the festival also organizes the riomarket offering special rioseminars, which discuss key and current issues within the industry - the official website for the rio film festival can be accessed on this link.

cinema makes up a big portion of the creative programming of rio de janeiro, with film events springing up all over the city throughout the year, yet not many are as well established as the admired cinesul festival.

the event is a three-day spectacular that takes place once a year, dedicated to latin american and iberian cinema, aiming to disseminate productions that rarely reach the commercial circuit.

the festival is free of charge, and open to any member of the public, but is particularly useful to students of public schools, who may otherwise not get the chance to view such productions.