Cinema – Stream of Images/Imaginaries – Once Upon a Time in the Future and talk with Wally Fall, Anyès Noèl and Elisabeth Gustave

On Sunday, November 23, a screening of the fourth bloc of the film program Stream of Images/Imaginaries will take place, followed by a conversation between Wally Fall, Anyès Noèl and Elisabeth Gustave. The event will take place from 3 pm to 5 pm at the Auditorium in the third floor.

Stream of Images/Imaginaries, the film program of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo highlights connections between Brazil, the Caribbean, and West Africa, bringing together the richness of Brazilian and French cultures in a program of films and related activities, with support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Guimarães Rosa Institute, the French Embassy in Brazil, and the Institut français, as part of the France-Brazil Season. The program draws on the historical ties and strong transcontinental relationship and mutual influence between Brazil, the French Caribbean, and West African countries to establish dialogues between contemporary works from the African continent and historical works from the Cinémathèque Afrique collection, as well as films and videos by historical and contemporary artists from Brazil and the French Caribbean. The screenings will be accompanied by conversations with artists, lectures, and performances.

Each block of the program unfolds into a specific theme that will be explored throughout the Bienal, inviting the public to immerse themselves in its curatorial proposals. The block shown on November 23 is entitled Once Upon a Time in the Future, and it highlights works from Guadeloupe, Martinique, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, and the UK, exploring futurity through a tapestry of sonic, visual, and philosophical inquiry. These films imagine and reclaim futures in the face of necropolitics and the ruptures of modernity. Includes the following films: Fouyé Zétwal [Plowing the Stars] (14’, Wally Fall and Anyès Noèl, 2020), Kaka Yo (28’, Luc Siassia and Sébastien Kamba, 1965), Kila & Mauna (19’, Ella Monstra, 2023) and The Last Angel of History (45’, John Akomfrah, 1996).

Wally Fall is a filmmaker from Martinique. After learning the basics of digital cinema and editing in London, he gained experience in Europe (United Kingdom and France), the Caribbean, and Africa working on TV shows and other audiovisual projects until finally realizing his own projects in 2013: a narrative short film shot in Paris and an auteur documentary made in Senegal in partnership with his father. In 2016, alongside filmmakers and other professionals in the field, he founded Cinemawon, a film collective dedicated to creating new spaces for screening Caribbean and African diaspora films. He is now back in Guadeloupe, where he lives and works, dividing his time between personal or commissioned projects and collective work with Cinemawon, which is on the rise. Plowing the Stars was filmed in Guadeloupe and questions the many reasons that have led young people to leave the island, making its population the oldest in the Caribbean.

Anyès Noèlis an actress, director and poet from Guadeloupe, who graduated from the Cours Florent. With a degree in Cultural Mediation and Communication from the University of Nice, Anyès quickly saw in Art a therapeutic tool that could be a weapon for social change. In 2015, through ThéâTranMission, she gave theater workshops to nearly 100 women in Guadeloupe and Haiti. She questioned the notion of the so-called potomitan woman and, in turn, the place of men in a society of Afro-descendants resulting from the slave system. She then moved to Port-au-Prince, convinced of the strong link and the possible bridges to be built between Caribbean countries. She then plays with several directors of the country. In 2017, she directed the show Gouyad Senpyè with former prisoners which will be on a national tour in Haiti and in 2020 she co-wrote a film with director Wally Fall entitled Fouyé Zetwal. She also plays the lead role.

Elisabeth Gustave is an English teacher with a degree in civilization and literature of English-speaking countries from Paris-Sorbonne University. She has been director of the Monde En Vues Festival, Guadeloupe’s International Human Rights Film Festival, since 2014 and organizes contemporary art exhibitions in the Karukera space at the ARAWAK Beach Resort hotel. She defines herself as a cultural activist and lives to the rhythm of the energy and vibrant expression of artists and writers from Guadeloupe and the Caribbean.

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Cinema – Stream of Images/Imaginaries – Once Upon a Time in the Future
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
November 23, 2025
Sunday, 3 pm
Auditorium
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
Av. Pedro Alvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, SP
free admission