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.
Acting
Jamilli Correa's silent rage—she barely speaks but devastates.
Direction
Brennand traps you in the same suffocating isolation as Marcielle.
Cinematography
The Amazon becomes a character—beautiful, hungry, complicit.
Director
Marianna Brennand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Marajó Island has Brazil's highest rates of domestic violence; Brennand spent years embedding with local communities to cast non-professional actors from the region.
The title 'Manas' is regional slang for 'sisters'—the film was almost called something else until Correa insisted on the word she actually uses.
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