‘The Secret Agent’ and more national highlights at the Rio 2025 Festival

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America, presents its 27th edition, which allows the seventh art enthusiasts and enthusiasts to check out hundreds of unpublished productions, works by consecrated directors and new talents in sessions distributed throughout Rio de Janeiro.

To help with the cinematic marathon, the Rolling Stone Brazil prepared a list with National Productions 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. Check it out:

The secret agent

The secret agent It 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.

Streets of Glory

In Streets of Glorya teacher moves to Rio de Janeiro and, after suffering a great loss, ends up obsessed with a call boy. However, when he disappears, the boy begins an investigation that leads him along the same path of his fixation, which almost costs his life.

Narcissa’s inheritance

Narcissa’s inheritance It tells the story of a woman who, haunted by the memories of her newly failed mother, decides to sell the childhood house who inherited and share the money with her brother. However, during the process of cleaning the property, she eventually discovers a different inheritance than she imagined.

Nighttime

In Nighttimean ambitious actor and a rising politician live a case in secrecy and, together, find fetish for sex in public places. As they approach fame, more intense becomes the desire to endanger themselves.

Honestin

Mixed documentary and fiction, Honestin Tell the story of HONESTINO GUIMARÃESStudent Leader of Generation 68, UNE President and UNB student. Arrested five times, the young man was kidnapped at age 26 in 1973, and is one of the missing of the Brazilian military dictatorship.

The condor conspiracy

In The condor conspiracya journalist decides to investigate the death of former Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitscheck In a car accident in August 1976. However, the death of another former president, João Goulart, in December, make her suspect a conspiracy.

The flesh itself

The flesh itself It tells the story of three deserting soldiers during the Paraguayan War in 1870, fighting for survival in their way. On this journey, they find a isolated house on the border, inhabited only by a farmer and a young woman. However, what, at first, seemed a safe haven ends up becoming a larger nightmare than the war from which they fled.

The life of each

The life of each portrays the relationship between a PM commander and his children over three decades. Created in a toxic family environment, forged by the rudeness of the military company, children try to survive and present that defending themselves is an act of rebellion, capable of turning fear into strength.

Love Kills

Set in a center of São Paulo devastated by crack, Love Kills He accompanies a young vampire, who haunts a dirty coffee and ends up enchanting a naive waiter. As the boy discovers her secrets, just like the city’s underworld, he begins to attract himself to a dangerous world of immortal intrigue, challenging his own morality.

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

• The condor conspiracy

• The flesh itself

• The life of each

• Nighttime

• Narcissa’s inheritance

• Honestin

• Love Kills

• The secret agent

• Streets of Glory