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Until next October 12th, the Rio Festivalone of the largest film events in Brazil and Latin America, presents its 27th edition, which allows the seventh art enthusiasts and enthusiasts to check out hundreds of unpublished productions, works by consecrated directors and new talents in sessions distributed throughout Rio de Janeiro.

Then the Rolling Stone Brazil Lists some of the main National Productions and international to keep an eye on Rio 2025 Festivalincluding The secret agentnew feature of Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau) Starring by Wagner Moura (Marighella), which will represent Brazil in the race for the Oscar 2026, and After huntingnovelty of Luca Guadagnino (Rivals), chosen to open the new edition of the festival, with comments from Henrique NascimentoCinema Editor of the Site. Check it out:

After hunting

Synopsis:

In After huntinga university professor is involved in an ethical and professional crisis when a student accuses another teacher, her longtime friend, of sexual assault. While conflicts in campus They intensify, the teacher’s secrets threaten to surface, testing their limits between loyalty, justice and conviction.

Brief Comment:

Amending one feature behind the other since 2017, when it gained prominence with Call me by your name, Luca Guadagnino Holds over the actress’s debut script Nora Garrett and delivers a suspense up to its latest releases, Rivals and Queerboth from 2024.

After hunting It presents a generational conflict based on a matter that crosses generations becoming even more complicated. There are no simple answers to a case of sexual aggression and the feature Gaddagninum It works rightly on this, inserting new questions – such as the victim’s profile, a black and lesbian girl, but born inside a rich family, and the aggressor, a straight white man, who struggled to achieve her professional prominent position – and making the viewer question the two versions with the same intensity.

There is no single version to consider and the issue ends up falling on Soul imhoff (Julia Roberts, The world after us), the university professor who finds herself in the middle of the conflict between the victim, her best student Maggie Price (AYO EDEBIRI, The bear), and the aggressor, one of his intimate friends, the assistant teacher Hank Gibson (Andrew Garfield, Every time we have).

Progressive when it comes to defending their own rights in a world dominated by men just like your colleague, Soul It proves to be quite conservative when the conflict arises. Faithfully tied to her routine, the teacher hits the maintenance of the status quo “After all, how to be right in an incorrect world?” “Because it seems to fear that your life perfectly built go through the air.”

In the end, without trivializing a delicate and extremely important issue, After hunting focuses on your solution in Soul And its motivation in the case, which adds a new perspective and further expands a debate that, unfortunately, already extends through Eras.

If I had legs, I would kick you

Synopsis:

Node thriller comic If I had legs, I would kick youa mother finds herself on the brink of collapse by dealing with her daughter’s mysterious disease, her husband’s absence and problems in her home, who forcing her to live in a hotel. Without any support, it deals with frustration, despair and increasing isolation, in an attempt to solve its situation, which only gets worse with every passing moment.

Brief Comment:

If I had legs, I would kick you It is a production that abuses its narrative possibilities to justify its proposal. Each new mishaps on the way of Beautiful (Rose Byrne, Platonic love) falls like a bomb, increasing its stress and tiredness levels to a point where it is impossible to understand how it can continue without, in fact, to collapse.

Written and directed by Mary Bronstein – which also makes a tip as the family therapist of Beautiful, Dra. Spring – The feature projects all the tension and stress of the character on the viewer: it is almost two hours following the situation getting worse through a closed camera in the protagonist’s despair and combined with a dark and unveiled photograph that make the experience uncomfortable and suffocating.

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Also read: ‘After hunting’, ‘Hamnet’ and more international highlights at the Rio 2025 festival

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