Yemanja: Mermaid Goddess of Fishermen (2013)

Every year on the last Sunday of January, the fishermen of Rio Vermelho in Salvador, a city in the north-eastern state of Bahia in Brazil, pay homage to the queen of the sea, 'Yemanja'. This is a more spiritual departure from the more famous festa of 2nd February which attracts a vast number of people from all over the world. The film portrays a sacred tradition from the Afro-Brazilian religion, 'Candomble', where fishermen speak of their relationship with their Mother goddess or 'orixa' and this is put into context by the spiritual priestess or 'Mae de Santos' who has the divine authority to enter a trance and 'become' the entity Yemanja'.