Alien Nights

Noites Alienígenas

An urgent Amazon-set drama of youth, violence and Indigenous identity.

Copyright: Saci Filmes

  • Director

    Sérgio de Carvalho

  • With

    Adanilo, Chica Arara, Arnaldo Barros

  • Brazil 2022. 91min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

Teenagers in Rio Branco navigate friendship, drugs and urban violence while Indigenous identities shape their lives. Carvalho interweaves perspectives to reveal an Amazonian city rarely seen on screen, capturing a precarious present without exoticism. Urgent and contemporary, it opens a window onto region, youth culture and Indigenous experience in today’s Brazil.

Contains themes of drug use and suicide.