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Release Date:
March 1, 2021
Original Title:
A Love Song in Spanish
Genres:
Documentary | War
Production Companies:
Le Fresnoy
Mestizo Cinema
Production Countries:
France | Panama
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 24
The piece, an experiment that begins on the skin, in the skins of a family that spoke in silence about a tropical dictatorship in the 1980s, the dictatorship of a house. The skins whispered silently and their voices were heard in the corners, on the walls, in the cooking pot, on the soupspoon, on the wet beans. As the soldiers marched in the streets, the echo of their footsteps resonated in the walls of the home of a military man’s family, a house where the words were forgotten. With few oral resources, some photographs and some stolen confessions, the director proposes an exploration that goes from the personal to the political through a fictionalized experience of the family story related to the dictatorship of Panama.
Camera Operator:
Mateo Guzmán
Color Grading:
Baptiste Evrard
Delegated Producer:
François Bonenfant
Director:
Ana Elena Tejera
Director of Photography:
Mateo Guzmán
Editor:
Ana Elena Tejera
Foley:
Éléonore Mallo
Line Producer:
François Bonenfant
Production Director:
Luc-Jérôme Bailleul
Screenplay:
Ana Elena Tejera
Sound Editor:
Geoffrey Durcak
Martin Delzescaux
Sound Engineer:
Juan Camilo Martínez Idárraga
Sound Mixer:
Geoffrey Durcak
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