At a ceremony held at the Cine Humberto Mauro, the jury announced the award-winning films in the International, Minas Gerais, and Brazil competitive sections. The CapibaraTrophy was also awarded to the short film most voted for by the popular jury and to the honoree of the inaugural José Zuba Júnior...

In 2019, at the 21st FestCurtasBH, some films that also came from the "Lights, Camera & Action" project of the Newton Amaral Franco Municipal School were screened. How has the experience of being part of the festival again been, six years later? The "Lights, Camera… School in Action!" project (even...

Rishabh Jain, director of the film “Ali Ali” (India, 2025), selected for the Youths Section. The film blends childhood with the magic of cinema. What feelings do you hope to evoke in the audience with this narrative? What are your expectations for the short film's screening at this festival? With...

Juliana Magalhães, director of “When I said goodbye I thought I was gone” (Cachoeira do Pajeú and São Paulo, 2024), selected for the Minas Gerais Competition. The film portrays the backlands of Minas Gerais, a location rarely seen in commercial cinema, and denounces the illnesses of women living in Cachoeira...

Agarb Braga, filmmaker responsible for the film “Americana” (Pará, 2025), selected for the Brazilian Competition. Brazil is the country that kills the most transgender and transvestite people, and "Americana" features trans bodies in a police station. However, their presence is motivated by a trivial fight in a public place, with...

Marcelo Lin, director of “Got my pass” (Minas Gerais, 2025), selected for the Brazilian Competition. In some interviews and texts you mention that "Got my pass" is about freedom in a broad way, allowing for other perspectives on the slums and favelas. After its premiere last month at the Brasília...

Philosopher Marie-José Mondzain (Algiers, 1942), research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, attended the Brazilian Competitive Showcase and the Narcia Hirsch Special Program this Thursday. One of the most important thinkers of our time, she transversally draws on contributions from philosophy, theology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis...

Spanish filmmaker, who screened his film "Stone Shadows" in the International Competition program, was present at the 27th FestCurtasBH. Read the interview he gave to curator Juliana Gusman. Pasolini filmed the “unreal perfection” of the walls of Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, in the early 1970s, an appeal to the...

The films will be available on the Cine Humberto Mauro Mais platform simultaneously with the in-person screenings. From November 3rd to 7th, the Minas and Brazil Competitive Programs of the 27th FestCurtasBH will take place with its eight programs, which will be also available online on the Cine Humberto Mauro...

Researcher Carol Almeida states, in Curating Cinema: From Thought to Action, that “since the Palestinian struggle is ‘painfully observable and clearly visible, but always seems unable to be seen,’ this struggle becomes a fundamental barometer for thinking about curation as a system of ‘making visible’ that to which the world...