FESTIVAL DE CANNES
Official Selection
UNCERTAIN REGARD

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Every year, for 20 years, a small riverside community in the upper part of the Negro River celebrates The Dead Girl’s Feast. The occasion is meant to honor the ingenuous miracle that was performed by THE SAINT a long time ago, after the dim episode of his MOTHER’S suicide who received the blue rags of a missing girl’s dress in his little hands, from the fangs of a mongrel. The little girl was never found, but her remains, symbolized in the bloodstained dress rags, became sacred and were worshiped. The party evolved, indifferent to the pain and rebelliousness of the dead girl’s brother, TADEU. Now, the inhabitants of nearby Amazon villages visit the small town on the holy day to worship the dead girl, pray and beg. They anxiously wait for the girl’s “revelations”, spoken by the voice of The Saint. These are the acme of the ceremony.