‘Piracema Nu Bai’: Indigenous, Black and Peripheral Film Festival kicks off in Lisbon and Queluz (Greater Lisbon), Portugal, next Tuesday, June 3^rd, as part of project EDGES’ outreach initiatives. On Wednesday, June 4^th, the ‘Reforesting heritage: Museums and the resumption of indigenous peoples’ Workshop starts at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC), in Lisbon.

Project EDGES (Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities) is a HORIZON-MSCA Staff Exchanges network with Scientific Coordination by Rodrigo Lacerda (CRIA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), project InDigit‘s principal investigator (PI), who is co-curator of the ‘Piracema Nu Bai’ Film Festival and in the Organising Committee of the ‘Reforesting heritage’ Workshop.

Both events will be attended by several indigenous filmmakers and researchers. The workshop kicks off EDGES WP 5: ‘Reclaiming and Redefining Heritage: Data Governance, Displays and Preservation in Collections and Museums’ and runs until June 6^th, at the Manuel Valadares Amphitheatre in MUHNAC.

The festival runs until June 7^th, at Casa do Comum, Cinema Fernando Lopes and Mbongi 67, bringing together indigenous filmmakers from Latin America and black filmmakers living in Portugal and Europe. All films will be subtitled in Portuguese.

‘Piracema Nu Bai’ proposes an innovative look at cinematographies that have historically been marginalised in the cultural circuit, promoting a meeting between different aesthetic expressions and experiences of resistance. Indigenous filmmakers and thinkers Olinda Tupinambá and Ziel Karapotó (Brazil), Francisco Huichaqueo (Chile), Citlalli Andrago and Joshi Espinosa (Ecuador) will be present, in dialogue with Afro-descendant filmmakers based in Europe.

See the full programme for the Indigenous, Black and Peripheral Film Festival here and for the ‘Reforesting heritage’ Workshop here.