Andrades work in Rotterdam Filmfestival

A Floresta de Jonathas/ Jonathas’ Forest: premières at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on 31st of January 2013, at 17u45 in Cinerama 2.

Jonathas knows no other place than the Amazon, where he lives and works with his family. As a living being with its own will, the jungle has a fascinating attraction for tourists and also forms a seductive threat for Jonathas. Enchanting low-budget debut.

Jonathas lives with his parents and elder brother Juliano in a distant corner of the Amazon region. The family sells fruit from their stall next to the motorway. It’s an ideal spot for the kids to come into contact with passers-by from different worlds.

Juliano especially is keen to grab every opportunity for new adventures, to the great frustration of his father. Yet Jonathas also allows himself to be persuaded to camp in the jungle with his dear brother, together with an exciting girl from the Ukraine. In this formative weekend, the magic rainforest and the mysterious girl both turn out to have a major effect on Jonathas.
Andrade, who comes from this remote part of Brazil himself, has made a beautiful, contemporary drama about people far from the modern world, where nature is a living, magic entity. With colourful shots and a hallucinogenic soundtrack, the viewer is sucked into a magic-realistic jungle drama.

Jonathas’ Forest is a film made by Sérgio Andrade, with Begê Muniz, Francisco Mendes,…

For more information: http://www.aflorestadejonathas.com.br/