Transamazonia is a 2024 coming-of-age film directed by Pia Marais, who co-wrote the screenplay with Willem Droste.
[3] As a child, Rebecca is rescued from a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest by a member of a nearby Indigenous tribe.
Now a teenager, she is well known in the area as her father, American missionary Lawrence Byrne, claims that she is a faith healer.
Rebecca's misgivings about her situation are compounded by the arrival of illegal loggers poised to disrupt the local way of life.
[5] Transamazonia premiered on 12 August 2024 at the 77th Locarno Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Leopard.