This politically charged, Afrofuturist sci-fi begins in 1959 and travels through time to present day Brasil, parodying the shortcomings of Brazilian politics while throwing a sharp jab at the country’s entrenched structural racism. Ex-convict, chain-smoking, intergalactic traveller WA4, played by Wellington Abreu, is sent on a mission to Earth to assassinate Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek (actual former president of Brazil from 1956 – 1961) on inauguration day of the capital Brasília. His ship malfunctions and crashes into the future, landing in 2016 in the satellite city Ceilândia – initially built to keep the poor from populating the capital with shantytowns. There, he encounters a motley crew of outer-space warriors, and together, they plan out and stage a coup against the monsters occupying the National Congress.

The 25 May screening is the UK premiere and followed by a Skype Q&A with director Adirley Queirós.