Festival Information 2024

This year the festival’s HQ makes a return to the Armazém da Utopia (Armazém 6 – Cais do Porto), one of the historic waterside warehouses in the city’s port area.

From 3 to 13 October 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 who 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.

Many festival guests will be hosted at the Grand Mercure Rio de Janeiro Copacabana. Located on the beachfront at the Ipanema end of Copacabana, the main entrance is at Rua Souza Lima 48. (Tel: 21 -3545 5400)

Copacabana itself is arguably the world’s most famous strip of sand that stretches for two miles (3.4km) from the towering Hilton Hotel in the east, to the Fairmont Hotel and the Copacabana Fort in the west, close to the Grand Mercure.

Copacabana Beach hosted a number of Olympic activities back in 2016, including beach volleyball and even the cycle road race that passed in front of the hotel. It was also a major fan zone during the 2014 World Cup and home to many of the international broadcasters.

Landmarks along the beach include the Copacabana Palace, a hotel that opened in 1923 and and which was the backdrop to Thornton Freelands’ “Flying Down to Rio” in 1933 with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Dolores del Rio.

For shopaholics attending the festival, the Rio Sul Shopping Centre, one of the largest in South America with over 400 stores, is a short taxi ride away from the Grand Mercure. The centre is also home to a number of restaurants and fast food outlets.. Another option for festival shopaholics is the fashionable and stylish Shopping Leblon, which is a ten-minute taxi ride away, beyond Ipanema.

For a full introduction to Rio, and what to do while in town, visit Rio: The Guides

GENERAL INFORMATION

55 21 99849 9274*

*Calls only between 10.00 and 19.00

RIO MARKET