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\n\tOscar-Nominated Sentimental Value<\/em> star\u00a0Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas\u00a0will join The Secret Agent<\/em> lead\u00a0Wagner Moura\u00a0on Brazilian film The Outsider<\/em>, where Ibsdotter Lilleaas will have the central role. \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBringing together stars of the two biggest non-English language movies at this year\u2019s Academy Awards, The Outsider<\/em> (A Estrangeira<\/em>) is produced by S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s\u00a0Maria Farinha Filmes\u00a0and written and directed by Brazilian filmmaker\u00a0Sandra Delgado\u00a0(Disney\u2019s Maria: The Outlaw Legend<\/em>).\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tOscar nominated for The Secret Agent<\/em> which won him a best actor award last year at Cannes, Moura is already on board as one of The Outsider<\/em>\u2019s executive producers. He will also play a key role in the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n Based on two decades of research, Delgado\u2019s first fiction feature, The Outsider<\/em> is described as an \u201cintimate biopic\u201d of photographer Claudia Andujar,\u00a0who will be played by Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas.<\/p>\n \n\tA Swiss-born Brazilian artist and activist who lost her family in the Holocaust, Andujar sought refuge in Brazil, finding inspiration, a connection to community and a need sense of belonging, depicting the Yanomami people via her photographic work.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhen Brazil\u2019s military dictatorship cuts a major highway through Yanomami land in the mid \u201870s, her images become an act of resistance and a turning point in her life, Maria Farinha Filmes said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAndujar\u2019s work has contributed to the demarcation of Indigenous lands and vaccination campaigns in the Amazon region. Her photographs form part of the permanent collections of the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Tate in the U.K. They are exhibited in a dedicated gallery in Brazil\u2019s Inhotim.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m so happy to be part of telling Claudia\u2019s story, and the story of the Yanomami people and I\u2019m excited to be collaborating with Sandra and Wagner, and I can\u2019t think of a better project to do so,\u201d said Ibsdotter Lilleaas, who lived for a year as a high-school student in Brazil\u2019s Rio Verde, Goi\u00e1s state, central Brazil.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cFrom the start, I envisioned an actress who could embody both Claudia\u2019s European roots and her deep connection to Brazil,\u201d Delgado stated. \u201cWagner [Moura] met Inga in Telluride and, surprisingly or by coincidence, she introduced herself speaking Portuguese. After seeing her work in Sentimental Value<\/em>, it was clear she had the sensitivity the role demanded. Claudia Andujar\u2019s story and the Yanomami struggle deeply moved her. She cared immediately, and that mattered to me.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cInga has a magnetic presence on screen that aligns beautifully with the emotional dimensions of this story,\u201d noted Mariana Oliva, Maria Farinha Filmes co-CEO. \u201cSandra\u2019s writing gives us a character who feels boundless, and we\u2019re excited to see that vastness take shape through Inga\u2019s interpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFor Moura, \u201cThe Outsider<\/em> is a film I can\u2019t wait to see on screen. It represents the type of cinema that I feel the most drawn to\u00a0 \u2013 a cinema that unites a powerful story with a vital struggle. Claudia\u2019s journey is an urgent story that is still tragically relevant today. It is a story crafted with rare care and intention.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBehind Globoplay hit Amazon-set thriller Aruanas<\/em>, watched by 35 million viewers per episode, and Netflix hit doc franchise The Beginning of Life<\/em>, the most watched Brazilian documentary in 2016, Mar\u00eda Farinha Filmes is now in pre-production on The Girl Who Could Fly<\/em>, inspired by the life journey of trailblazing Black gymnast Daiane dos Santos, co-produced by Viola Davis\u2019 Ash\u00e9 Ventures.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tMar\u00eda Farinha Filmes is also on advanced post-production on Eryk Rocha\u2019s Elza<\/em>, a doc portrait of legendary singer Elza Soares, and via archive fragments of Brazilian films featuring key Black artists, a record of the political and artistic struggles and transformation of Brazil\u2019s Black movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIn a major expansive move, in 2024 Maria Farinha Films\u00a0 launched the Los Angles-based MFF & Co, which in turn acquired a minority stake in London\u2019s four-time Oscar-nominated Violet Films.<\/p>\n \n\tProjects set up at MFF & Co include \u201cPossible,\u201d inspired by William Ury\u2019s bestselling book, \u201cPegasus,\u201d created by Amit Cohen (\u201cFalse Flag\u201d) and Ron Leshem (\u201cEuphoria\u201d), \u201cFail-Safe,\u201d directed by Joe Berlinger (\u201cParadise Lost\u201d) and \u201cEsperanza,\u201d created by Marcos Nisti and Estela Renner and set to be directed by Fernando Meirelles (\u201cCity of God\u201d).<\/p>\n \n\tEarlier this year, MFF & Co also announced U.S. writers Alexander Maggio, Jenny Lynn and Ted Sullivan will adapt Globo telenovelas for North American audiences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/claudia-andujar-yanomami-brazil-biopic-1234785745\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-1197489984.jpg?w=1024″] Oscar-Nominated Sentimental Value star\u00a0Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas\u00a0will join The Secret Agent lead\u00a0Wagner Moura\u00a0on Brazilian film The Outsider, where Ibsdotter Lilleaas will have the central role. \u00a0 Bringing together stars of the two biggest non-English language movies at this year\u2019s Academy Awards, The Outsider (A Estrangeira) is produced by S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s\u00a0Maria Farinha Filmes\u00a0and written […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1937202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}