Basierend auf brasilianischen Filmen, die sich mit dystopischen Vorstellungen auseinandersetzen oder inspirierende Alternativen für den Umgang mit dem heutigen globalen Zusammenbruch vorschlagen, verlagert diese Reihe das Ende der Welt und die Vorstellungen von der Zukunft in die südlichen Tropen.
Based on Brazilian films that engage with dystopian imaginaries or propose inspiring alternatives for navigating today’s global collapse, this series displaces the end of the world and notions of the future to the South tropics of the world. It creates a space for collectively, creatively, and critically experiencing cinema, inviting the audience to reflect on ways of reinventing the future and on forms of disrupting singular accounts of its end. Within this selection, certain degrees of negativity are acknowledged and embraced, since ending something might imply the beginning of something else.
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The series borrows its name from the writings of Ideas to Postpone the End of the World (2020), an essay by the Brazilian philosopher and indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak.
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Thursday, May 21, 2026, 8pm
Screening and short film installation
The Blue Trail (O último azul). Dir. Gabriel Mascaro (2024)
Brazil / Mexico / Chile / Netherlands 2025. Original language: Portuguese. Subtitles: German. 86 minutes.
Tereza, 77, has lived her whole life in a small, industrialized town in the Amazon, until one day she receives an official government order to relocate to a senior housing colony. The colony is an isolated area where the elderly are brought to “enjoy” their final years, freeing the younger generation to focus fully on productivity and growth. Tereza refuses to accept this imposed fate. Instead, she embarks on a transformative journey through the rivers and tributaries of the Amazon to fulfil one last wish before her freedom is taken away – a decision that will change her destiny forever. (Source: Berlinale, 2025)
The first screening is done in collaboration with Uni-Kino Leuphana: Theresa Born, Jennis Bull, Lennart von der Ohe, Felix Wieland, Ava Rübenstrunk, Anna Kamsties, Kyle Wendt, Ambar Lopez Meibohm.
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Thursday, June 04, 2026, 8pm
Screening
Mars One (Marte Um). Dir. Gabriel Martins (2022)
Brazil. Original language: Portuguese. Subtitles: English. 115 minutes.
The Martins family are optimistic dreamers, quietly leading their lives in the margins of a major Brazilian city following the disappointing inauguration of a far-right extremist president. A lower-middle-class Black family, they feel the strain of their new reality as the political dust settles. Tércia, the mother, reinterprets her world after an unexpected encounter leaves her wondering if she’s cursed. Her husband, Wellington, puts all of his hopes into the soccer career of their son, Deivinho, who reluctantly follows his father’s ambitions despite secretly aspiring to study astrophysics and colonize Mars. Meanwhile, their older daughter, Eunice, falls in love with a free-spirited young woman and ponders whether it’s time to leave home. (Source: Magnify)
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Thursday, June 18, 2026, 8pm
Screening and sound installation
Bacurau. Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho (2019)
Brazil / France. Original language: Portuguese. Subtitles: English. 132 minutes.
Bacurau is a rural settlement in Brazil. After the matriarch’s death, strange things begin to happen: the water supply is cut off, and the village disappears from the map. The community must face an unknown, brutal enemy. The fight for survival begins! (Source: Mubi)
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