From September 25 to October 9th, Rio de Janeiro will host the annual “Festival do Rio,” an international film festival featuring some of the best films from Brazil, Latin America, and the world. Hundreds of films will be shown at nearly 30 theaters all over the city, including several free films at the Centro Cultural Ação da Cidadania in the Saúde neighborhood.
Some of the big name films featured at the festival include “Ultima parada: 174,” a film about a true story of a hostage crisis in Rio, “Burn After Reading,” with Brad Pitt and George Clooney, Francis Ford Coppola’s “Youth without Youth,” “Synedoche, New York,” a film by Charlie Kaufman, “Paris” by Cedric Klapisch, and Woody Allen’s “Vicky Christina Barcelona.”
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