The event features a Q&A session with filmmaker Marianna Brennand, a Brazilian director, screenwriter, and producer known for her documentary work and now her fiction debut, MANAS. The film, which explores the reality of sexual violence against women in the Marajó Archipelago, has received significant international acclaim, including awards at the Venice and Cannes Film Festivals.

Manas with Marianna Brennand (Filmmaker)

Thirteen-year-old Marcielle lives on Marajó Island in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. To break a terrible cycle that imprisons the women around her in an isolated region, she must do the impossible to liberate herself and her younger sister from a dark abyss of silence held by her own family.