Women and Film Culture in contemporary Brazil My talk will take as its focus the shifting modes of women's filmmaking and film production in Brazil in the 21st century. I will trace these shifts against the backdrop of first of all the Workers Party-related agenda of greater engagement with so-called women's issues, and the kind of narratives that what I term the "Workers Party Project" has produced. I then consider the recent (post 2016) filmmaking scene. As Eliane Brum has argued, the impeachment of Brazil's first female president Dilma Rousseff demonstrated that Brazil is undergoing a major crisis of identity. So to what extent is this crisis played out in recent films by or dealing primarily with women? I will discuss the work of a number of filmmakers in my talk, including Maria Augusta Ramos, Anna Muylaert and Kleber Mendonça Filho.