The Festival do Rio is an international film festival in
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...
. The festival was the result of a 1999 merger of two previous film festivals, the Rio Cine Festival and the Mostra Banco Nacional de Cinema.
Founded in 1984 and 1988 respectively, the two festivals were held within a period of two months between each other.
To avoid overloading the city with two film festivals within a short period of time, the two events were eventually merged.[
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Film festivals in Brazil
Festivals in Rio de Janeiro
Film festivals established in 1999
1999 establishments in Brazil
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