DOBRA – International Festival of Experimental Cinema emerged ten years ago as a gathering of friends who shared their passion for experimental film. Throughout its trajectory, the festival has established itself as a vibrant space in Brazil, presenting screenings, performances, debates, workshops, and other initiatives that push the boundaries of cinema.
Together with the festival’s founders, Cristiana Miranda and Lucas Murari, eight curators were invited this year to conceive a special edition dedicated to Brazilian cinema: Ж, Carlos Adriano, Janaína Oliveira, Kátia Maciel, Liciane Mamede, Sávio Leite, Tetsuya Maruyma, and yann beauvais. In total, 75 works spanning different generations will be shown, organized into 10 curatorial programs that chart multiple and open-ended paths. The festival will feature analog projections in formats such as Super-8, 16mm, and 35mm, in addition to digital screenings.
Below is the program, which will take place entirely at CCBB Rio de Janeiro from December 3 to 7, 2025, and is free of charge. Additional information can be found on Dobra’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dobrafestival/
“Great Stones Watching the Sea: Rio de Janeiro as an Expanded Territory of Invention” - Curated by Cristiana Miranda and Lucas Murari:
Copacabana Beach (1983) - Vivian Ostrovsky
Ângela Noite (1981) - Roberto Moura
Erosão (2014) - Victor Galvão
SuperRio Superficções (2016) - Guerreiro do Divino Amor
Kopacabana (2019) - Marcos Bonisson e Khalil Charif
Ameno (2020) - Coletivo BaixadaCine
Onde você está, Teresa Villaverde? (2019) - Teresa Villaverde
“Animate the World — experimentation, training, and collective momentum” - Curated by Cristiana Miranda and Lucas Murari:
Animando (1983) - Marcos Magalhães
Planeta Terra (1986) - Direção Coletiva
Noturno (1986) - Aída Queiroz
Instinto Animal (1986) - Léa Zagury
Evoluz (1986) - José Rodrigues Neto
Estrela de Oito Pontas (1996) - Fernando Diniz
“Between the Film Strip and the Pixel, the Body Persists” - Curated by Sávio Leite:
O Átomo Brincalhão (1961) - Roberto Miller
Toques (1975) - Jomard Muniz de Britto
Céu Sobre Água (1978) - José Agripino de Paula e Maria Esther Stockler
A Situação (1978) - Geraldo Anhaia Mello
Garoto Transcodificado A Partir de Fosfeno (2017-2018) - Rodrigo Faustini
Cuando tengo comida em mis manos (2012) - Paulo Nazareth.
Pátio (1959) - Glauber Rocha
Marca Registrada (1975) - Letícia Parente
Trovoada (1995) - Carlos Nader
“Skin Scribed — Contemporary Brazilian Films Hand-Processed” - by Tetsuya Maruyama:
Wild Flower (2025) - Moira Lacowicz
Corpo de Água/Fluxo Confinado (2022) - Helder Martinovsky
Considere (2024) - Ж
Lembrarei de Lucy (2022) - Maria Mion
Traços sobre a noite (2025) - Cristiana Miranda
Bleach Farm (2023) - Lígia Teixeira, Francisco Benvenuto
Typefilm an Armory Show (2022) - João Reynaldo
Walden Street (2025) - Duo Strangloscope
Sem título (três luas) (2024) - Tetsuya Maruyama
“After the Fireflies: Ecological Thought in Four Contemporary Brazilian Films” - Curated by Ж:
Do Caldeirão da Santa Cruz do Deserto (2025) - Weyna Macedo, Lucas Parente, Adeciany Castro e Mariana Smith
Cemitério Verde (2023) - Mauricio Chade
Naquele tempo todos eram gente (2016) - Aline Baiana
Memby (2020) - Rafael Castanheira Parrode
"Water Crossings, routes for the Black Brazilian Cinemas" - Curated by Janaína Oliveira:
Alma no Olho (1973) - Zózimo Bulbul
NoirBlue, Displacents of a dance (2018) - Ana Pi
Se o mar tivesse varandas (2017) - Aline Motta
Mal di Mare (2021) - João Vieira Torres
Mar de Dentro (2024) - Lia Letícia
Naufraga (2018) - Juh Almeida
Blackness = Time ÷ Media = ∞ (2021) - Márcio Cruz
“When the Sea — cinema and poetry” - Curated by Kátia Maciel:
ULTRA-KINEMA-RINO (2025) - Vicente de Mello
Carta à Flora (ou filme azul) (2021) - Anna Costa e Silva
Suite belle-île, Pranayama (2007) - João Modé
Suite belle-île, Nuca (2007) - João Modé
Arpoador (2014) - Ana Costa Ribeiro
Oda a Marx (2005) - André Vallias
Sem título #2 La Mer Larme (2009) - Carlos Adriano
“Experimental Archive Reappropriation Cinema in Brazil: An (Im)possible Constellated Poetics (1897 / 2024)” - Curated by Carlos Adriano:
[Sem Título] (1897), de Cunha Salles
Poema (1987), de Paulo Bruscky
You Don’t Know Me (2014), de Katia Maciel
A Miss e o Dinossauro: Bastidores da Belair (2005), de Helena Ignez
Mar de Fogo (2014), de Joel Pizzini
Complemento Nacional (1978), de Arlindo Machado
Circuladô (2007), de André Parente
Ano Passado em Marinmaraisbad (2020), de André Vallias
Mítia (2007), de Carlos Nader
Ideograma (2024), de Julio Bressane e Rodrigo Lima
Já Visto Jamais Visto (Trailer) (2013), de Andrea Tonacci e Cristina Amaral
“Memory and Ancestry: A View on Brazilian Women’s Cinema” - Curated by Liciane Mamede:
Cidadão Jatobá (1987) - Maria Luiza Aboim
A Mão do Povo (1975) - Lygia Pape
Memória Goitacá (1976) - Eloísa de Mattos e Paulo Sérgio Pestana
Quebrante (2024) - Janaína Wagner
Yaõkwa - Imagem e Memória (2020) - Rita Carelli e Vincent Carelli
Aguyjevete, avaxi’i (2023) - Kerexu Martim
“Coming Out Gay, Lesbian, Trans — and Drifting Through Brazilian Cinema” - Curated by yann beauvais:
Amizades Particulares (2020), de Laira Tenca
Baltazar da Lomba (1982), do Grupo Nós Também
Sair do Armário (2018), de Marina Pontes
O Banho (2012), de João Vieira Torres
Bicha Bomba (2019), de Renan de Cillo
Prelúdio de Uma Morte Anunciada (1991), de Rafael França
Eu quero um boy (2014), de Leona
O nascimento de Urana remix (2020), de Jota Mombaça
Madame Bayeux: outra paixão nacional (1995), de Jomard Muniz de Britto