18th Festival do Rio

Brazil, October 6 - 16, 2016

The jury

Klaus Eder (Germany), Ivonete Pinto (Brazil), Filippo Pitanga (Brazil),

Awarded films

Viejo calavera by Kiro Russo,
(Bolivia, 2016, 80 mins)
Era o Hotel Cambridge by Eliana Caffé,
(Brazil, 2016, 93 mins)

Reports

Squatting as Scenery by Ivonete Pinto

Rio de Janeiro 2016. A special event was organized in remembrance of José Carlos Avellar, our colleague and friend who passed away recently. Photo: Avellar’s latest book, “Pai país, mae pátria”.– Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Diegues received the FIPRESCI Lifetime Achievement Award (Latin America). – Together with Berlinale and Goethe-Institut, we organized the first “Talent Press” workshop for young critics.