Maeve Jinkings, Bárbara Colen and Márcio Vito, three of the finest Brazilian actors of their generation, are set to star in “Mesopotamia.”
Director Andy Malafaia‘s feature debut, “Mesopotamia” is set up at Brazil’s Druzina Content, behind “Five Types of Fear,” a best film winner at Gramado Fest which was boarded by Viola Davis’ Ashé as executive producer.
A multi-layered drama thriller, “Mesopotamia” weighs in as potentially one of the most powerful projects at BAM, with an eye-catching cast and resonant drama.
This is set in 1974 rural Brazil under military dictatorship, where the fragile balance of couple Jorge and Mariângela, facing expropriation of their land for the construction of a hydroelectric dam, is further shaken by the unexpected intimacy between Mariângela and Jorge’s sister.
Jinkings, who featured in Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here,” starred in “Neighbouring Sounds” and “Aquarius,” the 2012 feature debut and 2016 Cannes competition player from “The Secret Agent” director Kleber Mendonça Filho. She also headed “Neon Bull,” the breakout of “The Blue Trail” helmer Gabriel Mascaro, and is the go-to actor of Carolina Markowicz, another of Brazil’s fastest-rising directors, playing the lead in her 2022 drama “Charcoal” and 2023’s “Toll.”
