É Tudo Verdade / It's All True

The 26th It’s All True festival, like the edition before it, is being held in the shadow of the pandemic. Alongside the cultural sector as a whole, the event has had to shift online and look for new ways to communicate with its public. It’s a challenge that comes with a very specific remit for this edition, as it entails underscoring the importance of the documental task and the plurality of points of view so essential to our time.

The partnership between Itaú Cultural and It’s All True is longstanding. For over a decade (1999 to 2007 and 2016 to 2019), our headquarters and Espaço Itaú Cinemas were among the festival’s screening venues. In 2020, IC hosted the festival’s online show, and this year, our website (itaucultural.org.br) welcomes the 18th International Documentary Conference, dedicated to the centenary of the birth of the filmmaker Chris Marker.

In addition to supporting the festival, Itaú Cultural runs an intense audiovisual program online. In 2020, the Festival Arte como Respiro[Art as a Breath of Fresh Air Festival] streamed over 190 short fiction, documental, and experimental films. The organization also put together various thematic shows, such as a selection of contemporary Brazilian cinema.

You can follow the program on our website, and, while you’re at it, browse the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural de Arte e Cultura Brasileira [Itaú Cultural Encyclopaedia of Brazilian Art and Culture] at enciclopedia.itaucultural.org.br, packed with information on all the country’s main creators. The site Ocupação [Occupation] (itaucultural.org.br/ocupacao) offers immersions in the work of such artists as Luiz Sergio Person and Eduardo Coutinho.

Eduardo Saron

Itaú Cultural Director