''Transamazonia'' is a 2024
coming-of-age film
In genre studies, a coming-of-age story is a genre of literature, theatre, film, and video game that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from childhood to adulthood, or "coming of age". Coming-of-age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or interna ...
directed by
Pia Marais, who co-wrote the screenplay with Willem Droste.
The film stars
Helena Zengel as the daughter of an American missionary in the
Amazon rainforest
The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin ...
, played by Jeremy Xido, who claims that his daughter is a faith healer.
Premise
As a child, Rebecca is rescued from a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest by a member of a nearby Indigenous tribe. Now a teenager, she is well known in the area as her father, American missionary Lawrence Byrne, claims that she is a faith healer. Rebecca's misgivings about her situation are compounded by the arrival of illegal loggers poised to disrupt the local way of life.
Cast
*
Helena Zengel as Rebecca
* Jeremy Xido as Lawrence
*
Sabine Timoteo
Sabine Timoteo (born 25 March 1975) is a Swiss actress from the Lorraine district of Solothurn. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 2000.
Early life
Timoteo grew up dividing time between the United States and Lausanne, Switzerland ...
as Denise
* Hamã Luciano
* Rômulo Braga
* Philipp Lavra
* Sérgio Sartório
* Iwinaiwa Assurini
* Pirá Assurini
* João Victor Xavante
* Kamya Assurini
Production
Principal photography for ''Transamazonia'' took place in July 2023.
The film was presented as a work in progress at the
Golden Horse Film Project Promotion that September.
Release
''Transamazonia'' premiered on 12 August 2024 at the
77th Locarno Film Festival, where it competed for the
Golden Leopard
The Golden Leopard () is the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival, an international film festival held annually in Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. Directors in the process of getting an international reputation are allowed to b ...
. The film was also selected for the Main Slate section of the
2024 New York Film Festival.
The film will close the
8th Malaysia International Film Festival on 27 July 2025.
Reception
Accolades
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, tt28523931
2020s French films
2020s German films
Swiss drama films
2020s Taiwanese films
2020s Brazilian films
2020s English-language films
2020s Portuguese-language films
2020s coming-of-age films
Films about faith healing
Films about father–daughter relationships
German drama films
French drama films
Taiwanese drama films
Brazilian drama films