Shaped by migration and memory, Forugh Farrokhzad, Berenice Olmedo, Gervane de Paula and Pol Taburet reimagine relational, resistant poetics of belonging

Unable to respond to months of political turmoil in the city, the 2025 edition feels strangely muted

From Nicole Kidman’s BDSM adventures to a pastoral docudrama by French twin directors Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, here are five films to keep an eye out for this year

The Indigenous Brazilian movement brings to life its ancestral musical traditions

At Zurich’s Haus Konstruktiv, the artist reanimates a past work to make sense of Germany’s present

From Iole de Freitas’s works from the 1970s to Carolina Cordeiro’s zinc-coated sculptures

Florence Platarets’s new documentary on the late auteur inadvertently asks whether Cannes Film Festival has lost its taste for radical politics

At Pinacoteca de Estado, São Paulo, the artist toes the fragile line between language, bodies and the environment

Ela Bittencourt investigates the ways in which film directors in the 1960s and ’70s used surrealism as a way of interrogating unstable political moments and reimagining the future 

From Regina Silveria’s survey at MAC-USP to Paulo Nazareth’s solo exhibition at Pivô, these are the best shows to catch during São Paulo’s art week

This year's iteration of the international exhibition is impressively global in its curatorial reach but the impact of some works diminishes in cross-cultural adaptation

The artist recounts constructing transitory interventions in the face of inflexible bureaucracy

The photographer's exhibition at the Guggenheim, New York, captures the elemental power of Blackness by intermingling portraits with celestial installations

With preventable fires and flooding destroying many of Brazil's cultural institutions, what's at stake for the country's most significant film and television archive?

At Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, the artist presents a series of paintings, drawings and collages that capture the physical and mental endurance of confinement

This year’s edition abounded in intricate, ephemeral works across an expansive programme

Workshopping a new book project at Porto/Post/Doc, the theorist and filmmaker who diagnosed how Hollywood reinforced patriarchal codes

At the Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Mónica Savirón and María Palacios Cruz's programme of works by neglected women artists

From a close study of the American voting booth to a plague of hydrangeas: the New York Film Festival’s Projections slate, 6-9 October

From a tribute to Straub/Huillet to Valerie Massadian’s portrait of teenage motherhood, the turn to real situations and people for fiction films