A Margem do Rio
Directed by Matheus Farias & Enock Carvalho
2026
LGBTQ+ , Erotic Thriller , Tropical Magical Realism
117 min
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Brazil Germany
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Portuguese
Set in Recife, a Brazilian city interwoven with rivers and mangroves, the film follows Izaquiel (Caique Copque), a young cleaner whose nightly search for intimacy leads him to Jeremias (Ítalo Martins, “The Secret Agent"), a magnetic fisherman. As violence closes in, both embark on a journey into the depths of the mangroves, where reality and myth intertwine, exposing the invisible structures of power that govern their world.
MATHEUS FARIAS Matheus Farias is a Brazilian editor, director, screenwriter, and producer based in Recife, Brazil. As an editor, he has collaborated with acclaimed filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho on THE SECRET AGENT and PICTURES OF GHOSTS, among other features. For his work as an editor, he received the Platino Award and the Coral Award for Best Editing at the Havana Film Festival in 2025. For more than a decade, he has worked alongside Enock Carvalho on a series of internationally acclaimed short films, including INABITÁVEL, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021. ENOCK CARVALHO Enock Carvalho is a Brazilian director, screenwriter, and producer based in Recife, who began his artistic journey as a film critic and journalist before diving into filmmaking. He has been collaborating with Matheus Farias since 2015 on several short films that have received numerous awards worldwide, most notably the acclaimed Brazilian queer science-fiction short INABITÁVEL, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021.
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