This year the Festival de Cannes celebrates Brazil as its “special guest country”. Following on from Egypt in 2011, it is the second year in a row that the Festival has shone the spotlight on a great filmmaking nation.
The quality of Brazil’s output is clearly on display with four films in Official Selection, plus On the Road by Walter Salles in Competition.
A Música segundo Tom Jobim by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, co-directed with Tom Jobim’s granddaughter Dora Jobim, ...
After Bong Joon-Ho, Gael García Bernal, Roschdy Zem and Abbas Kiarostami, the demanding task of selecting the best new filmmaker this year falls to Carlos Diegues.
The Caméra d’or, launched in 1978, is awarded to the best first film presented in the Official Selection (Competition, Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard), La Semaine de la Critique or Directors' Fortnight – a total of 22 films in 2012.
He will be accompanied in...
Festival du Cinéma Brésilien de Paris
25 April through 8 May, 2007
FESTIVAL DE CINEMA DO BRASIL IN PARIS
The first week of this 9th two-prong event (feature competition and then documentaries) has ended at the L’Arlequin Cinema in Paris 'trendy Quartier Latin with the presence of top-knotch Brazilian filmmakers, actors and producers, flown over for the event to present each of the two doze...
Festival du Cinéma Brésilien de Paris25 April through 8 May, 2007 FESTIVAL DE CINEMA DO BRASIL IN PARIS The first week of this 9th two-prong event (feature competition and documentaries) has ended at the L’Arlequin Cinema in Paris 'trendy Quartier Latin with the presence of
France entered the competition of this 57th edition with Look at Me (Comme une image) from director Agnès Jaoui, a film that belittles power and fame. Another female director was honoured, Lucrecia Martel from Argentina presented The Holy Girl (La Niña Santa), a film that deals with religious and love constraints and choices. Quentin Tarantino took a break from jury duty to present Kill Bill: Volume 2 out of competition, accompanied by Uma Thurman and David Carradine. Three other events punctu...
A TRIBUTE TO BRAZILIAN CINEMA: 40 YEARS OF CINEMA NOVO: PROGRAMMEAn initiative between the Cannes Film Festival and the Rio Festival, represented at Cannes by executive director, Ilda Santiago, Tribute To Brazilian Cinema will centre on a celebratory 40th anniversary screening of Brazilian cinema master filmmaker Glauber Rocha's Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil), long considered one of finest examples of Latin cinema.Further films which will have a place in the tribute p...
