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Films
If I Were You /Se eu fosse você 2/ comedy, 100 min, 2009 director: Daniel Filho
My Name Is Not Johnny /Meu nome não é Johnny/ drama, 124 min, 2008 director: Mauro Lima
Prizes and nominations: 2009 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize: Best male part. Best montage. Best music. Best scenario. As well – 7 nominations in other categories. 2008 Miami Brazilian Film Festival: Best film. Best male part. Audience sympathy prize. 2008 Prêmio Contigo Cinema, Brazil: Best male part. As well – 4 nominations in other categories.
 Mute /Mutum/ Brazil, France, 95 min, 2007 director: Sandra Kogut Prizes and nominations: 2007 CANNES Closing film of Filmmaking Competition 2007 Toronto International Film Festival - Official selection 2007 Festival do Rio Best Film 2007 Festival de Cinema de Bogotá - Second Prize in Best Fiction category 2007 London International Film Festival - Official selection 2007 Festival de Biarritz - Official selection 2007 Pusan International Film Festival - Official selection 2007 Festival Internacional de Bogota - Official selection 2007 Kiev International Film Festival - Official selection
Peace Time/Tempos de Paz/ drama,80 min, 2009 director: Daniel Filho
Black Cash Desk /Caixa Dois/ comedy, 83 min, 2007 director: Bruno Barreto
Sanes /Os Normais/ comedy, 88 min, 2003 director: José Alvarenga Jr.
Prizes and nominations: 2004 Miami Brazilian Film Festival: Audience sympathy prize
City’s Sign of the Zodiac /Signo da Cidade/ drama, 95 min, 2009 director: Carlos Alberto Riccelli
Invisible Woman /Mulher Invisivel/ comedy, 105 min, 2009 director: Claudio Torres
Sofa /Diva/ comedy, 105 min, 2009 director: José Alvarenga Jr.
The documental section is presented by two significant persons of National cinematograph:
Eduardo Coutinho A unique person in Brazilian cinematograph, filmmaker - experimentalist, explorer of phenomenon of memory. He works with synthesis of cinema and theatrical forms. In his work a character becomes a spectator and vice versa. Reality and fantasy interlace and then there are myth is born.
João Moreira Salles
A famous filmmaker of non fiction films, President of Moreira Salles Institute. He is occupied with development and propaganda of modern cinema, music and photography in Brazil. Non-fiction films by Salles are graceful and philosophical and won wide recognition of professionals.15 Prizes (among them prizes of Brazilian Film Academy, festivals in Havana and Malaga) made him one of the influential film director of non-fiction films in Spanish-speaking countries.
Moscow /Moscou/ non-fiction, 78 min, 2009 director: Eduardo Coutinho
Nelson Freire/Nelson Freire/ non-fiction, 102 min,2003 director: João Moreira Salles
Prizes and nominations: 2004 ABC Cinematography Award: Best non-fiction. 2004 Cinema Brazil Grand Prize: Best non-fiction. Best sound decision. As well– 3nominations in other categories. 2004 São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards: Best non-fiction. 2003 Silver Daisy Awards, Brazil: Best filmmaking.
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