MOTHER OF GOLD
Fiction | 100’ | Brazil | Germany
Project in development
Jaci, a woman in the process of remaking her life after her husband’s death and her son’s departure, starts having mysterious dreams after wildcat miners take over the hill near the town where she lives, in a remote corner of the Amazon. Through those dreams, a strange and powerful connection arises between Jaci and the hill itself.
Credits
Director & Screenwriter
Madiano Marcheti
Production
Co-production
Terceira Margem
2Pilots Filmproduktion (DE)
Labs, Funds, Markets & Co-production Events
FSA International Co-production - Majority Modality, 2023
ANCINE | Brazil
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, 2025
Germany
Cinémart - International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2022
Wouter Barendrecht Award
36º Festival de Cine en Guadalajara, 2021
PLOT - Professional Script Lab, 2021
BAL-LAB – Festival Biarritz Amérique Latine, 2021
14º Nuevas Miradas - EICTV, 2020
11º Brasil CineMundi – Coproduction Meeting, 2020
Horizonte Trophy – Best Project in Development
Director’s Note
In recent years, Brazil has undergone profound transformations, marked by the rise of radical and polarizing discourses. Concepts such as truth and lies have become flexible and relative. Politics is driven by fear, reflected in collective paranoia and violence. Predatory exploitation of nature intensifies, becoming official policy. Consequently, land grabbers and miners feel free to invade protected areas and indigenous lands.
Inspired by this context and its delirious atmosphere, I decided to make a film that blurs the line between reality and the uncanny. In "Mother of Gold", after a remote village is invaded by miners, a woman begins receiving deathly messages from nature through premonitory dreams. Like a strange and mysterious tale, the film is a dark song about this woman’s rite of passage, as she must learn to trust her instincts amid a turbulent and delirious time—a period in which absolutely anything seems possible.
Multiverso Produções