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Make your schedule for the 29th BR Film Festival – São Paulo International Film Festival

Once again the BR Film Festival – São Paulo International Film Festival brings to the Brazilian public a selection of the best films of the world's cinema. It will be shown nearly 350 films (approximately 300 feature films), from more than 50 different countries.

Homage to great cinema's names such as Manoel de Oliveira, Roberto Rossellini and Victor Sjöström. Retrospectives and special exhibitions are also part of the program.

Retrospectives

Manoel de Oliveira

The Portuguese Manoel de Oliveira, the longest-lived filmmaker in action, comes to São Paulo to be honored by the 29th BR Film Festival – São Paulo International Film Festival. He will attend the exhibition of his most recent film Magic Mirror , and he will follow the exclusive retrospective of his complete filmography.

The Film Festival will also be launching the book Manoel de Oliveira , about the filmmaker, with interviews and analysis of his works. The book is the result of the partnership of São Paulo International Film Festival with the Cosac Naify publisher.

The 29th BR Film Festival – São Paulo International Film Festival also brings to Brazil an exclusive and unprecedented retrospective of the Swedish Victor Sjöström, considered by Bergman one of his inspiring masters. With an extensive filmography, Sjöström also worked in many films. It is as an actor, as a matter of fact, his only work in the screen to be shown in Brazil , as Professor Isak Borg, leading man of Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) , by Ingmar Bergman.

Homage

Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini is one of the honored of this festival edition. The Film Festival anticipates the celebration of his centennial – he would be 100 years old in 2006 – and makes special exhibitions of the film Roma, Città Aperta , preceded by the short film My Dad is 100 Years Old. The short film is directed by Guy Maddin, and it's written and performed by Isabella Rossellini, who pays a moving homage to her father. The film Viaggio in Italia , made by the filmmaker in 1953 and which has become one of the myths of the modern cinema, also will be exhibited.

It's Isabella Rossellini who signs the art of the commemorative poster of the 29th Film Festival, with cubist portrayal of the kiss, one of the most recurring scenes of the cinema's history. The actress is the new name in this gallery, enriched by posters already signed by great filmmakers like Aleksandr Sokúrov, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa and Emir Kusturica; and great artists such as Angeli, Guto Lacaz and Tomie Ohtake.

Victoria Abril

The Spanish cinema muse Victoria Abril is a special guest of the Film Festival and honors the public of São Paulo with the show of her first CD, “Putcheros do Brasil”, a homage to the Brazilian music.

In this single performance in Brazil, Victoria Abril sings the songs of her debut album, completely dedicated to successes composed by Chico Buarque, Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, and others. The show will be on the 28th of October, at the Sesc Pinheiros theater.

To honor Victoria Abril, the Film Festival will exhibit a selection of films in which she has acted. Among them, Kika and Sin Noticias de Dios.

Workshops and Discussions

São Paulo International Film Festival will promote and support, in this edition, workshops with national and international filmmakers and producers.

The enterprise is a way of approaching the public interested in the cinematographic technique and production of talented cinema's professionals.

To minister direction and production workshops, that will take place at FAAP, institution that supports the event, the 29th International Film Festival brings to São Paulo the celebrated filmmaker Danis Tanovic and the awarded producer Cedomir Kolar, director and producer of L'Enfer, which will be exhibited in this edition.

The Bosnian Danis Tanovic became worldwide famous in 2001, when his first film, No Man's Land was awarded in the main international film festivals . No Man's Land won the prizes of Best Screenplay, in Cannes , the Golden Globe and the Academy Award of Best Foreigner Film, among others. The film was exhibited at the 25th São Paulo International Film Festival and won the Public Prize.

Cedomir Kolar produces feature films and television series for more than 20 years. He has produced films as Arizona Dreams , by Emir Kusturica, Before the Rain (18th Film Festival), by Milcho Manchevski, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. He also produced Train of Life, by Radu Mihaileanu, winner of the Public Prize at the 22nd São Paulo International Film Festival, besides No Man's Land , 11'09''01 - September 11 e L'Enfer, in which he worked with Danis Tanovic.

The Motion Picture Association will accomplish the seminary “The Life of A Film in Two Days”, which will be supported by the São Paulo International Film Festival. Open to the public, specially to the partakers of the 29th BR Film Festival – Sao Paulo International Film Festival, the seminary will be ministered by the best professionals and authorities of the audiovisual industry in Brazil , like Hector Babenco, Patrícia Carvalho, and others.

Aiming to offer a panorama of the different stages of the long-length cinematographic production, from the screenplay elaboration to the film distribution. The seminary will take place at MIS – Sound and Image Museum, granted by the Culture Department of São Paulo State, on the 26th and 27th of October. For registering and further information, get in the site http://www.mpa-latinamerica.org.br or contact Jennifer Denhard, by email jennifer@mpaal.org.br .

MASP Open Space

For the second consecutive year, the BR Film Festival – São Paulo International Film Festival will exhibit free sessions at the MASP Open Space. The sessions will be thematic. All the films will be related to some literary work or discuss the literature theme. Feature films based on books as The Hours, Girl With a Pearl Earring and The Merchant of Venice are some of the titles in the program.

5th Youth Festival Year

Aiming to turn the cinema more accessible for the public schools' students, the Film Festival, along with the State's Education Department, promotes the 5th Youth Festival Year. There will be free sessions at the Memorial da América Latina , pre-scheduled with public schools for high school students.

As in the previous editions, the Youth Festival will have two daily sessions at the Cine Bombril, open to high school students that may present their student card.

Film Festival Club

The Film Festival Club will be lodged at Conjunto Nacional (2073, Paulista Avenue ). In this meeting point, the public and Film Festival friends will be able to attend events and discussions with directors, actors and movie's professionals. The place, designed by the scenographer Carla Caffé, will be open from 10 am to 11 pm, during the whole Festival.

Information

The public can find information about the program and events of the 29th BR Festival film – São Paulo International Film Festival in the site www.mostra.org or at the Film Festival Central, located at Conjunto Nacional (2073, Paulista Avenue)

Tickets and Packages

The tickets can be bought at the theaters, on the internet (Film Festival site or www.ingresso.com.br) or at the Film Festival Central, the only place where there will be sold special packages (20 or 40 tickets) and integral and special free pass (for sessions until 5:55 pm)

Holders of the Petrobras Card, will have a discount of 50% when buying two tickets for each session at the Film Festival theaters.

Clients of the Clube Folha have 15% discount when using the free pass.

The Film Festival Central will be open for sales and credentials on October 15th, from 10 am to 9 pm.

Exhibition Circuit

The Film Festival will be exhibited at Cine Bombril, Cineclube Vitrine, Cinemark Santa Cruz, Cine Morumbi Shopping, Cinesesc, Espaço Unibanco, Sala Cinemateca, Sala UOL de Cinema, Unibanco Arteplex and Reserva Cultural, besides the free sessions at Centro Cultural São Paulo, MIS – Sound and Image Museum, MASP Open Space, Faap – Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado and Memorial da América Latina.

Service

29th BR Film Festival – São Paulo International Film Festival
From October 21st to November 3rd, 2005

Film Festival Central

Conjunto Nacional – 2073, Paulista Avenue
Information only: from 10th to 14th of October: from 12 am to 6 pm.
Sales and Credentials: starting on 15th October: from 10 am to 9 pm.

Individual Tickets: From Monday to Thursday R$ 12,00
Individual Tickets: Friday, Saturday and Sunday R$ 14,00
Packages 20 R$ 110,00
Packages 40 R$ 200,00
Integral R$ 310,00
Integral Folha – 15% R$ 263,50
Special R$ 90,00
Special Folha – 15% R$ 76,50

Tickets also sold in the internet on the Film Festival site www.mostra.org and www.ingresso.com.br