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Brazil Returns in Force at Berlin
Once one of the biggest national presences at Berlin, Berlin is beginning to return with force, buoyed by fest selections and new funding.
“Betânia,” Marcelo Botta’s portrait of a Northern Brazil community, world premieres in Panorama; Juliana Rojas’s twin migration stories “Cidade; Campo” screen at Encounters. “We are determined to bring people back to the cinemas and revive the traditional distribution ecosystem that starts with theatrical releases,” she says, adding that Globo’s P & A spend surpasses that of Hollywood studios in Brazil. “A number of promising new movies will be released in 2024, including potential blockbusters such as Roberto Santucci’s ‘Os Farofeiros 2,’ Cesar Rodrigues’ ‘Tô de Graça’ and Guel Arraes and Flavia Lacerda’s ‘O Auto da Compadecida 2’; as well as high-profile arthouse movies by Walter Salles (‘Ainda estou aqui’), Andrucha Waddington (‘Vitoria’) and Arraes (‘Grande Sertão,’ ‘Veredas’), among others,” says Leonardo M. Barros, a partner at Conspiração Filmes.
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