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Transamazonia

OT: Transamazonia

Pia Marais | Brazil, France, Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland 2024

Feature | 112 min | FF2024

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Synopse

Between God and greed in the Amazon rainforest: Pia Marais’ fourth feature film is a feverish drama including Western and coming-of-age elements – with an impressive Helena Zengel in the lead role. Rebecca, the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne, has been seen as a “miracle” ever since she survived a plane crash deep in the Amazon rainforest. Years later, Rebecca has become a miracle healer, who thanks to her growing fame can support her father’s mission. But when illegal loggers advance into the land of the indigenous population who are being evangelized by Rebecca’s father, he manoeuvres her into the epicentre of the escalating conflict. And Rebecca begins to resent her role in the process.


Regie

PIA MARAIS (*1971 in Johannesburg) grew up in South Africa and Sweden and studied Film at the German Film and TV Academy in Berlin. Her debut film Die Unerzogenen (2007) won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival, for Layla Fourie (2013) she gained an Honourable Mention at the Berlinale. In 2010, FILMFEST HAMBURG showed her film Im Alter von Ellen.



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Info

Original Title: Transamazonia

International Title: Transamazonia

Category: Feature

Section: Kaleidoscope

Version & Subtitles: Portuguese, English OV with German subtitles

Director: Pia Marais

Screenplay: Pia Marais, Willem Droste, Martin Rosefeldt

Cast/Protagonists: Helena Zengel, Jeremy Xido, Sabine Timoteo, Hamã Luciano, Rômulo Braga, Philipp Lavra, Sérgio Sartório, Iwinaiwa Assurini, Pirá Assurini, João Victor Xavante, Kamya Assurini

Production country: Brazil, France, Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland

Year of Production: 2024

Length: 112 min

Producer: Claudia Steffen, Sophie Erbs, Tom Dercourt, Christoph Friedel, Jean-Marc Fröhle

Production company: Cinéma Defacto / Gaijin / Aldabra - (FR)


Cinematography: Mathieu de Montgrand

Sound: Dana Farzanehpour, Andreas Hildebrandt, Frank Cheng

Editor: Matthieu Laclau, Yann-Shan Tsai

Music: Lim Giong

Production Design: Petra Barchi

Costume Design: Chiara Minchio

Casting: Isabella Odoffin, Cláudio Barros, Gabriel Bortolini, Ila Giroto

co-production company: Pandora Film Produktion

World Sales: The Party Film Sales

Distributor: Björn Hoffmann, Pandora Film Verleih