Felix Awards - Best of LGBTQ 39 films in Festival do Rio program were up for consideration for the Felix for best feature and documentary that deal with LGBTQ themes. The Felix were presented Sunday at the festival's closing night gala.
In 2014 the festival introduced the Felix Awards. 39 films were up for consideration in 2018 for the best feature and documentary that deal with LGBTQ themes. The Felix was presented on Sunday, 11 November during the closing night gala ceremony at the Centro Cultural LSR – Odeon NET/CLARO.
- Best Feature: “Sócrates”, by Alex Moratto
- Best Documentary: “Obscuro Barroco”, by Evangelia Kranioti (France / Greece)
- Special Jury Prize: “Inferninho”, by Guto Parente and Pedro Diogenes
Expectations
- Anchor and Hope, by Carlos Marqués-Marcet
- Carmen and Lola, by Arantxa Echevarria
- Friends, by Wanuri Kahiu
- Skate Kitchen, by Crystal Moselle
Panorama
- Ash Is Purest White, by Jia Zhangke
- Colette, by Wash Westmoreland
- Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, by Gus Van Sant
- The Front Runner, by Jason Reitman
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Desiree Akhavan
- The Quietude, by Pablo Trapero
- Sorry Angel, by Christophe Honoré
Première Brasil
- Diamantino (Diamantino), by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt,
- El Último País (The Last Country), by Gretel Marín Palacio
- Gopi (Gopi), by Viviane D’Avilla and Paulo Dimantas
- Inferninho (My Own Private Hell), by Pedro Diogenes and Guto Parente
- Ilha (Island), by Ary Rosa and Glenda Nicácio
- Invasão Drag (Drag Invasion), by Rafael Ribeiro
- Jéssika (Jéssika), by Galba Gogóia
- Nomes que Importam (Names that Matter), by Muriel Alves and Angela Donini
- Mundo é Redondo Para Ninguém se Esconder Nos Cantos – Parte I: Refúgio (The World is Round So That Nobody Can Hide in the Corners – Part I: Refuge), by Leandro Goddinho
- Preciso Dizer que te Amo (I Have To Say I Love You), by Ariel Nobre
- Rogéria, Senhor Astolfo Barroso Pinto (Rogéria Mr. Astolfo Barroso Pinto), by Pedro Gui
- Sempre Verei Cores no seu Cinza (I’ll Always See Colours in Your Gray), by Anabela Roque
- Sócrates (Sócrates), by Alex Moratto
- Tinta Bruta (Hard Paint), by Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher
- Vigia (Night Watch), by João Victor Borges
Première Latina
- José by Li Cheng
Midnight
- Buddies, by Arthur J. Bressan Jr.
- The Daughters of Fre, by Albertina Carri
- Knife + Heart, by Yann Gonzalez
- Selvagem, by Camille Vidal-Naquet
Midnight Docs
- Game Girls, by Alina Skrzeszewska
- MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A., by Stephen Loveridge
- Obscuro Barroco”, by Evangelia Kranioti
Unique Itineraries
- Studio 54, by Matt Tyrnauer
- Westwood: punk, icon, activist, by Lorna Tucker
ADRIANA L. DUTRA
Documentary filmmaker and executive director of the Inffinito Group, Adriana is responsible for the realisation and curation of 81 editions of the Inffinito Festival Circuit, that is made up of Brazilian film festivals in 10 cities around the world: Miami, New York, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Buenos Aires, Vancouver, Montevideo and Canudos. She has directed, scripted and produced various projects in the audiovisual sector.
CLAUDIA SALDANHA
Claudia is an assistant professor at UERJ. She holds a master's degree in visual arts and is a PhD student in UERJ's arts course. She was curator at MAC de Niterói (2006 to 2008) and director of the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (2008 to 2014). She has been the director of the Paço Imperial (Imperial Palace) since 2014.
FELIPE SHOLL
Felipe was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1982. His first feature, “Fala Comigo” (Speak With Me), won the Redentor awards for best film and best actress at Festival do Rio in 2016. It was screened in 2017 at BAFICI and the Havana Film Festival. His first short, “Tá” screened at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Teddy Award for Best Short in 2008. As a screenwriter Felipe has more than eight features to his credit.
VICENTE DE MELLO
Vicente is a photographer and curator. Since 1990, he has reflected in his work the historical tradition of the codes of cinematographic language, creating a stylistic visual lexicon as in the series Noite americana and O cinematógrafo. In 2007 he won the APCA for best photography exhibition with moiré.galáctica.bestiário, at the Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo. The same year it was exhibited at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris,
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