As we approach Fincar’s fourth edition in 2024, we can’t help but feel nostalgic for the time we shared in the movie theaters. After the last online edition (2021) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this in-person one will produce fresh energy for this festival that was born out of the desire to promote havens for exchanges between directors, films, and audiences. Every time we organize a feminist-focused film festival in Northeast Brazil, it challenges us to reconsider our motivations and future directions. We plan to go beyond simply reinforcing the lines that are already woven into the screen’s fabric by 2024. We are going to unpick a few stitches so that the pathways that led us here can be seen through the holes in them.

Whether in Recife or Afogados da Ingazeira (Sertão do Pajeú), we celebrate the potential to keep up our presence in public street cinemas and the new and old partnerships that keep us vibrating even harder. We invite all female and gender dissident filmmakers to share their work, mindful of our responsibility to engage with these productions on an aesthetic and ethical level. We want to consistently communicate to the public the multifaceted nature of these cinemas, which defy all imposed boundaries. Therefore, we persist in our efforts to redesign this contagious festival space in order to ensure that it is consistently more inclusive of the diverse experiences of creating, viewing, and discussing cinema.

The energy that propels this edition is derived from the hand gesture that pulls the thread, which disrupts the temporal linearity that dictates one can only advance. We are moving away from the univocal flow of time and toward asynchrony, which is the curiosity about other movements of time. Our perception is that asynchrony is a deceptive device that induces disorder. Disorder, with its feminist proposal to topple order, continues to beckon us. Let us hear that call echoing through the films!