A MARGEM DO RIO (THE RIVERBANK)
A film by Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho
Brasil, 2026, 104′
v.o. italian subtitles
The Riverbank is set in Recife, a city criss-crossed by rivers and mangrove forests. Izaquiel, a cleaner at an evangelical church, leads a life divided between the discipline of the day and the clandestine world of the night. By day, he has to endure pressure from a charismatic boss who urges him to convert and insists that he remove his nail polish and earrings before starting work. By night, he seeks out secret encounters along the riverbanks. His encounter with Jeremias, an enigmatic fisherman, opens up a new emotional and erotic dimension in his life. In a polarised Brazil where religion, morality and violence are intertwined with power, eros becomes a genuine form of resistance for Izaquiel: a space of freedom carved out from under the weight of dogma and social control.
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Tickets
Full Price: €7.50
Under 30, Over 65, Culture Card holders, and Friends of the Film Archive: €5
Reduced Price for Unibo, Ababo, and Under 20: €4
3-Show Pass: €12
5-Show Pass: €20
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Bio
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 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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