Manaus, Brazil: Experience the Amazon with Outdoor Movies at the Amazonas Film Festival

The Amazonas Film Festival takes place each November at the Teatro Amazonas -- a spectacular Renaissance-style 19th-century opera house in Manaus, Brazil, built during the rubber boom that once made the city the centre of the global rubber trade. The festival was designed by Public Système Cinéma to bring internationally recognized filmmakers to the Amazon rainforest. All films are shown with Portuguese and English subtitles; admission is free, first come first served.

Past jury presidents have included director John Boorman, whose classic The Emerald Forest was shot in the Amazon. One edition's jury was headed by British director Alan Parker, with Neve Campbell and Parker Posey among the guests. Watching Boorman's film about the fragility of the jungle in the actual Amazonian landscape gives the experience a resonance impossible to replicate elsewhere.