🗓 Friday 31st October, 7pm start (doors 6.30pm)
📍 Pelican House (144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 5QJ)
🔎 Room: Common Room
Rating: Suitable for ages 16+
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes
To be followed with a Q&A session with Uilton Oliveira, the Festival Curator from Brazil
All films are in Brazilian Portuguese with English subtitles.
1. Babaçu Livre! Na lei ou na Marra - Free Babassu! By Law or by Force
Documentary, 30′ min, All ages, 2025. Directors: Élida Maria Brito & Ricardo Augusto Pereira.
The film depicts the struggle of women to protect the “mother palm,” the babassu tree. For many years, they were accused of stealing coconuts that lay rotting on large estates - coconuts they collected, cracked, and processed into oil and cooking fat to support themselves and their families. To change this situation, the babaçu coconut breakers organized and helped pass laws to preserve the palm and ensure free access to lands with babassu trees.
2 – Mansos - Meek
Fiction, 20′ min, 14+, 2024. Director: Juliana Segóvia.
Benedita is a young woman marked by a past tragedy: the murder of her mother, Tereza. Now a community leader, she is determined to uphold her mother’s struggle in an endless pursuit of vengeance.
3 – Resistência - Resistance
Documentary, 09′min, All ages, 2023. Director: Juraci Júnior.
Known as the “Devil’s Railroad,” the Madeira-Mamoré Railway began construction in the Amazon at the end of the 19th century. To this day, it leaves scars across the land it traversed.
4 – A Nave Que Nunca Pousa (PB)- The Ship That Never Lands
Documentary Science Fiction, 15′ min, 10+, 2025. Director: Ellen Morais.
The Ship That Never Lands hovers above a quilombola community in the hinterlands of Paraíba. Local residents must face the consequences of this pehomenon. A blend of science fiction and documentary set in the lands of Aruanda.
5 – A Chuva do Caju - The Cashew Rain
Documentary, 21′min, 10+, 2023. Director: Alan Schvarsberg.
In the heart of a hidden valley deep in central Brazil, Seu Alvino and Dona Neusa plant and harvest what the land gives - like the cerrado cashew and the baru nut. After more than two centuries, time continues to move slowly in the quilombo of Vão de Almas, despite the increasingly severe drought.