'News of the World' star Helena Zengel anchors the first film in over a decade from South African director Pia Marais, which is humidly atmospheric but narratively hard to pin down. Rebecca isn’t ...

NYFF: The sole survivor of a plane crash becomes the miracle her missionary father has been waiting for in Pia Marais' potent but emotionally diffuse drama. A plane crashes somewhere deep within the ...

film profile]. The film portrays a complex father-daughter relationship, set amidst the imposing and majestic surroundings of the Amazon rainforest. Cineuropa talked to the director about how she ...

In a statement, Marais said: “In this feverish setting, I wanted to work loosely with elements of suspense and genre. In moments to create an uncanny dream atmosphere. Somehow drawing inspiration from ...

There’s a distant, otherworldly aura to Rebecca Byrne, the teenage protagonist of “Transamazonia,” that is quite befitting of someone who literally dropped from the sky. As a small girl, a plane she ...

A plane crashes somewhere deep within the Amazon rainforest, screaming down upon the land of Brazil’s (fictional) Iruaté people like a missive from God. By some miracle, a young white girl named ...