For the first time, Brazil’s Mostra do Filme Marginal lands in London.
Mostra do Filme Marginal is an initiative that aims to value and promote independent film productions. It is not competitive; it aims at integration.
Our strategy is to use the project as an instrument of diffusion, reflection, encouragement, and collective organisation of the public towards a popular, authorial, and critical cinema. In this way, we open space for works that bring to the screen characters and themes marginalised by the current sociopolitical system, offering a critical gaze beyond commercial circuits.
This 5th edition, Cinema of Struggle: Art of Liberation, brings this cinema of resistance into focus — and now, to London.
Join us at Pelican House for the 4th Session of this year’s festival. We are also hosting the closing afternoon session on Saturday 1st Nov.
From the women protecting the mãe palmeira, to Benedita carrying on her mother’s fight, to communities facing the scars of the Ferrovia do Diabo and life in the quilombos – these films show how struggle, memory, and courage shape life across Brazil. Please click the signup link for further info on each of the films.
All films are in Brazilian Portuguese with English subtitles. / Sinopse em português abaixo.