LightStar Studios

“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.

Mandí is a fisherman from the Manao people, who live in the Amazon, in 1723. One day, he saves a huge turtle that is trapped in one of his fishing traps. In gratitude, she invites Mandí to the frog party, which will take place in the underwater world of Rio Negro. Spoken in the Baniwa language, Adeus, Querido Mandí is an Amazonian adaptation of the Japanese myth of Urashima Tarot.