THE Rio Festival announced this Tuesday (3) the complete selection of national films that will be part of the Premiere Brazil 2024 exhibition dedicated to Brazilian works.
Highlights include “Baby “, of Marcelo Caetano selected for the 63rd Film Critics’ Week Cannes and “Apocalypse in the Tropics “, the new documentary by Petra Costa nominated for an Oscar in 2020 for “Democracy in Vertigo “.
In its 26th edition, this year’s Rio Festival will be held in October 3rd to 13th in the capital of Rio de Janeiro, in several cinemas spread throughout the city. The event is known for showing renowned films from major international festivals, such as Cannes, Venice and Toronto, for the first time in Brazil.
The full schedule for the Rio 2024 Festival, including film screening times and locations, will be announced later on social media and on official event website.
Check out the selection of Brazilian films from the Rio Festival 2024:
Feature Fiction Competition
- “Baby”, by Marcelo Caetano;
- “Bethany”, by Marcelo Botta;
- “Bury Your Dead”, by Marco Dutra;
- “White House”, by Luciano Vidigal;
- “Lispectorante”, by Renata Pinheiro;
- “Malu”, by Pedro Freire;
- “Manas”, by Marianna Brennand;
- “The Hanged Men”, by Fernando Coimbra;
- “The Silence of the Oysters”, by Marcos Pimentel;
- “Portrait of a Certain Orient”, by Marcelo Gomes;
- “Serra das Almas”, by Lírio Ferreira.
Feature Documentary Competition
- “3 Obas of Xango”, by Sergio Machado;
- “Black Soul, from Quilombo to Baile”, by Flavio Frederico;
- “Apocalypse in the Tropics”, by Petra Costa;
- “The Falling Sky”, by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha;
- “Mambembe’, by Fabio Meira;
- “When You Turn the Corner”, by Chris Alcazar (RJ);
- “Ballroom”, by Juru and Vitã.
New Directions Long Competition
- “It’s Not Tomorrow Yet”, by Milena Times;
- “The search for Martina”, by Márcia Faria;
- “Seaside Avenue”, by Maju de Paiva and Bernardo Florim;
- “Illusion Center”, by Pedro Diógenes;
- “Continent”, by Davi Pretto;
- “Unconditional: The Myth of Motherhood”, by Patrícia Fróes;
- “The Desert of Akin”, by Bernard Lessa;
- “Whereabouts”, by Rita Piffer.
Out of Competition
- “The Villain of Nine”, by Teodoro Poppovic;
- “Cancer with Virgo Ascendant”, by Rosane Svartman;
- “Children of the Mangrove”, by Eliane Caffé;
- “Kopenawa”, by Marco Altberg;
- “Male”, by Antonio Pitanga;
- “Afro-Sambas, the Brazil of Baden and Vinícius”, by Emílio Domingos;
- “We Need to Talk”, by Pedro Waddington and Rebeca Diniz;
- “Virginia and Adelaide”, by Jorge Furtado and Yasmin Thayná.
Portraits Show
- “Armando Costa: ‘Television is not a side job for me’”, by Victor Vasconcellos;
- “Brizola, Notes for a History”, by Silvio Tendler;
- “Letter to Un Viejo Master”, by Paz Encina;
- “Janis, Carnival Loves”, by Ana Isabel Cunha;
- “Moacyr Luz, the Ambassador of this City”, by Tarsilla Alves;
- “Noel Rosa, a Circulating Spirit”, by Joana Nin (PR);
- “The Birth of H. Teixeira”, by Roberta Canuto.
The State of Things
- “Silent Alarm”, by Ricardo Favilla;
- “I Am the Granddaughter of the Ancients”, by Adriana Miranda (RJ);
- “Flavors and Borders”, by Claudia Calabi and Fernando Grostein;
- “Insubmissive”, by Carol Benjamin, Tais Amordivino, Julia Katharine, Luh Maza and Ana do Carmo;
- “Glass Skin”, by Denise Zmekhol;
- “In the Heaven of the Homeland at this Moment”, by Sandra Kogut.
Midnight Movies
- “Mother’s Hug”, by Cristian Ponce;
- “The Inheritance”, by João Cândido Zacharias.
Latin Premiere
- “Sleeping with Your Eyes Open”, by Nele Wohlatz.
Panorama of World Cinema
- “Transamazon”, by Pia Marais.
Watch the teaser for “Baby”
This content was originally published in Rio Festival 2024 announces selection of films for the national showcase; check it out on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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