PPP at London Climate Action Week 2026 - People's Palace Projects

Overview

People's Palace Projects presents London Climate Action Week 2026, exploring what role culture plays in responding to the climate crisis and how to build conditions for it to play that role at speed and scale. The program features film screenings, documentaries, panel discussions, and a high-level international seminar.

Key dates

• Wednesday, 24 June, 6 PM: Documentary screening + talk at BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London
• Thursday, 25 June, 6 PM: Film screening and panel at BFI Southbank, Screen NFT3
• Friday, 26 June: International Seminar on Culture and Climate Change (invitation only)
• Saturday, 27 June, 3:15 PM: UK premiere at BFI Southbank, Screen NFT2
• Tuesday, 30 June, 6:10 PM: Additional screening at BFI Southbank, Screen NFT2

Wednesday, 24 June event

Documentary screening and panel discussion at BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End. Opening with PPP's short film Art for Climate, followed by How to Survive, exploring Climate Realism as a language translating climate crisis complexity into accessible, sensory experiences. In partnership with Visão Coop. Confirmed speakers: Marcele Oliveira (COP30 Climate Youth Champion), Maria Augusta Arruda (Director of Brazil's National Biosciences Laboratory), Gunjan Nanda (Co-Founder of Entertainment + Culture Pavilion), Fabrícia Sterce (director of How to Survive), and Syed Jazib Ali (documentarian and founder of Mudland Studio). Free ticket registration available.

Thursday, 25 June event

PPP curates and moderates a panel at BFI Southbank, Screen NFT3, presenting Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica, a landmark of hybrid political cinema. A young woman travels a newly opened highway with a truck driver, witnessing exploitation along the route. The film blends documentary and fiction to expose the human cost of Amazonian 'development'. Panel discussion features film director Jorge Bodanzky and Amazon expert Dr Erika Berenger.

Friday, 26 June: International Seminar

• Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, President of COP30
• Es Devlin CBE, artist and stage designer
• Louis VI, rapper, musician, zoologist, filmmaker, and founder of Nature Ain't a Luxury
• Professor Mariana Mazzucato CBE, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at UCL
• Sonia Guajajara, Federal Deputy and Brazil's former Minister of Indigenous Peoples
• Professor Tim Lenton OBE, Founding Director of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science, University of Exeter

Saturday and Tuesday screenings

Replikka, award-winning PPP short documentary and winner of Best International Short Documentary at Hot Docs 2026 (qualified for Oscar nomination), makes its UK debut on Saturday, 27 June at 3:15 PM at BFI Southbank, Screen NFT2. The film screens alongside The Father and the Shaman, also set in the Xingu Indigenous Territory. Q&A with Felipe Tomazelli (co-director of The Father and the Shaman) and Yula Rocha (PPP Communication Lead and producer of Replikka) follows. An additional screening is scheduled for Tuesday, 30 June at 6:10 PM on the same screen for those who missed the premiere.