growing steadily is the mostra cinema popular brasileiro - memória, identidade e pertencimento (brazilian popular film festival - memory, identity and belonging) - a cinema extravaganza showcasing around 40 brazilian films, over the course of three days, this festival is one for the film lovers visiting brazil.

also centered around films is fricine, the international  socioennvironmental film festival of nova friburgo - originally called the muri cine video ambiental, this  event started in 2006 and promoting ecological and cultural awareness for the preservation of the atlantic rainforest around nova friburgo.

festival de inverno is a cultural festival, consisting of music concerts, theater performances, dance performances, art exhibitions and technology, cinema, literature, discussions, workshops and lectures.