Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica

+ discussion presented by People’s Palace Projects

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

We are delighted to announce that scientist Erika Berenguer and artist, journalist and sound designer Eric Terena will join us for this discussion hosted by Yula Rocha from People’s Palace Projects.

  • 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.

See other screenings of Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica.