OPENING NIGHT FILM

Rebecca (Helena Zengel), the daughter of missionary Lawrence Byrne (Jeremy Xido), miraculously survives a plane crash in the Amazon as a child. She becomes a celebrity in the region and is revered as a miracle healer – which greatly benefits her father’s mission. But when illegal loggers threaten the land of the indigenous population, Rebecca is plunged into a deep inner conflict that shakes her loyalty to her father, the mission and her faith.

In Transamazonia, director Pia Marais weaves ecological, religious and political themes into a contemporary western. The film was shot in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil and French Guyana and is full of hypnotic images.