“Passion According to G.H.” (Brazil, 2023) is in the BAFICI international competition. Luiz Fernando Carvalho’s second feature film premiered at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival and was also screened at the São Paulo and Rotterdam Film Festivals. His distant debut film, Lavoura arcaica (To the Father’s Left, Brazil, 2001), received a special mention from the jury at the Buenos Aires festival in 2002 and also won the audience award.
“To the Left of the Father” made Carvalho a legendary figure of Brazilian cinema. Dedicated to television since the eighties, when film production was reduced in his country, he had stood out as director of the first part of “O Rei do Gado” (The King of Cattle, 1997-1998), a telenovela on agrarian social themes by Rede Globo. After that success he decided to return to the cinema within the framework of the resurgence or resumption of national production with the fiscal stimulus law of 1993. It resolved the crisis created by the closure of the state-owned company Embrafilme by the government of Fernando Collor de Mello in 1990.