

Genre: Drama
Directed by Marcelo Botta
Screenplay: Marcelo Botta
Cast: Diana Mattos, Ulysses Azevedo, Nádia de Cássia, Rosa Ewerton Jara
Executive Producer: Márcia Nepomuceno
Year: 2024
Length: 115 min
Recommended for: 12+
In the original version with English
and Czech subtitles

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BETÂNIA
Betânia, the 65-year-old stalwart family matriarch, is on a turbulent ride on the
ever-shifting sands of time. In the wake of her husband’s death, Betânia is forced to move back to the village where she was born, leaving behind a lifetime of memories and a simple, agrarian lifestyle without electricity on the cutting edge of a newborn Brazilian desert not so far from the Amazon.
Pushed by the ancestral sound of Maranhão, Betânia and her family fight to maintain balance and a sense of identity while tradition and modernity collide. Despite the imposing sand dunes, polluted water, financial hardship, generational quarrels, life finds a way, as it always does.
Like the miraculous wildflowers found in the desert oases that punctuate the barren landscape, Betânia and her family eventually bloom into new vitality, while the world ends.
Curiosity: with most of its screenplay made on the go during production and shooting, director Marcelo Botta selected a local resident to play Antonio Junior, when during a Christmas party he was suggested by the kid’s father, for being the ‘most extroverted boy in the village’.