CinemaSaiba which Brazilian films will be at the 78th edition of the Cannes Festival

The 78th edition of the Cannes Festival begins this Tuesday, May 13, and Brazil is in evidence at the event, which is one of the most prestigious in cinema. This year, the country is honored at Marché du Film, a kind of movie market that occurs at the festival.

In addition to celebrating the partnership between Brazil and France, we will also be very well represented in many ways, from the competitor to Palma de Ouro, The secret agentnew movie Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau), the presence of filmmakers in juries of show parallel to the main competition. Check out what our representatives will be:

Golden Palm Dispute

Kleber Mendonça Filhoborn in Recife, again competing in the Golden Palm, the Festival’s main prize, with The secret agentsix years after Bacurau (2019) To have taken the jury prize, a kind of third place. That year, the South Korean Parasite (2019) won the top prize.

The news is set in the 1970s and revolves around Marcelo (Wagner Moura), a university professor who runs away from Sao Paulo to Recife to escape government agents who seek him for subversive activities. However, he soon discovers that he is being spied on his neighbors.

Cannes Classics

At the Cannes Classics show, Lily Ferreira (Serra das Almas) and Karen Harley present For Vigo Voy!documentary that plunges into the work of Cacá Dieguesdied in February this year.

Quinzen Directors

The director Karim aïnouz (MOTEL DESTINATION) will be mentor of the 10th edition of Director’s Factory of the Forty Directors, which aims to emerge new international film talents, allowing young places and filmmakers to create together. Check out the four participating short films:

• Blind spotfrom LUCIANA VIEIRA

The Brazilian LUCIANA VIEIRA and the Cuban Marcel Beltrán Drive the short film that accompanies Marta, engineer in charge of the security cameras of the port of Fortaleza. In a hostile environment of female invisibility, Marta decides to break with silence.

• The cowgirl, the dancer and the pigfrom Stella Carneiro

Directed by the Brazilian Stella Carneiro in partnership with Portuguese Ary Zarathe Western Queer with hints of surrealism follows a cowgirl trans who visits his beloved – a showgirl Black – trapped under the control of a bloodthirsty pig.

• How to read the windfrom Bernardo Ale Abinader

The Brazilian Bernardo Ale Abinader and the French Sharon Hakim build a narrative on inheritance and ancestral wisdom on Cassiaa traditional healer who prepares his young disciple, Marjorieto receive your legacy.

• The mangrove beastfrom Wax

The Brazilian Wax and the Israeli Sivan Noam Shimon They address faith and myth from the legend of powerful men thirsty for descent. When one of its victims evokes a mythical creature – the beast – the myth becomes fury and justice, crossing spirituality, revenge and forces of nature.

Marcelo Caetano in the Jury of Queer Palm

The director MARCELO CAETANO Returns to Cannes, now as a jury, after displaying Baby at the competitive show of the 63rd Critical Week last year, in which he saw his film consecrated the winner of the best revelation actor award Ricardo Teodoro.

He will be part of Queer Palm’s jury, which will be chaired by the French filmmaker Christophe Honoré (Love Songs). The Award recognizes LGBTQIAPN+ theme movies selected for the festival.

Tribute to Marianna Brennand

The Brazilian Director Marianna Brennand (Manas) will be honored at the Cannes 2025 Festival with the reward Emerging Talent Award, an important international distinction aimed at new female voices in the cinema. Brennand will receive a scholarship of 50 thousand euros, a support from the Women In Motion so that women women can develop their long seconds.

Co -productions

Brazil will also be present with productions alongside other countries in shows parallel to the main. Check out which:

• The laughter and the knifeproduced by Tatiana Leite

Directed by the Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho (of The factory of nothing), The laughter and the knife It is a co -production between Portugal, Brazil, Romania and France, displayed at the UN Right Regard show. Representing Brazil, the producer participates Tatiana Leitefrom Bubbles Project, the director of photography Ivo Lopes Araújothe automaker KAREN AKERMAN and the sound editor Pablo Lamar. In all, 31 Brazilian professionals are part of the film team.

Inspired by the homonymous song of Tom Zéthe feature follows Sérgio’s trajectory, a Portuguese environmental engineer who moves to an African metropolis to work in an infrastructure project. There, he gets involved in a complex affective relationship with the characters Diára and Gui – the latter played by the Brazilian actor Jonathan Guilherme. THE Tatiana Leite Producerwhich is part of the film team, also signs productions acclaimed as Malu (2024), from Pedro Freireand Rule 34 (2022), from Julia Murat.

• The Black Snakeproduced by Paola Wink and Jessica Luz

Under the direction of the French Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux, The black snake It is a co -production between the company from Rio Grande do Sul Vulcana Cinema, France and Colombia. With Brazilian production signed by Jessica Luz and Paola Winkthe feature debut at the Parallel show, focused on independent cinema in Cannes. The plot follows Ciro’s return home after years of absence in the Colombian desert of Tatacoa – a scenario at the same time delicate and hypnotizing.

La RéSIDENCE

It is not known to everyone, but the Cannes Festival has a script development project, with individualized guidance and meetings with film industry professionals. This is La Résidence du Festival of Cannes, a program that has hosted more than 250 filmmakers from about 60 countries-including names like the Brazilian Karim aïnouz and the Spanish Carla Simónwhich competes for the Golden Palm this year.

Rodrigo Ribeyro represents Brazil at the 49th edition of the program after being awarded at Cinéfondation in 2021. During his stay at the festival, Rodrigo will develop the feature Mugangawho accompanies two friends who decide to escape an ordinary working day in Sao Paulo to explore the Cantareira forest. However, while in the woods, a nuclear attack hits the city, turning it into a radioactive zone. Isolated from the world, they need to survive in the midst of nature – a journey that mixes mystery, science fiction and self -discovery.

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