Events
LCAW- Iracema film screening at the BFI + Q&A by PPP
PPP presents Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica
Invited by the BFI to curate and moderate a panel as part of London Climate Action Week, PPP presents a landmark of hybrid political cinema. A young woman travels a newly opened highway with a truck driver, witnessing exploitation along the route. Blending documentary and fiction, Iracema exposes the human cost of Amazonian 'development'. Long banned but now restored, the film remains urgently resonant amid contemporary debates over land and extraction.
Panel discussion moderated by PPP with film director Jorge Bodanzky and Dr Erika Berenger (tbc).
LCAW- How to Survive? Climate Realism and the Art of Collective Resilience
What does it take to survive the climate crisis? What if the climate crisis is also a narrative problem? Who gets to shape that story?
Join us for an evening of film, science, and climate storytelling that brings together artists, scientists, and voices from the Global South to explore Climate Realism as an emerging language for collective action.
The evening opens with Marcele Oliveira, COP30 Climate Youth Champion and Maria Augusta Arruda, Director of Brazil’s National Biosciences Laboratory (CNPEM) and Senior Consultant to the COP30 Presidency.
The session is followed by the private screening of How to Survive, a documentary centred on the lived realities of people and collectives across Latin America navigating the complexities of the climate crisis, opened by Art for Climate, a short film following Brazilian artists as they transform environmental experiences into performance and collective action.
The evening concludes with a panel discussion with Fabrícia Sterce, director of How to Survive, and Syed Jazib Ali, documentarian, media practitioner, and founder of Mudland Studio. Additional speakers to be announced.
An event by Visão Coop, People's Palace Projects / Queen Mary University of London, and Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials, as part of London Climate Action Week.
Free to attend. The event will be held in English with no translation. Register to secure your place.
Repplika Second screening at the BFI London
The short documentary Replikka, co-directed by Indigenous filmmaker Piratá Waurá (Xingu territory) and director Heloisa Passos, will debut in the UK at the BFI, as part of the BFI’s Brazil on Film season. The screening forms a double bill with the feature documentary The Father and the Shaman (O Pai e o Pajé, dirs. Lawaretê Kaiabi, Felipe Tomazelli and Luís Villaça, Brazil, 2025).
Synopsis
On the borders of the Xingu Indigenous Territory in Brazil, a sacred cave is vandalised, threatening the collective memory of the Xingu peoples. Replikka is a meditation on memory, identity, loss and rebirth, as a full-scale replica of the cave is conceived, produced and installed in the Ulupuwene village to pass knowledge on to a new generation. The film invites us to reflect on the ancestral wisdom of the Wauja people and how technology and Indigenous knowledge can come together as an act of resistance. Directed by Piratá Waurá (Xingu Territory) and Heloisa Passos (São Paulo), the film is built from ritual and dream, spoken entirely in the Indigenous language Aruak, and made with the support of young people from the village.
Replikka UK Premiere at BFI London
PPP Award-winning Replikka makes its UK Première as part of Brazil on Film season.
The first Brazilian short co-directed by an Indigenous filmmaker - Piratá Waurá with Heloisa Passos - to win Best International Short Documentary at Hot Docs screens alongside feature documentary The Father and the Shaman, with a Q&A to follow with Felipe Tomazelli, co-director of The Father and the Shaman, and Yula Rocha (PPP), producer of Replikka.
Link for the tickets below.