Ecofeminisms
Sat 28 NovFor almost 50 years, Cinéma du réel has been championing documentary filmmaking, essays and experimental works, celebrating the diversity of forms and genres through which cinema engages with reality. The French Film Festival London is delighted to inaugurate a new partnership with the festival, presenting a selection of French films that stood out in this year’s edition. This programme entitled Ecofeminisms, features short films With Love and Rage by Bojina Panayotova and Curupira and the Machine of Destiny by Janaina Wagner.
Special Screening
Followed by a Q&A with Janaina Wagner, moderated by Catherine Bizern (Director of Cinéma du Réel)
Programme
With Love and Rage
- Director(s): Bojina Panayotova
- Original title: With Love and Rage
- Country, year: France | 2026
- Duration: 43 mins
- Language: In English & French with EN subtitles
1980, following the election of Ronald Reagan, America rearms. Thousands of women surround the Pentagon. They protest, weep, weave, create and awaken another form of power and invent a new form of action, marking the dawn of ecofeminism:
We are gathering at the Pentagon on November 17 because we fear for our lives. We fear for the life of this planet, our Earth, and the life of our children who are our human future…
The film weaves together archives, stories, voices, and songs, allowing a collective political voice – and the personal stories that make it up – to come back to life
Curupira and the Machine of Destiny
- Director(s): Janaina Wagner
- Original title: Curupira e a máquina do destino
- Country, year: France | 2021
- Duration: 25 mins
- Language: Portuguse with EN subtitles
Shot in the village of Realidade, on the BR-319, in the Brazilian Amazon, Curupira and The Machine of Destiny is a story of love and revenge involving two figures from different historical periods who exist at the frontier of fiction and reality: Curupira, a queer devil who protects the Brazilian forest, and Iracema, an indigenous sex worker aged fourteen, a fictional character from the cult film made just after the construction of the Transamazonian road BR-319, Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica, directed by Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna (1975).
