In this talk Denilson Lopes discusses the theoretical basis of his current research called Transcultural Landscapes in Contemporary Cinema, establishing a dialogue with the ideas by Silviano Santiago, Néstor García Canclini and Arjun Appadurai. At this talk he also mentions the theoretical efforts of film criticism to address the issues of interculturality and multiculturalism. In exploring this issue, Denilson places Latin American critical theory in relation to authors who have addressed the topic of multiculturalism in film such as Robert Stam, Hamid Naficy, Laura Marks and Andréa Franca.