“Betania”, interview with the director Marcelo Botta

“Betania” is the first narrative feature by Marcelo Botta, included in the Panorama section at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. Nature and sustainability are the key words to describe the story of a 65 years old woman who has to relocate in a nearby area in Brazil, after her village has been flooded.

We need to be aware

Marcelo Botta has an urgency to share: “we need to be more aware of nature and its changes. Some are already irreversible but we still have room to do something. That’s why in”Betânia” the dunes land shifts and changes so much: it is a symbol for the message he wants to convey”.

Music is everywhere and everything

“Betânia” is filled with musics, music is the motor for Botta‘s creativity and it describes better the region where the film is shot, north of brazil close to Jamaica and the Carribean. He also created a song himself specifically for the film, as an impulse of the last moment, as he tells us proudly.

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