About: Artivist Film Festival 1 -4 th of December Nobel Festival dedicated to human rights, animals and environment issues through film. Best feature international human rights award went to the Portuguese filmmaker Mário Patrocinio for his film "Complexo Alemão - Universo Paralelo. At first the film reminded me of the Fernando Meirelles movie "City of God" for portraying the slums of Brazil. Soon after you acknowledge it's original content. Basically the st...

Monday, July 16--------As the summer turns sizzling in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is appropriately presenting a program of sultry cinema from Brazil in its fifth annual exhibition of contemporary Brazilian cinema, entitled PREMIERE BRAZIL! The program began last Thursday and continues through January 23rd in the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The series is a collaboration between MoMA and the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. This year, 12 new films, all US or New...

Fernando Meirelles presents, from the production company of the feature film City of God (Cidade de Deus), Up Against Them All (Contra Todos), by Roberto Moreira winner of the Silver Firebird Award at the 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival (Main Competition - Firebird Awards for Young Cinema) An urban drama of betrayal and revenge, set in the poor suburbs of São Paulo. Its principal characters are members of a lower middle class family: Trapped in tragic relationships and realities, the...