Rio’s 2017 International Film Festival Opens this Thursday

This Thursday, October 5th, the Festival do Rio (Rio’s International Film Festival) opens its 2017 edition. Taking place in diverse movie theaters across the city, from Zona Norte to Zona Sul, Rio’s biggest cinema event will display diverse unreleased productions and promote debates and shows until October 15th.

Rio’s International Film Festival was created in 1999 with the aim of fulfilling Rio de Janeiro’s cultural potential and promoting the city as an address for the international audiovisual scene.

Screening 250 movies — fourteen more than last year — from sixty different countries, the 19th edition of Festival do Rio promises to bring a lot of novelties to the movie theaters and outdoor tents spread in thirteen neighborhoods.

Two of the most expected films in Festival do Rio certainly are Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel” (2017) and Roman Polanski’s “Based on a True Story” (2017). With singer Justin Timberlake and actress Kate Winslet as the protagonists, Woody Allen’s movie is set in the 1950s and tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife. Polanski’s work, on the other hand, consists in a psychological thriller about an obsessive admirer that stalks a writer.

The Rio Times