The film São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana can now be watched in its entirety on the LISA-USP website and YouTube channel. This LISA-USP production, directed by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, explores the African creative diaspora in São Paulo, showcasing artists such as Shambuyi Wetu and Yannick Delass from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lenna Bahule from Mozambique, and Edoh Amassize from Togo.
What do these African artists who have arrived in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? How do the African diasporas – the new creative diaspora and the one that turned the Atlantic into a cemetery – interact? What stages are occupied, built, and filled with the performances of artists crossing the ocean? Ancestral realities updated in performances that construct an Afropolitan present in a metropolis where it is necessary to be daring, to color the gray. São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana presents the city of São Paulo as a meta-stage occupied by African artists, in dialogue with the Brazilian population and its openness, contradictions, and tensions.
São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana received the award for best feature film at the 14th Ecofalante Film Festival 2025 and the Ana Galano award at ANPOCS 2025.
The film was screened on Tuesday (November 18th) at CINUSP as part of the Black Presence and Memory program at FFLCH: Beyond November, with the presence of Shambuyi Wetu, the director, and the film's editor Ricardo Dionisio, from LISA-USP.
Full film
Website: https://lisa.fflch.usp.br/sao_palco_cidade_afropolitana
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2QOcMvZiWM