Transamazonia
The only survivor of a plane crash, a young girl is used by her missionary father as a faith healer. Just as she is beginning to have a will of her own, another crisis emerges when loggers encroach on the land, threatening the local tribe in Pia Marais’s mesmerizing morality tale.
Q&A with Pia Marais and Jeremy Xido on Oct. 7 & 8
In the eerie quiet of the vast, verdant Amazon jungle, a young girl stirs to life. Rescued by a member of the local Indigenous tribe, the child, Rebecca, is the only survivor of a plane crash. Years pass, and Rebecca (Helena Zengel) has become something of a local celebrity after her father (Jeremy Xido), an American missionary, has cast the teenager as a faith healer capable of miracles. Just as Rebecca is beginning to have a will of her own, doubting her father and the role in which she’s been cast, another crisis emerges when illegal loggers encroach on the land, threatening the livelihoods of the local tribe, and forcing emotional, familial, and racial reckonings. South Africa–born director Pia Marais has fashioned a mesmerizing, entrancingly photographed moral tale with no easy answers that is also a singular coming-of-age fable.
Special thanks to Villa Albertine for their generous support of French cinema.
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