CURATORS 2025
Competitive Screenings & Panorama Screenings
The curators of the 29th Inffinito Brazilian Film Festival are proud to present a carefully curated selection that reflects the creative power, diversity, and vitality of contemporary Brazilian cinema.
This year, we bring together 45 feature films—both fiction and documentary—that span a wide range of genres, formats, and cinematic languages, showcasing unique perspectives from filmmakers across all regions of Brazil. These works highlight the multiplicity of viewpoints, themes, and realities that coexist in our country—a true cultural mosaic brought to life on screen.
Each film in this selection was chosen with the intent to shine a light on the emerging narratives taking shape in Brazil’s cinematic landscape, offering contemporary dialogues with depth, originality, and courage.
When observing Brazilian cinema in 2024 and 2025, we see a restless and inventive body of work—films that experiment with cinematic language and break with traditional norms. We have stories that recover forgotten histories, denounce inequalities, celebrate resilience, and also move audiences with their beauty and ability to make us laugh.
Now more than ever, our commitment is to present the U.S. audiences with a vibrant and representative showcase of the new wave of Brazilian audiovisual productions—films that not only entertain, but also provoke thought, build cultural bridges, and reaffirm cinema as a tool for artistic expression and social transformation.
We invite everyone to discover the many faces of Brazil that emerge on screen.
Long live Brazilian cinema!
Adriana L. Dutra, Laura Fernandes, Liliana Kawase,
Ricardo Cota e Viviane B. Spinelli.
Curators
Competitive & Panorama Screenings Short Films
The 29th Inffinito Brazilian Film Festival highlights this year the strength of Brazilian short films. A total of 21 films — seven in competition — represent a wide range of regions across the country, showcasing the creativity and originality of short film productions in Brazil.
These works span a variety of styles and approaches—from documentary to fiction, from animation to genre films. They address a wide range of themes, including the affirmation of Black Brazilian culture, the fight against femicide, the reality of Indigenous peoples, and the explosive celebration of Brazil’s most iconic festivity: Carnival.
In short, these short films form a mosaic of a country whose power is expressed through cinema.
Ricardo Cota.
Curator
RioLGBTQIA+ Screenings
The RioLGBTQIA+ Screenings presents a selection of Brazilian feature films screened at the RioLGBTQIA+ Festival 2025, reaffirming the power of LGBTQIA+ cinema as a space for expression, affection, politics, and aesthetic innovation. These are works that cross territories, bodies, and narratives with courage, sensitivity, and urgency—reflecting the diversity and strength of the contemporary queer perspective.
Alexander Mello.
Curator
