Show SP 2025: When it starts, how to watch and what are the most prominent movies – Cinema News

One of the most prolific times of the year for those who love cinema finally arrived: the double of the Rio Festival and international film show in São Paulo. After the film look, a festival of Gramado, Kinoforum, Brasilia festival, among many other events that permeated the country over the past few months, the agenda intensifies in October.

Scheduled to start on a few days, the 49th International Film Festival in Sao Paulo will show, among feature films, shorts and series, 373 titles from 80 countries in 52 movie theaters, cultural spaces and heaven scattered throughout the state capital. Here you will find the main information about the a must see event on the calendar of any movie buff.

When does the SP 2025 show start?

The 49th International Film Festival in São Paulo takes place between October 16 and 30. The opening took place on Wednesday, October 15, in Sala São Paulo, with the exhibition of the feature film Sirât, from Oliver laxewinner of the Cannes Festival Jury Award – actresses Stefania Gadda and Jade Oukid, who work in production, will be at the special session.

In the plot, a father (Sergi López) and his son (Bruno Núñez) travel to Morocco behind a rave in the midst of the arid desert mountains. The pair are looking for daughter and sister Marina who disappeared months ago in another of these grandiose and excessive parties.

Driven by hope and fate, the two decide to follow a group that is looking for a last party that will take place in the middle of the desert. There they hope to find the young woman.

The must -see movies at the São Paulo 2025 show

Cannes winners and representative of Brazil at Oscar 2026 are in the programming

Showcase Movies

In addition to the unmissable opening feature, which will still have other sessions throughout the event, Show 2025 has the secret agent as one of the highlights. Chosen to represent Brazil in the Oscar 2026 race, the feature starring Wagner Moura under the direction of Kleber Mendonça Filho came out of Cannes with the awards for best director and best actor. With 98% approval in Rotten Tomatoesthe project has been located in good positions in the national and international lists of the main honors of the season.

Following the Brazilian works present in the edition, the selection will also have the nature of the invisible things (Rafaela Camelo), Gloria (Felipe Sholl), Amora (Ana Petta), Black Notebooks (Joel Zito Araújo), Nosferatu (Cristiano Burlan), virtuous (Cíntia Domit Bittar), among others.

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Among the international projects that include the programming are Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro), Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater), the kiss of the spider woman (Bill Condon), in the Oter Choice (Park Chan-Wook), the story of sound (Oliver Hermanus), sorry, Baby (Eva Victor), Palestine 36 (Annemarie Jacir) And it was just an accident, winner of the Golden Palm at Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Festival.

Where to find the full schedule of the SP 2025 show?

Full programming, favorite list and ticket purchase are available from the show’s app, which can be downloaded from October 10 on mobile phones with Android operating systems by Google Play, and iOS, by the App Store. The program also allows the creation of agenda with dates and times of the titles chosen and, for accredited, it is possible to reserve entries. The show also features the DA MLOVER app for the provision of accessibility features to a selection movie clipping.

How to watch the movies of the SP show?

Tickets will be available for purchase 4 days before each session through the event app and Velox website, always from 9am. On the day of the session, a small quota will be available for purchase directly at the cinema box office:

*Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays: R $ 26,00 (full) | R $ 13,00 (half)

*Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays: R $ 32,00 (full) | R $ 16,00 (half)

São Paulo International Film Show

2nd mourn: Sessions at the addresses of the SPCine Circuit (26 CEUs, São Paulo Cultural Center, Olido Cultural Center, Roberto Santos Library) and at the Petrobras Room in the show are free. Already the exhibitions at Cinesala, CineSesc and the Petrobras Cinema Espaço are paid, with values ​​of R $ 32,00 (full) and R $ 16,00 (half). At CineSesc, children under 12 are free.

Circuit with popular prices: Circuit SPCine: CCSP – São Paulo Cultural Center (Lima Barreto and Paulo Emílio Rooms), Olido Cultural Center and Roberto Santos Library: R $ 4,00 and R $ 2.00.

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A novelty for the new edition is the agility in the virtual purchase of tickets. According to the organization of the show, the contracted company implemented improvements in the ticket purchase process. Now, the Velox system will make an immediate reservation at the time the customer selects the ticket, even before entering the payment section, ensuring that the platform validates availability early on.

If there are no more vacancies, the customer will be informed immediately, without having to do the whole process. Thus, the session is automatically blocked for new attempts when it reaches the capacity.