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What insights can be gleaned from an artist’s private life? Netflix has released the trailer for Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta, premiering on March 6. The documentary reveals Anitta’s intimacy and vulnerability, beyond her powerful public image as a globally successful singer.

Everyone knows Anitta. Not so for Larissa de Macedo Machado. That’s her actual name — and a side of her she’s kept away from the cameras.

While Anitta reaches ever-greater heights, Larissa has to grapple with the challenges of success. Her journey toward self-discovery is presented from the perspective of a crush from her youth, who wishes to introduce the real Larissa to the world.

The documentary also features iconic moments from the “girl from Rio” career, including scenes from Rio’s Carnival, her unprecedented wins at international awards shows, her hit “Envolver” reaching the top of global charts, and her Coachella set.

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Film at Lincoln Center and Cinema Tropical are honoring the legacy of Brazil’s iconic L.C. Barreto Film Productions with retrospective “Isso é Brasil: Cinema According to L.C. Barreto Productions.”

The 13-film festival commemorates 60 years of Barreto-produced features. The series will take place from September 6 through 15 at Lincoln Center.

Director Bruno Barreto and producer Lucy Barreto will both be in attendance to introduce select screenings and take part in Q&As for the new 4K restorations of beloved films like “The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga” and “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands,” which catapulted actress Sônia Braga to international fame. The feature was also Brazil’s highest-grossing film for more than 30 years.

L.C. Barreto Productions was founded in 1963 by Luiz Carlos and Lucy Barreto and is based in Rio de Janeiro. According to a press release, the Barreto family company is Brazil’s most important film...

Berlin — Giant Brazilian TV network Globo has seen its bet on shorter-format series vindicated by the selection of two of their new series at this year’s Berlinale Series Market.

Distancing itself from the tradition telenovela narrative, one of Globo’s Berlinale players is ‘Unsoul’ a supernatural drama, rare in its nature as it allows its director, Carlos Manga Jr, to explore the narrative beats of the horror genre without loosing a certain melodrama flare so rooted in Latin American tradition.

The series follows the arrival of Giovana (Maria Ribeiro) and her two daughters at Brigida, a town of descendants of a large wave of Ukrainian immigration. She has decided to settle there and rebuild her life after the sudden suicide of her husband, who had deep family connections to the town. As Ivana Kupala, a folkloric Slavic celebration approaches, she is confronted by mysteries surrounding a crime of the...

Lleida, Spain — The feature directorial debut of producer Sebastián Perillo “Amateur” scooped both best feature and director at the 24th Lleida Catalonia Latin America Festival, hosted by the city known by gourmets as the Mecca of grilled snails.

Internationally sold by Switzerland-based Kafilms, “Amateur” is an erotic thriller produced by Argentina’s Rispo Films, Amada Films and Tecno Films, and world-premiered at Mar del Plata festival where it took the best original music award.

“Amateur” follows Martin (Esteban Lamothe), a solitary TV director who becomes obsessed with his neighbor and boss’ wife Isabel (Jazmín Stuart), when he finds a porno in which she appears. The jury described Perillo’s debut as “a surprising genre feature made with courage, and without prejudices.”

Best screenplay was granted to “Family Life,” co-helmed by Alicia Scherson (“Il futuro”) and Alejandro Zambra (co-writer of Cristián Jiménez’s “Bonsái”). International sales on “Family Life” are handled...

Berlin’s Panorama lineup also includes new films from Us, China and Brazil.

Berlin’s Panorama strand is now complete following the addition of 24 additional titles.

A total of 51 works from 43 countries have been chosen for screening in the section, including 21 in Panorama Dokumente and 29 feature films in the main programme and Panorama Special. 36 of these films will be getting their world premieres at the Berlinale.

The German production Tiger Girl by Jakob Lass will open this year’s edition of Panorama Special at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema, along with the previously announced Brazilian production Vazante.

Among newly confirmed films are UK Sundance title God’s Own Country, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, feminist fairy tale The Misandrists by Berlinale regular Bruce Labruce, Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice and Belgian-French-Lebanese co-production Insyriated which stars Hiam Abbass as a woman trapped in an apartment during war.[p...

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Directed by: Jose Padilha Written by: Braulio Mantovani, Jose Padilha, Rodrigo Pimentel Starring: Wagner Moura, Andre Ramiro, Sandro Rocha, Irandhir Santos, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro, Taina Muller, Seu Jorge Years before Incredible Hulk and Fast Five reduced Rio to nothing more than a cool backdrop for Hollywood blockbusters, Fernando Meirelles' groundbreaking film City of God introduced many of us to life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Five years later, City of God screenwriter Braulio Mantovani teamed up with documentary filmmaker Jose Padilha for another intense film that took took things to a new level of grittiness: Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite). Although the movie didn't attract as much attention internationally, it was a massive hit within Brazil, creating massive demand for a sequel. Rather than churn out a quick and easy cash grab, however, Mantovani and Padilha crafted a follow-up that is...

"Elite Squad: The Enemy Within", the 2010 sequel to the 2007 Brazilian action feature "The Elite Squad", produced and directed by José Padilha, will be available from Vvs Films, on Blu-ray and DVD, February 14, 2012.

The sequel is a continuation of the semi-fictional account of the 'Bope' (Portuguese: 'Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais'), aka the 'Special Police Operations Battalion' of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police, with a focus on the relationship between law enforcement and politics :

"...set thirteen years after the events of the first film, 'The Enemy Within' focuses on former captain and now 'Lt. Col. Roberto Nascimento', who, after a disastrous 'Bope' operation during a prison riot, gets caught in a bloody political dispute that involves not only the 'Public Safety Department', the State governor and State Military Police, but also paramilitary groups known as 'milícias'.

"Nascimento also has family issues, with his now adolescent son...

Variance Films has released the first trailer for the upcoming action sequel Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, which hits theaters on November 11. Click on the video player below for your first look at director Jos&#233 Padilha's follow-up to the 2008 thriller Elite Squad. The first poster for Elite Squad: The Enemy Within has also been released, which you can view below the trailer.

Click to watch Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Trailer!

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within comes to theaters November 11th, 2011 and stars Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro, Seu Jorge, Sandro Rocha, Tainá Müller. The film is directed by José Padilha.

New Video's Flatiron Film Company and Variance Films announced today that they have partnered for the theatrical release of Jos&#233 Padilha's record-breaking Brazilian crime thriller, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (a.k.a. Tropa de Elite 2 - O Inimigo Agora &#201 Outro). The film will open in New York City on November 11th, 2011 at the AMC Empire 25 in Times Square, and at Laemmle's Sunset 5 in Los Angeles on November 18th, 2011. A platform expansion to top markets across the country will immediately follow.

"Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is the rare film that truly has it all," said Dylan Marchetti, Founder of Variance Films. "There's a tense, well-acted story that's so intelligently written it makes you start to question your own politics, and then, without warning, these impossibly kinetic action scenes explode across the screen, all set to the real-life backdrop of Rio's favelas. When you add in that...

Calling all discerning cinema goers! We’ve got 5 pairs of tickets to a very exclusive London preview of Brazil’s greatest filmic export, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, next Thursday 11th August – the day before release.

Celebrated as ‘Breathless, brutal and thrilling, it’s a gut punch of an action movie’ by Empire, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is the sequal to the 2008 film, which depicted a graphic account of the corruption and brutality experienced by South America’s poorest communities. The movie comes from our friends at Revolver and is helmed by José Padilha with a cast including Wagner Moura​, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro and Seu Jorge​.

Wagner Moura is Captain Nascimento, commander-in-chief of Rio de Janeiro’s Bope (Special Police Operations Battalion), later promoted to sub-Secretary of Security for the State.

After a disastrous operation on a prison riot, Nascimento gets caught...

I’ve not heard of this movie before but with all the official selections and different mentions that appear on the trailer, it looks like it may be worth a watch. It comes from Revolver and is called Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and is helmed by José Padilha and stars Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro and Seu Jorge.

Wagner Moura is Captain Nascimento, commander-in-chief of Rio de Janeiro’s Bope (Special Police Operations Battalion), later promoted to sub-Secretary of Security for the State. After a disastrous operation on a prison riot, Nascimento gets caught in a bloody political dispute that involves not only government officials, but also deadly paramilitary groups known as the militias. Nascimento quickly emerges as victim of his own success – in tackling Rio’s drug gangs, he creates a vacuum filled by protection rackets supported by corrupt police.

Dismantling the...

Writers: José Padilha (screenplay and story), Bráulio Mantovani (screenplay and story), Rodrigo Pimentel (story)

Director: José Padilha

Cast: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Seu Jorge, Sandro Rocha, Maria Ribeiro

Jose Padilha’s Elite Squad films verge on national obsession in Brazil – Elite Squad 2 is the country’s highest-grossing film ever, Wagner Moura’s character of Roberto Nascimento is one of the most popular in existence (and, rightfully so, Moura is magnetic in the role), and some of the questions raised by the films have even started national discourse about the place of the police and the government within the country. Padilha has followed up 2007’s Elite Squad with Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within, a film that shows some of the unexpected (and bloody) changes to the Special Police Operations Battalion (Bope), ten years after audiences first met them. Having a working knowledge of its predecessor is...

The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.

The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.

The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.

"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...

Though it slipped past us somehow the 2011 Berlin Film Festival released the first block of titles from their Panorama section yesterday and there are some very familiar names in there, among them Ryoo Seung-Wan's The Unjust, Jorge Padilha's Elite Squad 2, Angelique Bosio's The Advocate For Fagdom and Hugo Olsson's The Black Power Mixtape - all of which have received coverage here in the pages of Twitch. You want the complete list? Here it is:

Panorama Main Programme + Panorama Special Bu-dang-geo-rae (The Unjust) by Seung-wan Ryoo, Republic of Koreawith Jung-min Hwang, Seung-bum Ryoo, Hae-jin Yoo Chang-Pi-Hae (Ashamed) by Soo-hyun Kim, Republic of Koreawith Hyo-jin Kim, Kkobbi Kim Dance Town by Kyu-hwan Jeon, Republic of Koreawith Mir-an Ra, Seong-tae Oh The Devil's Double by Lee Tamahori, Belgiumwith Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier Dirty Girl by Abe Sylvia, USAwith Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jeremy Dozier...