Sao Paulo International Film Festival is the longest standing international festival in Brazil and one of the most important in Latin America. It is internationally renowned for its excellent programme and for revealing talented new names.
AC/E took part in the festival by facilitating the presence of filmmakers and actors during the screenings of their films and in parallel activities.
The festival has been held uninterruptedly for 38 years and has been responsible for bringing a broad variety of films to the country. Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Quentin Tarantino, Abbas Kiarostami, Amos Gitai, Tsai Ming Liang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul are just some of the many internationally acclaimed filmmakers whose work was first shown in Latin America during the Sao Paulo festival.
In addition to showing more than 350 feature films, the festival also features a packed parallel programme that includes exhibitions, book launches and films accompanied by live orchestra music, etc. A few good examples are the exhibitions of the work of Pardjanov, Wim Wenders, Tarkovsky Polaroids, Stanley Kubrick and Manoel de Oliveira, the open-air screening of ‘Nosferatu’ and ‘Metropolis’ and the performance of ‘Nathan the Wise’, and launches of the books of Michel Ciment, Serge Daney and many others.
This year’s fair, the 38th, promoted a major encounter with Spanish cinema. This year the poster, which has been designed by the most important filmmakers in the world over the years, was designed by Pedro Almodóvar, to whom the festival paid tribute with the presence of some of his most representative actors and the screening of all his films, which were restored. The festival also included the FOCO ESPAÑA section showing some of the most interesting current Spanish feature-length and short films.
The official programme featured two exhibitions in which AC/E took part: ‘La Dama de Corinto’ (The lady of Corinth) by José Luis Guerín and ‘México Fotografiado por Luis Buñuel’ (Mexico photographed by Luis Buñuel), the latter with the support of the Filmoteca española and Acción Cultural Española.
In conjunction with the ICAA, Cinema do Brasil and ANCINE, the festival organised a coproduction meeting between Brazil and Spain from 24 to 26 October, which was attended by producers, directors and sales agents from both countries.
AC/E took part in the festival by facilitating the presence of filmmakers and actors during the screenings of their films and in parallel activities.
The festival has been held uninterruptedly for 38 years and has been responsible for bringing a broad variety of films to the country. Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Quentin Tarantino, Abbas Kiarostami, Amos Gitai, Tsai Ming Liang, Apichatpong Weerasethakul are just some of the many internationally acclaimed filmmakers whose work was first shown in Latin America during the Sao Paulo festival.
In addition to showing more than 350 feature films, the festival also features a packed parallel programme that includes exhibitions, book launches and films accompanied by live orchestra music, etc. A few good examples are the exhibitions of the work of Pardjanov, Wim Wenders, Tarkovsky Polaroids, Stanley Kubrick and Manoel de Oliveira, the open-air screening of ‘Nosferatu’ and ‘Metropolis’ and the performance of ‘Nathan the Wise’, and launches of the books of Michel Ciment, Serge Daney and many others.
This year’s fair, the 38th, promoted a major encounter with Spanish cinema. This year the poster, which has been designed by the most important filmmakers in the world over the years, was designed by Pedro Almodóvar, to whom the festival paid tribute with the presence of some of his most representative actors and the screening of all his films, which were restored. The festival also included the FOCO ESPAÑA section showing some of the most interesting current Spanish feature-length and short films.
The official programme featured two exhibitions in which AC/E took part: ‘La Dama de Corinto’ (The lady of Corinth) by José Luis Guerín and ‘México Fotografiado por Luis Buñuel’ (Mexico photographed by Luis Buñuel), the latter with the support of the Filmoteca española and Acción Cultural Española.
In conjunction with the ICAA, Cinema do Brasil and ANCINE, the festival organised a coproduction meeting between Brazil and Spain from 24 to 26 October, which was attended by producers, directors and sales agents from both countries.
