Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica

A once-banned, newly restored road movie captures a transforming Amazon.

  • Directors

    Jorge Bodanzky, Orlando Senna

  • With

    Paulo César Peréio, Edna de Cássia, Lúcio Dos Santos

  • Brazil 1975. 96min

  • Digital 4K (restoration)

  • English subtitles

A young Indigenous woman travels a newly opened highway with a truck driver, witnessing exploitation along the route. Blending documentary and fiction, the film exposes the human cost of Amazonian ‘development’. Long banned but now restored, Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica remains a landmark of hybrid political cinema – urgently resonant amid contemporary debates over land and extraction.

Presented as part of London Climate Action Week.

The screening of Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica on Thursday 25 June will include a discussion presented by People’s Palace Projects.