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 7

THE TIME IT TAKES

Fiction, short film, 15 minutes
Year: 2013
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Cíntia Domit Bittar
Production: Novelo Filmeslia Obleitne

Synopsis

Even with the imminent end of the world, Jamila left home with one goal: to fix her fan.

THE SILENCE OF THE OYSTERS

Fiction, feature film, 120 minutes
Year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Marcos Pimentel
Production: Tempero Filmes

Synopsis

The life of a girl who was born in a village of mine workers and has
to learn to cope with the successive losses life has in store for her. After losing all her worlds, Kaylane insists on surviving and resisting. A film about growing up, surviving, and dreaming amidst the dust, mud, and silence.

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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

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 6

THE INSTITUTE OF WEATHER MODIFICATION

Documentary, short film, 11 minutes
Year: 2022
Country: Austria, Latvia
Directed by: Helvijs Savickis and Julia Obleitne
Produced by: Helvijs Savickis and Julia Obleitne

Synopsis

Los Angeles' water system is among the largest and most controversial infrastructures in the world. Tracing its trajectory—from aqueducts and reservoirs to ultraviolet light treatment plants, hot springs, lakes, and cloud seeding stations—the film reveals the hidden geographies and infrastructures that sustain the city. By exploring climate change as part of this network, it reveals how human intervention in the climate is deeply intertwined with the control and survival of water in a desert metropolis.

THE FALL OF THE SKY

Documentary, feature film, 108 minutes
Year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Production: Aruac Films

Synopsis

Based on the powerful testimony of Yanomami shaman and leader Davi Kopenawa, the film "The Fall of the Sky" follows the important Reahu ritual, which mobilizes the Watorikɨ community in a collective effort to hold up the sky. The film offers a scathing shamanic critique of those Davi calls the "people of merchandise," as well as of illegal mining and the deadly mix of epidemics brought by outsiders that the Yanomami call "xawara" epidemics. It foregrounds the beauty of Yanomami cosmology, the xapiri spirits, and their geopolitical power that invites us to dream far.

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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

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 5

COLD RECIFE

Fiction, short film, 24 minutes
Year: 2009
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Production: Cinemaoscópio Filmes/ Vitrine Filmes

Synopsis

In the tropical city of Recife, temperatures drop dramatically, and its inhabitants must adapt. This mockumentary gradually becomes critical, examining the climate, urban development, and social interaction from all angles. Ultimately, will a ray of sunshine pierce the clouds?

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

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

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 3

COLORS BURN

Documentary, short film, 9.38 minutes
Year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Felippy Damian
Production: Latitude Films and Knife Made Films

Synopsis

Every year, the Pantanal burns. This is a story with many protagonists, including the biome itself and the humans who live within it. But one stands out: fire. From the beginning to the end of time, the story of humanity cannot be told without it.

THE FALL OF THE SKY

Documentary, feature film, 108 minutes
Year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Eryk Rocha, Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
Production: Aruac Films

Synopsis

Based on the powerful testimony of Yanomami shaman and leader Davi Kopenawa, the film "The Fall of the Sky" follows the important Reahu ritual, which mobilizes the Watorikɨ community in a collective effort to hold up the sky. The film offers a scathing shamanic critique of those Davi calls the "people of merchandise," as well as of illegal mining and the deadly mix of epidemics brought by outsiders that the Yanomami call "xawara" epidemics. It foregrounds the beauty of Yanomami cosmology, the xapiri spirits, and their geopolitical power that invites us to dream far.

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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

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 2

INTERIOR OF THE EARTH 

Documentary, short film, 18 minutes
Year: 2022
Country: Brazil, France
Directed by: Bianca Dacosta
Production: Bianca Dacosta

Synopsis

Like an investigation from the sky to the depths of the forest, Interior of the Earth is a journey that leads through the strata to the depths of the earth, revealing layers of buried and erased history. The film demonstrates profound political issues through a historical and contemporary account of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people, told through the story of the Mura people.

TOP

Documentary, feature film, 83 minutes
Year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Eugenio Puppo
Production: Heco Productions

Synopsis

Los Angeles' water system is among the largest and most controversial infrastructures in the world. Tracing its trajectory—from aqueducts and reservoirs to ultraviolet light treatment plants, hot springs, lakes, and cloud seeding stations—the film reveals the hidden geographies and infrastructures that sustain the city. By exploring climate change as part of this network, it reveals how human intervention in the climate is deeply intertwined with the control and survival of water in a desert metropolis.

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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

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 1

BREAKING

Documentary, short film, 23 minutes
Year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Janaina Wagner
Production: Janaina Wagner

Synopsis

A counter-spell, QUEBRANTE explores the ruins of the Trans-Amazonian Highway BR-230 and its phantasmagoria, portraying its stones and its ghosts. Set in the small town of Rurópolis, Pará—the first to be built on the highway, serving as a base for its construction workers—QUEBRANTE follows Dona Erismar, known locally as "The Cave Woman." A retired elementary school teacher, Dona Erismar was responsible for discovering the region's caves: she entered the dark, unknown holes to their ends, holding only a candle and a lighter tied to her pants—in case the flame went out. A conversation between the stones and the moon, QUEBRANTE is loosely inspired by Robert Smithson's project THE TRULY UNDERGROUND CINEMA (1971) and Maya Deren's film THE VERY EYE OF THE NIGHT (1958).

IRACEMA: AN AMAZONIAN SEX

Documentary/fiction, feature film, 90 minutes
Year: 1974
Country: Brazil
Directed by: Jorge Bodanzky, Orlando Senna
Production: Stopfilm

Synopsis

In 1970, a truck driver from the South, in Belém, Pará, during the Círio de Nazaré festival, meets Iracema, a young Indigenous prostitute. He gives her a ride, dropping her off in a small village on the side of the road. The trip, like the entire film, serves as a pretext for depicting the region's problems—deforestation, poor working and health conditions, and the sale of peasants, all in conflict with fanciful institutional propaganda.

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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