The Unifrance Rendez-Vous – Rio, organized in conjunction with the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival and the enhanced France-Brazil Year program, will take place from October 2 to 6.
These meetings will enable 17 French sales companies to exchange ideas with 15 Brazilian distributors and 3 Latin American distributors and to deepen their knowledge of the local market, thereby strengthening Franco-Brazilian relations in the audiovisual sector.
As part of these meetings organized by Unifrance (following an initial edition of professional meetings in Latin America last year in Mexico), participants will attend the festival's opening night on October 2. A tour of the city's movie theaters will be offered on Friday, October 3, followed by roundtable discussions with Brazilian distributors, exhibitors, and institutional representatives at the Rio Market.
Saturday, October 4, will be devoted to individual meetings between French sellers and Brazilian and Latin American distributors, which will take place at Casa Firjan, punctuated by a lunch hosted by Paris Filmes, a major independent distributor operating in Brazil and Latin America. The day will end with the French Night organized by the festival.
Finally, on Sunday, October 5, there will be a tour of the city of Niterói and a visit to the independent cinema Reserva Cultural, followed by a lunch hosted by the Brazilian distribution company Imovision.
Companies attending:
- Urban Sales
- Be For Films
- Best Friend Forever (BFF)
- France tv distribution
- Gebeka International
- Ginger & Fed
- Global Constellation
- Goodfellas
- Indie Sales
- Le Pacte
- mk2 films
- Pathé Films
- Playtime
- SND
- Studio TF1
- The Party Film Sales
- Totem Films
On the festival
French cinema will be well represented at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, which will be held in the Brazilian city from October 2 to 12. Juliette Binoche will be in attendance to present her documentary In-I in Motion. Also scheduled to attend (subject to confirmation) are Blandine Lenoir, Sophie Letourneur, Romane Bohringer, and Hind Meddeb.
All the French films at the Rio International Film Festival 2025
World Panorama
- Alpha by Julia Ducournau
- Ari by Léonor Serraille
- Couture by Alice Winocour
- Two Pianos by Arnaud Desplechin
- Two Prosecutors by Sergei Loznitsa
- Her Difference by Lola Doillon
- Tell Her I Love Her by Romane Bohringer
- Divine Comedy by Ali Asgari
- Case 137 by Dominik Moll
- Duse by Pietro Marcello
- Franz by Agnieszka Holland
- Fuori by Mario Martone
- In-I in Motion by Juliette Binoche
- The Quiet Son by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin
- Justa by Teresa Villaverde
- The Piano Accident by Quentin Dupieux
- L'Aventura by Sophie Letourneur
- Yakushima's Illusion by Naomi Kawase
- The Stranger by François Ozon
- The Richest Woman In the World by Thierry Klifa
- The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania
- The Fence by Claire Denis
- I Only Rest in the Storm by Pedro Pinho
- Love on Trial by Koji Fukada
- Magellan by Lav Diaz
- A Magnificent Life by Sylvain Chomet
- Orphan by László Nemes
- Yes by Nadav Lapid
- Calle Malaga by Maryam Touzani
- The Chronology of Water by Kristen Stewart
- The Things You Kill by Alireza Khatami
- Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier
- A Private Life by Rebecca Zlotowski
- Writing Life - Annie Ernaux Through The Eyes Of High School Students by Claire Simon
Expectations
- Timestamp by Kateryna Gornostai
- A Useful Ghost by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
- Renoir by Chie Hayakawa
- Agon by Giulio Bertelli
- Gorgonà by Evi Kalogiropoulou
- The Settlement by Mohamed Rashad
- The Last Shore by Jean-François Ravagnan
- Kika by Alexe Poukine
- Allah Is Not Obliged by Zaven Najjar
- No Way Back by Nathalie Najem
- Entroncamento by Pedro Cabeleira
- Pieces of a Foreign Life by Gaya Jiji
- The Girls We Want by Prïncia Car
- Mosquitoes by Valentina Bertani and Nicole Bertani
- Love Me Tender by Anna Cazenave Cambet
- Nino by Pauline Loquès
- Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk by Sepideh Farsi
Unique Itineraries
- Orwell: 2+2=5 by Raoul Peck
- Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Revolution of Silence by Françoise Ferraton
- Zelensky by Yves Jeuland and Lisa Vapné
Classicos e Cults
Latin Premiere
- The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes
- The Black Snake by Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux
- Hijo mayor by Cecilia Kang
- The Ivy by Ana Cristina Barragán
- Landmarks by Lucrecia Martel
