Rio 2025 Festival Movies to keep an eye on

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America, presents its 27th edition, which allows the seventh art enthusiasts and enthusiasts to check out hundreds of unpublished productions, works by consecrated directors and new talents in sessions distributed throughout Rio de Janeiro.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

After hunting

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. Watch the trailer:

Die, love

In Die, loveAfter becoming a mother, an aspiring writer decides to leave New York and look for a calmer life in her husband’s childhood home in a rural area of ​​Montana. However, she begins to face feelings of isolation and psychological suffering, which ends up leading her marriage to a disturbing and unpredictable territory.

If I had legs, I would kick you

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 resolve your situation.

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.

Ballad of a player

Netflix feature, Ballad of a player It presents a indebted man with a turbulent past living hidden in Macao. Refugee between casinos and illusions, he knows a mysterious woman who can offer a chance of redemption – if his bets do not destroy him before.

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.

Alpha

In Alphafrom Julia Ducournau (Titane), the life of a 13 -year -old teenager who lives with his solo mother gains scary contours when she appears with an arm tattoo, made in the epidemic of a deadly virus that spreads to petrifying people.

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.

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.

Hamnet: Life before Hamlet

Hamnet: Life before Hamlet accompany Agnes (Jessie Buckley, Among women), wife of William Shakespeare (MESCAL PAUL), while facing the pain of the loss of your only child, Hamnetwhile revealing the background for the creation of Hamletthe most famous work of the English playwright.

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

• The condor conspiracy

• alpha

• Nighttime

• After hunting

• Rio Festival

• Rio 2025 Festival

• Hamnet

• Hamnet: Life before Hamlet

• Julia Ducournau

• Kleber Mendonça Filho

• Love Kills

• Luca Guadagnino

• The secret agent

• Wagner Moura