Transamazonia
Pia Marais
After a plane crash deep in the Amazon jungle, little Rebecca survives miraculously. Years later, she is known as "Miss Aspirin" - a miracle healer with a divine mission, supported by her missionary father. They bring the Christian message to indigenous people. But when loggers threaten their land, a conflict breaks out that puts Rebecca's loyalty and faith to the test.
With magnificent visuals of nature images and a hypnotic atmosphere, Pia Marais made a gripping drama full of contradictions between tradition, spirituality and exploitation in Transamazonia - impressively embodied by Systemsprenger-star Helena Zengel and the indigenous Assurini tribe.
24 April 2025
20:00 h, Eldorado Filmtheater
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| Direction | Pia Marais |
| Country | Brazil/Germany/France/Switzerland/Taiwan |
| Year | 2024 |
| Duration | 112 min |
| Language | English, Portuguese with German subtitles |
| Language version | OmdU |
| Production | Sophie Erbs, Tom Dercourt, Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel, Jean-Marc Fröhle |
| Cast | Helena Zengel, Jeremy Xido, Hamã Luciano Vieira, Iwinaiwa Assurini, Sérgio Sartório |
| Camera | Mathieu De Montgrand, Yann-Shan Tsai |
| Script | Pia Marais, Willem Droste, Martin Rosefeldt |
| Editing | Mathieu Laclau, Yann-Shan Tsai |
| Sound | Francois Abdelnour |
| Music | Lim Giong |
World premiere in the competition at the 77th Locarno Film Festivals
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About the director
Pia Marais studierte Film an der Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie in Berlin. Für ihr Debüt „Die Unerzogenen” (2007) erhielt sie den Tiger Award auf dem Rotterdam Film Festival, für „Im Alter von Ellen” (2011) den Preis für den besten regionalen Langfilm bei LICHTER. „Layla Fourie” (2013) wurde mit einer Lobenden Erwähnung auf der Berlinale bedacht. Nach über zehn Jahren feierte sie mit ihrem neuen Film „Transamazonia” 2024 ihre Weltpremiere auf dem Locarno Film Festival.
Press reviews
"Transamazonia shows an environment worth protecting - for those who grew up there - and makes it understandable how others can lose themselves in it and throw their geographical and moral compass overboard." (Variety)
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