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De 19 de outubro a 1º de novembro, aconteceu a tradicional Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo. Durante duas semanas, foram exibidos 394 títulos em 45 locais, entre cinemas, espaços culturais e museus espalhados pela capital paulista, incluindo projeções gratuitas e ao ar livre.
A seleção fez um apanhado do que o cinema contemporâneo mundial tem produzido, além de apresentar tendências, temáticas, narrativas e estéticas. A 41ª Mostra foi composta por seis seções: Homenagens, Apresentações Especiais, Foco Suíça, Competição Novos Diretores, Mostra Brasil e Perspectiva Internacional.
Born in Argentina in 1976. He studied image and sound design at the University of Buenos Aires and drama at the Metropolitan School of Dramatic Art, also in Buenos Aires. In 2002, he directed, wrote and produced his first feature film, Suddenly (2002), winner of the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. Later, he signed the direction of the features Meanwhile (2006), The Invisible Eye (2010, 34th Mostra) and Refugiado (2014). His most recent work, A Sort of Family (2017), winner of the Jury Prize for best screenplay at the San Sebastián Film Festival, will be presented at the 41st Mostra. Lerman is a founding partner of Campo Cine producing company and also acts as a theater and television director.
Director of the Espaço Itaú de Cinema, Adhemar Oliveira started his career in the 1980’s creating programs for the Cineclube Bixiga space, in São Paulo, and, a few years later, for Macunaíma and Estação Botafogo spaces, both in Rio de Janeiro. As a respected executive of film distribution and exhibition, he created the concept of arteplex rooms, which project both copywright films and blockbusters at the same place.
Born in Porto Alegre in 1959. Director and screenwriter, Ana Luiza Azevedo has a long career in movies and television. She directed the short films Three Minutes (1999) and Miss Cristina Loses Her Memory (2002, 26th Mostra), the feature film Before the World Ends (2010, 33rd Mostra) and the documentaries Liberation (1994, 18th Mostra) and Quem É Primavera das Neves (2017), co-directed by Jorge Furtado.
Born in São Paulo in 1976, Carolina Kotscho graduated in visual arts and works as a journalist and screenwriter. Her debut in cinema was the movie Two Sons of Francisco (2005), directed by Breno Silveira. She also wrote the documentaries Breaking the Taboo (2011), directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade and Cosmo Feilding-Mellen, and The Pilgrim (2014), directed by Daniel Augusto.
Di Moretti was born in São Paulo in 1961. Graduated in journalism and radio/TV, he works today as a screenwriter, professor and consultant. Amongst his best works are Latitute Zero (2001) and Cabra-Cega (2004), directed by Toni Venturi, Nossa Vida Não Cabe num Opala (2008), by Reinaldo Pinheiro, and Tropicália (2012), by Marcelo Machado. He co-directed the documentaries 23 Anos em 7 Segundos (2009), with Júlio Xavier, and A Última Estação (2012), with Marcio Curi.
Paulo Sacramento has a bachelor degree in cinema from the Arts and Communication Faculty at the University of São Paulo. He worked as an editor in several movies, such as The Ballroom (2008), by Laís Bodanzky, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009), by Anna Muylaert. He also directed short films, such as Ave (1992, 16th Mostra) and Juvenília (1994, 18th Mostra), the documentary Prisioner of the Iron Bars (2003), exhibited at the Venice Film Festival, and the film Riocorrente (2013, 38th Mostra).
Born in Israel in 1954. He works as a director, writer and producer. He graduated from the National Film School in Beaconsfield, England, in 1982. Three years later, in 1984, he directed his first feature film, On a Clear Day You Can See Damascus. His filmography also includes Cup Final (1991), Zohar Mediterranean Blues (1993), Vulcan Junction (1999) and Dancing Arabs (2014), all of them screened at Mostra. He won the Audience Award twice at the Locarno Film Festival with the features The Syrian Bride (2004, 28th Mostra) and The Human Resources Manager (2010). Lemon Tree (2008) was also awarded by the audience at the Berlin and San Sebastián Film Festivals. His film Shelter (2017) will be screened at the 41st Mostra.
Born in Germany in 1968, Handloegten spent all of his childhood and a good deal of his teen years abroad. The cities in which he has lived include São Paulo, where he stayed from 1974 to 1978. In 1985, he moved to Berlin and graduated at from German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). His directing debut was the feature film Paul Is Dead (2000, 24th Mostra). As a screenwriter, he collaborated with Wolfgang Becker in Goodbye, Lenin! (2003) and Achim von Borries in Love in Thoughts (2004, 28th Mostra). He also directed Learning to Lie (2003, 27th Mostra) and Summer Window (2011, 36th Mostra). The series Babylon Berlin, his most recent work, will be screened at the 41st Mostra.
Born in Portugal in 1968, Urbano studied economics at the Lisbon Technical University and started his artistic life approaching many forms of expression, like theater, music, video and cinema. In 1996 he co-founded the cultural cooperative Curtas Metragens that held the Festival of Vila do Conde of short films. In 2005, he joined the production company O Som e a Fúria, in which he worked on 22 features and 32 short films of directors such as Lucrecia Martel, F.J. Ossang and Petra Costa. Among his productions are Manoel de Oliveira’s The Old Man of Belem (2014), Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights (2015) and Tabu (2012), Ivo M. Ferreira’s Letters from War (2016), João Nicolau’s John From and The Portuguese Nun (2009), directed by Eugène Green, all screened at the Mostra.
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, Marina is a director, actress and TV presenter, having worked at MTV Brazil for 18 years, and four at TV Cultura. She graduated in Cinema from USP and directed, together with Jorge Espírito Santo in 1996, the short film Almoço Executivo, award winner of the Gramado Festival for best direction. Her debut directing a featured film was the documentary Person (2007), about her father, the filmmaker Luiz Sérgio Person (1936-1976). Her first fiction feature, California (2015), won the Youth Award for Best Brazilian Film at the 39th Mostra. As an actress she participated in films such as Bens Confiscados (2004, 24th Mostra), by Carlos Reichenbach, and Ballad of Return (2016, 40th Mostra), directed by Gustavo Rosa de Moura.
Born in Lambari, in Minas Gerais, Alcino Leite Neto is a journalist, film critic and editor of Três Estrelas, a publishing company of the Grupo Folha. He is graduated in journalism, at PUC-MG, and has a Master’s Degree in communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP, studying the work of the Italian director Roberto Rossellini. At Folha de S.Paulo, he worked as an editor for Ilustrada, —culture section of the paper— as a special reporter and as an international correspondent in Paris.
Born in Jundiaí in 1964, Beto Brant majored in cinema at FAAP, and made his first film, Belly Up, in 1997. He also directed Friendly Fire (1998), Delicate Crime (2005), Love According to B. Schianberg (2009) and I’d Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips (2012), all exhibited at Mostra. Pitanga (2016), co-directed by Camila Pitanga, won the Critic’s Award for Best Brazilian Film at the 40th Mostra.
Cristina Amaral was born in São Paulo and graduated from the University of São Paulo. She has edited over 60 titles, amongst short and featured films, of several directors, such as Alma Corsária (1993, 36th Mostra), directed by Carlos Reichenbach, A Hora Mágica (1999), by Guilherme de Almeida Prado, Serras da Desordem (2006) and Já Visto, Jamais Visto (2014), both directed by Andrea Tonacci, with whom she coordinated the production company Extrema Produção Artística.
Eliane Caffé was born in São Paulo in 1961. She started her career with the short films Arabesco (1990, 14th Mostra) and Caligrama (1995). In 1997 she directed her first film, Kenoma (22nd Mostra). She also directed The Storytellers (2003, 27th Mostra), The Midday Sun (2009), Critic’s Award winner of the 33rd Mostra for Best Brazilian Film, and Hotel Cambridge (2016), that won the Audience Award for Best Brazilian Fiction at the 40th Mostra.
Born in Recife in 1963. His first film, Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005), won the Best Movie Award at the 29th Mostra and was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Marcelo Gomes also directed I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You (2009, 33rd Mostra), with Karim Aïnouz, Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica (2012, 36th Mostra), The Man of the Crowd (2013, 37th Mostra), co-directed by Cao Guimarães, and Joaquim (2017).
Journalist, worked as an editor, writer and reporter in the Brazilian newspapers Folha de S.Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, Jornal da Tarde, Diário do Grande ABC and Gazeta Mercantil, and in the magazines IstoÉ, Animal and Carta Capital. PhD in social history from the University of São Paulo, she is the author of the books O Sonho Intacto and O Cineasta Historiador - O Humor Frio e o Filme Sábado, de Ugo Giorgetti.
Journalist, has a master in arts and film and he is a PhD in media and audiovisual processes from the University of São Paulo. He is presenter of the TV channel Arte 1, critic of the newspaper O Globo, collaborator of Folha de S.Paulo and of some publications in the area of education, such as the newspaper Mundo. He also works as an associated producer of the production company Parece Cinema. Among others, Rizzo is also the author of the books Cinema e Educação - 200 Filmes sobre a Escola e a Vida, Cinema e Psicanálise and 100 Melhores Filmes Brasileiros.
Graduated in social communication (film and video), he has a master in sciences of language, having as object of his research the contemporary horror cinema. In addition to his academic background, he also made courses of film journalism and theory, language and cinematographic criticism. He is one of the authors of the book 100 Melhores Filmes Brasileiros. Medeiros worked as a writer at the Pipoca Moderna website and currently is a collaborator of the site Getro.com.br.