The Fever [Online]
Screen this title from
Mar. 29 – Apr. 9, 2021
Mar. 29 – Apr. 9, 2021
$12 General Admission
Maya Da-Rin
Brazil, France & Germany
2019
1h 38m
About
** This film is preceded by the short film Give Yourself Heaven, NWFF’s first Local Shortiez selection! Read more below. **
Told through the perspective of an Indigenous port worker from a Brazilian rainforest town, Maya Da-Rin’s feature narrative, The Fever, contrasts the noisy distraction of an industrial worksite with the quiet intimacy of the worker’s home. Between the two settings, profound rifts emerge in language, culture, history, and privilege, as the film cleverly uses a mysterious illness and a metaphysical creature to illustrate the threats of modernization and capitalism to old ways of life.
“The Fever is a timely document about the cultural dangers of progress, and a reminder that our Western ways are not the only possibility.” – ICS
“Delicate and dangerous, much like nature itself, The Fever is testament to Maya Da-Rin’s extraordinary ability to dig down deep into the lives of her protagonists (people/characters), listening with interest to what they have to say before transposing it all into images.” – Cineuropa
“Rin avoids the simple or straightforward ethnographic gaze of an outsider by illuminating the community’s traditions and ancestry obliquely, rather than casting an actor to perform the character.” – BFI
“This is an entrancing film, orphaned by an unspeakable longing for a place–a whole world–that will never return.” – The Film Stage
Filmmaker Maya Da-Rin and cast answer questions on the making of the film, working as non-professional indigenous actors, and the fate of the Amazon rainforest.
