Brazilian Movies at CIFF 2025
The Blue Trail & The Secret Agent
THE BLUE TRAIL
BCAAB is partnering with CIFF to bring this movie to Calgary audiences.
Saturday September 20, 2025
1:30pm
Contemporary Calgary Dome
Saturday September 27, 2025
7:00pm
Chinook 14
THE BLUE TRAIL (O Último Azul), starring Denise Weinberg and Rodrigo Santoro. It world premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, where it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. Gabriel Mascaro’s (AUGUST WINDS, CIFF 2015) THE BLUE TRAIL unfolds as a road movie by boat, taking us on a magical adventure and bringing to life one of the most unique stories featuring an older protagonist. Tereza has lived her whole life in a small, industrialized town in the Amazon. Suddenly, she receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing colony, an isolated area where the elderly are brought to “enjoy” their final years. Tereza refuses to accept this imposed fate, a decision that will change her destiny forever. She embarks on a transformative journey through the Amazonian rivers and tributaries to fulfill one last wish before her freedom is taken away.
To avoid a government mandate that orders older adults to be sent away, Tereza embarks on a journey that will change her destiny forever.
Extracted from the CIFF website on Sept. 2, 2025
Runtime: 86 min
Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Subtitle: English
Alberta Premiere
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THE SECRET AGENT
BCAAB is partnering with CIFF to bring this movie to Calgary audiences.
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo flees to Recife during Carnival in search of his son—but the city proves far more dangerous than the refuge he had imagined.
2:30pm
The Secret Agent (O agente Secreto) starring Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Candido, Gabriel Leone, Carlos Francisco
Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU, CIFF 2019) brings us a gripping political thriller set in the late 1970s, during the final years of Brazil’s military regime, starring Wagner Moura (NARCOS, CIVIL WAR).
Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son-but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.
BCAAB is partnering with CIFF to bring this movie to Calgary audiences.
Extracted from the CIFF website on Sept. 2, 2025
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Official teaser: https://www.youtube.