Counting Down to Festival do Rio 2024 Rio de Janeiro will again host one of the biggest audiovisual events in Latin America when the 26th Festival do Rio takes place from 3 to 13 October 2024
In 2024 Festival do Rio’s opening ceremony at the Cine Odeon on 3 October will be followed by the Latin American premiere of Jacques Audiard;’s “Emilia Pérez”, winner of two prizes in Cannes this year, including the Jury Prize and the prize for the best performance by an actress for its quartet of stars; Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz. Paris Filmes will release the film in Brazilian cinemas on 6 February 2025.
Venice will follow Cannes with the year’s Golden Lion winner, Pedro Almodóvar’ “The Room Next Door”, screening on 4 October. Starring Tilda Swinton and Juliane Moore, it will be the Latin American premiere of Almodóvar’s first English language film. “The Room Next Door” is scheduled to be released in Brazil by Warner Bros on 24 October 2024.
The festival’s closing gala screening, on 12 October, will be Maurício Eça’s “Maníaco do Parque” (The Park Maniac), an Amazon Original production from Santa Rita Filmes that is based on a true crime. The film stars Giovanna Grigio as journalist Elena and Silvero Pereira as the Brazilian serial killer, Francisco, a motorbike courier convicted of attacking 23 women in São Paulo and murdering ten of them. The film will screen on Prime Video from 18 October 2024.
It is appropriate that a Brazilian production should close Festival do Rio as the festival is one of the main showcases and shop windows for Brazilian cinema. During the festival over 80 Brazilian films will screen between features and shorts, showcasing a wide panorama of young and established filmmakers, marking and reflecting the diversity and creativity that Brazilian cinema is known for.
The festival received 752 Brazilian entries for Première Brasil in 2024 – 222 features and 530 shorts. There will be over 30 world premieres amongst the features selected for Première Brasil and screening in official competition, New Directions, Portraits, The State of Things, Midnight Movies, Hors Concours, and other festival sections and sidebars. Around 150 international productions will also screen, many receiving their first Brazilian screenings.
This year the festival’s HQ makes a return to the Armazém da Utopia, one of the historic waterside warehouses in the city’s port area. Festival do Rio and RioMarket – which will again unite audiovisual executives, talent and professionals from around the globe for discussions, networking and business opportunities – will stretch across 5,000 square metres in a location familiar to festival veterans. They will remember it being used for Festival do Rio between 2010 and 2014., since when the region has been redeveloped and rebuilt, yet still retains much of its historic past and charm.
Armazém da Utopia is close to other Rio city centre attractions such as the award winning Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow), AquaRio (city’s aquarium), Yup Star (ferris wheel), MAR (Rio Art Museum), and the City of Samba, a city base for many of the Rio samba schools.
Armazém da Utopia is also just a short, modern tramcar ride away from the Cine Odeon - CCLSR in Cinelândia, home to many of the festival’s gala screenings, including the opening and closing ceremonies.
As is customary, Festival do Rio will spread itself across Rio de Janeiro with screenings at Estação NET Botafogo, Estação NET Rio and Estação NET Gávea, where the films in Première Brasil’s competition will screen first. There will also be screenings at Cinesystem Botafogo, Kinoplex São Luiz and across the bay at the Reserva Cultural Niterói.
Screenings in 2024 will also incorporate Cinema Circulação that uses the newly renovated cinemas of the city’s Circuito da Prefeitura do Rio that includes the Cine Carioca Penha, Cine Carioca Nova Brasília (Complexo do Alemão) and Ponto Cine Guadalupe. The programming on these screens will focus on families and children, offering seats at lower, promotional prices.
Festival do Rio is supported by the Ministry of Culture (Ministério da Cultura), Shell Brasil and Rio City Hall (Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro). It has master sponsorship from Shell Brasil through the Federal Law of Incentive to Culture (Lei Federal de Incentivo à Cultura), and the special support of the Mayor’s office - through RioFilme, a body that is part of the Municipal Secretariat of Culture (Secretaria Municipal de Cultura). Festival do Rio is organised by Cinema do Rio.
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