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Top brass at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival announced that 41 feature and 19 shorts from Brazilian filmmakers will screen in the 17th edition, set to run from October 1-14.

The Première Brasil competition section will screen 13 features, of which ten will receive world premieres. An additional two features and two documentaries will screen out of competition.

Other Brazilian productions such as a restoration of Walter Lima Jr’s 1965 classic Menino de Engenho (Plantation Boy) will screen in special Première Brasil sidebars such as New Trends, Panorama, Expectation and Fronteiras.

Première Brasil is the only competitive section of the festival and Redentors will be presented on closing night. The audience will vote on three awards for best Brazilian feature film, best documentary and best short film.

As part of this years commemoration of the 450 years of the founding of Rio, the festival will screen six films that have the city as its setting or reflect the theme of Rio...

Organisers behind Ventana Sur’s genre works-in-progress sidebar have announced their selections.

The titles comprise one from each of Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador and three from Mexico.

Joe Houlberg’s Ecuadorian title Thirst (Sed) centres on a blind woman and her friends who must confront ghosts and hidden desires.

Argentina’s Intimate Witness (Testigo Intimo) by Santiago Fernández concerns a fight between brothers for the love of a woman that leads to a bloody and unexpected conclusion.

Petter Belestorf and Joel Caetano’s sequence of Brazilian vignettes The Black Fables (As Fábulas Negras) pays homage to genre cinema.

From Mexico comes Diego Cohen’s tale of romantic obsession Honeymoon (Luna De Miel); Isaac Ezban’s profile of an apocalyptic Mexico in The Similar (Los Parecidos); and Adrián García Bogliano’s Here Comes The Devil follow-up Scherzo Diabólico, about a kidnap plot that goes awry.

Several prizes are available to the entries, including the Roma...

Organisers behind Ventana Sur’s genre works-in-progress sidebar have announced their selections.

The titles comprise one from each of Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador and three from Mexico.

Joe Houlberg’s Ecuadorian title Sed centres on a blind woman and her friends who must confront ghosts and hidden desires.

Argentina’s Testigo Intimo by Santiago Fernández concerns a fight between brothers for the love of a woman that leads to a bloody and unexpected conclusion.

Petter Belestorf and Joel Caetano’s sequence of Brazilian vignettes As Fábulas Negras pays homage to genre cinema.

From Mexico comes Diego Cohen’s tale of romantic obsession Luna De Miel; Isaac Ezban’s profile of an apocalyptic Mexico in Los Parecidos; and Adrián García’s Here Comes The Devil follow-up Scherzo Diabólico, about a kidnap plot that goes awry.

Several prizes are available to the entries, including the Roma Lazio Blood Award for post-production services; an offer of international sales under Habannero...