Festival do Rio 2023

When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her.

A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.

The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.

The flight of a rugby team crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survive the crash find themselves in one of the world's toughest environments to survive.

An Indian-American teenager struggling with her cultural identity has a falling out with her former best friend and, in the process, unwittingly releases a demonic entity that grows stronger by feeding on her loneliness.

Luis, an 18-year-old boy with Indigenous roots, enters the Heroic Military College in hopes of ensuring a better future. There, he encounters a rigid and institutionally violent system designed to turn him into a perfect soldier

Onoff is a world-famous writer who has not published a new book for some time and increasingly revels in his reclusive personality. One night during a storm he is picked up by the police without any kind of identification or memory of recent events, perplexing the authorities. During the interrogation, a literature-loving inspector tries to work out what happened during that afternoon and immerses himself in the mind of his admired author to reveal a mysterious crime. Inspired by the film A Pure Formality (1994), by Giuseppe Tornatore.

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across Brazil, a young filmmaker is forced to spend lockdown with his father, who he hasn't spoken to in over ten years. But as they get closer, strange things start to happen.

Vera, imprisoned at a military fortress during the dictatorship, 1969, gets to know a soldier, Armando, who, in the face of torture, decides to take messages from Vera to his family and establishes an affective relationship with D. Maria, Vera's mother. Despite the horrors of the time, the film works on this possibility of a dialog between two lonely and lost human beings, a high-middle-class lady and a young southerner of rural origin. Today, Vera, aged 70, is a professor at the university, and debate with her students about politics, forgiveness and Hannah Arendt.

Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.

Kheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. It's an opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to the island they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances.

The movie is set in Morro do Vidigal, one of Rio de Janeiro's most famous favelas. Rita needs to give her son Léo a party that means a lot to her. Rita discovers that all the money for the event, which she had been saving for months, has been stolen by Dudu, her husband, who has run up a dangerous debt with the locals and needs to pay it off urgently to preserve his life. After this disappointment, Rita, who earns her living working on the beach, has to race against time and the plot unfolds through Rita's search for ways to make Léo's party possible and save the life of her son's father. To do this, she will rely on her network of friends.

Film about the Bahian singer dives into the moment when shy Gracinha becomes Gal Costa, during the violent, innovative and mind-blowing years that helped shape Brazil's greatest singer.

Enea, Aeneas, pursues the myth that their name bears. He does it in the company of Valentino, a newly christened aviator. Together with the drug dealing and the parties, the two boys share their youth.

The blossoming relationship between three young adults in their twenties.

A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.

Two brothers and their wives meet for dinner to discuss how to deal with a violent crime committed by their children.

A boy, bruised by life, finds his salvation through the love of his dogs.

A mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.

An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

Through her child's eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest.

A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago.

A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus.