The Fever

Justino is a middle aged security guard, working at the harbour in Manaus in Brazil. After living in a stable life for many years together with his grown up daughter Vanessa, two major changes creates a deep disruption in his life that brings strong and uneasy feelings to the surface. His daughter decides to say yes to a scholarship grant, that makes it necessary for her to move into the main city. At work a new security guard replaces the old and familiar one, and the new white guy seems to be rooted in a hostile attitude towards the indigenous population that Justino himself is coming from. This new situation creates a powerful fever, that give him a feeling of deep unrest and visions of a haunted beast that physically directs Justino into a new way of life. The Fever is a thoughtful and visually stunning film, that with subtle tools displays how a way of life can change by circumstanses you can not control yourself.

Maya Da-Rin (b. 1979) is a filmmaker and artist from Rio de Janeiro. She studied film in Brazil as well as at the French art school Le Fresnoy, and she has worked and lived in several countries. Da-Rin has previously devoted her time to documentary film and installation art. The Fever is her first fiction feature.