Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival

NAME OF FESTIVAL: Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival

SINCE: 1999

WHERE: Rio de Janeiro

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Festival do Rio has been known for bringing the very best of international cinema to Brazil, and each year with more than 60 countries represented across the festival program by nearly 350 new or historically important films

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“Xenia” “Tie and Red Nail” “52 Tuesdays” Honored as Best LGBT Films of the Year at Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival

“Xenia” “Tie and Red Nail” “52 Tuesdays” Honored as Best LGBT Films of the Year at Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival

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The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival presented its first awards dedicated to gay-themed cinema – the Felix Awards. The winners, selected from 43 films in this year’s Festival do Rio that in some way represent LGBT culture, were named as: Best Fiction Film: Xenia, directed by Panos H. Koutras (Greece/ Françe/ Belgium, 2014); Best Documentary: Tie and Red Nail (De Gravata e Unha Vermelha), directed by Miriam Chnaiderman (Brasil, 2014)  and Special Jury Prize: 52 Tuesdays, directed by Sophie Hyde (Australia, 2014).