From October 1 to 11, Festival do Rio spreads hundreds of films across venues around the city. Cine Odeon, in Cinelândia, is one of the main locations, with its classic theater and that kind of atmosphere that somehow makes you stand a little straighter while waiting in line. More than ten days of world premieres, award-winning productions, Brazilian films and debates in a program for people who like discovering everything before everyone else. Sometimes the fun is choosing a screening from the synopsis, crossing the city to see it and realizing that the story will continue outside, at a bar. Even better if it is with someone who has a different theory from yours, a very specific reference you understand and the desire to talk for hours. After all, if the conversation is better than the film, no one is going to complain that it was a waste of time, right?