São Paulo International Film Festival
são paulo international film festival portuguese mostra internacional de cinema de são paulo also known internationally mostra annual film festival held city são paulo brazil nonprofit event festival organized abmic associação brasileira mostra internacional de cinema state city são paulo established october festival official month th edition festival held october november film different country categorized three segment international perspective new director competition mostra brasil presented festival aftersun charlotte well jury prize best film festival festival created film critic leon cakoff decided celebrate th anniversary são paulo museum art masp head museum film department cakoff already organized successful screening rare foreign film prefestival screening large audience turnout including film came without portuguese subtitle sometimes translation proving strength city cultural demand st são paulo international film festival included feature film short representing country total consisting screening masps grand auditorium first edition inaugurated audience prize member audience voting best picture ritual followed ever since winner first audience prize hector babencos lucio flavio brazilian production jornal brasil news publication noted festival place country people right vote brazil military dictatorship time causing lot difficulty censor festival first seven year still held masp film often screened censorship committee shown public transportation difficulty sometimes forced print arrive brazil inside diplomatic luggage aid embassy consulate leaving museum festival stood censor began legal battle right screen film directly public prior censorship interference th edition festival marked strongest clash government festival appeal last year dictatorship began seemingly free censor however event suspended middle first week screening wim wenders state thing interruption received large international coverage lasted four day enough time ministry justice censorship board watch film festival free government censorship since thanks ministerial order request organizer event decision extended throughout entire nation including every festival previously subjected censorship court victory caused th edition festival took place october screen film without government interference yearhistory festival grew held exclusively inside masp museum largescale event throughout city são paulo today mostra screen film year received recognition main gateway brazil world cinema brazilian director fernando meirelles claimed brazilian audience would familiar american european production werent festival effort filmmaker laís bodanzky noted importance festival influencing entire generation brazilian filmmaker faithfully attended event baptizing child mostra festival presence multiple brazilian filmmaker guest notable international guest since include dennis hopper pedro almodóvar park chanwook miguel gomes victoria abril jane birkin guy maddin abbas kiarostami claudia cardinale amos gitai le blank quentin tarantino maria de medeiros wim wenders alan parker manoel de oliveira christian berger kiju yoshida atom egoyan danis tanovic satyajit ray eizo sugawa theo angelopoulos marisa paredes rossy de palma geraldine chaplin jonas mekas festival produced short film welcome back abbas directed festival director leon cakoff renata de almeida film followed filmmaker abbas kiarostami one visit city são paulo mostra also produced anthology film notably welcome são paulo invisible world featuring collective short film leon renata also director around world invited film city list international filmmaker including brazilian director consisted wolfgang becker maria de medeiros hanna elia amos gitai mika kaurismäki jim mcbride phillip noyce mingliang tsai andrea vecchiato caetano veloso yoshishige yoshida theo angelopoulos gian vittorio baldi marcho bechis laís bodanzky beto brant manoel de oliveira atom egoyan guy maddin jerzy stuhr wim wenders leon cakoff founder organizer director event died shortly th edition widow renata de almeida produced festival became mostras director th edition são paulo international film festival featured retrospective dedicated spanish filmmaker pedro almodóvar french distribution company mk founded marin karmitz overall selection included title cakoff leon cinema sem fim história da mostra ano imprensa oficial especial mostra directed hélio goldsztejn tv cultura official website são paulo international film festival internet movie database são paulo international film festival film festival world são paulo international short film festival