Taprobana
Gabriel AbrantesPortugal, Sri Lanka, Denmark201424 min
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.
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CastNatxo Checa, Jani Zhao, Gabriel Abrantes, David Lasantha, Jõao Pedro Vale and Alexandre Melo
Written byDavid Lasantha, Gabriel Abrantes and Vimukthi Jayasundara
Produced byNatxo Checa, Gabriel Abrantes, Marta Furtado and Vimukthi Jayasundara
CinematographyLakruan Withanage, Natxo Checa and Gabriel Abrantes
EditingGabriel Abrantes
ProductionDOX:LAB and A Mutual Respect Productions
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