This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of Film Comment and the Swiss Alliance of Film Journalists. The following interview, conducted by a member of the Critics Academy, focuses on a participant in the affiliated Filmmakers Academy program at the festival.
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Leonor Teles won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, but she would never tell you that. Neither would she present herself as a director.
Being the 24-year-old daughter of a gypsy, Teles had already depicted her Romani community in her first short film, but in “Batrachian’s Ballad” she went a step further.
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Leonor Teles won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, but she would never tell you that. Neither would she present herself as a director.
Being the 24-year-old daughter of a gypsy, Teles had already depicted her Romani community in her first short film, but in “Batrachian’s Ballad” she went a step further.
- 8/18/2016
- by Raquel Morais
- Indiewire
Born in the quirky town of Vila Franca de Xira in Portugal, Leonor Teles’s story of how she fell for cinema, as a young girl about to finish high school with a passion for photography is, in her own words, “clichéd-free” and “organic.” Her second (or first, for all intents and purposes) and most recent short film, Balada de um Batráquio (Batrachian’s Ballad),has changed her life, even if her modest manner would never allow her to denounce it. Stemming from the evil symbolism surrounding the image of the frog, her film is one to be watched before spoken about. And above all, it is a guarantee that there is good cinema being produced in Portugal, a country where the direct metaphor for seeing in the land of the blind still applies. Sitting outside of the Lichtburg Filmpalast during the 62nd edition of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Leonor...
- 8/1/2016
- MUBI
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