Winners
Career Achievement Award:
Gabriel Braga Nunes
Makeup artist
Tayce Vale – “My Name is Gal”
Best Art Director
Ana Mara Abreu – “Aunt Virginia”
Best Editing
Renato Lima – “The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife”
Best Soundtrack
Plinio Profeta – “Our Dream”
Best Screenplay
Mikael Albuquerque & Lusa Silvestre – The Highjacking of Flight 375
Best Cinematographer
Carina Sanginitto – “Red Monet”
Petrus Cariry – “Heavier is the Sky”
Best Short Film
“Welcome Back” by Nicole Gullane
Best International Movie
“Snail” by Renato Fimene
Best Supporting Actor
Nando Cunha – “Our Dream – The Story of Claudinho & Buchecha”
Best Supporting Actress
Louise Cardoso – “Aunt Virginia”
Best Actor
Daniel Oliveira – “River of Desire”
Best Actress
Vera Holtz – “Aunt Virgínia”
Best Documentary
“A Symphony for a Common Man”
Producers: José Jofilly & Isabel Joffily
Best Director
Sérgio de Carvalho – “Aliens Night”
Best Film
”Our Dream” – The Story of Claudinho e Buchecha” produced by Leo Edde
Special Recognitions
Othon Bastos – “Half a Dance”
Sergio Machado – “River of Desire”
Caco Monteiro & Lula Oliveira “The Matriarch”
Sophie Charlote – “River of Desire” and “My Name is Gal”
“Invisible Bodies” by Quezia Lopes
Juan Paiva and Lucas “Koka” Nascimento – “Our Dream – The Story of Claudinho e Buchecha”
Film Guide
To check our schedule please click on labrff.com/festivalschedule
To watch our trailers please go to our homepage.
We are thrilled to announce our 2023 Official Selection. Please check the list below:
Fiction Feature Competition
- “Red Monet”, by Halder Gomes
- “My Name is Gal” by Dandara Ferreira & Lô Politi
- “The Surgeon of the Rusty Knife” by Gustavo Fernández
- “A Happy Family” by José Eduardo Belmonte
- “The Last Animal” by Leonel Vieira
- “Our Dream – The Story of Claudinho e Buchecha” by Eduardo Albergaria
- “River of Desire” by Sérgio Machado
- “Horizon” by Rafael Calomeni
- “Our Dream” by Eduardo Albergaria
- “Aunt Virgínia” by Fabio Meira
- “Heavier is the Sky” by Petrus Cariry
- “The Hijacking of Flight 375” by Marcus Baldini
- “Angela” by Hugo Prata
- “The Matriarch” by Lula Oliveira
- “The Tree House” Flávio Ermírio de Moraes
- “Aliens Night” by Sérgio de Carvalho
Special Kid’s Spotlight
- “Intergalactic Camp” by Fabrício Bittar
Documentary Feature Competition:
- “Lupicínio Rodrigues: Confessions of a Sufferer”
- “A Symphony for a Common Man” by José Joffily
- “BR Trans” by Raphael Alvarez & Tatiana Issa
- “Aurora Street – Refuge of all world” by Camilo Cavalcante
- “You’ve Made My Samba” by Isabel Nascimento
- “Invisible Bodies” by Quézia Lopes
Shorts Competition
- “Bergamot” by Hsu Chien
- “Cóu Istóries” by Halder Gomes
- “Welcome Back” by Nicole Gullane
- “There is no Silence” by Alice Rodrigues & Andre Di Kabulla
- “Mask Theater” by Eduardo Ades
- “Home” by Bárbara Bárcia
- “In Orbit” by Mathews Silva & Felipe Fernandes
- “Last Sunday” by Joana Claude, Renan Barbosa Brandão
- “All the girls from Bahia” by Cecília Amado
- “Travessia” by Gabriel Lima
- “Cadim” by Luiza Pugliesi Villaça
- “Aluísio, The Silence and The Sea” by Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
- Special spotlight: “Half a Dance” by Diego dos Anjos
International Movies
- “Gauguin & The Canal” by Frank Spano
- “Jane” by Kyle Michaels
- “O” by Rae Cofsky
- “Snail” by Renato Fimene
- “Terminally Unique” by Talita Maia
- “Born Again Virgin by Teia Kane
- “Wishful Thinking” by Rodrigo Carvalhedo and Silvia Lara
- “Pretas” by Barbara Marques
- “A Complex Mongrel Story” by Bruna Fachetti
- “Aureo & Mirelle” by Filipe Galvon