The World in Focus - Festival do Rio

Published in 10/14/2017

In 2017 Festival do Rio screened some 250 films from more than 60 countries at around 20 locations across the city of Rio de Janeiro. The festival also received guests and industry executives who took part in seminars, workshops and debates, in an event that also brought film together with music, virtual reality and so much more.

Rio’s cinema going public had the opportunity between 5 and 15 October to see the new films that were being talked about around the world, as well as discovering many lost treasures from the past.

Among the directors whose work featured at this year’s festival were Roman Polanski, Stephen Frears, Luca Guadagnio, Oliver Stone, James Franco, Fatih Akin, Agnieszka Holland, Alexander Payne, Hong Sang-soo, Frederick Wiseman, Robert Guédiguian, Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Steven Soderbergh, Barbet Schroeder, Abel Ferrara, Josh and Ben Safdie, Pedro Pinho, André Téchiné, Geremy Jasper, Hany Abu-Assad, Joachim Trier, William Friedkin, Michel Hazanavicius, Brett Morgen, Mathieu Amalric, Alexandra Dean, Kathryn Bigelow, Ildikó Enyedi, Gustavo Salmerón, Pedro Cabeleira, Joshua Z. Weinstein, Lisa Azuelos, Wang Bing, Lucrecia Martel, and Sean Baker among others.

As well as the festival’s traditional sidebars, the Prêmio Felix returned for a fourth consecutive year with 32 features and four shorts with diverse LGBTQ themes and stories to tell, as well as its own sidebar of classics from Queer Britain that included Sally Potter’s Orlando, Derek Jarman’s Edward II, and Stephen Frears’ My Beautiful Launderette, a film that won the Golden Toucan at the 3rd FestRio in 1986 that took place in the Hotel Nacional.

Focus Italy screened twelve recent Italian productions, while Midnight Movies featured a sidebar of the Nikkatsu Roman Porno films that were a series of theatrical Japanese softcore pornographic films from the 1970s and 80s. Mostra VR looked at virtual reality and presented both works of fiction as well as documentaries, animation and games.

The gala screenings for Première Brasil returned to the Cinépolis Lagoon in 2017, which had been an Olympic venue in 2016, as well as the Centro Cultural LSR – Odeon NET/CLARO, a traditional festival venue for many years. The debates with the cast and crew of films screening in Première Brasil - Cinema Encounter - also took place in the Centro Cultural LSR Cine Odeon NET/CLARO, as well as the auditoriums of BNDES and MAM.

The festival also programmed three days of cinema and music fn Cinelândia at the Teatro Rival where the record label Biscoito Fino presented “Rio, Pipoca e Biscoito” with artists such as Alcione and Fabiana Cozza; Leila Maria, Zélia Duncan and Jaques Morelenbaum; and Silvia Machete, Rico Ayade, Caio Prado, João Fênix, and Filipe Cattoe.

The Petrobras Symphonic Orchestra also performed the music from the films of Tim Burton at the Teatro Riachuelo.

Films in the 2017 Festival do Rio program included:

PANORAMA OF WORLD CINEMA

Downsizing, by Alexander Payne
Call Me by Your Name, by Luca Guadagnino
Victoria and Abdul, by Stephen Frears
The Disaster Artist, by James Franco
120 battements par minute, by Robin Campillo
Detroit, by Kathryn Bigelow
Top of the lake: China girl, by Jane Campion and Ariel Kleiman’
The Devil and Father Amorth, by William Friedkin
Le Redoutable, by Michel Hazanavicius
Logan Lucky, by Steven Soderbergh
D'après une histoire vraie, by Roman Polanski
The Florida Project, by Sean Baker
Thelma, by Joachim Trier
Krotkaya, by Sergei Loznitsa
Good Time, by Josh Safdie and Ben Safdie
Aus dem Nichts, by Fatih Akin
Jeannette l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc, by Bruno Dumont
Battle of the Sexes, by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
La Villa, by Robert Guédiguian
The Mountain Between Us, by Hany Abu-Assad
The Putin Interviews, by Oliver Stone
Golden Exits, by Alex Ross Perry
How to Talk to Girls at Parties, by John Cameron Mitchell
Marjorie Prime, by Michael Almereyda
Ex Libris : New York Public Library, by Frederick Wiseman
Titicut follies, by Frederick Wiseman
Fang Xiu Ying, by Wang Bing
Brad’s Status, by Mike White
The Brawler (Mukkabaaz), by Anurag Kashyap
12 jours, by Raymond Depardon
Frost, by Sharunas Bartas
Le vénérable W., by Barbet Schroeder
Manifesto, de Julian Rosefeldt
Nos années folles, by André Téchiné
Borg vs McEnroe, by Janus Metz
Testről és lélekről, by Ildikó Enyedi
Discreet, by Travis Matthews
Dalida, by Lisa Azuelos
The Party, by Sally Potter
Pokot, by Agnieszka Holland
Centaur, by Aktan Arym Kubat
Política, manual de instrucciones, by Fernando León de Aranoa
Tschick, by Fatih Akin
Barbara, by Mathieu Amalric
Posoki, by Stephan Komandarev
Thirst Street, by Nathan Silver
Tom of Finland, by Dome Karukoski
Lola Pater, by Nadir Moknèche
Ta peau si lisse, by Denis Côté
Maudie, by Aisling Walsh
Stronger, by David Gordon Green
Ptaki spiewaja w Kigali, by Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze
Prendre le large, by Gaël Morel
The Big Sick, by Michael Showalter
Berenice Procura, by Allan Fiterman
A Última Chance, by Paulo Thiago
A comédia divina, by Toni Venturi
Karingana — licença para contar, by Monica Monteiro
On Yoga the Architecture of Peace, by Heitor Dhalia

EXPECTATIONS

Patti Cake$, by Geremy Jasper
A fábrica de nada, by Pedro Pinho
I Am Not a Witch, by Rungano Nyoni
God's Own Country,by Francis Lee
Menashe, by Joshua Z. Weinstein
Wind River, by Taylor Sheridan
They, by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Verão danado, by Pedro Cabeleira
Angels Wear White, by Vivian Qu
Brigsby Bear, by Dave McCary
La Vieby Château, by Modi Barry and Cédric Ido
Milla,by Valérie Massadian
Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo, by Gustavo Salmerón
Novitiate, by Maggie Betts
Dina, by Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles
Insyriated, by Philippe Van Leeuw
Hema Hema: padainuok man, kol laukiu, by Khyentse Norbu
Werewolf, by Ashley McKenzie
Yozora ha itsu demo saikou mitsudo no aoiro da, by Yuya Ishii
En attendant les hirondelles, by Karim Moussaoui
Hawa Moqaddas, by Shady Srour
Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes, by Julian Radlmaier
Barrage, by Laura Schroeder
Zin'naariya!, by Rahmatou Keïta
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, by Alexandra Dean
Aurore, by Blandine Lenoir
Ri Chang Dui Hua, by Hui-chen Huang
Crown Heights, by Matt Ruskin
Light Thereafter, by Konstantin Bojanov
Occidental, by Neïl Beloufa
Pop Aye, by Kirsten Tan
Sexy Durga, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan
Drôles d'oiseaux, by Élise Girard
Estiu 1993, by Carla Simón
Todas as razões para esquecer, by Pedro Coutinho

LATIN PREMIÈRE

La libertad del diablo, by Everardo González
La vendedora de fósforos, by Alejo Moguillansky
Adiós entusiasmo, by Vladimir Durán
Alanis,by Anahí Berneri
Las olas, by Adrián Biniez
Atrás hay relámpagos, by Julio Hernández Cordón
Batallas Íntimas, by Lucía Gaja
Camila José Donoso
Ejercicios de memoria, by Paz Encina
Invisible, by Pablo Giorgelli
Los territorios, by Iván Granovsky
Mamá se fue de viaje, by Ariel Winograd
Mala junta, by Claudia Huaiquimilla
Matar a Jesús, by Laura Mora
Medea, by Alexandra Latishev Salazar
Nadie Nos Mira, by Julia Solomonoff
Al Desierto, by Ulises Rosell
El futuro que viene, by Constanza Novick
Santa & Andres, by Carlos Lechuga
Vida de Familia, by Alicia Scherson e Cristian Jimenez
O gato de Havana, by Dacio Malta
Severina,by Felipe Hirsch
Vergel,by Kris Niklison

MIDNIGHT MOVIES

Brawl in cell block 99, by S. Craig Zahler
Laissez bronzer les cadavres, by Hélène Cattet e Bruno Forzani
Ak-nyeo, by Jung Byoung-Gil
Sweet Virginia, by Jamie M. Dagg
Jailbreak, by Jimmy Henderson
Lake Bodom, by Taneli Mustonen
Prevenge, by Alice Lowe
As misândricas, by Bruce LaBruce
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, by Dash Shaw
Sal, by Diego Freitas

MIDNIGHT MUSIC

Grace Jones: bloodlight and bami, by Sophie Fiennes
Long Strange Trip, by Amir Bar-Lev
Revolution of Sound. Tangerine Dream, by Margarete Kreuzer
Alive in France, by Abel Ferrara
Serguei o último psicodélico,by Ching Lee and Zahy Tata Pur’gte

MIDNIGHT MOVIES: NIKKATSU ROMAN PORNO

Mesunekotachi, by Kazuya Shiraishi
Kaze ni nureta onna, by Akihiko Shiota
Anchiporuno, by Sion Sono
Koibito-tachi wa nureta, by Tatsumi Kumashiro
Mesunekotachi no yoru, by Noboru Tanaka
Edogawa Ranpo ryôki-kan: Yaneura no sanposha, by Noboru Tanaka
Jitsuroku Abe Sada, by Noboru Tanaka
Tenshi no harawata: Akai kyôshitsu, by Chûsei Sone

FOCUS ITALY

A Ciambra, by Jonas Carpignano
Hannah, by Andrea Pallaoro
Piazza Vittorio, by Abel Ferrara
Una Famiglia, by Sebastiano Riso
Dopo la Guerra, by Annarita Zambrano
La vita in comune, by Edoardo Winspeare
Liberami, by Federica Di Giacomo
Amori che non sanno stare al mondo, by Francesca Comencini
Tutto quello che vuoi, by Francesco Bruni

ENVIRONMENT

Earth: one amazing day, by Peter Webber, Richard Dale and Lixin Fan
Jane, by Brett Morgen
Bosque de niebla, by Mónica Álvarez Franco
Furusato, by Thorsten Trimpop
Thank You for the Rain, by Julia Dahr
Free Lunch Society, by Christian Tod

UNIQUE ITINERARIES

Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web, by Annie Goldson
Beuys, by Andres Veiel
Roberto Bolaño: La batalla futura Chile, by Ricardo House
Paula Rego, Secrets and Stories, by Nick Willing
La Cicciolina. Göttliche Skandalnudel, by Alessandro Melazzini
Queercore: How to punk a revolution, by Yony Leyser
Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer, by David Barba and James Pellerito
João de Deus - O silêncio é uma prece, by Candé Salles
Tudo é projeto, by Joana Mendes da Rocha e Patricia Rubano
Maria - Não esqueça que eu venho dos trópicos, by Francisco C. Martins
Geografia da arte, by Guto Barra and Tatiana Issa

FRONTIERS

Tell Them We are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities, by Stanley Nelson
Burma Storybook, by Petr Lom
Skulls of My People, by Vincent Moloi
Sorry I Drowned, by Hussein Nakhal and David Habchy
Black Code, by Nick de Pencier
State of Exception, by Jason O'Hara
Tahqiq fel djenna, by Merzak Allouache
Maman Colonelle, by Dieudo Hamadi
Motherland, by Ramona S. Diaz
Last Men in Aleppo, by Firas Fayyad
Limpam com fogo, by César Vieira, Conrado Ferrato and Rafael Crespo
Livres,by Patrick Granja