Recognized as one of the most traditional competitive exhibitions in the country, with 60 years of history completed this year, the 58th edition of the Brazilian Cinema Festival of Brazilian Cinema comes to its last day this Saturday (20), in which the Candango trophies of this 58th edition will be delivered.
The award is scheduled for 17h, with masters of ceremony the actresses Barbara Colen and Maeve Jinkings. There are 14 categories for feature film and 12 for short. Both shows reward the best film for the official and popular jury. After each session, the public can vote through banknotes.
There are also special awards, such as the Candango Trophy for the whole work, which this year will be delivered to actress Fernanda Montenegro, 95, in one of the most anticipated moments of the festival.
The Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes medal goes to the teacher and researcher Ivana Bentes, for her prominent trajectory and contribution to the country’s film culture. The Leila Diniz Award honors director Lucia Murat for her work committed to political and social reflection.
One of the peculiarities of the Brasilia Festival is the fact that it has its own headquarters, Cine Brasilia, designed by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated as an integral part of the city’s architectural ensemble in 1960.
Cine Brasília has hosted the festival since its inception in 1965 as a week of Brazilian cinema. Over these six decades, the curatorship is still focused on the unprecedented national production, notes this year’s director of the edition, Sara Rocha.
“The films are chosen from a large public call that is made to the whole of Brazil, with preferably unpublished films in Brasilia,” said the director in an interview the National radio.
This year’s curated by artistic director Eduardo Valente, who coordinated two separate selection committees for short and feature film shows.
“Each of them composed of professionals of notorious knowledge and great specialization in audiovisual, curated, in the realization and conformation of programs, specialized in Brazilian cinema,” says Sara Rocha.
This Saturday (20), the official prize will be followed by a closing session of the festival, with the film The nature of invisible things (2025), long of the Brazilian director Rafaela Camelo about the friendship formed between two children in a hospital.
Parallel awards
In addition to official awards, the festival concentrates a series of parallel shows and awards.
One of them, in its 27th edition, is the trophy delivered by the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District for the production of local directors, which participate in the Brasilia Show of feature films and shorts.
Other awards include Zozimo Bubul, delivered by the Film Aphrocarioca Center and the Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals (APAN), and the kaleidoscope, granted by the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci) to the best film among five experimental works.
The Brazilian Association of Film Critics should also announce the one who considers the best film in long and short films, according to his own jury.
