Mostra Lugar de Mulher é no Cinema is an event featuring screenings of short films made and/or starring Brazilian women, as well as educational activities such as audiovisual workshops, panel discussions, and talks following the screenings. 

Produced since 2017, with nearly 2,000 films submitted from across Brazil, the showcase is an initiative focused on gender, race, sexuality, and gender identity, with the participation of cisgender, transgender, and disabled women. It is an event aligned with the defense of human rights and represents the visibility, sisterhood, and intersectionality of women from Bahia in the state’s audiovisual labor market and, beyond its territory, throughout Brazil. Across its five editions, the showcase has fostered the participation and collaboration of more than 100 cisgender and transgender women, disabled women, and non-binary people working on the event.

The purpose of Mostra Lugar de Mulher é no Cinema is to ensure the right to public policies that expand access to cultural production and distribution, with the broader goal of building an equal and democratic culture for individuals within the female spectrum.

In this way, we give visibility to films and/or cinematic narratives by, with, and/or about women; to women’s work in the various roles they occupy in Brazilian cinema (directors, screenwriters, actresses, directors of photography, production designers, sound professionals, producers, etc.); and to fiction, documentary, animation, and hybrid films in which women are protagonists.

The showcase’s curatorial and jury team, made up of women engaged in feminist sociopolitical causes, selects works across a wide range of themes and film genres, bringing together short films by women filmmakers from all regions of Brazil. The showcase is produced by Olho de Vidro Produções, Salamandra Produções, and Favela Cult.