In the framework of our exhibition With an Acre, join us for three evenings in Parc Baile with music and screenings of Brazilian documentary films selected by Ana Alice de Morais, artistic co-director of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM). These evenings are an opportunity to learn about issues related to the intensive exploitation of natural resources and agricultural land in Brazil and the struggles of rural and Indigenous communities to preserve their land rights, culture, traditions, and independence.

Land dispossession, extractive mining practices, industrial monocultures, and the criminalization of Indigenous and rural struggles: these conflicts are transforming landscapes in Brazil while threatening the ways of life of those who inhabit and cultivate them. The selected films reveal the many forms of resilience that emerge at the margins of these conflicts. We are witness to the occupation of a defunct sugar factory by the Landless Workers’ Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra or MST), the human and ecological devastation caused by the collapse of mining dams, and the poetic resistance of the Munduruku women as they are confronted with the destruction of their forest.

This interdisciplinary programme proposes a dialogue between cinema, architecture, and rural activism. It offers a novel perspective on the struggles of rural communities in Brazil and questions the role of artistic gestures in territories marked by dispossession yet imbued with a profound capacity for regeneration.

Each evening will begin with music and pão de queijo in the park at 7:30pm, followed by a screening on our façade at 8:30pm.

Thursday, 14 August

7:30pm: Musical performance by Maracujá
8:30pm: Screening of Chão
Directed by Camila Freitas, 2019, 110 min, English subtitles An insight into the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST (Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement), and everyday routine, which includes tilling the land and engaging in political activism for a better future.

Thursday, 21 August

7:30pm: Musical performance by Maracatu Raio de Ouro
8:30pm: Screening of Rejeito
Directed by Pedro de Filippis, 2023, 75 min, English subtitles
After the largest mining dam breaks, further collapses threaten millions in Brazil. A state counsellor confronts the government, while dam refugees resist the mining companies’ abuses in their threatened communities.

Thursday, 28 August

7:30pm: DJ set by Tupi Collective
8:30pm: Screening of Mundurukuyü – The Forest of The Fish Women
Directed by Aldira Akay, Beka Munduruku, Rilcélia Akay, 2025, 72 min, English subtitles
Three women from the Daje Kapap Eypi audiovisual collective take up the camera as a weapon in defence of their ancestry, ensuring the preservation and transmission of their indigenous Munduruku mythology that speaks of the origins of the world, when humans transformed into forests, plants, and animals.

These events are open to all. In the event of rain, the screening will take place inside the museum.

Ana Alice de Morais was born in Brazil, where she studied cinema before founding the production company 3 Moinhos. Specializing in the production and co-production of auteur films in Latin America, her works have been showcased at prestigious festivals such as the Berlinale and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. In 2018, she moved to Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. Since 2021, she has served as the co-artistic director of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM). In 2023, she also took on the role of programming director for the RIDM Forum, the festival’s professional market. As a consultant and mentor for various film industry events and training programs, she has also served as a jury member at numerous festivals and markets, including Cannes Docs, the Montreal International Black Film Festival, the International Documentary Film Festival of Saint-Louis in Senegal, and the Visões Periféricas Festival in Brazil.