CinemaWith the theme ‘What cinema is this?’, the 28th Tiradentes Exhibition pays homage to actress Bruna LinzmeyerEvent opens the 2025 Brazilian audiovisual calendar in the historic city of Minas Gerais between January 24th and February 1st; the program is free today at 2:55 pm

THE 28th Tiradentes Film Festival opens the 2025 audiovisual calendar, between January 24th and February 1st, transforming the historic city of Minas Gerais into the capital of Brazilian cinema and a meeting point for filmmakers, critics, researchers, audiovisual and cultural professionals, academics, students and spectators.

There are nine days of free and comprehensive programming that presents the public with the diversity of Brazilian audiovisual production in more than 100 films in previews and thematic screenings.

THE Tiradentes Show maintains its essence as a launching platform for contemporary Brazilian cinema and as a space for innovations and concerns in national cinematography, discussions on public policies in audiovisual. Each edition brings news with new approaches, thematic sessions, reveals new talents, provokes new discussions and presents trends. It plays a prominent role in the construction of a contemporary panorama of Brazilian cinema, reflecting current social, cultural and aesthetic themes. – Raquel Hallakgeneral coordinator of Tiradentes Film Show

What Cinema Is This?

With each edition, the efforts of Show is to map a varied and numerous set of films, practices and ideas, to know and recognize scattered and different works, which in most cases would not be made public otherwise than in a festival space. Based on concerns related to the multiplicity of Brazilian cinemas, the event’s curators adopted the theme “What cinema is this?” for 2025.

There is a numerous and complex production and it is necessary to look at it, not only as an exercise in contemplating beauty, intrigue and singularity, but in an effort to see and discuss these films, which, from an ethical point of view, is to incur responsibility from what you can see. It is not possible to build a new Brazilian audiovisual by ignoring the experiences that already exist, often outside public policies and in many cases separated from the market. – Francis Vogner dos Reiscuratorial coordinator

Tiradentes became a reference for programming a cinema that focuses on the creative process, freedom of expression and the imagination of new worlds. The challenge of the theme “What cinema is this?” One wonders where this production is now. For the curator, the question of the theme encourages us to look at a multiplicity of productions, often unknown or outside the traditional circuit.

Tribute to Bruna Linzmeyer

In 2025, the Show pays homage to the actress Bruna Linzmeyerone of the most representative names of his generation.

Born in Santa Catarina, she began her artistic career at the age of 16, when she moved to São Paulo to study theater. He debuted on television in 2010, in the series After all, what do women want?from Luiz Fernando Carvalhoand accumulates notable roles in soap operas such as Gabriela (2012), Love of Life (2013) and Pantanal (2022).

In the cinema, Bruna has feature films — with films like Jellyfish (2023), by Anita Rocha da Silveiraand City; Field (2024), by Juliana Rojas — and short, like Lavenderfrom Sabrina Fidalgo (2019), A Wild Patience Brought Me Herefrom Eri Sarmet (2021, best short film in Focus Show of the 25th Tiradentes Film Festival) and If I’m here it’s for mysteryfrom Clari Ribeiro (2024, selected for the Shown at the 27th Tiradentes Film Festival).

The tribute to Bruna Linzmeyer celebrates not only her career as an actress, but also her engagement with inventive, poetic and provocative cinema. “She is not only a talented actress, but a woman of her time, who is linked to struggles and the creation of an art of pleasure and rebellion,” he said Kings. “Artist of courage and assertive choices, Bruna adds rebellious charisma, rare photogenicity and a changing talent to each project he does.”

In addition to the presence of Bruna Linzmeyerthe Show will promote a selection of titles with the actress to be shown throughout the event in person and on the online platform. Among the titles are: The Cold Wind that the Rain Bringsfrom Neville d’Almeida; baby (2024), by Marcelo Caetano; A Wild Patience Brought Me Here (2021), by Eri Sarmet; If I’m here it’s for mystery (2024), by Clari Ribeiro; and Lavender (2019), from Sabrina Fidalgo.