Time does not heal all wounds.
During World War Two, hoping to turn back time and save her village, a hotheaded indigenous warrior enlists in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force and journeys to Berlin, seeking the help of a Nazi scientist's daughter and her mysterious artifact. So begins a journey of love and hate between two unlikely heroines, from different peoples and different centuries, who will unknowingly shape the destiny of Brazil and the world.
An adult animated feature in a stylized hybrid of 2D and 3D, with influences from anime, steampunk and art nouveau. Now in production.
The drawings that govern every frame of the film, straight from the studio.
The story reimagines Maria Orsic, the medium legend ties to the Die Glocke device, as an entity pulling the strings behind World War Two. Between indigenous ancestry and European occultism, speculative fiction meets historical facts that read like legend, and legends history never quite explained away.
Unknown Maiden is the front door of a transmedia universe spanning the ages: time manipulation, secret societies, conflicts echoing from colonial Brazil to the far future. Animation, novels, music, and a live-action pilot shot on the real Gothic Line in Tuscany.
Approved by the Ibermedia Programme, the Ibero-American co-production fund, anchoring the Brazil and Italy partnership behind the film.
SBS Studios Ltda and Around Culture SrlOfficial presentation at the 45th edition of Rome's historic fantastic film festival, at the Rome Catalyst event, with producer Stefano Misiani.
November 2025Strategic distribution partnership announced in the Brazilian press (Antena 1).
March 2026Produced by SBS Studios Ltda (Brazil) in co-production with Around Culture Srl (Italy) through Nuaviv, our own production platform: every shot in the film carries its provenance trail, which tool, which intent, who approved.