‘Rio,’ ‘Ice Age’ Director Carlos Saldanha on ‘Wonderful Homecoming’ With Ambitious Brazilian Adventure Film ‘100 Days’: ‘It Deserved a Big Cinema Treatment’

Oct 10, 2026 9:03am PT ‘Rio,’ ‘Ice Age’ Director Carlos Saldanha on ‘Wonderful Homecoming’ With Ambitious Brazilian Adventure Film ‘100 Days’: ‘It Deserved a Big Cinema Treatment’

The Brazilian closing gala at this year’s Rio Film Festival is inspired by Amyr Klink’s 1984 crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a small rowing boat

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It might have taken pioneering explorer Amyr Klink one hundred days to cross the Atlantic, but it took Carlos Saldanha almost three thousand to bring his story to the big screen. After nearly a decade working on the epic, the “Ice Age” and “Rio” director is finally bringing “100 Days” to audiences as the Brazilian closing gala of this year’s Rio Film Festival.

“100 Days” is adapted from Klink’s book “One Hundred Days Between Sky and Sea” and chronicles Klink’s trailblazing 1984 solo journey from Africa to Brazil across the South Atlantic in a tiny rowing boat. The film stars Filipe Bragança as the explorer, “Emily in Paris” star Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as his mother, Asa, plus Felipe Camargo and João Silva as Klink’s father and brother, respectively.

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