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News
Cannes Critics’ Week Next Step Programme selects eight international directors
The workshop to help them prepare theri first feature is taking place in Normandy and Paris from Dec 8-13.
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Promotion
The Brazilian film industry is poised to become a major force in international co-production
Its been a good year for Brazilian films at major film festivals, thanks to the presence of Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here and Marianna Brennand’s Manas.
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Reviews
‘Carnival Is Over’: Tallinn Review
A couple attempt to escape Brazil’s criminal underworld in Fernando Coimbra’s darkly comic drama
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News
M-appeal scores US deal on Tallinn-bound queer drama ‘Streets Of Glória’ (exclusive)
The film is the sophomore feature of Brazilian filmmaker Felipe Sholl
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News
Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival to open with Oscar submission ‘I’m Still Here’; star Fernanda Torres to attend (exclusive)
16 th festival edfition runs October 29 to November 2.
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News
‘My Octopus Teacher’ outfit Off The Fence takes on rainforest doc ‘We Are Guardians’ (exclusive)
Doc centres on Indigenous forest guardians in the Amazon Rainforest fighting to protect their ancestral lands.
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Features
Europe-Latin American Co-Pro Forum spotlights regional projects with international potential
The projects hail from across Latin America.
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Reviews
‘I’m Still Here’: Venice Review
Walter Salles directs Fernanda Torres in a standout performance as a real-life matriarch in military-ruled Brazil of the 1970s
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Reviews
‘Apocalypse In The Tropics’: Venice Review
Petra Costa follows The Edge Of Democracy with this look at the rise of religious populism in Brazilian politics
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News
Munich Film Festival 2024 secures six world premieres of international titles
The 41st festival is the first under the aegis of Christoph Gröner and co-artistic director Julia Weigl.
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Reviews
‘Motel Destino’: Cannes Review
A young hitman hides out in a Brazilian sex hotel in this steamy Competition title from Karim Ainouz
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Reviews
‘Baby’: Cannes Review
A young man abandoned by his parents turns to sex work on the streets of Sao Paolo in this upbeat Critics Week title
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Reviews
‘The Falling Sky’: Cannes Review
Singular, uncompromising documentary details the threat posed to the Indigenous tribes of Brazil
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News
M-Appeal boards Brazilian Critics’ Week drama ‘Baby’ (exclusive)
Marcelo Caetano’s second feature is about a young boy finding his way after leaving a juvenile detention centre.
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Reviews
‘Shikun’: Berlin Review
Amos Gitai transplants Eugene Ionesco’s 1959 protest play ’Rhinoceros’ to modern Israel
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Reviews
‘Sleep With Your Eyes Open’: Berlin Review
Three Asian travellers make tentative connections in this light Brazil-set drama
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News
The Open Reel boards Juliana Rojas’ Berlinale Encounters film ‘Cidade; Campo’ (exclusive)
Brazilian, German and French co-production tells two stories of migration between city and countryside.
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Reviews
‘Portrait Of A Certain Orient’: Rotterdam Review
A brother and sister depart 1940s Lebanon for a new life in Brazil in the latest from Marcelo Gomes
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Reviews
‘Greice’: Rotterdam Review
A Brazilian student in Lisbon spins a web of white lies in this mild-mannered comedy