A Love Song in Spanish (2021) [N/A]

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.

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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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