Maya Da-Rin

Maya DA-RIN (1979, Brazil) is a filmmaker and visual artist. At the Pontifical Catholic University, she studied Design and Philosophy of Art. In 2010, she enrolled in the Cinema and Visual Arts programme at Le Fresnoy. By then she had already garnered attention for her documentaries Margem/Margin (2007) and Terras/Lands (2009), both shot in the Amazon region. In 2016, she obtained a master’s degree in Cinema and Art History at Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her films and video installations have been shown and awarded at film festivals and art institutions such as Locarno, DOK Leipzig, and MoMA. Her first feature film, The Fever (2019), was selected by La Cinéfondation in Cannes and gained a Script and Project Development grant from the Hubert Bals Fund. The Fever premiered at Locarno's international competition, receiving the Leopard for Best Actor and the FIPRESCI prize for Best Film, and went on to win more than 40 awards in film festivals around the world.

Filmography

E agora, José? (2002, short doc), Margem/Margin (2007, doc), Terras/Lands (2009, doc), Versão francesa/French Version (2011, short), Horizonte de eventos/Event Horizon (2012, instal), Camuflagem/Camouflage (2013, instal), A febre/The Fever (2019)

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Maya Da-Rin op IFFR

Nightsong

7-year-old Helena lives with her parents on a large soy farm in southern Brazil. She is afflicted with sleepwalking and ever since her mother was diagnosed with cancer she becomes friends with a Guarani indigenous old woman who lives nearby. When an unknown and pesticide-resistant plant begins to sprout in the fields, workers wonder where it has come from. But none of their speculations correspond to what Helena sees in her late-night walks.

Maya Da-Rin

90'
Brazilië

CM 2022

The Fever

Hypnotiserend drama over een inheemse man, wiens leven uit het lood raakt als zijn dochter meldt dat ze in Brasilia wil gaan studeren.

Maya Da-Rin

98'
Brazilië

IFFR 2020