Genres:
Feature, Short-length
Director: Inês Teixeira
Operator: Vasco Viana
Screenwriter: Inês Teixeira
Cast: Maria Abreu, Gaspar Menezes, Beatriz Forjaz, Maria Gil, Carla Maciel
Producer: Ângela Machado, Mariana Neto
Producer company : Terratreme Filmes
Year: 2023
Country: Portugal
Duration: 23 min.
Languages: Portugal
Description
After being swallowed by a crocodile and surviving, Juan, an immigrant en route to the US, finds himself so comfortable, he decides to stay inside the reptile forever, leaving Camila, his wife and companion, alone on her unpredictable journey north, where their daughter awaits.
About the director:
Inês Teixeira
Director, screenwriter. Born in Lisbon, she studied film editing at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and later earned a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies from the FCH-UCP. Over the past eight years, she has worked in various capacities including as a script supervisor, editor, and assistant editor. Inês was also fortunate to be selected for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Writing Cinema Today program in 2020, which helped her develop the Shimmering Bodies short film, under the guidance of Françoise von Roy