Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Festival is the city’s most important event of its kind and is also seen as one of the coolest in Brazil. This year, the event reaches its 13th edition and the program takes place between June 12th and 20th, in a hybrid format, with in-person and online sessions, showing feature and short films.
Die-hard movie buffs must already be eager to find out what this year’s attractions and activities are. The details, all correct, will only be released next Tuesday (May 7), but a careful look at our report discovered some spoilers that the production missed. Check out what is already known about the 13th festival’s programming, including information about the Olhar Retrospective and Olhares Clássicos exhibitions.
Hou Hsiao-hsien in Retrospective Look
O Olhar Retrospectivo is the exhibition that highlights a big name in world cinema, providing a retrospective and an in-depth reflection on the filmmaker’s work and trajectory, and this year the honoree is one of the main names in New Taiwanese Cinema: Hou Hsiao-hsien.
In October 2023, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s family confirmed the news that the filmmaker was stepping away from directing films at the age of 76 due to his advancing Alzheimer’s condition. With this, the trajectory of one of the most influential filmmakers the world has seen in the last 40 years was interrupted while he was still alive.
Born in mainland China in 1947, but moving with his family to Taiwan the following year, Hou Hsiao-hsien is one of the main voices of what is known as the “New Taiwanese Cinema”, a movement that has taken over the international film festival scene. from the 80s onwards. Among those at that time, he had the longest and most recognized career, with films shown at some of the main festivals in the world, and recognized by awards such as the Golden Lion in Venice, best direction in Cannes , between others.
Olhar de Cinema takes advantage of this opportunity to celebrate, while still alive, the completed artistic trajectory of one of the great masters of contemporary cinema, and will show eight of his eighteen feature films, going through three distinct phases of his career: the establishment of his vision of world and cinema in the 1980s, the consolidation of his style and worldwide recognition in the 1990s, and some of his “mature works” in the 21st century.
Retrospective Look Programming
The murderer
/ Cike Nie Yin Niang
say. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Taiwan / 2015 / 105′
Café Lumiere
/ Kôhî jikô
say. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
japan / 2003 / 108′
Millennium Mambo
/ Qian xi man bo
say. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Taiwan / 2001 / 119′
Goodbye, to the SOUTH
Nan guo zai jian, nan guo
say. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Taiwan / 1996 / 116′
The puppet master
/ Xi meng ren sheng
say. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Taiwan / 1993 / 142′
City of sorrows
/ Bei qing cheng shi
say. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Taiwan / 1989 / 157′
Dust in the wind
/ Liàn liàn fengchén
say. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Taiwan / 1986 / 109′
Time to live and time to die
/ Tóngnián wangshì
say. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Taiwan / 1985 / 138′
Shows Classic Looks in Olhar de Cinema
Olhares Clássicos is an exhibition of the event that presents a selection of films that mark the history of cinema. A panorama of works by different directors, countries, genres and eras, which demonstrates passion and respect for cinema and its history. Concluding the exhibition, a restored 4K copy of “One is little, two is good”, a 1970 Brazilian classic, will be shown. Check out the complete selection of classic films shown at the festival below.
THE TRAIN OF FEAR
/ Sorcerer
say. William Friedkin
USA / 1977 / 121′
ONCE UPON A TIME BEIRUT
/ Kanya Ya Ma Kan, Beyrouth
say. Jocelyne Saab
LEBANON / 1994 / 104′
PALESTINIAN WOMEN
/ Les Femmes Palestiniennes
say. Jocelyne Saab
LEBANON / 1974 / 16′
SHERLOCK JR.
/ Scherlock Jr.
say. Buster Keaton
USA / 1924 / 45′
THE COMB WAR
/ The War of the Comb
say. Nivaldo Lopes
BRAZIL / 1986 / 55′
WITHOUT GROUND
/ Losing Ground
say. Kathleen Collins
USA / 1992 / 86′
ONE IS LITTLE, TWO IS GOOD
/ One is little, two is good
(Copy restored in 4K, from the original 35mm image and sound negatives, from Cinemateca Brasileira.)
say. Odilon Lopez
BRAZIL / 1970 / 94′
Cinema Look
From June 12th to 20th, in a hybrid format, with in-person and online sessions, showing feature and short films. Other information here.
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Passionate about art, culture, fashion and tourism, Luciana Nogueira Melo is a journalist and broadcaster. She loves studying. She studied advertising, literature, a part in performing arts and another in stage production. She has worked as a publicist, TV scriptwriter, communications advisor and producer, but today her heart is in journalism.
