The Riverbank
Drama Portuguese
Izaquiel works as a cleaner in Recife, a Brazilian city intertwined with rivers and mangroves. At night, he dangerously ventures out in search of secret encounters in the mangrove forest. His world shifts when he crosses paths with Jeremias, an intriguing and magnetic fisherman.
| Cast: | Caique Copque, Ítalo Martins, Artia Lauandah, Renna Costa, Robério Diógenes, Isis Broken, Renna Costa, Enio Cavalcante, Bruno Goya, Ana Luiza Rios, Mariza Moreira |
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| Director: | Matheus Farias, Enock Carvalho |
| Writer: | Matheus Farias, Enock Carvalho |
| Editor: | Matheus Farias, Will Domingos |
| Camera: | Luciana Baseggio |
All Guild Reviews of "The Riverbank"
Nocturnal Erotic Slow-Burn Snakes Through Recife’s Mangrove Forests
Locarno Film Festival 2026 | Gay cruising and evangelical terror clash in The Secret Agent editor Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho’s startling, scorching main competition title.
Premiering in main competition at the Locarno Film Festival 2026, Matheus Farias and Enock Carvalho’s The Riverbank (A Margem do Rio) pulses with dark, tropical atmosphere, a heated, shivering bundle of racy desire and cavernous menace. It buzzes with this strange, scary, sinister and sensuous personality of its own, aware of the subterranean networks of power undergirding desire. The filmmakers thrust us in Brazil’s Recife, a city recently on vivid display in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Cannes winner and Oscar-nominated breakout, The Secret Agent. Farias himself co-edited the Wagner Moura starrer that took a heady dive into Recife’s past. The Riverbank situates Recife in a stealthy stream of intrigue, deception and intoxicating seduction.
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