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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Rodrigo Lima

Rodrigo LIMA (1975, Brazil) primarily works as an editor of many Brazilian films like Arabia (2017) and Mormaço (2018), both of which screened at IFFR. He began working with Júlio Bressane in 2006 when he edited Cleópatra (2007) and has been the editor of all his films since then. O Espelho (2015), his first feature as a director, had its world premiere in Locarno. He is co-director of The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus (2023), an extensive retrospective of Bressane’s six decades of filmmaking, which had its world premiere at IFFR 2023.

Filmography

Para Eva (2010, short), O Espelho (2015), Calypso (2018, co-dir), Nietzsche Sils Maria Rochedo de Surlej (2019, co-dir), A Longa Viagem do Ônibus Amarelo/The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus (2023, co-dir)

Rodrigo Lima at IFFR

  • The Long Voyage of the Yellow Bus

    Júlio Bressane looks back at his career in this very long stream-of-consciousness edit containing scenes from all his films!

  • Capitu and the Chapter

    Brazilian classic novel filmed as an ironic/philosophical essay on poetry and jealousy. Surprising and experimental.

  • The Rat Herb

    Surrealism was invented in France, or maybe you could say discovered. But the South Americans have remained faithful to it right up to today, as is

  • Cléopatra

    Sensual, lyrical, intelligent and musical: stylised Brazilian film version of the well-known story of Cleopatra and the structures of seduction and

  • Éden

    A very pregnant woman ends up with a dubious evangelist and his Church of Eden after the senseless murder of her husband. Fine, creative camera wor

  • Nietzsche Sils Maria Rochedo de Surlej

    In the pure air of the Swiss Sils Maria, where Nietzsche spent many summers, he found rest for his swirling thoughts. Shot in the style of a travel

  • Educação sentimental

    Bressane is never afraid to challenge his viewers. Here the Brazilian udigrudi maestro orchestrates the Greek myth of Endymion as a long monologue

  • Beduino

    A film as only the Brazilian veteran and festival favourite Bressane can make them. This imaginative, associative role-play between a man and a wom

  • Arábia

    In an old factory, a young man finds the diary of a worker who died in an accident. In the same way that in certain Westerns an anonymous drifter d

  • 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 ma