Limit

Limite

Mythic, dreamlike and newly restored – Brazil’s most legendary silent film.

  • Director

    Mário Peixoto

  • With

    Olga Breno, Taciana Rey, Raul Schnoor

  • Brazil 1931. 118min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Intertitles with English subtitles

  • Silent (with recorded score)

Adrift in a small boat, three figures recall fractured pasts through a cascade of memories and sensations. Peixoto’s only feature abandons linear storytelling for pure visual rhythm, creating Brazil’s most mythologised silent film. Long unavailable but now restored, it remains a landmark of global avant-garde cinema.

Restored by the Cinemateca Brasileira and The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in association with Arquivo Mario Peixoto, Saulo Pereira de Mello and Walter Salles. Scanning was conducted by the Cinemateca Brasileira and restoration work was completed in 2012 by Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory. Restoration funding provided by Armani, Cartier, Qatar Airways and Qatar Museum Authority.

The screening of Limit on Friday 12 June will include a pre-recorded intro by film critic Rafa Sales Ross.