Budding
screenplay
João Iglesias
direction
João Iglesias
production
Joelma Gonzaga
production company
Laranjeiras Filmes
Filmes
Competitive | Features
The Metamorphosis of Birds
Portugal
Catarina Vasconcelos
There May Be Crowds Among Us
Brazil
Pedro Maia de Brito, Aiano Bemfica
Endless Night
Spain
Eloy Enciso
Los Lobos
Mexico
Samuel Kishi
Light in the Tropics
Brazil
Paula Gaitán
Nasir
India, Netherlands, singapore
Arun Karthick
The Viewing Booth
Israel, United States of America
Ra’anan Alexandrowicz
Un Film Dramatique
France
Eric Baudelaire
Victoria
Belgium
Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth de Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere
Competitive | Shorts
Algo-Rhythm
Austria, Senegal, United Kingdom
Manu Luksch
A Street Under
Brazil
Tomás von der Osten
The Martyr
Spain
Fernando Pomares
The Silence of the River
Peru
Francesca Canepa
Sing Along
Brazil
Sávio Fernandes, Muniz Filho
Perpetual Night
Portugal, France
Pedro Peralta
Panthers
Spain
Erika Sanchez
Shānzhài Screens
France
Paul Heintz
New Views
Now
Brazil
Dea Ferraz
The Year of the Discovery
Spain, Switzerland
Luis López Carrasco
Los Conductos
Brazil, Colombia, France
Camilo Restrepo
Pajeú
Brazil
Pedro Diógenes
Uppercase Print
Romania
Radu Jude
Was Bleibt | Šta Ostaje | What Remains / Revisited
Germany, Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina
Clarissa Thieme
Other Views | Features
The Arrow and the Uniform
Brazil
Miguel Antunes Ramos
The Pink Indian Against the Invisible Beast: Noel Nutels Battle
Brazil
Tiago Carvalho
Amazon Mirror
Brazil
Fernando Segtowick
Oroslan
Slovenia, Czech Republic
Matjaz Ivanisin
Corporate Accountability
Argentina
Jonathan Perel
Chronicle of Space
India
Akshay Indikar
After the Crossing
France, Belgium, Burkina Faso
Joël Akafou
Trouble
United Sattes of America, United Kingdom
Mariah Garnett
Night Shot
Chile
Carolina Moscoso Briceño
Who Is Afraid of Ideology?
Lebanon, Syria, Kurdistan
Marwa Arsanios
Other Views | Shorts
Girls Grow Up Drawing Horses
United States of America
Joanie Wind
A Fire In The Sun
Spain
Pepe Sapena
Lonely Rivers
Spain, France
Mauro Herce
The Wolf Kids
Cuba
Otávio Almeida
Nonsense Guerrila’s Manual
Brazil
Joacélio Batista
Mary, Mary, So Contrary
Singapore
Nelson Yeo
Memby
Brazil
Rafael Castanheira Parrode
Inner Self
Iran
Mohammad Hormozi
Playback
Argentina
Agustina Comedi
Riff-Raff
Brazil
Mariah Teixeira, Nanda Félix
Alien
South Korea
Jegwang Yeon
California Dreaming
Cambodia
Sreylin Meas
The Golden Buttons
Russia
Alex Evstigneev
Focus
Mr. Leather
Brazil
Daniel Nolasco
Paulistas
Brazil
Daniel Nolasco
Dry Wind
Brazil
Daniel Nolasco
Special Screenings
The Tango of the Widower and It’s Distorting Mirror
Chile
Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento
Nardjes A.
Algeria, France, Germany, Brazil, Qatar
Karim Aïnouz
Mirada Paranaense
The Soul of Motion
Brazil
Juslaine Abreu-Nogueira, Eduardo Baggio
The Woman I Am
Brazil
Nathália Tereza
Her Against All Odds
Brazil
Pedro Vigeta Lopes, Pâmela Regina Kath, Mickaelle Lima Souza, Lívia Zanuni
Walking Through
Brazil
Débora Zanatta
Cancha – Sunday Is Soccer Day
Brazil
Welyton Crestani
Skin Color
Brazil
Larissa Barbosa
Following My Blood
Brazil
Gabriel Borges
Exhumation of Art
Brazil
Maurício Ramos Marques
Half Moon In Me
Brazil
Dê Kelm, Débora Evellyn Olimpio
Napo
Brazil
Gustavo Ribeiro
We Will Be Heard
Brazil
Larissa Nepomuceno
Brazilian Views | Features
A Bruddah’s Mind
Brazil
Déo Cardoso
Blood Sings
Brazil
Jorge Polo, Petrus de Bairros
The Horse
Brazil
Rafhael Barbosa, Werner Salles
Fakir
Brazil
Helena Ignez
Sertania
Brazil
Geraldo Sarno
A Yellow Animal
Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique
Felipe Bragança
Yãmĩyhex: The Woman-Spirit
Brazil
Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali
Brazilian Views | Shorts
The White Death of the Black Wizard
Brazil
Rodrigo Ribeiro
Rooted
Brazil
Juliana Nascimento, Gabriele Roza
Unliveable
Brazil
Matheus Farias, Enock Carvalho
Mãtãnãg, The Enchanted One
Brazil
Shawara Maxakali, Charles Bicalho
I Have Another Story to Tell
Brazil
Mariana Campos
The Word Became Flesh
Brazil
Ziel Karapotó
The Last Romantics of the World
Brazil
Henrique Arruda
Júri
Competitive
Cynthia García Calvo
With a BA in journalism, she was chief editor of LatAm cinema for eight years. Likewise, she worked as a film, television and videoclip producer in Argentina and Chile. In 2017 she founded the production company CYAN, responsible for the executive production of Medea, by Alexandra Latishev. She is currently developing various projects in different Latin American countries. She is Director of Programming at FEMCINE, and Director of Programming and co-founder of AMOR International LGBT+ Film Festival in Chile.
Nicolas Feodoroff
Nicolas Feodoroff, graduated in aesthetics, is an art and film critic, programmer, curator. He is programmer and member of the selection commitee at FIDMarseille since 2006, and is in charge of the FIDCampus programme. He also teaches at Marseilles Fine Art School (ESADMM-Luminy), and regularly contributes to other structures dedicated to cinema and contemporary art (MuCEM, BAL-Paris, Mac-Marseille, ENSP-Arles…) and have been jury member of many internationational film festivals.
Tatiana Carvalho Costa
Professor and researcher in Communication and Cinema. PhD student in Social Communication at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), professor at Centro Universitário UNA (Belo Horizonte), and coordinator of the PRETANÇA university outreach project. At UFMG, she is a participating member in the study/research groups Poetics of Experience and CORAGEM – Communication, Race and Gender and a collaborating member of NUH – Human Rights and LGBT Citizenship Center. She participates in the movement segunda PRETA and serves as a collaborator in film festivals and film clubs.
New Views / Brazilian Views
Gerwin Tamsma
Gerwin Tamsma is senior programmer for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), and currently a member of the festival’s artistic committee overseeing the feature films’ programming. Working with IFFR since 1996, he has curated various retrospectives and thematic programmes. Before becoming involved with IFFR in 1996, he worked as a critic and editor.
Haruka Hama
Since 2001, working with the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival as coordinator and the director of Tokyo Office from 2015. Besides YIDFF, involved with distribution of important art films like Pedro Costa, Kidlat Tahimik, and Takamine Go at Cinematrix. Stayed in Latin America as a fellow under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artist 2013-2014. Curator for the Film Program at the Aichi Triennale 2016.
James Lattimer
James Lattimer has been part of the Berlinale Forum selection committee since 2011 and joined the Viennale as a programming consultant in 2018. He is also the guest curator for the 2020 edition of Documenta Madrid. He co-directed the short All Still Orbit with Dane Komljen and co-wrote his new feature After Water. He has written for Cinema Scope, Sight and Sound, The Brooklyn Rail, and Fireflies. He is co-editor of Textur, a new series on contemporary directors published by the Viennale.
Other Views
Gil Baroni
Gil Baroni is a director, producer, screenwriter, and partner in the production company Beija Flor Filmes. He has been making films addressing the LGBTQIA+ universe, with emphasis on the award-winning feature film Alice Júnior (2019), which premiered internationally at the Generation Section of the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, in addition to being selected for renowned film festivals in Brazil, among them the competitive section of the 52nd Brasília Film Festival.
Maíra Bühler
Maíra Bühler is an anthropologist and filmmaker. She directed the film Diz a Ela Que Me Viu Chorar, which premiered at True/False Film Fest in the United States and won the best film award in the international competitive section at Olhar de Cinema International Film Festival, the Special Jury Prize at the Havana Festival, Library Prize, at Cinéma Du Réel, and Best Film at the Uruguay International Film Festival. Maíra is also the co-director of the films A Vida Privada dos Hipopótamos, Ela Sonhou que eu Morri, and Elevado 3.5.
Shai Heredia
Shai Heredia, filmmaker and curator, is the founding director of Experimenta, the moving image art biennial of India. She has curated programs at film festivals and art venues worldwide. Her films I Am Micro (2012) and An Old Dog’s Diary (2015), have received critical acclaim, been exhibited widely and won International awards. Heredia was the Programmer of the 65th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (NYC). Based in Bangalore, Heredia teaches at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
Jury AVEC-PR
Damián Sainz
Born in Havana, graduated in cinema from the University of Arts, Cuba, and from the EICTV with a degree in documentary direction. His films, focused on LGBTQ culture in the island and Cuban youth, have been selected and awarded in several international film festivals. Sainz is a professor and an advisor of documentary film at the EICTV. He organizes and curates Cineclub CUIR, an independent project of film exhibition in Cuba, Mexico and Spain with a clear queer, feminist and antiracist vision.
Ester Marçal Fér
Professor in the Cinema and Audiovisual Course at the Federal University of Latin American Integration – UNILA. Holds a BA in Image and Sound from UFSCar and a Master’s in Communication from Cásper Líbero. She is a founding partner of the production company Filmes de Abril Produções Audiovisuais, for which she made the documentaries Variante (2010), A terceira margem do Rio Unini (2012), and Tooro Nagashi. She also worked as a sound director. She teaches screenwriting and television and coordinates the Cineclube Cinelatino outreach project.
Vanessa Vieira
Actress, cultural producer, and film director. She holds a BA in Cinema from Unespar and a BA in History from the Maringá State University. She directed the documentaries De Lá pra Cá (2015) (2015) and Tia Mide: Uma Mulher do Meu Paraná (2016). She has worked across multiple roles for 20 years in pursuit of narratives that envision the construction of new imaginaries. Member of the production team at Festival Griot, founding member of MAP – Women in the Parana Audiovisual, and associate of APAN – Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals.
Jury ABRACCINE
Daniel Herculano
Daniel Herculano has been a member of Abraccine since 2015, and a member of Fipresci since 2018 (International Federation of Film Critics), and is one of the founders of the Ceará Association of Film Critics (Aceccine). He was one of the authors responsible for the books 100 Melhores Filmes Brasileiros, Documentário Brasileiro – 100 Filmes Essenciais, Animação Brasileira – 100 Filmes Essenciais, and Curta Brasileiro – 100 Filmes Essenciais. Between 2013 and 2016 he was the editor for the entertainment section at Tribuna do Ceará/UOL, film columnist at Band News FM (Fortaleza-CE), and film critic for O Povo Online/Jornal O Povo (2006 to 2013 and in 2018). He is currently a Publisher for Clube Cinema (www.clubecinema.com.br), and curator for www.clubebox.com. He has been writing on cinema since 1995, when he debuted in the newspaper Meio Norte (PI/MA).
Stephania Amaral
Stephania Amaral holds a Master’s degree and is currently a Doctoral student in Language Studies at CEFET-MG, where she researches horror cinema created by Brazilian women filmmakers. She is a member of the research groups Literatécnica and Tecnopoética. Former member of Cinema em Cena, she is a podcaster, columnist, and writer and has participated in several episodes of Cinematório, among other programs. Since 2016, she is a member of Feito por Elas (Made by Her), a project that discusses the work of women in the audiovisual sector. Member of the Brazilian Association of Film Critics (Abraccine) and Elviras – Collective of Women Film Critics.
Susy Freitas
Susy Freitas was born in Manaus, Amazonas. She is as a film critic at the Cine Set website, a professor in the field of Communication, a journalist, and writer. She has been a member of Abraccine since 2017 and participated in the following publications of the association: Animação Brasileira – 100 Filmes Essenciais, Documentário Brasileiro – 100 Filmes Essenciais, Curta Brasileiro – 100 Filmes Essenciais, and Trajetória da Crítica de Cinema no Brasil. She is also one of the organizers of the book Cine Set e a Crítica Cinematográfica no Amazonas.
Curitiba_Lab
The Magic of Bees
screenplay
Bea Gerolin
direction
Bea Gerolin
production
Jandir Santin
Viviane Ferreira
production company
Odun Filmes & Enseada Cultural
Iguaraguá
screenplay
Isa Vitório
Noá Bonoba
Bárbara Cabeça
direction
Isa Vitório
Noá Bonoba
production
Petrus de Bairros
production company
Lambeolhos Produções
London
screenplay
Victor Di Marco
Márcio Picolo
direction
Victor Di Marco
Márcio Picolo
production
Laura Moglia
production company
Proa Cultural
Blossom Boy
screenplay
Bruna de Vasconcellos Torres
Julia Katharine
direction
Julia Katharine
production
Luana Furquim
André Meirelles Collazzo
production company
Prosperidade Content
Hater
screenplay
Issis Valenzuela
direction
Issis Valenzuela
production
Joyce Prado
production company
Tabuleiro Filmes
Seminários
9th Olhar de Cinema Programming Team
An open conversation with the curatorship team of the 9th Olhar de Cinema IFF about this year’s selection, films, and events.
Show Me The Fund - Mapping International Funds and Opportunities
Launch of the 5th edition of Show me The Fund (mapping international funds for Brazilian producers) and a conversation with Ivan Melo and Tati Leite regarding opportunities and their experience with foreign funds.
Challenging Our Perspectives and Attaining the Future
The contemporary audiovisual sector and the financial support mechanisms for strengthening women’s creative production.
Representativity and the Superpowers of Cinema
The power of cinema narratives and their reverberations in society.
Open Conversation with Daniel Nolasco
The celebrated filmmaker in this year’s Focus Section will talk about his work, both the feature films screening at Olhar as well as his short films, and will present selected excerpts from films that influenced or marked his work in cinema.
"The Silence Is Over" #MeTooBrasil
The MAP invites #MeTooBrasil – a movement emerging from the recent collective accusations of sexual abuse and violence in the audiovisual sector.
Masterclass Angela Schanelec - Film Frames: Composition, Rythm and Perception
Schanelec’s cinema reveals precision and force. A scene lasts just the right amount of time and the events therein follow their own rhythm. One of the mysteries of cinema lies in understanding when one shot should be replaced by another. How can we know? What do we desire? What do we seek in duration? All these elements are underpinned by poetry, which the German filmmaker crafted for almost three decades. One of the greatest filmmakers of our time is ready to talk about her work.
