An evening of film and conversation
Curated by Miguel Rey, PhD Researcher in Film Studies at Brunel University London

Thursday 27 November, 7 pm
at Brixton House Theatre, London

Produced by CASA as part of the Lines of Flight programme, in collaboration with Brixton House.

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Within Lines of Flight - where art is conceived less as a finished object and more as a process, a conversation, or a space of encounter—cinema becomes a site from which to rethink how we move, remember, and belong.

The first evening of Arrivals/Departures brings together films that trace the emotional and physical geographies shaped by displacement and connection, in dialogue with experiences and sensibilities linked to Latin America and its diasporas.

Through stories that move between departure and return, between loss, continuity, and reinvention, the programme reflects on belonging as something fluid and constantly negotiated: a fabric of affections connecting territories, times, and ways of inhabiting the world.

Programme

Santi, a film by Harry Richards | UK – Colombia | 10mins | 2021
Time: 7.10pm

A young Colombian man receives a voice message from home while grappling with cultural differences at a London dinner party with his new English girlfriend.

The Fever, a film by Maya Da Rin | Brazil – France | 94mins | 2019
Time: 7.20pm

The Fever tells the story of Justino (Regis Myrupu), a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, who emigrate to the city of Manaus leaving behind his village on the Upper Rio Negro region. Widowed Justino works as a security guard at a cargo port, while his daughter Vanessa (Rosa Peixoto) takes several jobs as a nursing technician, and his eldest son lives in his own home with his wife and son. Caught up in the stream of a modest life, their routine comes down to the transit between their work and home, on the outskirts of Manaus.

Followed by an industry conversation with Latin American filmmakers and professionals based in the UK.

Tickets

Bookings are managed from Brixton House site