Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Mannheim-Heidelberg 2026

In Recife, Brazil, a young, gay man named Ezekiel works as a cleaner in an evangelical church, where the pastor fuels a climate of intolerance that leads to the worst. In this film, which is steeped in magical realism, Jeremias appears in the mangroves—a fisherman of supernatural beauty who completely turns the young man's life upside down. While the directors denounce the entanglements between church and power, they restore dignity to the marginalized through the poetry and sensuality of the imagery. A deeply political film.