Cinema of Brazil

Cannes 2019 Jury Prize winner 'Bacurau,' to be screened in Bucharest in director's presence

Published by Agerpres on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 14:14

Film director Juliano Dornelles, one of the most promising talents of the Brazilian cinema, on Saturday will be at Les Films de Cannes a Bucarest, Cannes movies in Bucharest, for the screening of his "Bacurau," co-directed with Kleber Mendonca Filho, the winner of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival's Jury Prize.

Brazil: Court Overturns Sentences of Officers in Carandiru Massacre

Published by InSerbia on Thu, 10/06/2016 - 16:42

SÃO PAULO, Brazil - A court in São Paulo has overturned the convictions of 74 members of the Brazilian Military Police implicated in the 1992 Carandiru prison massacre that left 111 dead, the latest twist in a case that languished for years and exposed problems in the Brazilian legal system and a lack of human rights.