The Museum of Modern Art presents Premiere Brazil!, its third annual exhibition of contemporary Brazilian cinema, July 1-10, 2005, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. This nine-film exhibition of fiction and nonfiction work from both emerging and established Brazilian directors includes the three principal award winners from the 2004 Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival. For more information and a schedule, visit the MoMA website.

Lúcia Murat’s powerful debut, Almost Brothers (2004), which will have a week’s run at MoMA, June 1-8; the engaging documentary Estamira (2004); and Helena Solberg’s audience-award winner, Diary of a Provincial Girl (2004). The exhibition also features the North American premiere of Toni Venturi’s political thriller Playing in the Dark (2005), and Anibal Massaini’s Pelé Forever (2004), a documentary on the soccer legend, who will introduce the July 9 screening. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Carmen Miranda, the series also includes Adhemar Gonzaga and Wallace Downey’s Alô Alô Carnaval (1936), starring the versatile actress/singer.