How can cities and their architectures face climate emergencies in the face of exponential tragedy, beyond construction strategies and their technicalities?
Faced with such uncertainties, cinema—and culture in general—presents itself as a fundamental tool for denunciation, raising questions that challenge everyone. But not only that. Sequenced moving images are fertile ground for imagining other futures, reinventing social dynamics, broadening the debate on consumption, and truly agreeing on a balance between humans, built space, and the environment.
The challenges are stacked up.
This film screening, aligned with the curatorial thinking of the 14th BIAsp – Extremes: Architectures for a Hot World, seeks to critically provoke the public through a selection of feature and short films, both fictional and documentary, Brazilian and non-Brazilian, framing human rights, traditional knowledge, science and experimental constructions, extraction of natural resources, preservation and climate justice as central characters.
Rafael Blas – curator/programmer
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All screenings are free. Tickets can be picked up at the Cinemateca box office one hour before screenings.
Cinematheque: Largo Sen. Raul Cardoso, 207 – Vila Clementino, São Paulo – SP, 04021-070
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SESSION 4
HEYARI
Fiction, short film, 20 minutes
Year: 2025
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Daniel Velasco Leão
Production: Punktu Films and Made in China Films
Synopsis
Heyari (in Yanomami “spread smoke to make someone sick by putting a spell on the fire”)
narrates the climate collapse in a housing complex, with the participation of residents
in the cast and production. Lonely old women die from the heat. The
former gold miner Viktor has his house taken by the sea and returns to the apartment that was once his
his mother. Joana, a devout denier, refuses to flee to the mountains with her son.
Together, Viktor and Joana find themselves increasingly alone in a threatening world, without
electricity, communication, and food. Joana becomes what she fears: an invader of
apartments, questioning his faith, as he awaits the return of his son.
FISHERMAN STREET No. 6
Documentary, feature film, 70 minutes
Year: 2025
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Barbara Paz
Production: BP Films
Synopsis
As the floodwaters in Rio Grande do Sul recede, memories of many lives emerge, bringing with them the certainty that from now on, nothing will be the same. A small team of audiovisual technicians from Rio Grande do Sul, some of whom were also affected by the tragedy and still have no home to return to, set out in search of stories. In search of memories 'after the end.'
They arrived at Rua dos Pescadores no 6 and found a riverside community
heavily impacted by the floods. This community, now seeking to reaffirm its essence, its belonging, and its love for this island, is now covered in sand.
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FULL PROGRAM
September 17 | Wednesday | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Session 1 | Quebrante + Iracema: an Amazonian sex
September 21 | Sunday | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Session 2 | Interior of the Earth + Top
September 24th | Wednesday | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Session 3 | Colors Burn + Sky Falls
10/1 | Wednesday | 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Session 4 | Heyari + Fisherman's Street No. 6
02.10 | Thursday | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Session 5 | Cold Recife + Fisherman's Street No. 6
08.10 | Wednesday | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Session 6 | The Institute of Weather Modification + The fall of the sky
09.10 | Thursday | 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Session 7 | The Time It Takes + The Silence of the Oysters