Ahead of Rio hosting the Olympic and Paralympic games in 2016 a group of mascots from previous games dropped in on the city to show their support. They included Misha (Moscow 1980), Athena (Athens 2004), Fu Niu Lele (Beijing 2008), Wenlock and Mandeville (London 2012).
The Olympic games will take place 5-21 August 2016 and the Paralympic 7-18 September 2016.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Brazil Guide in the Guia Quadro Rodas series, the publisher, Abril, has come up with a list of what it considers to be the 50 top restaurants in Brazil for 2015.
Nearly half, or 24 in total, are located in São Paulo, but eight are to be found in Rio de Janeiro, nine if you count Dona Irene in Teresópolis.
The Top 50 are:
1 – D.O.M. / São Paulo – SP
Rua Barão de Capanema, 549 – Cerqueira César
(11) 3088-0761
2 – MANÍ / São Paulo – SP
Rua Joaquim Antunes, 210 – Jardim Paulistano
(11) 3085-4148
3 – FASANO / São Paulo – SP
Rua Vitório Fasano, 88 – Cerqueira César
(11) 3062-4000
4 – ROBERTA SUDBRACK / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Avenida Lineu de Paula Machado, 916 – Jardim Botânico
(21) 3874-0139
5 - DUE CUOCHI CUCINA ITAIM / São Paulo – SP
Rua Manuel Guedes, 93 – Itaim Bibi
(11) 3078-8092
6 – TRE BICCHIERI / São Paulo – SP
Rua General Mena Barreto, 765 – Itaim Bibi
(11) 3885-4004
7 – MAHALO / Cuiabá – MT
Rua Pres. Castello Branco, 359 – Quilombo
(65) 3028-7700
8 – FASANO AL MARE / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Avenida Vieira Souto, 80 – Ipanema
(21) 3202-4030
9 – FLORIANO SPIESS COZINHA DE AUTOR / Porto Alegre – RS
Praça do Japão, 155 – Bela Vista
(51) 3237-7601
10 – EPICE / São Paulo – SP
Rua Haddock Lobo, 1002 – Cerqueira César
(11) 3062-0866
11 – SKYE / São Paulo – SP
Avenida Brigadeiro Luís Antônio, 4700 – Jardim Paulista
(11) 3055-4702
12 – A BELA SINTRA / São Paulo – SP
Rua Bela Cintra, 2325 – Jardim Paulista
(11) 3891-1090
13 – ORO / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Rua Frei Leandro, 20 – Jardim Botânico
(21) 2266-7591
14 – OLYMPE / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Rua Custódio Serrão, 62 – Jardim Botânico
(21) 2539-4542
15 – TRATTORIA / São Paulo – SP
Rua Iguatemi, s/n – Itaim Bibi
(11) 3167-3322
16 – DUE CUOCHI CUCINA SHOPPING CIDADE JARDIM / São Paulo – SP
Shopping Cidade Jardim – Avenida Magalhães de Castro, 12000 – Cidade Jardim
(11) 3758-2731
17 – DUE CUOCHI CUCINA MORUMBI / São Paulo – SP
Morumbi Corporate – Henri Dunant, 1383, – Sto. Amaro
(11) 3957-9580
18 – GERO / São Paulo – SP
Rua Haddock Lobo, 1629 – Cerqueira César
(11) 3064-0005
19 – AMADEUS / São Paulo – SP
Rua Haddock Lobo, 807 – Cerqueira César
(11) 3061-2859
20 – ATTIMO / São Paulo – SP
Rua Diogo Jácome, 341 – Vila Nova Conceição
(11) 5054-9999
21 – LE BATEAU IVRE / Porto Alegre – RS
Rua Tito Lívio Zambecari, 805 – Mont Serrat
(51) 3330-7351
22 – KINOSHITA / São Paulo – SP
Rua Jacques Félix, 405 – Vila Nova Conceição
(11) 3849-6940
23 – JUN SAKAMOTO / São Paulo – SP
Rua Lisboa, 55 – Pinheiros
(11) 3088-6019
24 – VECCHIO TORINO / São Paulo – SP
Rua Tavares Cabral, 119 – Pinheiros
(11) 3816-0592
25 – VECCHIO SOGNO / Belo Horizonte – MG
Rua Martim de Carvalho, 75 – Santo Agostinho
(31) 3292-5251
26 – ICI BISTRÔ / São Paulo – SP
Rua Pará, 36 – Higienópolis
(11) 3259-6896
27 – GIRARROSTO / São Paulo – SP
Avenida Cidade Jardim, 56 – Jardim Europa
(11) 3062-6000
28 – DONA IRENE / Teresópolis – RJ
Rua Ten. Luís Meireles, 1800 – Bom Retiro
(21) 2742-2901
29 – PARIGI / São Paulo – SP
Rua Amauri, 275 – Itaim Bibi
(11) 3167-1575
30 – ANTIQUARIUS / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Rua Aristides Espínola, 19 – Leblon
(21) 2294-1049
31 – MOCOTÓ / São Paulo – SP
Avenida Nossa Senhora do Loreto, 1100 – Vila Medeiros
(11) 2951-3056
32 – GUARAMARE / Guarapari – ES
Avenida Meaípe, 716 – Enseada Azul) – 7 km
(27) 3272-1300
33 – REMANSO DO BOSQUE / Belém – PA
Avenida Rômulo Maiorana, 2350 – Marco
(91) 3347-2829
34 – ANGATU / Tiradentes – MG
Rua Santíssima Trindade, 81 – Santíssima Trindade
(32) 3355-1391
35 – FLOR DE SAL BISTRÔ / Ribeirão Preto – SP
Rua Floriano Peixoto, 1463 – Boulevard
(16) 3421-4963
36 – DALÍ CAMÕES / Brasília – DF
Setor Hoteleiro Sul, Qd. 6, Bl. B (Hotel Brasil 21 Convention)
(61) 3039-8156
37 – PROVENCE COTTAGE & BISTRÔ / Monte Verde – MG
Rua Cedrus Libani, 384 – Centro
(35) 3438-1467
38 – ESQUINA MOCOTÓ / São Paulo – SP
Avenida Nossa Senhora do Loreto, 1108 – Vila Medeiros
(11) 2949-7049
39 – TRINDADE / Belo Horizonte – MG
Rua Alvarenga Peixoto, 388 – Lourdes
(31) 2512-4479
40 – SUR / Maceió – AL
Rua Professora Maria Esther da Costa Barros, 306 – Stella Maris
(82) 9808-9090
41 – LASAI / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Rua Conde de Irajá, 191 – Botafogo
(21) 3449-1834
42 – WIELLA BISTRÔ / Recife – PE
Shopping da Decoração – Avenida Engenheiro Domingos Ferreira, 1274, – Boa Viagem
(81) 3463-3108
43 – KITANDA BRASIL / Tiradentes – MG
Rua Padroeiro Santo Antônio, 240 – Cascalho
(32) 3355-1560
44 – TAYPÁ / Brasília – DF
Setor de Habitações Individuais Sul, Quadra 17, Shopping Fashion Park – Lago Sul
(61) 3248-0403
45 – IRAJÁ / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Rua Comandante de Irajá, 109 – Botafogo
(21) 2246-1395
46 – LE PRÉ-CATELAN / Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Avenida Atlântica, 4240, Nível E – Copacabana
(21) 2525-1160
47 – GLOUTON / Belo Horizonte – MG
Rua Bárbara Heliodora, 59 – Lourdes
(31) 3292-4237
48 – ARTURITO / São Paulo – SP
Rua Artur de Azevedo, 542 – Pinheiros
(11) 3063-4951
49 – PONTE NOVA / Recife – PE
Rua do Cupim, 172 – Graças
(81) 3327-7226
50 – CHEF VIVI / São Paulo – SP
Rua Girassol, 833 – Vila Madalena
(11) 3031-0079
The first 100,000 tickets for Rock in Rio’s 30th anniversary shows in September 2015 sold out in just five hours when they were put on sale on 18 November 2014.
Fans will now have to wait until later in 2015 for the opportunity to by general tickets when they are released.
With few artists yet confirmed other than Katy Perry, John Legend and System of Down, fans that purchased the card will have first choice of days when the full schedule is confirmed.
Dates for the shows in 2015 are September 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 27.
The concerts take place in the Olympic Park.
Prior to the Rio shows, Rock in Rio will take place in Las Vegas in May 2014. Artists confirmed include Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Metallica, Linkin Park, No Doubt, Deftones, Joss Stone and John Legend.
The Rio Convention & Visitors Bureau (RCVB), which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, is introducing some of Rio de Janeiro’s many new attractions and facilities to the market during the WTM in London, as well as discussing improvements to the city’s infrastructure and transport post FIFA World Cup and pre-Olympic and Paralympic games.
Earlier this year Brazil hosted one of the most successful World Cups ever, with Rio de Janeiro hosting a total of seven games at the city’s iconic Maracanã Stadium, including the final on 13 July. Now the city is preparing to host the Olympic (5-21 August 2016) and Paralympic games (7-18 September 2016), making the city an ideal destination and venue for MICE events post 2016.
Even before the Olympic games, Rio has a great reason to celebrate as in 2015 the city will be celebrating the 450th anniversary of its founding. The celebrations will last from 1 January 2015 through carnival 2015 and 2016, on until 1 March 2016. More details and a growing calendar of events can be found at HERE
The RCVB will be located on the Brazil stand at the WTM (LA 100), but are also hosting a reception for the MICE market along with RioTur and LATAM on board the London Sunborn Yacht Hotel on Tuesday, 4 November. RCVB will also support and sponsor an evening reception during the WTM with the Latin American Travel Association and Air Europa at the historic St John’s Smith Square.
Olympic Park
Scheduled to host sixteen Olympic and ten Paralympic competitions, the Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca is already taking shape in an area of 1.2 million square meters where the Jacarepaguá motor circuit – that used to host the Brazilian Formula 1 Grand Prix – was located.
New facilities are being built at the Olympic Park for the games that will later be used by the city and event organisers. These include a new velodrome; a large, modern tennis centre; a media centre and an international TV transmission hub, and close by, the city’s new golf course. Temporary installations will, as in London, be built for some of the sports, such as a handball arena that after the event will be transformed into four municipal schools.
An extension of the Olympic Park already hosts Rock in Rio, South America’s largest music festival, which is next scheduled to take place in September 2015 when it will be celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Hotels
Barra da Tijuca, where the Olympic Village is being built, has always been a key destination for the MICE market in Rio de Janeiro due to it being the location of RioCentro, the city’s main exhibition centre, a complex that will also be used as an Olympic and Paralympic venue in 2016.
According to the recent study by the Rio Convention & Visitors Bureau and ABIH-RJ (Brazilian Association of the Hotel Industry – State of Rio de Janeiro), this region of Rio will have a capacity of 12,850 hotel rooms by 2016. Among the chains to operate new hotels in the area are Blue Tree, Grand Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, Pestana, Ramada, and Trump.
The Port Area
One of Rio de Janeiro’s most rapidly developing new attractions is the city’s port area (www.portomaravilha.com.br) that is undergoing a total redevelopment and refurbishment, and which recently has hosted major art and fashion events as well as the city’s international film festival, Festival do Rio.
The area already has attractions such as the new and very popular Rio Museum of Art, as well as famous gastronomic and cultural centres around the Morro da Conceição, such as Pedra do Sal and Largo da Prainha.
Work is already well underway on the construction of the Museum of Tomorrow, which jutting out into the bay is likely to become a city landmark in its own right when it opens in 2015.
Other attractions in the Port area include the Valongo Suspended Garden, Conceição Fort, Conceição Episcopal Palace, and the Cemitério dos Pretos Novos, which is an archaeological site of an old African slave cemetery. The city’s historic British Cemetery is also located in this area of Rio.
Across town, closer to Copacabana, Casa Daros is a top art gallery that has one of the most complete collections dedicated to Latin American contemporary art, with around 1,200 works of art, including paintings, photographs, videos, sculptures and installations.
Casa Daros is a space for art, education, communication and events, and occupies a 19th century neoclassic mansion, preserved under the Historic Heritage of the city of Rio de Janeiro and designed by the architect Francisco Joaquim Bethencourt da Silva (1831-1912).
The RCVB can be contacted by phone in Rio de Janeiro on (+55) 21 2266-9750 or by email at rcvb@rcvb.com.br.
Weekly news magazine, Veja, has published its annual list of the best restaurants and bars in Rio de Janiero. The choice is made both by a specially chosen jury of experts as well as the votes of the readers of Veja Rio.
Here is Veja’s selection with the official jury choice listed first, and the public’s choice second. You will note they do not always agree!
RESTAURANTS
Asian: Mee / Sawasdee Bistrô
Brazilian: Roberta Sudbrack / Aprazível (photo)
Buffet: Celeiro / Ráscal
Cheap and Cheerful: Botequim / Gutessen Café e Restaurante
Contemporary: Laguiole / Quadrucci
Dessert: Oro / Demi-glace
French: Olympe (photo) / CT Brasserie
Italian: Gero / CT Trattorie
Japanese: Sushi Leblon / Manekineko
Meat: Giuseppe Grill / Outback Steakhouse
Meat – Barbecue Rodízio: Fogo de Chão / Fogo de Chão
Pizza: Capricciosa / Bráz
Seadfood: Satyricon / Satyricon
Special set Menu: Irajá / Irajá
Also voted for were:
Chef of the Year: Pedro de Artagão (Irajá) / Claude Troisgros (Olympe, CT Boucherie, CT Trattorie, CT Brassserie)
Upcoming Chef: Rafael Costa e Silva, (Lasai) / Fred Barroso (Le Vin Bistrô)
Restaurateur of the Year: Marcelo Torres (Best Fork) / Claude Troisgros (Grupo Troisgros)
Cecília Aldaz, of Oro was voted sommelier of the year; Aprazível had the best wine list; Bazzar was elected best wine bar; and the best wine store was Mistral.
BARS
Balcony / Stand Up: Adega Pérola / Adega Pérola
Beer / Chope: Botto Bar / Botto Bar (photo)
Beer List: Delirium / Aconchego Carioca
“Bolinhos”: Aconchego Carioca / Aconchego Carioca
Boteco: Momo / Aconchego Carioca
Drinks List: Paris Bar / Complex Esquina 111
Food: Cachambeer / Adelos
Gastrobar: Pipo / Complex Esquina 111
For couples: Bar Veloso /Complex Esquina 111
Music: Godofredo Rio / Botto Bar
View: Bar do Alto / Bar Urca (photo)
FOOD
Bread: La Bicyclette / Boulangerie Guerin
Breakfast: Empório Jardim / Empório Jardim
“Brigadeiro” (sweets): Fabiana D’Angelo / Colher de Pau
Cake: Café Sorelle / The Bakers
Chocolate: Q / Kopenhagen
“Coxinha” (croquettes): Da Gema / Confeitaria Colombo (photo)
Éclair: Guerin / Kurt
Hamburger: Comuna / Reserva T.T. Burger
Ice Cream: Vero / Venchi
Juices: Jaeé / BB Lanches
Latin America’s biggest annual celebration of cinema closed on Wednesday 8 October by handing out its traditional Première Brasil ‘Redentor’ trophies, which highlight new work by home grown filmmakers, as well as recognising filmmakers in other categories.
The Premiere Brazil awards were dominated in the fiction category by Pernambuco director Lírio Ferreira’s (photo) drama Sangue Azul (Blue Blood) that offers a parallel between cinema and circus and speaks of the sea, art and love. The film took home three prizes including Best Feature, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Rômulo Braga.
Director Ferreira is something of a Festival do Rio veteran having screened previously Árido Mo-vie, Cartola – Música para os olhos and O homem que engarrafava nuvens.
In the feature length documentary competition line up, diretor Theresa Jessouroun’s (photo) À Queima Roupa (Point Blank) which delves into police violence and corruption in the city of Rio over the past twenty years, also picked up the top two prizes in its category, scooping both the Best Film and the festivals new Best Director award for documentaries.
There were double wins for Chico Teixeira’s coming-of-age drama Ausência (Absence), which won the Best Actor Award for the child actor Matheus Fagundes, and also received the Special Jury Prize, as well as for Sao Paulo diretor Gregorio Graziosi’s Obra that ended the night with awards for Best Cinematography for DOP André Brandão as well as receiving the FIPRESCI prize as the best Latin American film at the festival.
Other prizes given out on the night saw relative newcomer Bianca Joy Porte receive the Best Actress award for her role in director Daniel Aragão’s father and daughter relationship drama Prometo um dia deixar essa cidade (I Swear I’ll Leave This Town), and the Best Supporting Actress award go to Fernanda Rocha for her part in Iberê Carvalho’s O Último Cine Drive-In.
Other special awards saw well-known actor Othon Bastos receive an award for his body of work, while earlier in the festival Mexican director and screenwriter Guillermo Arrriaga had been presented with the FIPRESCI Latin American Personality of the Year award.
Prizes in the Première Brasil Novos Rumos (New Trends) section were presented to Castanha by Davi Pretto for Best Film, while the Best Short award went to O Bom Comportamento (The Good Behaviour) by Eva Randolph. Director Alfeu França received the Special Jury Prize for his 30-minute short A Deusa Branca (The White Goddess).
Of the winning features, six received their world premieres at Festival do Rio.
Once again the public vote from amongst the cinema going public in Rio was at odds with the official jury. The public voted Fellipe Gamarano Barbos’ Casa Grande (photo) best feature length fiction film and Rodrigo Felha’s Favela Gay, which shows the life of the LGBT community in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, as best documentary.
The public’s favourite short was awarded was to director Andre Amparo’s Max Uber which examines the work of the internationally acclaimed Brazilian visual artist of the same name.
In the Generation’s section the audience award went to Frans Weisz’s Finn from Holland.
The international FIPRESCI jury made up by Ernesto Diez-Martinez (Mexico), Luiz Zanin (Brazil), and Roni Filgueiras (Brazil) chose Brazilian director Gregorio Graziosi’s Obra as the Best Latin American Film at the festival.
Earlier in the event, the festival presented for the first time its new Felix awards, given to recognise the best LGBT films in the festival. Three awards were given in a ceremony at Rio’s prestigious Banco do Brasil cultural centre, CCBB, presented by among others Rio’s re-elected Federal Deputy Jean Wyllys and popular actor Mateus Solano. Reflecting the international reach of the festival, the awards recognized gay filmmaking achievements from Brazil, Australia, Greece, France and Belgium.
The winners were for Best Fiction Feature, Xenia, directed by Panos H. Koutras; for Best Documentary De Gravata e Unha Vermelha (Tie and Red Nail), directed by Miriam Chnaiderman; with a Special Jury Prize for 52 Tuesdays, directed by Sophie Hyde.
Rio will move its clocks forward one hour at zero hour on Sunday, 19 October. The city will remain on summer time until Sunday, 22 February, the Sunday after carnival.
With summer time in parts of Brazil, the country will have three time zones. The first includes Rio and the country’s capital, Brasília, as well as all the states in the South and South East, as well as Goiás. The second, which is one hour behind, includes the states in the Northeast as well as Pará, Amapá, Tocantins, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul. The third, two hours behind Brasília, includes Acre, Amazonas, Roraima and Rondônia.
Although mainly in Portuguese, the official programme of Festival do Rio is still a very useful tool for anyone planning to attend the event and who wishes to plan what to watch . Here is the link to download the festival programme.
Here is a selection from some of the 350 films from more than 60 countries that will screen in Rio de Janeiro during the 16th Festival do Rio, the city’s international film festival.
The Cinépolis Lagoon, on the Lagoa will be the official cinema for the gala sessions of Première Brasil, the sessions with directors present and other section screenings. The Cine Jóia and the Museu da República will all be part of the festival as will Estação, Kinoplex São Luiz, Roxy, Oi Futuro Ipanema, Ponto Cine, along with other usual cinemas and screening venues. For the fourth year the Armazém da Utopia (Armazém 6) will be the RioMarket headquarters and also the location for the Cine Meeting and popular sessions.
Festival do Rio runs from 28 September through 8 October 2014.
World Panorama
71, directed by Yann Demange (UK)
Aloft, directed by Claudia Llosa (Spain-Canada-France)
Boyhood, directed by Richard Linklater (US)
Bird People, directed by Pascale Ferran (France)
Black Coal, Thin Ice, directed by Diao Yinan (China, Hong Kong)
Blind Massage, directed by Lou Ye (China, France)
Cavalo Dinheiro (Horse Money), directed by Pedro Costa (Portugal)
Cathedrals of Culture, directed by Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen, Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz (Germany-Austria-Denmark)
Charlie’s Country, directed by Rolf de Heer (Australia)
Coming Home (Gui lai), directed by Zhang Yimou (China
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them, directed by Ned Benson (US)
The Face of an Angel, directed by Michael Winterbottom (UK-Italy-Spain)
Fantasia, directed by Chao Wang (China)
Frank, directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Ireland-UK)
Girlhood, directed by Céline Sciamma (France)
God Help the Girl, directed by Stuart Murdoch (UK)
Gomorrah, directed by Stefano Sollima (Italy)
Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher (US)
Heaven Knows What, directed by Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie (US-France)
The Humbling, directed by Barry Levinson (US)
Hungry Hearts, directed by Saverio Costanzo (US)
Ida, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland)
Iraqi Odyssey, directed by Samir (Iraq-Switzerland-Germany)
Jealousy (La jalousie), directed by Philippe Garrel (France)
Jimmy’s Hall, directed by Ken Loach (Ireland-UK)
Journey to the West (Xi you), directed by Tsai Ming-Liang (France-Taiwan)
The Judge, directed by David Dobkin (US)
Love is Strange, directed by Ira Sachs (US)
Maïdan, directed by Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraine)
Manglehorn, directed by David Gordon Green (US)
Maps to the Stars, directed by David Cronenberg (Mexico)
A Master Builder, directed by Jonathan Demme (US)
Men, Women & Children, directed by Jason Reitma (US)
Metamorphoses, directed by Christophe Honoré (France)
Misunderstood, directed by Asia Argento (Italy)
Mommy, directed by Xavier Dolan (Canada)
Mr. Turner, directed by Mike Leigh (UK)
National Gallery, directed by Frederick Wiseman (France-US)
Night Flight, directed by LeeSong Hee-il (S. Korea)
One on One, directed by Kim Ki-duk (S. Korea)
Onirica Psie pole (Field of Dogs), directed by Lech Majewski (Poland)
The President, directed by Moshen Makhmalbaf (Georgia-France-UK)
The Prince of Fame, directed by Xavier Beauvois (France-Switzerland)
A Promise (Une promesse), directed by Patrice Leconte (France-Belgium)
Red Amnesia, directed by Wang Xiaoshuai (China)
Rio 50 Degrees, directed by Julien Temple (UK-Brasil-Germany)
La Sapience, directed by Eugène Green (France-Italy)
Short Plays, directed by Sebastián Cordero, Doris Dörrie, Vincent Gallo, Daniel Gruener, Luca Lucini, Carlos Moreno, Gaspar Noé, Carlos Reygadas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ik-Joon Yang
The Smell of Us, directed by Larry Clark (France)
Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg), directed by Dietrich Brüggemann (Germany-France)
Stratos, directed by Yannis Economides (Greece-Germany-Cyprus)
Tales, directed by Rakhshan Banietemad (Iran)
Three Hearts (3 Coeurs), directed by Benoit Jacquot (France)
Timbuktu, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako (France)
Tsili, directed by Amos Gitai (Israel)
Whiplash, directed by Damien Chazelle (US)
Words with Gods, directed by Warwick Thornton, Héctor Babenco, Mira Nair, Hideo Nakata, Amos Gitai, Álex de la Iglesia, Emir Kusturica, Bahman Ghobadi, Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico)
Expectations 2014
52 Tuesdays, directed by Sophie Hyde (Australia)
10.000 Km, directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet (Spain)
Alive, directed by Jungbum Park (S. Korea)
Blind, directed by Eskil Vogt (Norway-Holland)
Brides, directed by Tinatin Kajrishvili (Georgia-France)
Brooklyn, directed by Pascal Tessaud (France)
Darker Than Midnight, directed by Sebastiano Riso (Italy)
The Dinner, directed by Ivano de Matteo (Italy)
The Distance, directed by Sergio Caballero (Spain)
Eat Your Bones, directed by Jean-Charles Hue (France)
Fishing Without Nets, directed by Cutter Hodierne (US-Somalia-Kenya)
Five Star, directed by Keith Miller (US)
Forma, directed by Ayumi Sakamoto (Japan)
A Girl at My Door, directed by July Jung (S.Korea)
The Goob, directed by Guy Myhill (UK)
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, directed by Guillaume Nicloux (France)
Imperial Dreams, directed by Malik Vitthal (US)
Land Ho!, directed by Martha Stephens, Aaron Katz (US-Iceland)
Lilting, directed by Hong Khaou (UK)
Listen Up Philip, directed by Alex Ross Perry (US)
Next to Her, directed by Asaf Korman (Israel)
Obvious Child, directed by Gillian Robespierre (US)
Party Girl, directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis (France)
She’s Lost Control, directed by Anja Marquardt (US)
The Skeleton Twins, directed by Craig Johnson (US)
Something Must Break, directed by Ester Martin Bergsmark (Sweden)
Songs from the North, directed by Soon-Mi Yoo (US-South Korea-Portugal)
Titli, directed by Kanu Behl (India)
Tu Dors Nicole, directed by Stéphanie Lafleur (Canada)
Xenia, directed by Panos H. Koutras (Greece-France-Belgium)
Young Ones, directed by Jake Paltrow (US)
Midnight Movies: Documentary
Beyond Clueless, directed by Charlie Lyne (UK)
Captivated, The Trials of Pamela Smart, directed by Jeremiah Zagar (US-UK)
The Case Against 8, directed by Ben Cotner, Ryan White (US)
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden), directed by Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller (US)
Last Hijack, directed by Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting (Holland-Germany-Ireland)
Red Army, directed by Gabe Polsky (US)
Midnight Movies: Fiction
Burying the Ex, directed by Joe Dante (US)
Cold in July, directed by Jim Mickle (US)
A Hard Day, directed by Kim Seong-hun (South Korea)
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, directed by David Zellner (US)
Over Your Dead Body, directed by Takashi Miike (Japan)
Patema Inverted, directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura (Japan)
Tokyo Tribe, directed by Sion Sono (Japan)
Midnight Movies: Terror
ABCs of Death 2, directed by Various (US)
Alleluia, directed by Fabrice Du Welz (Belgium-France)
Annabelle, directed by John Leonetti (US)
Corrente do mal (It Follows), directed by David Robert Mitchell (US)
Spring, directed by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead (US)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Restored) directed by Tobe Hooper (US)
Film Docs
Altman, directed by Ron Mann (Canada)
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films, directed by Hilla Medalia (Israel-France)
Happy to be Different, directed by Gianni Amelio (Italy)
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, directed by Mami Sunada (Japan)
Life Itself, directed by Steve James (US)
Mr X, directed by Tessa Louise-Salomé (France)
Remake, Remix, RipOff, directed by Cem Kaya (German-Turkey)
The Voice of Sokurov, directed by Leena Kilpeläinen (Finland)
Unique Itineraries
About Sarah, directed by Elisa Miller (Mexico-UK)
Bloody Daughter, directed by Stéphanie Argerich (France-Switzerland)
The Decent One, directed by Vanessa Lapa (Israel-Austra-Germany)
Dior and I, directed by Frédéric Tcheng ((France)
The 50 Year Argument, directed by Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi (US)
The Internet’s Own Boy, directed by Brian Knappenberger (US)
The Last Impresario, directed by Gracie Otto (Australia)
Microtopia, directed by Jesper Wachtmeister (Sweden)
Nan Goldin I Remember Your Face, directed by Sabine Lidl (German-Australia-Switzerland)
Precise Poetry Lina Bo Bardi’s Architecture, directed by Belinda Rukschcio (Germany-Austria-Brazil)
Regarding Susan Sontag, directed by Nancy Kates (US)
Sunday, directed by Karim Ainouz (Brazil)
Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch, directed by Léa Rinaldi (France-Morocco)
Music
20,000 Days on Earth, directed by Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard (UK)
American Interior, directed by Gruff Rhys, Dylan Goch (Wales)
Beautiful Noise, directed by Eric Green (US)
Björk: Biophilia Live, directed by Peter Strickland, Nick Fenton (UK)
David Bowie Is directed by e Hamish Hamilton
Finding Fela, directed by Alex Gibney (US)
A Hard Day’s Night, (Restored Version), directed by Richard Lester (UK)
Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets, directed by Florian Habicht (UK)
Que Caramba es la Vida, directed by Doris Dörrie (Germany)
When Björk Met Attenborough, directed by Louise Hooper (UK)
Frontiers
First to Fall, directed by Rachel Beth Anderson (UK-US)
Freedom Summer, directed by Stanley Nelson (US)
Last Days in Vietnam, directed by Rory Kennedy (US)
Revolution in Reverse: Debt & Work – the New Colonialism, directed by Chiara Cavalazzi (Italy)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait, directed by Ossama Mohammed, Wiam Simav Bedirected byxan (France-Syria)
The Supreme Price, directed by Joanna Lipper (US-Nigeria)
Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, directed by Thomas Allen Harris (US)
We Come as Friends, directed by Hubert Sauper (France-Austria)
We Are the Giant, directed by Greg Barker (US-UK)
Whispers of the Cities (Hams al-mudam), directed by Kasim Abid (Iraq-UK)
Generations
Amori Elementari (Elementary Loves), directed by Sergio Basso (Italy)
Belle and Sebastian, directed by Nicolas Vanier (France)
Charleen macht Schluss (About A Girl), directed by Mark Monheim (Germany)
Dixie y la Rebelión Zombi (Dixie and the Zombie Rebellion), directed by Ricardo Ramón, Beñat Beitia (Spain)
Encantados (Enchanted Amazon Island), directed by Tizuka Yamasaki (Brazil)
Finn, directed by Frans Weisz (Netherlands)
María y el Araña (Maria and Spider), directed by María Victoria Menis (Argentina-France-Equador)
Violet, directed by Bas Devos (Belgium-Netherlands)
Latin Première
Aire libre (Open Air), directed by Anahí Berneri. (Argentina)
Dos Disparos (Two Gun Shots), directed by Martín Rejtman. (Argentina)
Los Enemigos del Dolor (The Enemies of Pain), directed by Arauco Hernández. (Uruguay-Brazil)
Feriado (Holiday), directed by Diego Araujo. (Equador-Argentina).
Gente de bien, directed by Franco Lolli. (Colombia-France)
Historia del miedo (History of Fear), directed by Benjamin Naishtat. (Argentina-Uruguay-Germany)
Los hongos, directed by Oscar Ruiz Navia. (Colombia-France-Argentina)
Lulu, directed by Luis Ortega. (Argentina)
Manos sucias, directed by Josef Wladyka. (Colombia-US)
Matar a un hombre (To Kill a Man), directed by Alejandro Fernández Almendras. (Chile-France)
Mauro, directed by Hernán Rosselli. (Argentina)
El misterio de la felicidad (The Mystery of Happiness), directed by Daniel Burman. (Argentina-Brazil)
Las Niñas Quispe (The Quispe Girls), directed by Sebastián Sepúlveda. (Chile-France-Argentina)
La Princesa de Francia, directed by Matías Piñeiro. (Argentina)
La Salada, directed by Juan Martín Hsu. (Argentina)
Séptimo (7th Floor), directed by Patxi Amezcua. (Argentina-Spain)
La Tercera orilla (The Third Side of the River), directed by Celina Murga. (Argentina-Germany-Netherlands)
La Voz en Off (Voice Over), directed by Cristián Jiménez. (Chile-France-Canada)
Focus Mexico
Asteroide, directed by Marcelo Tobar (Mexico)
Los Ausentes (The Absent), directed by Nicolás Pereda (Mexico-France-Spain)
Cantinflas, directed by Sebastian del Amo (Mexico)
Cumbres, directed by Gabriel Nuncio (Mexico)
González, directed by Christian Díaz Pardo (Mexico)
Güeros, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios (Mexico)
La Guerra de Manuela Jankovic (Manuela Jankovic’s War), directed by Diana Cardozo (Mexico)
Las Horas Muertas (The Empty Hours), directed by Aaron Fernandez (Mexico-France-Spain)
Los insólitos peces gato (The Amazing Catfish), directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce (Mexico-France)
Los Ángeles, directed by Damian John Harper (Mexico-Germany)
Manto Acuífero (The Well), directed by Michael Rowe (Mexico)
Los oscura primaveras (The Obscure Spring), directed by Ernesto Contreras (Mexico)
Somos Mari Pepa (We Are Mari Pepa), directed by Samuel Kishi Leopo (Mexico)
Mexican Classics
El Compadre Mendoza (Godfather Mendoza), directed by Fernando de Fuentes (Mexico)
¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (Let’s Go with Pancho Villa), directed by Fernando de Fuentes (Mexico)
La Mujer del Puerto (The Woman of the Port), directed by Arcady Boytler (Mexico)
La otra (The Other One), directed by Roberto Gavaldón (Mexico)
Redes (The Wave), directed by Fred Zinnemann, Emilio Gómez Muriel (Mexico)
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