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Born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1974. Graduated from the Escola de Teatro Macunaima and from Centro de Pesquisa Teatral (CPT), coordinated by the director Antunes Filho. Theater, cinema and television actress, she participated in plays such as Hell and Vênus em Visom, both directed by Hector Babenco. She also worked in the short Produto Descartável (2003), for which she was awarded best actress at Gramado Festival, and in the features Se Puder… Dirija (2013), Never Old to Meow (2014) and My Hindu Friend (2015, 39th Mostra). Bárbara directed the shorts Making of My Hindu Friend (2015, 39th Mostra) and Talk to Him (2018, 42nd Mostra). Her first feature film as a director, Babenco - Tell Me When I Die (2019, 43rd Mostra), won the award for best documentary at Venice International Film Festival.

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Born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1955. He graduated in film direction in 1981 at the Film and Television Academy in Budapest. From 1979 to 1980 he was a member of Béla Balázs Studio and, in 1981, was one of the founders of Studio Társulás. He founded and directed film.factory at Sarajevo School for Science and Technology from 2012 to 2016. One of the most important directors of Hungarian cinema, he directed, among others, Family Nest (1977), The Prefab People (1982), Almanac of Fall (1984), awarded at the Locarno Festival, Damnation (1988, 18th Mostra), City Life (1989, 14th Mostra), Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), Prologue (2004, 28th Mostra), The Man from London (2007, 31st Mostra) and The Turin Horse (2011), which received the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Satantango was exhibited at the 18th Mostra.

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A Brazilian of Korean descent, she is an activist and filmmaker. She worked as a producer of Mostra from 1984 to 1989, when she moved to New York City. She has directed short and feature-length documentaries including Synthetic Pleasures (1995, 19th Mostra), Modulations (1998, 22nd Mostra), Beneath the Borqa in Afghanistan (2002), Battle for the Xingu (2009, 33rd Mostra), Cultures of Resistance (2010, 34th Mostra), The Suffering Grasses: When Elephants Fight, It Is the Grass That Suffers (2012, 36th Mostra), K2 and the Invisible Footman (2015, 39th Mostra) and Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara (2015, 39th Mostra). She participates in the project Cultures of Resistance, an activist network that brings together artists and change makers from around the world.

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Belgians, Jean-Pierre was born in 1951 in the city of Engis, while Luc was born in 1954 in Awirs. The brothers did together numerous documentaries between the 1970s and 1980s before starting to make fiction features. They gained notoriety with The Promisse (1996). In 1999, signed the direction of Rosetta, winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. They also directed movies such as The Son (2002, 26th Mostra; The Child (2005, 29th Mostra), also winner of the Golden Palm; a segment of To Each His Own Cinema (2007, 31st Mostra); Lornas’s Silence (2008, 32nd Mostra); The Kid with a Bike (2011), opening title of the 35th Mostra and winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury in Cannes; Two Days, One Night (2014, 38th Mostra) and The Unknown Girl (2016, 40th Mostra).

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Born in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, in 1966. He graduated in architecture and urbanism from the Brasilia University and has a master in theory and history of cinema from the New York University. In the 2000’s, he collaborated with the scripts of movies like Shredded April (2001), by Walter Salles, Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005, 30th Mostra), by Marcelo Gomes, and Lower City (2005, 29th Mostra), by Sérgio Machado. Aïnouz made his debut in feature films direction in 2002 with Madame Satã, screened at the 26th Mostra. He also directed Suely in the Sky (2006, 30th Mostra), I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You (2009), in partnership with Marcelo Gomes, The Silver Cliff (2011), Futuro Beach (2014), Central Airport: THF (2018, 42nd Mostra) and The Invisible Life (2019, 43rd Mostra), winner of Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival.

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Born in Breslau, Germany, in 1873. Famous expressionist filmmaker from silent movie era, he made his first short movie, Die Waffen der Jugend (the youth guns, translated from German), in 1913. For 25 years, during his career as a film director, he released around 50 movies, but it was with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, considered the first expressionist movie, that eternalized his name. Wiene directed many other influential expressionist films, but also made movies in different styles and genres, including Crime and Punishment (1923), an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s homonymous book. Following the rise of Nazism in Germany, Wiene, who was of Jewish descent, fled into exile and settled in Paris. There, he continued to make movies, and even tried to film a new version of Caligari with Jean Cocteau. His last film, Ultimatum, was released in 1938, the same year of his death in Paris, France.

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Graduated in communication from the University of São Paulo. Since 1983, has directed more than 400 advertising films, music videos and DVDs. One of the pioneers of Brazilian video art, had his works exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London and at the São Paulo Bienal. He has directed the documentary Amazônia Niemeyer - Uma Viagem pela Belém Brasília (2007) and the documentary series Amores Expressos, both exhibited by TV Cultura. He was also one of the directors of the series Amor em 4 Atos, exhibited by TV Globo. In partnership with Elaine Cesar, he has directed the documentary Evoé: Portrait of an Anthropophage (2011), about the Brazilian actor, playwright José Celso Martinez Corrêa. Jungle is also the director of the fictional feature Tomorrow Never Again (2011, 35th Mostra). He screened the short films in virtual reality Fire in the Forest (2017) and River of Mud (2016) at the 41st Mostra.

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Born in Greece in 1973. He studied film and television direction. Since 1995, he has directed feature films, theater plays, music videos and a large number of TV commercials. He was also a member of the creative team which designed the opening and closing ceremonies of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. He directed the feature films Kinetta (2005); Dogtooth (2009, 33rd Mostra), winner of the best film award of Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival; Alps (2011, 36th Mostra), which won the best screenplay at Venice International Film Festival; The Lobster (2015), winner the Jury Prize at Cannes; The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), winner of the best screenplay at Cannes, and The Favourite (2018, 42nd Mostra), winner of Grand Special Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival.

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43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA