Birds
Zwazo
Portugal
2012
17 Min
Color
Greek, Haitian
Synopsis
Three Haitian girls wander through the ripe vegetation and colonial ruins of tropical Jakmel. After listening to an old man’s perverse folk tales, they make their way to the town square to watch a local staging of Aristophanes’ Birds. –Locarno Film Festival
Director
Gabriel Abrantes
Gabriel Abrantes was born in North Carolina in 1984. In 2008, his works, Olympia I/II were chosen for the IndieLisboa Festival, where in 2009 he also won the New Talent Fnac Award with Visionary Iraq. He lives and works in Lisbon, where he is preparing his first feature film, about Chinese immigration in Angola, and a short soon to be filmed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A History of Mutual Respect was presented at Locarno in 2010 and won the Pardino d’oro of the Concorso internazionale Pardi di domani. –Locarno Film Festival
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