11th Amazon Film Festival
27- 31 June 2026 in London
The Amazon Film Festival is an independent initiative by Mekaron Filmes and the Instituto Cultural Amazônia Brasil, dedicated to the dissemination, exchange, inclusion and cultural education of Amazonian cinema since 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 reached a global audience, 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 was awarded the title of ‘best cultural exchange initiative between Brazil and Europe’ by MINC (Brazil’s 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 London edition of the Festival will hold five sessions across five different venues, screening 11 titles – short and feature-length films – alongside discussions 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.
PROGRAMME
Opening
Wednesday 27th May at 6pm
Amazônia without mining (Tiago Carvalho e Julia Bernstein | Animation | 6’30'' | Rio de Janeiro | 2022)
Matinta (Dir. Fernando Segtowick | Fiction| 20’ | Pará | 2010)
Amazônia, the new minamata? (Dir. Jorge Bodanzky | Documentary | 76’ | RJ | 2022)
+ Q&A and 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.
Genesis Cinema
Thursday 28th May at 7pm
Entre as Nuvens (Dir. Alex Pizano | Fiction | 12’ | Roraima | 2025)
Watered Eyes - from magic latern to Cinematographo (Dir. Eduardo Souza | Doc | 73’ | Pará | 2015) + Q&A
The Cinema Museum
Friday 29th May at 6.30pm
Oh, Vila da Barca, Boa! (Dir. Júnior Braga | Doc | 25’ | Pará | 2025)
Aliens Night (Dir. Sérgio de Carvalho | Fiction | 91’ | Acre | 2023)
FARRs Dalston
Saturday 30th May at 1pm
Quem Salva (Dirs. Laure Devin, Maxime Bourstin, Nathan Medam, Charles Hechinger, Titouan Jaouen | Animação | 7’ | Brasil e França | 2023)
Football Nation (Dir. Eduardo Souza | Doc | 26’ | Pará | 2014)
Amazônia Groove (Dir. Bruno Murtinho | Doc | 83’ | Rio de Janeiro | 2019)
Theatership
Closing
Sunday 31st May at 4pm
Yanuni (Dir. Richard Ladkani | Doc | 112’ | Brasil, Áustria, EUA, Alemanha | 2025) + Q&A
The Garden Cinema
The 11th Amazon Film Festival is a production of Mekaron Filmes and Instituto Cultural Amazônia Brasil, with the support of Instituto Guimarães Rosa, Secult-Pa, Cine Brazil, Brazil Matters, Associação de Amizade Italia-Brasile, Forum Culturel Brésil Suisse, Caraminhola Produções Artísticas, and other important local partners contributing to the success and scope of the project in four different countries.
This event is a part of the UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025-26 - year-long cultural exchange between the two countries that showcases the diverse and vibrant arts sectors of both nations.