Brazil Is Back at the Oscars — and Its Cinema Has Always Been Political

Brazil’s latest Oscar contender isn’t a comeback story, but the echo of a cinematic tradition built on dissent, satire, and unresolved histories.

The Archive That Keeps Burning — and Why Brazil’s Cinema Refuses to Die

From Cinema Novo to catastrophe: the uneasy life of a national film memory.

“Rio de Janeiro” by Chaseiro: Indonesia’s City-Pop Arcade Dream

Long before playlists, passports, or “world music” marketing, Indonesia imagined Rio de Janeiro as a dancefloor—and pressed it to vinyl.

Brazil Was Never a Racial Paradise. Afro-Brazilian Art Is Done Pretending Otherwise.

As Brazil’s racial myth collapses, Black artists are rebuilding the country’s memory from the ground up.

São Luís Feels the Bass Before Sunrise: Brazil’s “Little Jamaica” Rewired Reggae Into a Collective Pulse

Inside the nights where radiolas roar, couples dance agarradinho, and reggae remains a badge of identity rather than a quest for fame.

Portugal Is Gutting Its Cultural Backbone — and Calling It Reform

By scrapping advisory boards, the government is centralizing power over art — and calling it modernization.

Die If You Must

How Brazil Spent a Century “Protecting” Indigenous Peoples to Death.

The Train That Never Leaves: Vale’s Carajás Railway Is Crushing the Awá-Guajá

Brazil’s most profitable railway is also one of its quietest human rights scandals—where trains run on schedule and Indigenous lives are pushed permanently off track.

Jungle Cyberpunk: How the Amazon's Indigenous Are Rewriting Tomorrow

Forget eco-tragedy. Native creators build solar-punk megacities where they pilot the future.

In Brazil’s Urban Periphery, Modernity Arrived — But Equality Didn’t

In places like Jardim Catarina, race, gender, and sexuality aren’t erased by progress; they are quietly redesigned through everyday life.

Yanuni: The Forest Is Not a Metaphor

No violins, no saviors. Just Indigenous women defending the Amazon on their terms.

Brazilian Modernism Didn't Start in São Paulo. It Started in the Demolition Sites.

Samba in tuxedos, naked chorus girls, flapper rebels — Rio’s noisy, racialized streets, not São Paulo’s manifestos, forged Brazil’s real modernism.