"São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana" is among those selected for the “Territories and Memory Competition” at the 14th Ecofalante Film Festival. The competition is aimed at Brazilian productions or co-productions that deal with issues related to one or more territories in the country or that address themes linked to individual or collective memories.
Considered the most important South American event for audiovisual production related to socio-environmental issues, the Ecofalante Film Festival has free admission to all its activities and will take place from May 28 to June 11, 2025.
Produced by LISA and directed by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, the film features Shambuyi Wetu, Yannick Delass, Lenna Bahule, Edoh Amassize and other Afropolitan artists who occupy Sampa (and the world) with their diasporic creativity. "São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana" will be shown in the following cinemas:
Reserva Cultural, room 03 - Avenida Paulista 900, Paraíso
Thursday 29/05, at 7 pm, followed by a debate with the film's director Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
Cine Bijou - Praça Franklin Roosevelt 172, Consolação
Sunday 01/06, at 4 pm
Synopsis:
What do African artists who have arrived in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? How do the African diasporas – the new creative diaspora and the one that has turned the Atlantic into a cemetery – interact? What stages are occupied, built, and filled with the performances of artists who have crossed the ocean? Ancestralities are updated in performances that construct an Afropolitan present in a metropolis where it is necessary to be bold and color the gray. São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana presents the city of São Paulo as a meta-stage occupied by artists from Togo, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola, among other African nations, in dialogue with the Brazilian population and its openness, contradictions, and tensions.
Direction, photography, and research:
Jasper Chalcraft
Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji