Batrachian’s Ballad

Portugal
2016
Documentary
14 min.

BALADA DE UM BATRÁQUIO

 

Director | Leonor Teles
Script | Leonor Teles
Cinematography | Leonor Teles
Editing | Leonor Teles
Sound | Bernardo Theriaga
Producers | Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra
Contacts | Portugal Film – Portuguese Film Agency, portugalfilm@indielisboa.com

 

“Simultaneously strange and familiar, distant and near, disquieting and seductive, outsider and cosmopolitan, gypsies are shrouded in an aura of ambiguity. They cannot be said to be invisible, as they hardly go unnoticed” – Daniel Seabra Lopes. Like the gypsies, the frogs, made of china, don’t go unnoticed to a careful observer. “Batrachian’s Ballad” comes about in a context of ambiguity. A film that immerses itself in the reality of Portuguese everyday life, as a form of fabling about a xenophobic behaviour.