Date: 3 September 2019
Venue: Dalston Roof Park, London

Enough with Catcalling (directed by Amanda Kamancheck and Fernanda Frazão) illustrates how the participation of women in open urban spaces is marked by insecurity and harassment. This was our first screening and we raised money for Latin American Women's Aid, a charity working with Latin American women that have experienced gender-based violence in London.

Date: 14 January 2020
Venue: Moth Club, London

My Body is Political (directed by Alice Riff) follows the everyday lives of 4 transgender Brazilians and the challenges they face within their communities. 50% of the box office went to Ateliê TRANSmoras, a Brazilian collective that empowers the Trans community in Brazil.

Date: 2 February 2020
Venue: Moth Club, London

Tranny Fag (directed by Claudia Priscilla and Kiko Goifman) is a film about Brazilian artist Linn da Quebrada, a trans woman who uses herself and her art to fight sexism, transphobia, racism and the status-quo. 50% of the box office went to Ateliê TRANSmoras, a collective that empowers the Trans community in Brazil.

Date: 28 April 2020
Venue: online

Housemaids (directed by Gabriel Mascaro) is a documentary where seven young people film their families' housemaids providing us with a rare insight into the echoes of a colonial past that lingers in contemporary Brazilian households. All the money raised went to Carta Manifesto - For the Lives of Our Mothers, who distributed the money among those in most need in Brazil during the covid pandemic.

Date: 2 June 2020
Venue: online

This session held during the covid-19 pandemic showed 3 short films (I Tried by Laís Melo, Restauration by Natalia Keiko, and Breaking the Silence by Julia Lima) that portray the claustrophobic nature of domestic abuse, but also the courage of survivors, the process of healing through art and community and the indispensable support of friends and estate workers. All the money raised went to Women's Circle Apadrinhe um Sorriso (Sponsor a Smile), that empowers women to flee domestic abuse and their children to engage in cultural acitivies.

Date: 28 July 2020
Venue: online

Outskirts Visionaries (directed by Ana Carolina Martins) is a film that explores the creative and vibrand potential of São Paulo's favelas through the narratives of 10 amazing locals who have created initiatives that are changing their communities. All the money raised went to Scub (Street Child United Brazil), a football for development program at the favela Complexo da Penha in Rio de Janeiro.

Date: 11 May 2021
Venue: Dalston Roof Park, London

Ex-Shaman (directed by Luiz Bolognesi) tells the story of the Paiter Suruí, an indigenous community in Brazil who had no contact with the Western world up to 1969. Perpera, a former shaman, looks for a way to restore the culture of his community and their existential values whilst being exposed to deep social changes. 70% of the box office went to Metareilá Association of the Paiter Suruí, working in defense and preservation of cultural and territorial heritage of indigenous people.

Date: 28 July 2021
Venue: Ridley Road Social Club, London

Faith and Fury (directed by Marcos Pimentel) addresses the conflicting interface between religion, crime and power in the favelas of the country's major urban centers and the growing conservative wave that has hovered over Brazil in recent years. 60% of the money raised went to CEAP (Centro de Populações Marginalizadas), an organisation that fights against religious intolerance and racism in Rio de Janeiro.

Date: 14 October 2021
Venue: The Pelican Peckham, London

We were invited by Naz Project London to organise the launch event of 5 short documentaries of Latins living with HIV in England. This was a free event with the aim to get together, share free information and fight stigma. n goes here

Date: 22 March 2022
Venue: Glass House London

Threshold (directed by Coraci Ruiz) is an autobiographical documentary made by a mother who follows the gender transition of her teenage son. 50% of the money raised went to CasaNem, an organisation that does amazing work empowering and housing LGBTQ+ people in Rio de Janeiro.

Date: 8 October 2022
Venue: Ridley Road Social Club

This screning was organised together with a Brazilian party to celebrate 3 years of Cine Brazil. As it fell just after the first round of the Brazilian elections, we chose to screen Black and White Democracy (directed by Pedro Asbeg), a film that investigates a fascinating period in Brazilian history: the transition from dictatorship to democracy. After the film, we had DJ Limão playing the best of Brazilian music and Vic Diamente with an incredible performance.

Date: 6 December 2022
Venue: The Garden Cinema, London

We were invited by London Film Week to host a screening at their festival at The Garden Cinema. We chose to screen Uyra (directed by Juliana Cury), a documentary that shows an trans-indigenous artist who travels through the Amazon forest on a journey of self-discovery using performance art and ancestral messages to teach indigenous youth and confront structural racism and transphobia n Brazil.

Date: 12 February 2023
Venue: Cafe 1001, London

This event was done in collaboration with Brazilian friends and activits to send support to the Yanomami, one of the largest indigenous groups in South America, who are facing genocide. We screened The Last Forest (directed by Luiz Bolognesi),a film that documents the life of the Yanomami community and their threatened natural environment in the Amazon forest. All proceedings went to Hutukara, an organisation formed by the Yanomami to defend their rights and run their projects.

Date: 2 March 2023
Venue: Ridley Road Social Club, London

Letters to Angole (directed by Julio Mattos and Coracy Ruiz) highlights seven pairs of voices between Brazil, Angola and Portugal where people share many similarities from speaking the same languages to having a common colonial past. Their search for identity and memory binds these life stories together shedding light to a shared history, both past and present. 50% of the money raised went to Associação dos Angolanos, a charity providing support to migrants from Angola in the south of Brazil.

Date: 4 May 2023
Venue: The Cinema Museum, London

Piripkura (directed by Bruno Jorge and Renata Terra) is a documentary about the last two surviving members of the Piripkura indigenous people, a nomadic tribe in the Amazon rainforest. 50% of the money raised went to The Free Land Camp (Acampamento Terra Livre), the largest mobilisation of indigenous peoples in Brazil which has been taking place every year in April since 2004. After the film, Brazil Matters and Observatory for the Human Rights of Isolated and Recent Contact Indigenous Peoples (OPI) discussed the largest threats faced by isolated indigenous people in Brazil and what needs to be done to guarantee their survival.

Date: 5 July 2023

Venue: Moth Club

After the sudden death of his mother, 15 year-old Socrates finds himself alone and desperate to pay rent, buy food and find work. He is left to deal with his homophobic father, who he hasn't seem in years, as he explores his sexuality, deals with grief and navigates life in the outskirts of São Paulo.
50% of the money raised will go to Instituto Queró, an amazing charity empowering vulnerable young people through cinema

Date: 5 november 2023

Venue: Candid Arts Centre

The documentary examines the disastrous toll the mining industry has taken on communities and ecosystems in Brazil. The screening was followed by a panel discussion on the topic in partnership with Brazil Matters, London Mining, Amazonia Alerta and Atingidos por Barragens.

Date: 8 December 2023

Venue: Garden Cinema, London

Filmmaker Ana Petta and doctor Helena Petta follow public health workers in marginalized areas of Brazil as they fight to save lives during the pandemic.

This film screening is part of the London Film Week 2023.

Date: 19 March 2024

Venue: Rich Mix, London

In partnership with the Human Right Watch Film Festival.

On the eve of a future-defining championship, promising volleyball player Sofia (17) is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. Seeking an illegal termination, she becomes the target of a fundamentalist group determined to stop her at any cost – but neither Sofianor those who love her are willing to surrender to the blind fervour of the swarm.

Date: 4 April 2024

Venue: Cinema Museum

Èṣù is a popular African deity of thousands of years and we might never know its exact origin. But it is possible to understand how Èṣù went from being a God in Africa to becoming the Devil in Brazil. This tragic story, that passes through colonization and slavery, has not ended yet. Èṣù and the Universe (2022) follows the complex path of a culture turned into resistance over the course of several centuries.

Date: 22 June 2024

Venue: Garden Cinema

The Invention of the Other is a documentary about one of the most important missions ever undertaken into the depths of the Amazon rainforest to try to find and establish contact with a group of isolated indigenous people aiming to promote a delicate reunion with part of the family already contacted a few years earlier. Bruno Pereira, who would later be murdered in the same region and become an international symbol in favour of indigenous people and the forest, is leading the expedition.

Date: 31 July 2024
Venue: Brazilian Embassy in London

Basic Sanitation, the Movie (directed hy Jorge Furtado) is a comedy that transcends its humorous surface, offering insights into community spirit and the power of filmmaking as a tool for social change. In partnership with the Helena Solberg Cineclub at the Embassy of Brazil in London, we reaised money for Futuro Audiovisual RS to support people in the film industry who were affected by the floods.

Date: 14 November 2024
Venue: FARR’s Dalston

The Pink Cloud is the 2021 Sundance Film Festival acclaimed debut from director Iuli Gerbase. A mysterious and deadly pink cloud appears across the globe, forcing everyone to stay home. Strangers at the outset, Giovana and Yago try to invent themselves as a couple as years of shared lockdown pass. In partnership with Cinema Mentire, followed by a Q&A in-person with the director.

Date: 8 December 2024

Venue: The Garden Cinema, London

As part of the London Film Week, we screened ‘Pictures of Ghosts, (directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho); a a journey through time, the architecture of Recife, and the history of cinema. Both a witness and participant, Kleber films his way through the alleyways of his home city. He observes the changes to its city life, accelerated by economic difficulties, and celebrates the otherworldly ability of cinema to give us a glimpse into eternity.

Date: 27 February 2025
Venue: A Love Affair Basement

Neirud died shrouded in mystery, leaving no trace of her past behind. Confronting family secrets, the filmmaker Fernanda Faya pieces together the life of her enigmatic aunt, who toured Brazil as a wrestler in an all-women’s circus troupe throughout the 1960s and 1980s. 50% of the money raised was donated to Favela Cine Clube. This event was supported by The Brazilian Consulate in London and Instituto Guimarães Rosa (IGR).

Date: 24 April 2025
Venue: FARRS Dalston

At the heart of Brazilian agribusiness, Indigenous teacher Alenir Aquino Ximendes fights for her community's right to their ancestral lands. On the opposite side of this dispute is the heiress of these lands - Luana Ruiz Silva, a powerful anti-Indigenous lawyer.

Date: 15 June 2025

Venue: A Portuguese Love Affair

Censored by the Brazilian dictatorship before its release and recently restored in 4K, the film brings together stories about the young players of the newly formed Gayvotas Football Club. With the support of players from the 80’s who were well-known for their political stances as well as their football, this erotic and anarchic comedy features cameos from Casagrande and others involved in the Brazilian struggle for democracy. 

Date: 23 July 2025
Venue: The Garden Cinema

From a prophecy about the end of the world, Davi Kopenawa addresses humanitarian, climatic, and environmental issues to the napë (non-indigenous, white people). The film follows the Reahu festival, a funeral ritual and the most important ceremony for the Yanomami people. It brings together hundreds of the deceased’s relatives to help erase their memory and let them fade from the world of the living

Date: August/September 2025
Venue: The Lexi Cinema

We’ve teamed up with The Lexi Cinema for 'Summer Nights in Brazil', a special programme celebrating Brazilian cinema during summer 2025.

We screened Carandiru, Central Station, Neighbouring Sounds, The Second Mother and I am still here.

Date: 5 December 2026

Venue: The Garden Cinema

Island of Marajó, Amazon rainforest. Marcielle (Tielle), 13, lives by the riverbanks with her father, mother, and three siblings. Prompted by her mother's words, she idolizes her older sister who supposedly escaped her reality by "finding a good man" on the barges that ply the region. As Tielle matures, her idealized visions shatter, leaving her trapped between two abusive environments. Increasingly worried about her younger sister and the bleak future they face, she decides to confront the oppressive system that controls her family and the women in their community.

Date: 18 February 2026
Venue: The Lexi Cinema

From acclaimed director Kleber Mendonça Filho, THE SECRET AGENT is a gripping, mischievous political thriller that entertains as much as it provokes. Wagner Moura stars in a Best Actor–winning performance as Marcelo, a father on the run from a mysterious past amid the vibrant cultural landscape of 1970s Brazil. Arriving in Recife during Carnival, he is swept into a dizzying world of colour, commotion, and secrets. A global awards contender – THE SECRET AGENT heralds a bold new chapter in Brazilian cinema.

Date: 26 March 2026

Venue: FARRS Dalston

PORTUÑOL, 2019, by Thais Fernandes - This documentary takes a journey through the border culture of Brazil and its hispanohablantes neighbours. Portuñol, this language born from the intersection of cultures, serves as a pretext to explore the genesis of Latin America. A road movie that, along the way, does not seek an answer, but rather aims to break all possible certainties about what it means to exist on the edges of cultural definitions.

Date: 8 April 2026
Venue: The Lexi Cinema

This screening was a special preview screening with The Lexi Cinema and as part of the UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025-26.

In near future Brazil, elderly citizens are forced into living facilities to avoid hindering their offspring’s productivity. Having reached the fateful age, Tereza dreams of flying in a plane, so she seeks to fulfil this fantasy of embarking on an illegal journey through the Amazon. There she will find something even better than flight: independence. Political and unsentimental yet profoundly human, The Blue Trail is a transfixing journey you won’t easily forget. - BFI