h oly week ends at the san sebastian cathedral with a saturday night mass held to honor easter vigil, and a morning service on resurrection sunday.

featured more than 400 films from 60 countries, the rio de janeiro international film festival, known locally as the festival do rio, runs yearly either in september or october - with over 15 editions of the event, the festival showcases more than 400 film screenings from around 60 countries, spread across 30 different venues in the city.  

the boom in brazil's economy over the last decade has been paralleled by a renaissance in its film industry and running in ten different cities annually, rio's film festival offers a rich range of brazilian produced titles.