FEVER
A HORROR FILM ABOUT LOVE THAT LINGERS BEYOND
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A grieving couple moves to a remote house by the Brazilian mangroves, but when the husband finds solace in a mysterious force of the forest, the wife must choose between saving him or setting him free.
Agnes and David, a young couple broken by grief, retreat to a remote house at the edge of a Brazilian mangrove, hoping to rebuild their lives. But the place is hostile and the nature is alive. David, already weakened by illness, begins to feel an unsettling pull toward the forest, embodied in the figure of a Woman with Mud on Her Feet, who seems to offer him the peace his body has denied him.
Agnes struggles to protect him and to create a sense of home in a place that resists her. Yet the deeper David surrenders to the mangrove, the more it reveals itself as a stage for their shared loss, reshaping their sorrow into something both intimate and terrifying.
As David finds a strange serenity in the mangrove’s embrace, Agnes must confront the true cost of love: to fight for him, or to accept that he belongs to a world she cannot follow.
SYNOPSIS
CHARACTERS
AGNES
A young American woman, determined, practical. She is the point of view of the story, the one who tries to rationalize the inexplicable. Her struggle is for the preservation of love, but also for her own sanity
DAVID
The son of Brazilian immigrants, born and raised in the U.S. A stranger to the country and the culture of his ancestors, he sees in the return home a hope for healing — but his fever is already part of something greater.
THE WOMAN WITH MUD ON HER FEET
An ambiguous entity, suspended between healing and contamination. Its presence shifts between the maternal, lustful, and monstrous, leaving marks on David’s body and psyche.
STATEMENT
A love story haunted by the living earth.
Fever is an intimate cosmic horror that asks a fundamental question: what does it mean to love someone undergoing a radical transformation? The film does not rely only on an external threat but weaves it together with the inner fractures of grief. The danger is both outside and within, where terror and transcendence are inseparably bound.
Agnes and David, a young couple broken by loss, retreat to a remote house on the edge of a Brazilian mangrove. For Agnes, pragmatic and anchored in the tangible, the humid environment is slow decay. Each mushroom blooming on the wall is an omen. For David, consumed by a mysterious fever, the same force whispers a promise of release. His illness is not a curse but a threshold.
The heart of the film lies in this dissonance. The story unfolds in the tension between Agnes’s struggle to hold on and David’s longing to dissolve into something larger. The mangrove is not a backdrop but a psychic terrain, confronting them with their loss in forms both physical and spectral. For David, it becomes peace. For Agnes, it becomes the terror of being left behind.
In Fever, nature is neither savior nor monster. It is an agent of unsettling change. A story about the courage to let the one you love find peace, even if it means surrendering them to forces you cannot understand.
"Fever" is a slow-burner horror film, with elements of possession, gore, and the strong presence of the supernatural. The story is built on suspense until it delivers an unexpected and violent catharsis in the third act, similar to the French Cannes prized horror "RAW". The pacing avoids rushed action sequences and focuses on delivering the horror in its atmosphere, similar to the approach in "THE WITCH". And the story creates mythos and surreal creatures that keep the audience desiring more, such as accomplished in the indie horror hit, "IT FOLLOWS".
THIS PRODUCTION CAN NAVIGATE THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT AND ARISE WITH THE MOMENTUM TO TAKE THEATRES AND STREAMING BY STORM.
REFERENCES
CREATORS
Daniel studied film in Argentina and lives in Los Angeles after ten years directing documentaries, shorts, and music videos in Brazil, his home country. His work has screened at Sundance, Rotterdam, BFI London, Guadalajara, CPH:DOX, Mar del Plata, and BIFAN.
His latest narrative short, "Boi de Conchas", won the Grand Jury Award in Seattle and is available on Canal+ in France. His debut feature, "Boni Bonita", won a post-production grant from Vision Sud Est, and after receiving awards in Europe, was released theatrically in Argentina and Brazil. During his career, Daniel participated in several workshops, including Produire au Sud, Eave, Morelia Lab, Cine Qua Non Storylines Lab, and the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab.
DANIEL BAROSA
DIRECTOR
Brazilian scriptwriter, advertisement creative, and content director. He has a solid career as a writer and communications coordinator, with experience in renowned agencies and companies. As a fiction screenwriter, his first short film, "Babelon", was shown at several festivals, such as the Tiradentes Film Festival and the Curta Cinema Festival, in Rio de Janeiro. He also wrote "Através do Vale da Estranheza", selected in the Fargo Fantastic Film Festival, and recently made his directorial debut with the short film "Clube dos 27" which he also wrote. The film is now currently in post-production.
LEONARDO
PESSOA
WRITER
EDUARDO
SOARES
PRODUCER USA
Eduardo is a Brazilian producer based in Los Angeles, passionate about telling queer stories. His work spans a range of bold and diverse projects, including "Chuck and Fern", a live-action fantasy short; "Romeo and Juliet", an experimental hybrid film in Brazilian Sign Language; and "Party Princess". As a 2025 Film Independent Project Involve Fellow, Eduardo is currently producing the short film "Keepsake".
NIKOLAS
MACIEL
PRODUCER BRAZIL
Producer based in São Paulo, Brazil, Nikolas founded Nimboo's, a successful film company where he produced original TV shows and content for MTV, Viacom, Zoomoo Channel, and films that travelled the world in festivals, such as Sundance, Rotterdam, BFI London, Mar del Plata, CPH:DOX, and Palm Springs. He is an alumnus of the Berlinale Talents, Morelia Lab, Eave on Demand, and Produire au Sud.
