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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Lilian M.: Relatório confidencial

    Breaking the mould of most Boca do Lixo films by tackling both rural and urban cultures, Reichenbach’s first major work explores a common story of…
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  • Imagens de uma cidade perdida

    There is a curious difference between cinema and real life. Anyone returning home from a journey to Lisbon, who says how pleasant it is to…
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  • AUN – The Beginning and the End of All Things

    In the first place, it’s a work of art. So much fantasy, so much wisdom, so many wonderful images and such idiosyncratic music, it’s almos
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  • Rua Aperana 52

    Bressane, a leading name in progressive Brazilian cinema for the past forty years, was honoured with a retrospective at the IFFR in 2000. He has…
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  • Ovos de dinossauro na sala de estar

    Extremely idiosyncratic portrait of an eccentric widow who looks after the impressive collection of fossils and documents left behind by her late husb
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  • Silêncio de dois sons

    Mysterious, dreamy fiction about a mother who tells a secret story to her daughter, while two babies are asleep. The house is a character as…
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  • Duelo antes da noite

    Refined drama about a journey by a boy and a girl that has a great influence on the rest of their lives. Student competition at…
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  • Oh! Rebuceteio

    A hard-core porn parody on A Chorus Line featuring an egomaniacal theatre director who inspires his actors to perform lurid, freeform sexual acts on s
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  • O emigrante

    This Angolan filmmaker regularly went awol at the previous IFFR. It turned out he was spontaneously shooting a new film in Rotterdam, about the large
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  • O despertar da besta

    Working primarily in horror, José Mojica Marins broke away from earnestly macabre films like At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul (1964) – while still…
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