Rio de Janeiro 04

Luiz Melodia, Lucia Murat

The "Festival do Rio" offers in two weeks a profound and divers overview on recent tendencies in world cinema. This includes a series of Latin American films and in particular new Brazilian films. Our jury saw the Latin American entries and presented the Critics Prize to Almost Brothers (Quase dois irmãos) by Lucia Murat (Brazil, 2004). Details

Latin Films (1). At this year's Rio de Janeiro film festival, a significant number of Latin films were popular with audiences and took some of the main prizes. Francisco Ferreira asesses the ones that made the most impact and looks at the potential for these films when sold to non-Latin countries. He also looks at some of the new strands of home-grown films with their own unique, even innovative, approach to film genre.
Latin Films (2). Luiz Carlos Merten is film critic and journalist in Brazil. He writes on the selection of Latin American films in Rio and reviews in particular Lucrecia Martel's The Holy Girl and Almost Brothers by Lucia Murat.
Dostoyevsky Brazilian style. Tatiana Vetrova takes a closer look at Nina, the debut film by Heitor Dhalia which stood out for her amongst the homegrown cinema showing at the Rio Film Festival. In her report, Tatiana compares the film to a more famous work from the world of literature.
A Day Without A Mexican. Angel Comas on co-productions between Spain and Latin-America.

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