Sunday: A country heads to the polls but Festival do Rio still fills the big screen. It may be the Brazilian presidential elections Sunday, but film goers will still find plenty to see on the big screens of Rio. The last film screens in Première Brasil 's competitive section, and is appropriately Love Film Festival .

Published in 10/03/2014

Festival guests will not be able to miss the fact that Sunday is the Brazilian presidential elections. Voting in Brazil is compulsory and 142.5 million Brazilians are registered to vote, 354,000 of them outside of Brazil. Polls are open from 08.00 to 17.00, and the result will be known by the end of Sunday.

The competitive screenings of Première Brasil films are winding down at the Cinepolis Lagoon with the final competitive screening of Manuela Dias' Love Film Festival at 21.45. A film that may strike a chord with many festival guests who travel the festival circuit.

Filmed in four countries – Portugal, Brazil, Colombia and the United States – Love Film Festival is a documentary about fictional characters. It tells the story of Lucy, a Brazilian screenwriter, and Adrian, a Colombian actor, who fall in love at a film festival in 2009. They then carry out a love affair that spreads over the next six years, always meeting at film festivals around the globe.

There is also the Première Brasil hors concours screening on Sunday of Domingos Oliveira's Infância (Childhood) at Cinépolis Lagoon at 19.15. The film uses delicacy and humor to describe the authoritarian functioning of a typically Brazilian family of the 1950s in Rio de Janeiro. The family is headed by a matriarch anxiously waiting for the evening to hear the words of journalist Carlos Lacerda. The emotional plot highlights the absurdity of the characters' behaviour.

Première Brasil:Portraits will present Candé Salles' Para Sempre Teu Caio F (Forever Yours Caio F) at the Cinépolis Lagoon at 20.00, while Première Brasil: New Trends will present Leonardo Lacca's Permanência (Lingering) at 16.45 at  the C.C. Justiça Federal, the story of a photographer who travels to São Paulo for his first solo exhibition and decides to stay in his now married, ex-girlfriend’s house.

Inspired by the book Paula Dip, Para Sempre Teu Caio F  is a controversial biography. Dead at 47, Caio Fernando Abreu was the victim of HIV and marked by emotional ties as intense as his emblematic works such as Mouldy Strawberries. With a mixture of languages ​inherent in Caio F’s work – cinema, theatre, music and literature – the story line is conducted through interviews with friends, editors and scholars who knew the author.

Screenwriter Alessandro Valenti will present Com A Graca de Deus (Quiet Bliss) at Estação Rio 1 at 18.45. Director João Botelho and producer Alexandre Oliveira will introduce Os Maias – Cenas da vida Romântica at Estação Botafogo 1 at 19.00. Luis Ortega will present Lulu at Estação Rio 2 at 19.20 while Clara Bellar will introduce Being and Becoming at Estação Rio 3 at 20.40.

The president of the Pemière Brasil jury, Karim Aïnouz, will present his documentary Sunday on Sunday at CCBB 1 at 16.00. The documentary looks at the work of visual artist Olafur Eliasson who had placed a series of art installations in São Paulo.

RioMarket Jovem (Young RioMarket) continues Sunday in the Armazem da Utopia for youngsters interested in a career in filmmaking and the film industry. On Sunday André Pellenz will give a directing  masterclass, followed by an actors workshop that will be presented by Hsu Chien.

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