A Nova Era
Curated in collaboration with Mostra Queer Brasil, this vibrant programme of short films offers a window into queer life and imagination across Brazil. From poetic documentary to sci-fi, magical realism to tender coming-of-age, the selection celebrates how fluidity, resistance, and reinvention shape queer identities and experiences in Brazilian contexts.
These stories reflect a country where transformation is constant and identity is expansive. Whether through ancient landscapes, futuristic visions, or intimate connections, the films explore how queer Brazilians carve out space to live, feel, and dream on their own terms.
The screening includes a surprise short, winner of Best Brazilian Short Film from Mostra Luminosa in Bahia, and will be followed by a conversation on Brazilian queer cinema between filmmaker and Mostra Queer Brasil founder Ricky Mastro and Amazônia EcoQueer curator Danilo Baraúna.
Curated by Indigo Korres and Ricky Mastro.
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Accessibility
This programme has:
- Portuguese audio with English language Descriptive Subtitles
- English-BSL interpretation for introduction and panel discussion
- Live Captioning for introduction and panel discussion
This screening is 72 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+.
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Films in this programme include:
How a river is born, Dir. Luma Flôres, 2025, Brazil, 9 min
Ayla wakes up in a mountainous landscape, surrounded only by vegetation and a river. Driven by curiosity and a desire to get to know the place, she goes on a journey of discovery and diving. As she discovers where she is, she also discovers herself.
Content notes: Depiction of animated nudity.
Telepathic Encounters, Dir. Henfil, 2025, Brazil, 5 min,
A love at first sight between two young girls unveils an unexpected telepathic community amid a silent library.
If I’m Here It Is By Mystery, Dir. Clari Ribeiro, 2024, Brazil, 22 min
New Rio, 2054. Renowned witch Dahlia arrives at the port with a mission: to found the most powerful Clan that has ever existed and thus defeat the Order of Truth. In the future, many people are trans — but only a few are witches.
Content notes: Depiction of blood, death, knife.
Vollúpya, Dirs. Éri Sarmet, Jocimar Dias Jr., 2024, Brazil, 21 min
In a post-apocalyptic future, an intergalactic explorer lands at an abandoned museum on a quest to find traces of his long-lost ancestors, and ends up being teleported to the dance floor of a Brazilian queer nightclub in the 1990s.
Content notes: Depiction of alcohol use, cigarette use, sensual dancing, sexual language use.
Access notes: Flashing imagery, flashing lights.
Kings, Dir. Juliana Pamplona, 2024, Brazil, 15 min
A poetic documentary on a diverse group, identified with the dyke-queer culture, that spends a day experimenting as drag kings at a bar in the borough of Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro.
Content notes: Depiction of alcohol use.
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Supported by Screen Scotland, the BFI Audience Projects Fund and Film Hub Scotland (part of the BFI Film Audience Network), all awarding National Lottery funding. Also supported by Instituto Guimarães Rosa, via the Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh.
Image Credit: Kings, Dir. Juliana Pamplona, 2024