Gramado Names Antártida as Opening Gala and Announces Six Films Competing for the Kikito

Overview

• The Festival de Cinema de Gramado announced on Wednesday that Antártida will open the 54th edition hors-concours with a gala at the Palácio dos Festivais on August 14.
• Directed by Bruno Safadi, Antártida stars Marina Ruy Barbosa and Lázaro Ramos and follows investigators at a Brazilian Antarctic base after a violent incident without revealing plot outcomes.
• The festival selected six Brazilian fiction features to compete for the Kikito: Chorão: Só os Loucos Sabem; Feito Pipa; Justino – Nos Bastidores do Reino; Leite em Pó; Nosso Segredo; and Pele de Rinoceronte.
• Organizers said several competition titles will have their first Brazilian screenings at Gramado and that three of the films mark their directors' fiction-feature debuts, underscoring the festival's role in introducing new voices.
• Antártida was produced at Globo’s Virtual Production Studio using the Unreal engine and is due for commercial release in September, and the festival named Marcos Caruso for the Troféu Cidade de Gramado with further honorees and programming to be announced in the coming weeks.