Humberto Saldanha is a Lecturer in Film at Queen’s University Belfast. His teaching and research interests include cosmopolitanism and film, world cinema theories, sites of film circulation and exhibition, contemporary Brazilian cinema, national and transnational articulations in film, cinematic realism, decolonial approaches to film, (queer) migration, film genres, and cinema and the environment. 

His current research project focuses on how contemporary Brazilian cinema appropriates cosmopolitan critical discourses to reflect contemporary challenges, including 1) migration and the refugee crisis, 2) the environmental emergency, 3) the otherisation of difference (both human and non-human) and 4) the marginalisation of non-Western epistemologies.

His forthcoming publications include ‘Moving Out to Come Out and Feel at Home: Queer Cosmopolitanism in Karim Aïnouz’s Futuro Beach’ (New Review of Film and Television Studies), 'Cosmopolitan Non-Cinema: Impurity, Recognition and Hospitality in The Cambridge Squatter' (Cosmopolitan Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema, Routledge), and an article on magic realism and indigenous cosmologies.