Bruno Ribeiro, one of the foremost filmmakers of his young Brazilian generation, a 2022 Berlin Silver Bear winner for short “Sunday Morning” and co-scribe on Globoplay major hit “The Others, ” has been selected for Cannes Critics’ Week Next Step workshop.
The selection will be announced Saturday at this year’s Rio Film Festival by Cannes Critics’ Week Program Manager Thomas Rosso, also the Next Step workshops director. The invitation is supported by philanthropic org Projeto Paradiso , backed by the Olga Rabinovich Institute and a consistent champion of Brazilian talent and its international projection.
Ribeiro broke out with 2021 DocLisboa winner “Gargau,” a jocular semi-autobiographical comedy in which Ribeiro, playing a fictional portrait of himself, visits his grandmother in Ga