LA NOUVELLE VAGUE BRÉSILIENNE S’INVITE À BIARRITZ

As part of the France-Brazil Season 2025, the Biarritz Film Festival - NOUVELLES VAGUES proudly showcases a vibrant and socially engaged new wave of Brazilian cinema in active dialogue with the world. Through
screenings, cultural exchanges, and environmental advocacy, this Brazil
Focus celebrates creativity, diversity, and the connections young people
forge across continents.
The program features a curated selection of short films, and a film student
from a Brazilian university joins our international student jury, made up of
young people from around the globe.
This jury also acts as a programmer: each member selects and presents a
film about youth in the section Students THE NEW BRAZILIAN WAVE COMES TO BIARRITZ Speak to You, a true laboratory of ideas and cross‑cultural perspectives.
To focus on youth is also to engage with their struggles. Among the key causes rallying young people today, ocean conservation resonates strongly with NOUVELLES VAGUES’ identity. The Festival is committed to raising awareness
around this crucial issue by designing a program of concrete actions to protect
this fragile ecosystem. Biarritz, a city facing the Atlantic, offers a natural
setting to foster dialogue between artistic creation and environmental urgency.
Finally, this edition of the Brazil Focus is part of a broader ambition to expand
imaginations and representations.
Inviting filmmakers – and future filmmakers – of Afro-descendant or Indigenous backgrounds means opening the door to new stories and fresh ways of seeing and making cinema. It also prompts reflection on the historical ties
between continents, shared legacies, and future possibilities.
By building these bridges between France and Brazil, generations, and artistic
and social commitments, the Biarritz Film Festival - NOUVELLES VAGUES reaffirms its determination to make cinema a space for dialogue, openness, and action.
The screening of the Brazilian New Wave short films will be attended by Thierry de Clermont-Tonnerre, French co-producer of Walter Salles’ film I’m Still Here.
In partnership with Engie