Debate held by Vitrine Filmes in partnership with Folha de São Paulo on the occasion of the release of the film "The Fever", with participation of Ailton Krenak, Naine Terena and Laymert Garcia dos Santos, mediated by journalist Leão Serva.
Debate held by Vitrine Filmes in partnership with Rádio Yandê on the occasion of the release of the film "The Fever", with participation of filmmaker Graciela Guarani and architect Wellington Cançado, mediated by journalist Renata Tupinambá.
Debate held by Vitrine Filmes in partnership with Itaú Cultural on the occasion of the release of the film "The Fever", with the participation of writer and farmer Antônio Bispo dos Santos and artist Jaider Esbell, mediated by Tsitsina Xavante.
"The Fever questions the viability of a world where natural elements are increasingly consumed by industrial production. Da-Rin does not condemn, however, the future of his characters and ends up multiplying the lines of escape."
"In a film haunted by the specter of contagion and which resonates particularly in the midst of a pandemic, Brazilian Maya Da-Rin joins her hero, a middle-aged man trapped on the border between two worlds."
"Maya Da-Rin's extraordinary film details the intimate life of an Indigenous family in the Brazilian city of Manaus."
"Brazilian filmmaker Maya Da-Rin's fiction feature debut is an entrancing portrait of a man adrift in an urban jungle."
"Subtly sensorial more than conventionally narrative, "The Fever" inhabits an ethereal plan that centers Indigenous beliefs and cultural practices not as primitive but valid modes of engagement."
"Maya Da-Rin's subtle, poetic debut about a man with a mysterious fever engages with the hidden lives of the Desana people of Brazil."
"In "The Fever", engagement doesn't mean receiving the world on one's own terms. It means something beyond interpretation, sitting with someone, or something, accepting tha there may be no answers, no second meanings nor additional layers of worth. This way, you resist the violence of silencing by imposing."
"The Fever is essential cinema, demanding empathy and understanding without pity or didacticism, and spotlighting indigenous people with the attention to cultural specifics that few films bother elaborating."
"Former documentarian Da-Rin continues to innovate with this elliptical fiction feature about and indigenous Brazilian worker drawn mysteriously back in to the rainforest."
"The Brazilian filmmaker discusses her new film and declarations towards the indigenous people made by Brazil's far-right government."
"Maya Da-Rin's Locarno award-winner follows an Indigenous Desana man through the industrial and natural environments of Manaus, where an unexplained illness and a mysterious beast act as potent political metaphors. (...) Justino's determination to weather his strange sufferings make him a figure of strength and resilience, even if Da-Rin's poignant and pointed film doesn't let viewers forget about the pain, injustice and devastation happening around him."
"Maya Da-Rin: 'We need to start questioning the eurocentric forms of knowledge we have inherited.'"
"Maya Da'Rin's debut film is a dreamy, hazy arthouse wonder about a mysterious fever, exploring alienation, displacement, and identity with the Desana people of Brazil."
Maya Da-Rin Quote: "'The Fever' talks about issues that have been part of our last 500 years. What we live in today is a reflection of that." (Photo: Marina Benzaquem)
"Da-Rin's documentary credentials bring an authenticity that avoids easy exoticisation of indigenous people."
"It is a strange dreamlike atmosphere that reigns in the first fascinating feature film by Brazilian artist and director Maya Da-Rin. A mixture of stillness, reflective gestures and diffuse threats. (...) Immersed in culture, beliefs and language of the indigenous people of the Alto Rio Negro region, The Fever evokes its condition with wisdom and prudence."
"With "The Fever", Maya Da-Rin signs a political, enigmatic and exuberant debut feature."
"The Fever is an auditory art experience that shows the ambiguos struggle between indigenous cultural practices and the industrialised city of Manaus in the Amazonas. (,,,) A stunning piece of cinematic work, Maya Da-Rin's new feature feels like a combination of visual art and allegorical documentary."
"The Fever works a dreamlike spell, and by the end, its Indigenous mysticism will make far more rational sense to you than the chaos of so-called 'progress'."
"In an interview with Carta Capital, the film's director Maya Da-Rin talks about the long process of the work, which began in 2013, before the fall of Dilma, and ended in 2018, with Jair Bolsonaro president."
"Born in Pari-Cachoeira, a village close to the Colombian border, he was registered as Reginaldo Fontes Vaz, but he adopted the indigenous surname Myrupu, which means 'the blow of the wind'. He lived with his family for years in the municipality of Barcelos, before moving to Tupé's beach, where he has been coordinating, since 2014, the Floresta Cultural Herisãrõ project, which seeks sustainable tourism with the 'mission of promoting and keeping alive indigenous culture'".
"Instead of giving simple and incomplete answers, "The Fever" draws us into the other worlds of Justino's existence, the one of the origins in the space of nature and the one of labor exploitation, the one of magical thinking and the one of existence without horizons, the one of a Brazil that is no longer and the one that will not be."
"By dealing with the trajectory of Justino, a cargo port worker in Manaus, and his daughter Vanessa, a nursing assistant who has just been approved in medicine at Brasilia's University, the film explores the dilemmas of the relationship between indigenous generations and their lives in large Brazilian cities without, however, being properly realistic."
"Without appealing to all sorts of signs that update, throughout the film, the dichotomies between traditional/modern, rural/urban, white/indigenous, Maya Da-Rin's film goes in search of a more difficult beauty: positioning the camera in space and hopes that the duration of the shot forges, in the very skin of the film, the rough interaction between the characters and the environment."
In a debate held by YouTube channel 3 em Cena, Eduardo Escorel, Juca Badaró and Piero Sbragia talk with filmmaker Maya Da-Rin about the distribution of the feature film "The Fever" and about the non-place of the Brazilian autochtonous in contemporaneity.
Maya Da-Rin is interviewed on the podcast Cine Festivais, produced and presented by journalist and critic Adriano Garrett. The conversation with Maya focused on two of her films: Lands (2009) and The Fever (2019).
Regina Zappa invites director Maya Da-Rin, actors Regis Myrupu and Rosa Peixoto, screenwriter Miguel Seabra Lopes and casting coach Amanda Gabriel for a conversation about the creative process of the film "The Fever". The debate was held by YouTube channel TV 247.
In a debate promoted by the Social Sciences program at PUC-SP and broadcast by the TV PUC YouTube channel, professors Mônica de Carvalho, Lúcia Rangel and Silvana Tótora talk with director Maya Da-Rin about her film "The Fever".
In a debate held by the International Film Academy (AIC), professors Filippo Pitanga and Martin Eikmeier analyze the film "The Fever" and talk to director Maya Da-Rin and actors Regis Myrupu and Rosa Peixoto.
In a debate held by the YouTube channel "Literatura Indígena Contemporânea", actress Rosa Peixoto talks with the writer and researcher Julie Dorrico about her role as protagonist of "The Fever" film and about indigenous representativeness in cinema.
In the month of the release of "The Fever" in Brazil, Regina Zappa talks with director Maya Da-Rin about the film, which won more than thirty awards around the world, including International Critics Award (FIPRESCI) at Locarno Film Festival. Debate held by YouTube channel TV 247.
Debate held by Espaço Cultural Circo Navegador, with support from the Cultural Action Program of the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the Government of São Paulo State (PROAC), with participation of Rosa Peixoto and Anaya Suya.
In a debate held by the YouTube channel "Literatura Indígena Contemporânea", actor Regis Myrupu talks with the writer and researcher Julie Dorrico about his role as the protagonist of "The Fever" film. Regis Myrupu received the Golden Leopard Award for Best Actor at the Locarno Film Festival for his work on the film.
Debate held by the CINEMAMM project, from the Murilo Mendes Art Museum, linked to Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), with director Maya Da-Rin and the actress Rosa Peixoto.
Mediated by Angelene Lazaretti, actors Rosa Peixoto and Lourinelson Vladmir talked about the film "The Fever" with professors Virginia Osorio Flores and Senilde Guanaes, from the Federal University of Latin American Integration, on the Cinelatino YouTube channel.
Debate held by Departament of Social Communication at PUC-Rio with the director of the film "The Fever", Maya Da-Rin, and Lívia Donadeli, from Vitrine Filmes. The meeting was part of the Cine Debate: Audiovisual Distribution in the Pandemic and was organized by university students and professors.
Debate organized by the Cinecampus project, from the São Paulo State University (Unesp), with director Maya Da-Rin and anthropologists Edgar Teodoro da Cunha and Edmundo Peggion.
Interview with the actor Regis Myrupu about the film "The Fever", as part of the Audiovisual Exhibition "Imagem dos Povos", organized by the production company T'AI Criação. The exhibition aims to stimulate debates on environmental preservation in the region of Brumadinho, Minas Gerais.
Meeting between the finalists for Best First Feature Film Direction category at the 2021 Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix. Mediated by journalist and screenwriter Melina Dalboni, the meeting was attended by Allan Deberton, Bárbara Paz, Djin Sganzerla, Matias Mariani and Maya Da-Rin.
Maya Da-Rin is interviewed on the podcast "Um Rádio na Paisagem", produced and directed by the choreographer Gustavo Ciríaco, and talks, among other things, about her film "The Fever". Um Rádio na Paisagem is a podcast that invites artists from different areas to talk about landscapes, their biographical experiences and artistic references.
