As part of the Amazon Film Festival we are screening Noites Alienígenas (Dir. Sérgio de Carvalho | Ficção | 91’ | Acre | 2023).
An urban Amazon, where the ancestral heritage of traditional peoples stands firm against a modern world that seems to deny the forest. On the outskirts of Rio Branco, in Acre, the lives of three young childhood friends become intertwined and ultimately converge in a shared tragedy, within a society undergoing transformation and violently shaken by the arrival of organised crime from south-eastern Brazil.
Before the feature we will be showing Oh, Vila da Barca, Boa! (Dir. Júnior Braga | Doc | 25’ | Pará | 2025)
A documentary produced by TV Cultura do Pará that celebrates the history and resilience of the Vila da Barca community, a century-old community of stilt houses in the heart of Belém, founded by riverine communities in the early 20th century and which today faces environmental and social challenges, yet stands out for its strong culture and way of life.
About the Festival:
The Amazon Film Festival is an independent initiative dedicated to the dissemination, exchange, inclusion and cultural education of film, established in 2005. Over the past 20 years, it has visited five countries and 26 cities, screened 400 films and reached over 50,000 people.
Over two decades, the Festival has grown and gained a global reach, travelling throughout the Brazilian Amazon, French Guiana, France, Germany and Portugal, and screening hundreds of films.
As well as promoting the region, its people and its culture, the Festival puts the Amazon on the agenda in a wide variety of settings, thereby fostering surprising encounters between various cultures and northern Brazil, connecting ideas and people through cinema.
The project, which won the title of best cultural exchange initiative between Brazil and Europe from MINC (Brazilian Ministry of Culture) in its second edition in 2006, is now in its 11th edition and is coming to London for the first time.
With the support of local partners Cine Brazil and Brazil Matters, the Festival will hold five screenings across five different venues, showing 11 titles – both short and feature-length films – and the exhibition “And Now the People Know – Mercury contamination in the Amazon as seen through the eyes and hands of Brazil’s Munduruku indigenous people” by photographer Letícia Valverdes, in collaboration with Munduruku indigenous people from the Sawre Muybu territory.