Cinema Mentiré

Cinema Mentiré Cinema Mentiré is a film club bringing diverse voices from Latin America to UK audiences, celebrating their rich narratives and identities.

BRAZIL ON FILM 🇧🇷 major season at the continues through June. Join us for the screening of The Woman of Everyone, a del...
08/06/2026

BRAZIL ON FILM 🇧🇷 major season at the continues through June. Join us for the screening of The Woman of Everyone, a delirious anti-heroine tears through São Paulo, in a defining classic of Brazil’s Cinema Marginal.

THE WOMAN OF EVERYONE | A MULHER DE TODOS
Dir. Rogério Sganzerla, 1969 🇧🇷

Ignez stuns as Ângela Carne e Osso (“Angela Meat and Bone”), a free-spirited woman who
drifts through lovers and crimes in a delirious São Paulo shaped by consumer culture and
repression. Made under the military dictatorship and the subject of censorship, Sganzerla’s
film became a key work of Cinema Marginal – a radical, low-budget movement that rejected
commercial cinema and political orthodoxy. It’s a provocative pop-art attack on respectability
and narrative form

Intro by Natalia Christofoletti of Cinema Mentiré

📅 Thursday 18 June, 6.00pm
📍 BFI Southbank

🎟 Tickets and more info > link in bio 🔗

SALOME, SALOME, SALOME 🔥Salome in three acts, a season featuring breathtaking and hypnotising q***r film adaptations of ...
04/06/2026

SALOME, SALOME, SALOME 🔥

Salome in three acts, a season featuring breathtaking and hypnotising q***r film adaptations of biblical icon Salome from Brazil, Mexico and the UK, presented by Cinema Mentiré at and , with intros by , and

Salome
Dir. André Antônio 🇧🇷 2024. UK premiere
+ Intro by Jaye Hudson from

📅 Friday, 3 July, 8.30pm
📍 The Garden Cinema

A successful young model falls in love with her old neighbour while discovering a secret cult surrounding the luxurious biblical princess Salome.

Salome’s Last Dance
Dir. Ken Russell 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 1988
+ Intro by Loose Willis

📅 Saturday, 4 July, 9.20pm
📍 Rio Cinema

In a candle-lit Victorian brothel, Oscar Wilde sips champagne while watching a private and very special performance of his banned play Salome.

Salome
Dir. Teo Hernández 🇲🇽 🇫🇷 1976
+ Intro by Lola Lemke

📅 Sunday, 5 July, 6 pm
📍 The Garden Cinema

In his first feature, experimental filmmaker Teo Hernández takes on the gospel story of Salome with a high camp aesthetic, midway between Mexican iconography and gay glitter.

👀 See more about the season and get your tickets > link in bio 🔗

See you at the movies ✨

It has been a year since these films, so dear to our hearts, began their tour in London and across the UK: Camila, Yo, l...
01/06/2026

It has been a year since these films, so dear to our hearts, began their tour in London and across the UK: Camila, Yo, la peor de todas (I, the Worst of All), Señora de nadie (Nobody’s Wife) and Miss Mary, directed by unique and innovative Argentinian filmmaker María Luisa Bemberg, and produced by great Lita Stantic. Their vision remains as powerful as ever.

Daring to Dare: The Films of María Luisa Bemberg 🇦🇷 has come to an end, and we are deeply grateful to the venues and festivals that hosted us and the films, to the new friends and colleagues we have met along the way, and to everyone who has shared their love for these films and for the women both in front of and behind the camera.



Special thanks to some people and institutions who have been doing an immense job keeping María Luisa Bemberg’s legacy alive, and were fundamental in making Daring to Dare happen: Lita Stantic, Sebastián Pérez, Julia Kratje, Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken, and María Luisa Bemberg’s family.

Viva Bemberg! Viva Camila! Viva Leonor! Viva Juana! Viva Mary!

🤍

19/05/2026

Daring to Dare: The Films of María Luisa Bemberg 🇦🇷 finishes this May, as part of season 50 Years of Argentina on Film, with the new restorations of Nobody’s Wife and Miss Mary.

NOBODY’S WIFE (1982)
📅 Thursday, 21 May, 6.10 pm

After being betrayed by her husband, Leonor embarks on a quest for self-discovery
and begins to live new experiences.

Shot during the dictatorship and release one day after the outbreak of Malvinas War with the UK (Falklands War), Nobody’s Wife presents female empowerment in a rather surprising way for the
time.

👀 See more about the season and get your tickets > link in bio 🔗

The grand finale of our heart project DARING TO DARE: The Films of María Luisa Bemberg is coming to ❤️‍🩹Following a yea...
30/04/2026

The grand finale of our heart project DARING TO DARE: The Films of María Luisa Bemberg is coming to ❤️‍🩹

Following a year-long tour across the UK, during which we’ve spread our Bemberg fever with a retrospective of newly restored films from this pioneering Argentinian feminist filmmaker, we’re back in London for the final chapter.

NOBODY’S WIFE (1982)
📅 21 May, 6.10pm

After being betrayed by her husband, Leonor embarks on a quest for self-discovery and begins to live new experiences.

MISS MARY (1986)
📅 26 May, 6.00pm

Julie Christie is Miss Mary, an English governess who travels to Argentina in the late 1930s to raise the children of an aristocratic and chaotic family.

📍The Garden Cinema, London WC2B 5PQ

Bemberg had a gift for telling meaningful stories, focusing on the lives and struggles of women while painting a picture of Argentina’s political context. These screenings form part of a wider season commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Argentinian coup, running from 8 May to 19 June at The Garden Cinema. The programme explores how Argentinian society has grappled with the aftermath of the coup in through their cinematic storytelling.

👀 See more about the events and get your tickets > link in bio 🔗

See you at the movies ✨

Hola, olá, hello —and a (very) belated Happy New Year ✨It’s been a quiet few months for Cinema Mentiré, but with spring ...
21/04/2026

Hola, olá, hello —and a (very) belated Happy New Year ✨

It’s been a quiet few months for Cinema Mentiré, but with spring comes new energy… and we’re back with some exciting news: we’re taking part in a major season of Brazilian cinema at BFI Southbank! 🇧🇷

Over the next two months, ‘s BRAZIL ON FILM invites you to explore nearly a century of filmmaking —from 1931 to today— through a programme of classics, rediscoveries, and hidden gems. A journey shaped by reinvention, resistance, and extraordinary creativity.

Cinema Mentiré will be introducing selected screenings, starting with the beautiful MARS ONE on May 15th, a tender family portrait where everyday struggle meets cosmic ambition.

MARS ONE | MARTE UM
Dir. Gabriel Martins, 2022 🇧🇷

A working-class family navigates economic precarity while each member nurtures a private dream, from football to space travel. Martins balances social realism with warmth and humour, crafting an intimate vision of contemporary Brazil.

Intro by Marta Calderón

📅 Friday 15 May, 6.20pm
📍 BFI Southbank SE1 8XT

We can’t wait to see you there 🌸

🎟 Tickets and more info > link in bio 🔗

We are still emotionally recovering from last Friday 🥹The Latin American horror double bill with at the was a dream co...
11/11/2025

We are still emotionally recovering from last Friday 🥹

The Latin American horror double bill with at the was a dream come true! So grateful to have worked with our beloved Scary Claire and Molly Miles, the royal horror duo. 😈

Many people dared to bite the apples 🍎 and were carried away by sin. First of many, + .mentire felt like home! ❤️‍🔥

Thanks to our beautiful audience who was so keen to be led away by temptation and evil, and fully committed to being hypnotised by Coca Sarli, the jungle and the Cataratas 🌊

Vivan las monjas! Viva la Coca Sarli! ❣️
Nos vemos en el cine

Belén, feminist drama feature is one of this year’s most acclaimed Argentinian films and Argentina’s entry for the Oscar...
06/11/2025

Belén, feminist drama feature is one of this year’s most acclaimed Argentinian films and Argentina’s entry for the Oscars, opens in the UK and Ireland cinemas on 7 November. 🎞️

Belén
Dir. Dolores Fonzi 🇦🇷 2025

💚 Belén is based on the true story that sparked an international movement, chronicling the harrowing case of Julieta, a young woman falsely accused of infanticide after having an spontaneous abortion, and Soledad Deza, the fearless lawyer who takes on the highly controversial, explosive case.

‘While the film makes an unavoidable political statement – justified, as the Belen case kick-started a movement which ended in the legalisation of abortion in Argentina in 2020 – it never becomes a mere polemic. It is ultimately a heartfelt, inspiring story about ordinary people who choose to stand up and make a change – and a reminder that, for so many women, the fight goes on.‘ Nikki Baughan for Screendaily

Catch Belén on the big screen in selected cinemas in London and beyond from November 7

📅 7.11 📍 ICA Cinema, London
📅 7.11 📍 The Garden Cinema, London
📅 23.11 📍 Light House Cinema, Dublin
📅 28.11 📍 Ultimate Picture Palace, Oxford
📅 2.12 📍 Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick



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04/11/2025

Legendary Isabel “La coca” Sarli, was a beloved Argentinian actress, star, and model, known for her participation in sexploitation films directed by Armando Bó. She was born in Entre Ríos in 1929 and died in 2019 at the age of 89. Sarli defied initial criticism and censorship to build a successful career in an adverse context and became Argentina’s most important erotic icon and a referent in Latin America.

Cinema Mentiré and Category H join for the first time ❤️‍🔥 to bring a voracious and l***y Latin American double bill at the Rio Cinema: nunsploitation Satánico Pandemonium 🇲🇽 + sexploitation Embrujada 🇦🇷

📅 Saturday 7, November, 11 pm📍 Rio Cinema

Embrujada / Bewitched
(Armando Bó, 1976 🇦🇷)

Embrujada is about Ansise, a woman whose only dream is to be a mother. The idea of motherhood gradually becomes an obsession for her and gets hunted by the guaraní spirit El Pombero. With music by the great Paraguayan composer Luis Alberto del Paraná and set in the triple border and the waterfalls, Embrujada will take you on an adventure in the jungle from which you will not be able to easily escape.

The night starts with Satánico Pandemonium - The Sexorcist (Gilberto Martínez Solares, 1975 🇲🇽) at 9 pm.
Joint tickets for both films at £15

Costumes are encouraged – come dressed to sin.
👀 See more > link in bio 🔗

What a pleasure to see the beautiful films of Elemental World Cinema programme on the big screen and to know more about ...
08/10/2025

What a pleasure to see the beautiful films of Elemental World Cinema programme on the big screen and to know more about the book by its co-editor .de.luca. 🔥 💧 🌎 🌬️

Thank you UCL East for having us!


Thanks to everyone who joined us on such a stormy day; the natural elements certainly made their presence felt. 🌧️

Viva el cine latinoamericano!
See you at the movies ✨

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