Directed by Adirley Queirós • 2017 • Brazil
Starring Wellington Abreu, Marquim do Tropa, Andreia Vieira
Described by director Adirley Queirós as a work of “futurist ethnography,” this sci-fi head trip charts the odyssey of an intergalactic traveler who goes on a mission to assassinate former Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek and accidentally crash-lands in Ceilândia, a suburb of Brasilia founded by the government to keep poor Black people from settling in the capital. A work of dazzling visual imagination, ONCE THERE WAS BRASILIA is a bold, trenchantly funny commentary on systemic racism in Brazil from one of the country’s most uncompromising cinematic voices.
Directed by Keisha Rae Witherspoon • 2018 • United States
Drawing on literary excerpts from the book “Black Quantum Futurism: Theory and Practice,” 1968 < 2018 > 2068 is a meditation on cyclical and linear time theory, memory, and trauma.
Directed by Likarion Wainaina • 2018 • Germany, Kenya
Starring Stycie Waweru, Marrianne Nungo, Nyawara Ndambia
Obsessed with Jackie Chan and action films, nine-year-old Jo (Stycie Waweru) dreams of being a superhero—but time is not on her side. When the doctors reveal that she is terminally ill,...
