Taprobana

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• Genre(s): Comedy
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Gabriel Abrantes
• Cast(s): Jani Zhao, Gabriel Abrantes, Edith Scob, Joana Pais de Brito, Natxo Checa See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 24min
• Music: Daniel Gries,Hugo Leitão
• Award(s): Prix UIP Berlin (European Short Film) 2014 (Won)
  European Film 2014 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Tuner, Marty, Life Is Short
• Story:
  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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