never had a family dinner that didn't end in a fight. Abe escapes from a silly summer camp to be mentored by Chico, an African-Brazil...
​The boy Cicero comes across his father, Jonas, dead of a massive heart attack. His mother is filming a documentary in the Amazon rain forest and returns home to São Paulo for the funeral. Upon her...
​Late 1990s. Rio de Janeiro is beset by hundreds of kidnappings. The security secretary, a military man, and the police chief, a socialist, summon three corrupt cops and a precinct chief with a repu...
​Three young black friends from the Heliópolis slum set out to seek refuge among the LGBT+ nightlife of downtown São Paulo.​...
​On March 1, 1982, the city of Niterói went down in history by hosting one of the most important cultural movements of Brazil: the so-called 80's Rock Generation. On that date, Rádio Fluminense FM...
​Muriel could not swim because she was very afraid. A dread that echoed the distance from her mother and brought out the fears and monsters of her childhood. Deep in herself, she now seeks the voice...
Separated by a polluted stream of the Tietê River, Jaci and Maria relate to each other over their windows. Each bank, a city. At this juncture, the distance between the two women only seems to widen....
​A story about a doorman troubled by an irresistible obsession. Quiet, averse to intimacy, he draws the people who pass by the guardhouse using charcoal. He draws just for himself, until a woman fin...
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