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

Fiction Feature:
  • “Gauguin & The Canal” by Frank Spano
International Shorts:
  • “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