7 Fevereiro 2014

Taprobana no Berlinale

© Mutual Respect Productions 2014

O mais recente filme de Gabriel Abrantes foi seleccionado para a competição oficial de curtas-metragens do festival de cinema de Berlim.

Taprobana, now known as Sri Lanka, at the end of the 16th century. The largest island in the Indian Ocean is ruled by the Portuguese as a colonial power. An elephant wallows in the water. It heaves and lowers itself pleasurably, its trunk sucked full, snorting. A man relishes a woman. They have sex in the open air. As the man climaxes, the elephant climbs out of the water. The man is Luís Vaz de Camões, Portuguese poet and later, national hero. Now he is still an officer serving the Portuguese crown. Banished from Lisbon, he lives in exile and works on the only thing that matters to him, The Lusiads. In the formal epic based on Homer’s Odyssey, he outlines a journey through time, examining the heroic history of Portuguese conquests.
The film is a subjective, comical journey exploring the creative origins of this work. Abrantes draws close to his hero by means of private insights. At the end, Camões stands before the poet’s Olympus and a conversation ensues.

Portugal / Sri Lanka / Denmark 2014, 24 min

DIRECTOR Gabriel Abrantes

CAST Naxto Checa / Jani Zhao / Gabriel Abrantes / David Lasantha / João Pedro Vale / André Principe / Gonçalo Pena / Alexandre Melo

Produzido por

A Mutual Respect Productions

Vimukthi Jayasundara

CPH DOX:LAB

Com o apoio financeiro de
Danish Centre for Culture and Development
FID: LAB MARSEILLE

A promoção do filme no festival de Berlim tem o apoio ICA – Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual

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Exibições

Berlinale Shorts PRT/LKA/DNK2014

Berlinale Shorts I
Fri Feb 07 22:00 
CinemaxX 3 (E)
With accreditation only
Mon Feb 10 16:00 
CinemaxX 5 (E)
Wed Feb 12 22:00 
CinemaxX 3 (E)
Fri Feb 14 17:45 
Colosseum 1 (E)

Berlinale Shorts Go West
Sun Feb 16 19:30 
Zoo Palast 2 (E)

Screening Shorts – A Compilation of Short Films
Wed Feb 12 11:00 
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU1) (E)