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Overview
- Brazil selected the Kleber Mendonça Filho film as its official submission for the 2026 Academy Awards in the international feature race.
- Wagner Moura won an acting prize at the Newport Beach Film Festival over the weekend, adding to earlier honors from Cannes, Zurich and Chicago.
- The movie opened in Brazil on November 6 and, per Comscore-reported advance sessions, has drawn more than 58,000 viewers and about R$1.36 million, placing it among the country’s top ten titles.
- Moura said on TV Globo’s Fantástico that he is consulting Walter Salles and Fernanda Torres and plans to travel, attend festivals and meet voters as part of the campaign.
- Coverage notes significant headwinds, including a crowded field, Academy viewing limits and reports of a U.S. 100% tariff on foreign films, alongside a resolved domestic selection controversy.