New Cinema
Fever
A Fabre
Brazil/France/Germany
2019
98'
About
The 45-year-old widower Justino lives together with his daughter in Amazonia’s rainforests. His life, similarly to the lives of many native inhabitants of the Desana tribe, is torn between working in the town and living in an Amazonian enclave. Maya Da-Rin’s fiction debut tells a story about a man who suffers from persistent fevers. In his case, conventional medicine proves futile. The doctors don’t know how to help him. The man is resigned to everyday functioning in the state of hyperthermia. “The Fever” is full of resonating topics which concern present-day Brazil: social inequalities, tropical rainforest conservation, unequal access to health services. The film confronts the big-city oppression with the distance characteristic of a small village. The main character, for years in suspension between these contradictions, finally has to make a choice to ensure himself life harmony. “The Fever” is also a story about a country full of contradictions, in which, for instance, an unusual dialect may result in social exclusion.
Credits
Director: Maya Da-Rin
Screenwriter: Maya Da-Rin, Pedro Cesarino, Miguel Seabra Lopes
Cinematographer: Barbara Alvarez
Editor: Karen Akerman
Cast: Regis Myrupu, Rosa Peixoto, Kaisaro Jussara Brito, Suzy Lopes, Edmildo Vaz Pimentel
Producer : Maya Da-Rin
Production Company: Tamandua Vermelho, Enquadramento Producoes, Still Moving, Komplizen Film
Awards
Silver Hugo (Chicago International Film Festival 2019) Best Director: Maya Da-Rin
Grand Prize City of Lisbon (IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival 2020) International Competition: Maya Da-Rin
FIPRESCI Prize (Locarno International Film Festival 2019) Maya Da-Rin
Locarno International Film Festival 2019 Best Actor: Regis Myrupu
Best Latin-American Film (Mar del Plata Film Festival 2019) Latin-American Competition: Maya Da-Rin
Festival Prize (Rio International Film Festival 2019) Best Sound
Silver Alexander (Thessaloniki Film Festival 2019) Special Jury Award: Maya Da-Rin