Press screenings for the Mostra BR de Cinema (the 30th São Paulo Film Festival) start this week, but movie news in the country has taken backseat to two of the year's biggest headlines: first, the run-off in the presidential elections (scheduled for October 29), and second, the mid-air collision of a Boeing plane with a private jet, killing 155 people and causing the biggest crash in Brazilian history. If you understand Portuguese, Folha de São Paulo has an entire section devoted to covering the tragedy.

Miraculously, the seven passengers of the jet (including two reporters from The New York Times) lived to tell the tale, and you can read survivor Joe Sharkey's testimony at the NYT:

"And so began the most harrowing 30 minutes of my life. I would be told time and again in the next few days that nobody ever survives a midair collision. I was lucky to be alive — and only later would I learn that the 155 people aboard the Boeing 737 on a domestic flight that seems to have clipped us were not.

Investigators are still trying to sort out what happened, and how — our smaller jet managed to stay aloft while a 737 that is longer, wider and more than three times as heavy, fell from the sky nose first."