Rio Festival announces Première Brasil selection 2025

In October, the Wonderful City became the epicenter of national cinema. Between the days 02 and 12, the Rio Festival takes place and the organization released the list of films that integrate Première Brasil, shows considered the main showcase of Brazilian audiovisual. In this edition, the event arrives with 75 feature films in the selection, as well as mediums and shorts that total 124 productions.

The program brings together unpublished premieres on the commercial circuit, signed both by consecrated filmmakers and by new names of the national scene.

Structure and spaces

As in previous years, the Festival spreads throughout the city. In addition to the traditional circuit of commercial rooms, the public will find sessions in cinemas of Rede Carioca and even in municipal parks, expanding the access and reach of the programming.

The meeting point will follow in Utopia warehouse At Wonder Harbor. With five thousand square meters, the space will be the stage of debates and meetings, open to the public through prior online registration. (Learn how to participate Here.)

Shows and competitions

Première Brasil is divided into different programs. Na Official Competition and Competition New Rumos, the films compete for the Redeemer Trophy. Other sections include Hors-Concours, Classics Restored, Portraits, Generation Program, Midnight, Special Brazilian Series and The State of Things – the latter, in 2025, wins a special edition dedicated to productions that dialogue with the themes of COP-30.

In addition to cinema, the festival will also make room for television. The public will be able to watch on gala nights the premiere episodes of four Brazilian series awaited on different streaming platforms.

Issue Numbers

According to the organizers, the festival received 320 long and 1,000 short. Among the selected are: 124 titles of which 48 compete for the Redeemer Trophy. The show still has 76 horror films, 54 world premieres and 4 Brazilian series.

Hors-Concours Selection

Condor Conspiracy, by André Sturm

90s: Pagoda Explosion, by Emilio Domingos and Rafael Boucinha

The displays, by Flavia Castro

(Un)control, by Rosane Svartman and Carol Minem

The Secret Agent, by Kleber Mendonça Son

The Golden Man, by Mauro Lima

For Vigo me Voy Karen Harley and Lilio Ferreira

Perrengue Fashion, from Flavia Lacerda

Closer to the Sun is Clearer, by Régis Faria

For Our Cause, by Sergio Rezende

Dear World, Miguel Falabella and Hsu Chien

Sex, by Gloria Pires

90 Decibéis, by Fellipe Barbosa

Portraits

Ary, by André Weller

World Sorrows: Hyldon, by Emilio Domingos and Felipe David Rodrigues

Fernanda Abreu - Of the Can, 30 years old, the documentary, by Paul Severus

Pholego – Until After the End, from Candé Salles

Glaucio Gill – A Theatre in Construction by Lea Van Steen and Rafael Raposo

My Time It's now, by Sandra Werneck

Milton Gonçalves, Beyond the Show by Luiz Antonio Pilar

♪ I can't live without words ♪, by André Brandão

No One Can Prove Anything: The Unbelievable History of Ezekiel Neves, by Rodrigo Pinto

Brazil That There Was No, from Renato Terra and Arnaldo Branco

King of the Night, by Cassu, Lucas Weglinski and Pedro Dumans

I'm gonna get you out of this place., by Dandara Ferreira

The State of Things

Black notebooks, by Joel Zito Araújo

Cause, Belisario Franca

From the Other Side of the Pavilion, by Emilia Silveira

Invincible, by Vitor Leite and Clarice Saliby

Itacoatiaras, by Sergio Andrade and Patricia Goùvea

My Foreign Land, by João Moreira Salles, Louise Botkay and Collective Lakapoy

On the Wave of the Tide, by Lucia Murat

The Father and the Pajé, by Iawarete Kaiabi, Felipe Tomazelli and Luís Villaça

Pau d’Arco, by Ana Spider

Recognized, by Fernanda Amim and Micah Hocherman

6 Fisherman's Street, by Barbara Paz

Midnight Movies

The Flesh Itself, by Ian SBF

Copacabana, 4 May, by Allan Ribeiro

Future, by David Pretto

Nosferatu, by Christian Burlan

Panic Room, by Gabriela Amaral Almeida

Restored Classics

The Woman of All, by Rogério Sganzerla

Twins, by Andrucha Waddington

Hermeto Champion by Thomas Farkas

Our School of Samba, by Manuel Horácio Gimenez

Generation Programme

Adventures of Makunáima - Enchanted Stories of the Amazon, by Chico Faganello

Creatures – An Adventure Between Two Worlds, by Juarez Precious

Papaya, by Priscilla Kellen

Four Girls Karen Suzanne's

Tainá and the Guardians of the Amazon – In Search of the Blue Arrow, by Alê Camargo and Jordan Nugem

I bring your love, by Claudia Castro

Brazilian Series

Angela Diniz: Murdered and Condemned, by Andrucha Waddington

Ayô Yasmin Thayná

Minor, by Caru Alves de Souza

Tremembé, from Vera Egypt

Brazilian Coproductions

La Quinta, by Silvina Schnicer (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain)

The Riso and the Knife, by Pedro Pinho (Portugal, Brazil, France, Romania)

The Black Snake, by Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux (France, Colombia, Brazil)

Short

The show also includes shorts in different programs, including Première Brasil, Novos Rumos, O Estado dos Things, Panorama Carioca, Hors-Concours and Portratos. Among the highlights are:

Alice by Gabriel Novis

My Friend Satan, by Aristeu Araújo and Carlos Segundo

The Four Exiles of Herbert Daniel, by Daniel Favaretto

Requiem for Moïse by Susanna Lira and Caio Barretto Briso

Eunice Gutman Has Stories by Lucas Vasconcelos

Learn more: Flavors of the Orla 2025: Meet the winners of the 8th Festival