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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • Café com canela

    Violeta lives in a Brazilian Bahia village full of striking characters. Everyone struggles with daily life, scarred by loss and mourning, yet all
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  • Neville D’Almeida – Chronicler of Beauty and Chaos

    The career of Brazilian filmmaker Neville D’Almeida (Belo Horizonte, 1941) is full of ups and downs, scandals and successes, sex, drugs and rock &lsqu
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  • Azougue Nazaré

    A feature debut, fresh and cheerful in tone, from the Brazilian state if Pernambuco, where IFFR finds so many beautiful films. Mysterious events and r
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  • Good Manners

    The nurse Clara gets a job as nanny for the rich and pregnant Ana, who suffers from insomnia. Her delivery at full moon ends fatally…
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  • Ordinary Time

    This feature debut by documentary maker Nobre is a jewel, made with the unusual precision and moving clarity that seems the reserve of Portuguese film
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  • Sultry

    Rio de Janeiro, 2016: the city simmers in anticipation of the Olympic Games. Lawyer Ana (32) defends the interests of residents of homes to be re
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  • Loveling

    Fernando (16), the eldest son of Irene and Klaus, has been scouted by a German handball club. He is soon to leave the warmth of…
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  • Sol alegria

    An eccentric family with a mission travels through dictatorial Brazil to save humanity from destruction. In this Dadaist, cheerful/nihilist film trip,
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  • urban solutions

    Life during the colonial period, and surveillance cameras in a residential building: a view of Brazil’s troubled past and complicated present.
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  • A criança

    Deceptively elegant tragedy about finding one’s place in the world, set in mid-16th century Portugal.
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