GENERAL INFO


São Paulo International Film Festival celebrates 30 years with Brazilian film award Petrobras grants R$ 600 thousand for the distribution of Brazilian films; event will happen between October 20 and November 2.

São Paulo International Film Festival, a traditional event in the country’s cinema agenda, will happen between October 20 and November 2 in São Paulo, and celebrates its 30th edition with a big award to Brazilian cinema.

It is called Prêmio Petrobras Cultural de Difusão, with a total amount of R$ 600 thousand. A distribution award of R$ 400 thousand will be granted to a fiction feature, and another of R$ 200 thousand will go to a documentary. The award, the biggest ever granted at a festival in the country, was created by Petrobras to celebrate the 30 years of the festival.

Every Brazilian feature shown at the 30th Mostra, and that has not been shown in commercial circuit, will be in competition. The winners will be elected by
popular ballot. The audience will vote in four screenings of each movie.

Last year, the 29th Festival showed 50 Brazilian features and 18 short films. The Bandeira Paulista Trophy, granted by the international jury at the 29th
Festival, went for the first time to a Brazilian feature: “Cinema, Aspirines and Vultures”, by Marcelo Gomes.

Retrospective

Different from the past years, when the Festival showed the complete works of great filmmakers, at the 30th edition the event will look upon a gender:
Italian political cinema of the 60’s and 70’s, known in Italy as “cinema of civil effort”.

Films by emblematic filmmakers of the time will be shown, such as Marco Bellochio (Fist in his Pocket, China is Near), Bernardo Bertolucci
(Before the Revolution), Ettore Scola (Down and Dirty; We all loved each other so much), Dino Risi (In the name of the Italian people), Taviani brothers (The Subversives), Francesco Rosi (The Mattei Affair, Hands over the city) and others.

For the retrospective, a guest coming to São Paulo for the festival is Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress living in Italy, who was one of the muses of the gender, and took part in the film Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), by Elio Petri, part of the retrospective. Florinda will also take part in the jury of the 30th Mostra.

Books

With the retrospective, the 30th Mostra publishes the book Italian Political Cinema – the 60`s and the 70`s, organized by Álvaro Machado and Leon Cakoff and published by Cosac Naify. The book groups a series of interviews made by two Italian researchers, Angela Prudenzi and Elisa Resegotti, who work with the Cineteca de Roma and the Italian Cinema Museum in Torino.

Another book to be launched during the 30th Mostra, Endless Cinema, will bring a History of the three decades of the event and will be published by Imprensa Oficial do Estado.

Special Presentations

As it has done in the past years, the 30th Mostra brings to São Paulo screenings of cinema classics little known by the audience, with live music.
These will be:

- Cabiria, by Giovanni Pastrone (Italy, 1914) – restored print of one of the great classics of Italian cinema, considered by Fellini as one of his great inspirations – this film originated the name of the famous character played by Giulietta Masina in “Notti di Cabiria”. During the Punic Wars in Carthage (300 AC), young Cabiria is supposed to be sacrificed to god Moloch, but is saved by a Roman soldier and his servant. The film was restored by Brazilian João Sócrates, one of the great
names in film restoration in the world, living in London;

- Silent Shakespeare, a session with seven silent short movies based on the works of the British writer and produced between 1899 and 1911 in the USA, Italy and England;

- Eerie Tales, by Richard Oswald (Germany, 1919) – The horror classic groups the so-called “infernal threesome” of silent German movies: Anita Berber, Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel. Dressed as whore, death and demon, they search a second-hand book shop at midnight for subjects for movies: five one-act plays, five sinister facts about dubious husbands, chopped hands and mysterious houses.

Obs: the theaters where the special screenings will happen haven`t been defined yet.

7th year Youth Festival

Aiming to make cinema more accessible to public school students, the Mostra, together with the State Department of Education, promotes the 7th year of the
Youth Festival. There will be free screenings at Memorial da América Latina, pre-scheduled with State high schools.

As it has happened in previous festivals, Youth Festival will have two daily screenings at Cine Bombril, open to high school students presenting their student
id`s.

Information at the site

The audience can have information about the program and the events at the 30th São Paulo International Film Festival at www.mostra.org , from about October 10, or at Central da Mostra, to be set at Conjunto Nacional on October 9.

Journalists will have access to the virtual press room, with constant updating of general information, program, events and press releases.

Tickets

The tickets for the Festival will be sold at the theaters, on the internet and at the Central, the latter the only place to sell the promotional packages. Prices haven`t been defined yet.

There will be single tickets, packages with 20 or 40 tickets, full permanent (for all sessions) or special permanent (for week-day sessions starting up to
17h59).

Central da Mostra

The Central da Mostra at Conjunto Nacional (av. Paulista, 2.073, on the corner of rua Augusta), near Livraria Cultura and Cine Bombril, will be open for information from October 9 to 13 from 12h to 18h.

For tickets, the Central will work from October 14 to November 2, from 10h to 21h.

Sponsors

The 30th Mostra is a production by ABMIC with the sponsorship by Petrobrás Distribuidora; support by Faap; promotion by Folha de S.Paulo and Sesc São
Paulo; cultural support by the Federal Government, Lei de Incentivo à Cultura, Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, São Paulo Turismo, São Paulo State Government; institutional support by Imprensa Oficial, São Paulo City Hall; and the collaboration of Hotel Crowne Plaza and Cosac Naify Publishers.

Translation into English: Laura Rebessi (laurarebessi@gmail.com)