Floresta do Fim do Mundo

Blending speculative fiction with the cosmogony of the Amazonian Baniwa people, the film tells the story of Suely, an Indigenous woman who divides her days between a small apartment in a large Brazilian city and dreams in which she communicates with a forest. Between romantic dances in a suburban bar, the heavy sounds of machines in a recycling factory and the mysterious voices of an impatient nature, Suely connects to secrets about herself that place her in the midst of radical changes to the future of the world as we know it.
Floresta do Fim do Mundo is the third creative collaboration between Rio de Janeiro filmmaker Felipe M. Bragança and Indigenous visual artist Denilson Baniwa, completing the “Plant Trilogy” – which also includes a video performance and a video installation.

Felipe M. Bragança is a filmmaker whose work is deeply rooted in Brazilian culture and historical memory, exploring its many layers using a distinctive form of magical realism. His films have been screened at festivals such as the Berlinale, Cannes, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Locarno and Sundance. Retrospectives of his work have been held at Jeu de Paume, California Institute of the Arts, Arsenal and Wolf Kino. Together with Denilson Baniwa, Bragança is currently developing his next feature film MAKUNAIMA XXI. This is his fourth participation in Forum Expanded.

Denilson Baniwa is an Amazonian visual artist from the Baniwa Indigenous people who blends ancestral and present-day elements in his art to highlight Indigenous challenges and resist colonial narratives. His work has been shown in exhibitions at institutions such as the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 22nd Sydney Biennale and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. In 2024 he served as one of the curators of the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Floresta do Fim do Mundo marks his first work for cinema.

Directors Felipe M. Bragança, Denilson Baniwa. Screenplay Felipe M. Bragança, Denilson Baniwa. Cinematography Guilherme Tostes. Editing Lobo Mauro. Music Brisa Flow. Sound Design Edson Secco. Production Design Denilson Baniwa. Costumes Danielle Amaral. Make-Up Luisa Kwarahy. Casting Felipe M. Bragança. Producers Rafaela Campos, Rafael Teixeira. Executive Producers Rafael Teixeira, Marina Meliande. Production companies Denilson Baniwa Estúdio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Duas Mariola Filmes, Felipe M. Bragança (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). With Iracema Pankararu, Ítalo Martins, Ywyzar Tentehar.

Films

Felipe M. Bragança: 2010: A alegria / The Joy (co-directed by Marina Meliande). 2015: Fuja dos meus olhos / Escape from My Eyes (Forum Expanded 2015). 2017: Não devore meu coração! / Don't Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! (Berlinale 2017). 2020: Um Animal Amarelo / A Yellow Animal. 2025: Zizi (ou oração da jaca fabulosa) / Zizi (or Praying to a Fabulous Tree) (Forum Expanded 2025). 2026: Floresta do fim do mundo / Forest of the End of the World.

Denilson Baniwa: 2026: Floresta do fim do mundo / Forest of the End of the World.