A Place to See the World

 For 14 days next month, October 1 –14, Rio de Janeiro will once again transform into the capital of cinema. Festival do Rio, the Rio Film Festival, will illuminate screens throughout the city with over 250 films from more than 60 countries to be shown in 20 locations across the city. At the same time Rio will play host to audiovisual professionals from all over the world for a series of seminars and workshops under the RioMarket banner, and at the same time encourage public engagement through a series of free screenings and Q & A sessions in its Cine Encontro (Cinema Encounters) programme.

This year Festival do Rio has the honour of opening its 17th edition with a première screening of the highly anticipated Chico: Artista Brasileiro from director Miguel Faria Jr. Faria’s documentary follows the legendary Brazilian singer and composer Chico Buarque through mounting a show with some very special guests, his daily life, his method of working and creative process, while laying out his extraordinary career trajectory. The film will screen at the festival flagship Cine Odeon - Centro Cultural Luiz Severiano Ribeiro.

From October 2 the public will be able to view some the year’s most talked about new films, discover cinema rarities, vote for the best of the Première Brazil section, and participate in discussions and special presentations from filmmakers attending from the world over.

From the more than 250 selected films that will be spread across 15 festival sections, this year’s highlights include: Mia Madre ,Nanni Moretti’s recent Cannes competition entry, Every Thing Will Be Fine by Wim Wenders, Francophonia, from Aleksandr Sokurov, 11 minutes, by Jerzy Skolimowski, L’Ombre des Femmes, from Phillippe Garrel, In Jackson Heights, by Frederick Wiseman, South Korean director Hong Sang-soo with two films: his 2015 Locarno winner, Right Now, Wrong Then  and Hill of Freedom from 2014, Rabin: The Last Day, from Amos Gitai, No Home Movie, by Chantal Akerman, Yakuza Apocalypse, by Takashi Miike, Afternoon, by Tsai Ming-liang, Maraviglioso Boccaccio, by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Bleak Street, by Arturo Ripstein, In Transit and Iris by  documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles, Office, by Johnnie To, and Argentina by Carlos Saura. 

(Further titles in full listing below)

In looking to present the best of 2015 cinema, the festival brings together a rich harvest of award winning and selected films from the major festivals across the world and will introduce to Rio such hailed new works and directors such as Sicario from Denis Villeneuve, Microbe & Gasoline from Michel Gondry, Tale of Tales, by Matteo Garrone, The Walk, by Robert Zemeckis, Peace to Us in Our Dreams, by Sharunas Bartas, The Lobster, by Yorgos Lanthimos, L’Accademia delle Muse, by José Luis Guerín, Queen of Earth, by Alex Ross Perry, French director Maiwenn’s Cannes prize winner Mon Roi, Nasty Baby, by Sebastian Silva, One Floor Below, by Radu Muntean, Far from the Madding Crowd,  from director Thomas Vintenberg, Crimson Peak by Guilherme Del Toro, Stop from Kim Ki-Duk, Miss You Already, by Catherine Hardwicke,  La Belle Saison from Catherine Corsini, Rabo de Peixe by Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel, The End of Tour from director James Ponsoldt, Les Chevaliers Blancs, from Joachim Lafosse, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution by Stanley Nelson, Truman, from director Cesc Gay with Ricardo Darin, The 33 from Patricia Riggen featuring Rodrigo Santoro and Antonio Banderas , El Aula Vacia, the collective project from Gael Garcia Bernal with episodes also directed by Lucrecia Martel, Flavia Castro and Eryk Rochaamong others, Janis: little Girl Blue by Amy Berg, Ned Rifle by Hal Hartley, 600 Millas, by Gabriel Ripstein, He Named Me Malala from Davis Guggenheim, and The Diary of a Teenage Girl, from director Marielle Heller.

Along with the firmly established sections Panorama, Expectations, Première Brasil, Première Latina, Frontiers, Midnight, Midnight Docs, Film Doc, Generation, Unique Itineraries and Environment, the festival will this year dedicate special sections to rarities from Mexican Cinema's Golden Age in Noir Mexicano, the genius of Orson Wells in a sidebar devoted to his work, the world famous animations of Japan’s Studio Ghibli, plus a section given over to Grand Masters of Cinema. For the second year, the Felix Award will elect the best LGBTQ themed film from the overall festival programme, chosen by an official jury.

US director Hal Hartley, considered one of the most creative filmmakers of American independent cinema of the 90s comes to Rio especially to take part in a special section Lessons in Cinema with Hal Hartley in which he will present a special public open class and present three of his films:

Simple Men (1992), Flirt (1995), and his most recent film, Ned Rifle (2014).

For Festival do Rio, the increasingly programmed discussions and public sessions with filmmaker guests have become an essential part of its programming:  “One of our principal goals is to bring about an ever-closer relationship between the public and our guests. Therefore, along with the now traditional Cine Encontro, we will be promoting lectures, Q & A’s and presentations at the CineOdeon – Centro Cultural Severiano RIbeiro,CCBB, CCJF, Instituto Moreira Salles and other cinemas on the circuit', says Ilda Santiago, Executive Director of Festival programming

RioMarket, the business heart of the Rio Festival, will again offer professionals the always much anticipated RioSeminars,Workshops & Master Classes staged with the participation of leading industry figures and Roundtable meetings bringing together producers, distributors and both local and international sales agents from the worlds of cinema, television and digital media.

Within its nine day programme, producers, scriptwriters, directors, lawyers, industry experts and technicians from the world over will meet to exchange information and discuss the audiovisual market also with the public - offering more than 45 panels and 15 workshops and Master Classes - both paid and free, in a programming designed to focus on the most relevant and important recent developments in cinema and television.

This year sees a new  home for Festival do Rio and RioMarket  which, for this 17th edition, moves  from its previous downtown dockland location to Colégio Brasileiro de Altos Estudos - UFRJ, situated in Avenida Rui Barbosa, 762, in the Flamengo district in close proximity to Copacabana.

A new look at rare and historic films, screenings of classic masters, special sections, retrospectives, seminars, discussions and meetings with international directors and actors make Festival do Rio and  RioMarket without doubt one of the most important annual meetings of cinema and industry in Latin America.

 
Festival do Rio, the Rio Film Festival, is made possible with the patronage of Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro  (the Mayor of Rio’s office) - RioFilme, Petrobras and  BNDES; with the support of Globo Filmes and Oi;  Ministério da Cultura (Lei Rouanet), Lei de Incentivo à Cultura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (ICMS) as well as further partners and supporters.

FESTIVAL DO RIO 2015

Some titles and sections:

Opening Film – Thursday October 1
-  Chico – Brazilian Artist, by Miguel Faria Jr., (Brazil)

Panorama: Masters of Cinema

- Every Thing Will Be Fine, by Wim Wenders, (Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway)
- Mia Madre, by Nanni Moretti, (Italy, France)

- Francofonia, by Aleksandr Sokurov, (France, Germany, Netherlands)

- 11 Minutes, by Jerzy Skolimowski, (Ireland, Poland)

- L’Ombre des Femmes, by Philippe Garrel, (France)
- Maraviglioso Boccaccio, by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, (Italy, France)

- Rabin, the Last Day, by Amos Gitai, (Israel, France)

- In Jackson Heights, by Frederick Wiseman, (USA)
- No Home Movie, by Chantal Akerman, (Belgium, France)
- Right Now, Wrong Then, by Hong Sang-soo, (South Korea)
- Hill of Freedom, by Hong Sang-soo, (South Korea)

- Afternoon, by Tsai Ming-liang, (China)
- Bleak Street, by Arturo Ripstein, (Mexico, Spain)
- She’s Funny That Way, by Peter Bogdanovich, (USA, Germany)
- Argentina, by Carlos Saura, (Argentina, Spain, France)
- In Transit, by Albert Maysles, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, David Usui, Ben Wu, (USA)

 Panorama Section

- Sicario, by Denis Villeneuve, (USA)

- Tale of Tales, by Matteo Garrone, (Italy, Françe)

- The End of the Tour, by James Ponsoldt, (USA)

 - The Lobster, by Yorgos Lanthimos, (Ireland, UK, France, Greece, Netherlands)

- Mon Roi, by Maiween, (France)

- Microbe & Gasoline, by Michel Gondry, (France)

- Malala (He Named Me Malala), by Davis Guggenheim, (USA)

- Queen of Earth, by Alex Ross Perry, (USA)

- Ned Rifle, by Hal Hartley, (USA)

- Miss You Already, by Catherine Hardwicke (UK)

- Mr. Holmes, by Bill Condon, (UK)

- La Belle Saison, by Catherine Corsini, (France)

- Truman, By Cesc Gay, (Spain, Argentina)

- Je Suis Charlie, by Daniel Leconte, Emmanuel Leconte, (France)
- Love & Mercy, by Bill Pohlad, (USA)

- Per amor vostro, by Giuseppe M. Gaudino, (Italy, France)
- Les Chevaliers Blancs, by Joachim Lafosse, (Belgium, France)

- Rabo de Peixe, by Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel, (Portugal)

- Results, by Andrew Bujalski, (USA)
- Nasty Baby, by Sebastian Silva, (USA)

- Grandma, by Paul Weitz, (USA)
- Brasil vs Brasil, by Marcos Prado, (Brazil)
- I Am Michael, by Justin Kelly, (USA)
- Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Vinterberg, (USA, UK)
- The 33, by Patricia Riggen, (Chile)
- The Other Side, by Roberto Minervini, (France, Italy, USA)
- One Floor Below, by Radu Muntean, (Romania)
- Madonna, by Su-Won Shin, (South Korea)

- Fatima, by Philippe Faucon, (France)

- Peace to Us in Our Dreams, by Sharunas Bartas, (Lithuania, France, Russia)
- Stop, by Kim Ki-Duk, (South Korea, Japan)
- Bombay Velvet, by Anurag Kashyap, (India)

- The Walk, by Robert Zemeckis, (USA) 
- Aqui em Lisboa, by Denis Côté, Dominga Sotomayor, Gabriel Abrantes, Marie Losier, (Portugal, Canada,

  France, Chile)
- La Isla Mínima, by Alberto Rodríguez, (Spain)
- L’Accademia delle Muse, by José Luis Guerín, (Spain)
- 5 Flights Up, by Richard Loncraine, (USA)
- Marie's Story, by Jean-Pierre Améris, (France)
- Through It All, by João Araújo, (Brazil)

Expectations 2015
 - Mustang, by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, (France, Germany, Turkey)

- Tangerine, by Sean Baker, (USA)

-  Necktie Youth, by Sibs Shongwe-La Mer, (South Africa)

- Dope, by Rick Famuyiwa, (USA)

 - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, (USA)

- The Diary of a Teenage Girl, by Marielle Heller, (USA)
 - Chorus, by François Delisle, (Canada)

- Tikkun, by Avishai Sivan, (Israel)

- Bella e Perduta, by Pietro Marcello, (Italy)

- H., by  Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia, (US, Argentina)
- Court, by Chaitanya Tamhane, (India)
 - Counting, by Jem Cohen, (USA)

- Nahid, by Ida Panahandeh, (Iran)
 - The Fourth Direction, by Gurvinder Singh, (India, France)
 - Disorder, by Alice Winocour, (France)
- Mediterranea, by Jonas Carpignano, (Italy, France, US, Germany, Qatar)

-  Stinking Heaven, by Nathan Silver,(USA)
-  I am a Soldier, by Laurent Larivière, (France, Belgium)
-  The Dark Horse , by James Napier Robertson (New Zealand)
-  Undulant Fever, by Ando Hiroshi (Japan)
-  Out of Nature, by Ole Giæver, Marte Vold (Norway)
-  I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced, by Khadija Al-Salami (Yemen) 
- Dégradé, by Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser, (France, Palestine) 
-  Stories of Our Lives, by Jim Chuchu, (Kenya)
- Short Skin, by Duccio Chiarini, (Italy)

- Un Français, by Diastème, (France)
- Zoom, by Pedro Morelli, (Brazil, Canada)
-  Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents, by Stina Werenfels, (Switzerland,  

   Germany)
-  Being 14, by Helene Zimmer (France)
- Koza, by Ivan Ostrochovský, (Slovakia, Czech Republic) 
-  The High Sun, by Dalibor Matanic, (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia)
-  Sleeping Giant, by Andrew Cividino, (Canada)
-  Learn by Heart, by Mathieu Vadepied, (France)  
-  Tiempo sin Aire, by Samuel Martín Mateos, Andrés Luque Pérez, (Spain)
-  Borderless, by Amirhossein Asgari, (Iran)
-  Los Exiliados Románticos, by Jonás Trueba, (Spain)
-  Streetkids United II, The Girls From Rio, by Maria Clara Costa, (Brazil, Netherlands, UK)
- Filhos de Bach, by Ansgar Ahlers, (Germany, Brazil)
- No One Loves Anyone... For More Than Two Years, by Clovis Mello, (Brazil)
- Transtime, by Adriana L. Dutra, (Brazil)
-  Stories of Samba, by Pedro Serrano, (Brazil)
-  Pears, by Karen Sztajnberg, (USA)
-  Riot, by Nathan Silver, (USA)

Première Latina
- Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas, by Rodrigo Plá, (Mexico)

- 600 Millas, by Gabriel Ripstein, (Mexico)

- El Incendio, by Juan Schnitman, (Argentina)

- Las Elegidas, by David Pablos, (Mexico) 

- Paulina, by Santiago Mitre, (Argentina, Brazil, France)
- Allende Mi Abuelo, by Allende Marcia Tambutti Allende, (Chile, Mexico)
- Te Prometo Anarquía, by Julio Hernández Cordón, (Mexico, Germany)
- La Obra del Siglo, by Carlos Machado Quintela, (Cuba, Argentina, Switzerland, Germany) 
- Lucifer , by Gust Van den Berghe, (Mexico, Belgium)
- El Aula Vacía, by Gael García Bernal, Flavia Castro, Mariana Chenillo, Pablo Fendrik, Carlos Gaviria,   

  Tatiana Huezo, Lucrecia Martel, Nicolás Pereda, Eryk Rocha, Pablo Stoll, Daniel and Diego Vega, (Mexico,

   Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador) 
-  Viaje, by Paz Fabrega, (Costa Rica)

-  El Hombre Nuevo, by Aldo Garay, (Uruguay, Chile)
- Hilda, by Andrés Clariond Rangel, (Mexico)
- Solos, by Joanna Lombardi, (Peru)
- Aurora, by Rodrigo Sepúlveda, (Chile)
-  El Silencio del Río, by Carlos Tribiño Mamby, (Colombia, Uruguay, France)
-  Rastreador de Estatuas, by Jeronimo Rodriguez, (Chile)
- Semana santa, by Alejandra Márquez Abella, (Mexico)
-  La Tierra Roja, by Diego Martínez Vignatti, (Belgium, Argentina, Brazil)

Midnight

- Yakuza Apocalypse, by Takashi Miike, (Japan)

- Crimson Peak, by Guillermo Del Toro, (USA)
- Office, by Johnnie To, (Hong Kong, China)
- Green Room, by Jeremy Saulnier, (USA)
- Entertainment by Rick Alverson, (USA)
- The Nightmare, by Rodney Ascher, (USA)

- Love & Peace, by Sion Sono, (Japan)
- Endorphine, by Andre Turpin, (Canada)
- Der Nachtmahr, by Akiz, (Germany)
- As fábulas negras (The Black Fables), by Rodrigo Aragão, Joel Caetano, Petter Baiestorf, José Mojica

  Marins, (Brazil)
- Schneider vs. Bax, by Alex van Warmerdam, (Netherlands, Belgium)
- Straight Outta Compton – The Story of N.W.A, by F. Gary Gray, (USA)
- Kiri - Profession: Assassin, by Koichi Sakamoto, (Japan, USA)

- Tribute to Wes Craven: Scream, by Wes Craven, (USA)
- 25 Years of Lua de Cristal, by Tizuka Yamasaki, (Brazil)

Midnight Docs 

Midnight Docs Music: 

- The Reflektor Tapes, by Kahlil Joseph, (UK)
- Janis: Little Girl Blue, by Amy Berg, (USA)
- Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, by Alex Gibney, (USA)
 

Midnight Docs:
- Cartel Land, by Matthew Heineman, (USA, Mexico)

- The Wolfpack, by Crystal Moselle, (USA)
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, by Alex Gibney, (USA)

- Daniel’s World, by Veronika Lišková, (Czech Republic)

- Thank You For Playing, by David Osit, Malika Zouhali-Worrall, (USA)
- Best of Enemies, by Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon, (USA)
- The Russian Woodpecker, by Chad Gracia, (UK, Ukraine, USA)
- Battles, by Isabelle Tollenaere, (Belgium, Holland)
- Prison System 4614, by Jan Soldat, (Germany)
- The Cockpit, by Sho Miyake, (Japan)
- Standby for Tape Back-Up, by Ross Sutherland, (UK)
- Copycat, by Charlie Lyne, (UK)
 
Frontiers

- Dreamcatcher, by Kim Longinotto, (UK, USA)

- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, by Stanley Nelson, (USA)

- The Look of Silence, by Joshua Oppenheimer, (Denmark, Finland, Indonesia, Norway, UK)
- New Girls 24 Hours, by Mabel Lozano, (Spain, Paraguay, Argentina, Columbia, Peru)

- India’s Daughter, by Leslee Udwin, (UK, India)
- Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) Part I - Before the Fall by Abbas Fahdel, (Iraq, France)

- Speed Sisters, by Amber Fares, (Palestine, US, Qatar, UK, Denmark)
- They Will Have to Kill Us First, by Johanna Schwartz, (UK)

- Among the Believers, by Mohammed Naqvi, Hemal Trivedi (Pakistan, USA)

- The Man Who Mends Women, by Thierry Michel, (Belgium)
-  K2 and the Invisible Footmen, by  Lara Lee, (USA)
- Chronicle of a Revolt: One year Istanbul, by Biene Pilavci, Ayla Gottschlich, (Germany)
- The March of the White Elephants, by Craig Tanner (Brazil, South Africa)
- Levante! (Uprising!), by Susanna Lira, Barney Lankester-Owen, (Brazil)

Unique Itineraries

- Peggy Guggenheim -- Art Addict Lisa Immordino, by Vreelan,  (USA, UK, Italy)
-  Welcome to This House, by Barbara Hammer,  (USA, Canada, Brazil)
-  Station to Station, by Doug Aitken, (USA)
- Troublemakers, The Story of Land Art, by James Crump, (USA)
- Cooking Up a Tribute, by Luis González, Andrea Gómez, (Spain)
- Iris, by Albert Maysles, (USA)
- The Cult of J.T. LeRoy, by Marjorie Sturm, (USA)

- Feelings Are Facts: The Life of Yvonne Rainer, by Jack Walsh, (USA)
- A Ballerina’s Tale, by Nelson George, (USA)
- Hockney, by Randall Wright, (UK)

- Paco de Lucía, La Búsqueda, by Francisco Sánchez Varela, (Spain)
- Black dandy, une beauté politique, by Laurent Lunetta, (France)
- Jeff, Embrace Your Past, by Roger Teich,  (USA)
- Lygia Clark em Nova York (Lygia Clark in New York), by Daniela Thomas, (Brazil)
- Carmen – Life is a Celebration, by Mauricio Branco, (Brazil)
- Xampy, by Paulo Menezes, Daniel Wierman, (Brazil)

Filme Doc
- By Sidney Lumet, by Nancy Buirski, (USA)

- Sembene!, by Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman, (USA, Senegal)

- Fassbinder - To Love Without Demands, by Christian Braad Thomsen, (Denmark)
- Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, by Gabriel Clarke, John McKenna, (UK, USA)
- A Flickering Truth, by Pietra Brettkelly, (New Zealand, Afghanistan)
 

Environment
- This Changes Everything, by Avi Lewis, (Canada, US)
- Human by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, (France)
- The Yes Men Are Revolting, by  Laura Nix, Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, (USA)
- Ten Billion, by Peter Webber, (UK)
- Indian Point, by Ivy Meeropol, (USA)
- That Sugar Film, by Damon Gameau, (Australia)
- Containment, by Peter Galison, Robb Moss, (USA)
- White Coal, by Georg Tiller,(Austria) 
- Racing Extinction, by Louie Psihoyos, (USA)
 
Geração (Youth)
- Happy End?!, by Petra Clever,(Germany) 
- 14+, by Andrey Zaytsev, (Russia)
- Celestial Camel, by Yuriy Feting, (Russia)
- Jack’s Wish, by Anne de Clercq, (Netherlands)
- Paper Planes), by Robert Connolly, (Australia )  
 

Orson Welles Retrospective

- Too Much Johnson by Orson Welles, (USA) 
- The Magnificent Ambersons by Orson Welles, (USA)

- Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles, (France, Spain, Switzerland)  

- Wellesiana: Rare Welles’ Footage, by Orson Welles  

- Around the World with Orson Welles, by Orson Welles (UK)

- Othello, by Orson Welles, (USA, Italy, Morocco, France)

- DOCUMENTARY SECTION: ORSON WELLES

- Orson Welles, Shadows and Light by Elisabeth Kapnist, (France)

- This Is Orson Welles, by Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg, (UK)
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles by Chuck Workman, (USA)

Studio GHIBLI   
- When Marnie Was There ,by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, (Japan) 

- My Neighbor Totoro, by Hayao Miyazaki, (Japan) 
- Porco Rosso, by Hayao Miyazaki, (Japan)   
- My Neighbors the Yamadas ,by Isao Takahata, (Japan) 
- The Cat Returns, by Hiroyuki Morita, (Japan) 
- Tales from Earthsea, by Goro Miyazaki, (Japan) 

- The Secret World of Arrietty, by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, (Japan)
- Grave of the Fireflies, by Isao Takahata,  (Japan) 
- The Castle of Cagliostro, by Hayao Miyazaki, (Japan) 
      
 Lessons in Cinema with Hal Hartley
- Ned Rifle, by Hal Hartley, (USA)
- Flirt, by Hal Hartley, (USA, Germany, Japan)
- Simple Men, by Hal Hartley, (Italy, UK, USA)
 
Tesouros da Cinemateca  (Cinema Treasures)
- Menino de engenho (Plantation Boy), by Walter Lima Jr, (Brazil)
 
Cinema Noir Mexicano
- Outro amanhecer  (Distinto Amanecer), by Julio Bracho, (Mexico)
- A outra (La Outra), by Roberto Gavaldón, (Mexico)
- A deusa ajoelhada (La diosa arrodillada), by Roberto Gavaldón, (Mexico)
- Los dineros del diablo, by Alejandro Galindo, (Mexico) 
- Na palma de tua mão (En la palma de tu mano), de Roberto Gavaldón, (Mexico)
- La noche avanza, by Roberto Gavaldón, México
 

Other selections can be found on the official festival site:

www.festivaldorio.com.br

Festival Screen Circuit

After two years of absence from the Rio Festival circuit, the Cine Odeon - Centro Cultural Luiz Severiano Ribeiro  will return this year to host public screenings of Première Braziland Cine Encontro – one of the most anticipated events for the public at large.  In Cine Encontro the public has the opportunity of being in direct contact with those involved in creating films through a series of debates and discussions with directors, and actors and actresses of the Première Brazilfilms as well as international guests whose work features in other festival sections.

Cinépolis Lagoon will be the official cinema for Première Brasil gala screenings as well as special screenings given in the presence of directors and screen talent.

Also, Kinoplex São Luiz  Roxy, the Circuito NET Estação screens, Jóia, Museu da República, CCBB, CCJF and Ponto Cine at the Cinemateca do MAM return to the festival circuit with special programming.