# 2025 in Brazil

Events in the year 2025 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President
** Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
* Vice President
** Geraldo Alckmin
* President of the Chamber of Deputies
** Arthur Lira
* President of the Federal Senate
** Rodrigo Pacheco
* President of the Supreme Federal Court
** Luís Roberto Barroso

## Events
### January

* January 6 – At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, Fernanda Torres becomes the first Brazilian actress to win the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama.
* January 10 – Two members of the Landless Workers Movement are killed in an attack in Tremembé, São Paulo State.
* January 12 – Ten people are reported killed in landslides caused by heavy rains across Minas Gerais, including nine in Ipatinga.
* January 13 – A law restricting the usage of smartphones in schools nationwide comes into effect.
* January 17 – Six suspected bank robbers are killed in a police raid on a ranch in Ponta Grossa, Parana State.

### February

* February 7 – A Beechcraft King Air aircraft crashes into a bus in the Barra Funda district of São Paulo, killing two people.
* February 12 – A fire guts a factory in Rio de Janeiro producing costumes for the Rio Carnival, injuring 21 people.
* February 15 – A light aircraft crashes in Quadra, São Paulo, killing two people.
* February 19 – Brazilian investigation into Elon Musk: Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes imposes a fine of 8.1 million Brazilian reais ($1.4 million) on X for refusing to provide registration data for a profile attributed to an ally of former President Jair Bolsonaro accused of spreading disinformation.
* February 20 – A bus carrying students of the University of Franca collides with a truck near Nuporanga, São Paulo, killing 12 people and injuring 21 others.
* February 21 – Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders the suspension of Rumble for refusing to remove the account of an ally of former President Jair Bolsonaro accused of spreading disinformation and failing to name a legal representative in Brazil.

### March

* March 2 – I'm Still Here, directed by Walter Salles, becomes the first Brazilian film to win at the Academy Awards after being recognized as Best International Feature Film.
* March 6 – School closures are implemented in parts of Rio Grande do Sul due to a heatwave.
* March 10 – Four people are killed in a fire at a homeless shelter in Sao Jose dos Campos.
* March 11 – The National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil suspends the operating license of Voepass over the crash of Voepass Flight 2283 in 2024.
* March 15 – Aleson Cristiano de Oliveira Fonseca and Fabio Pirineus da Silva are sentenced to up to 23 years' imprisonment over the murder of Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe in 2022.

### Predicted and scheduled

* 22–30 March – 2025 Copa América de Futsal Femenina
* 6–7 July – 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro.

## Art and entertainment

* List of 2025 box office number-one films in Brazil
* List of Brazilian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

## Holidays

Source:
* 1 January – New Year's Day
* 3–4 March – Carnival
* 18 April – Good Friday
* 21 April – Tiradentes's Day
* 1 May – Labour Day
* 19 June – Feast of Corpus Christi
* 7 September – Independence Day
* 12 October – Our Lady of Aparecida
* 2 November – All Souls' Day
* 15 November – Republic Day
* 20 November – Black Consciousness Day
* 25 December – Christmas Day

## Deaths
### January

* 14 January – Benedito de Lira, 82, federal deputy (1995–1999, 2003–2019) and mayor of Barra de São Miguel, Alagoas (since 2021).

### February

* 14 February – Carlos Diegues, 84, film director (Ganga Zumba, Bye Bye Brasil, Deus é Brasileiro).