“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
Writing
Bolognesi packs 600 years of Brazilian trauma into 74 minutes without losing intimacy.
Direction
Four distinct visual eras—each historical period gets its own devastating aesthetic.
Acting
Selton Mello voices four reincarnations with enough longing to drown in.
Director
Luiz Bolognesi
Selton Mello
Abeguar / Balaio / Cau / JC (voice)
Camila Pitanga
Janaína (voice)
Rodrigo Santoro
Piatã / Junior (voice)
Marcos Cesana
Feijão (voice)
Bemvindo Sequeira
Pajé (voice)
André Frateschi
Miliciano 1 / Torturador (voice)
Jiddú Pinheiro
Miliciano 2 / Policial (voice)
Gilberto Baroli
Padre Português (voice)
Rogério Brito
Dom Cosme / Feijão adicional (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's release coincided with Brazil's 2013 protests, making its historical parallels feel uncomfortably prescient. The 'ditadura militar brasileira' sequences remain banned from some state school curricula.
Rodrigo Santoro voices both Piatã (the indigenous warrior) AND Junior (the 1970s revolutionary's son), subtly linking indigenous and leftist resistance across 500 years through one voice actor's lineage.
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