Film screening - Ondas: Waves

The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice (FCRJ) invites you to a public screening of Ondas: Waves at SOAS, a documentary produced by Dr. Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki and directed by Kurt Orderson as part of FCRJ’s Transnational Research Collaboratory.

Set in Maputo, Mozambique and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ondas: Waves follows five trans protagonists navigating exile, belonging, kinship, and survival amid rising authoritarianism and anti-gender politics. Developed through an arts-based, feminist, and decolonial research approach, the film uses documentary filmmaking as a method of inquiry, resistance, and collective storytelling. 

The ocean serves as a central metaphor throughout the film — symbolising displacement, connection, and shared colonial histories across the Global South. Through a poetic and sensory cinematic language, Waves foregrounds trans resilience, joy, and organising within community spaces.

Positioned as both an artistic work and an advocacy tool, Waves challenges dominant narratives that marginalise trans lives and opens space for transnational feminist dialogue. The screening will be followed by a conversation with members of the research and creative team, reflecting on cinema as a site of solidarity, resistance, and feminist world-making.

We will be joined by producer Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki, director Kurt Orderson, and research partners Andrea Gill and Miriam Adelina Ocadiz Arriaga for a Q&A after the screening.

Watch the trailer for Ondas: Waves