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Miguel Borges, Clara Jost
Coup de Grâce | Gnadenschuss by Salomé Lamas
PRT 2017, Berlinale Shorts
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Salomé Lamas
Coup de Grâce | Gnadenschuss by Salomé Lamas
PRT 2017, Berlinale Shorts
Ale Vulcano © The Bogliasco Foundation
In long shots, Lamas positions objects, people and feelings. She goes about it like a sculptor, creating sculptures out of everyday occurrences: the father stands in the open-pit mine, a truck drives towards him and tips sand over him. Another truck is parked in a vast empty space when hundreds of pigeons fly upwards into the sky on both sides. A powerful image that meanders from immobility to motion. And a metaphor for the relationship between father and daughter, who move among the sculptures, halt, move towards and away from each other. The exterior and interior become inverted.
With
- Miguel Borges (Francisco)
- Clara Jost (Leonor)
- João Pedro Bénard (Sr. Silva )
- Gabriel Abrantes (neighbour)
- Margarida Lucas (neighbour)
- Álvaro Covelo
- Pinto Workers
Crew
Director | Salomé Lamas |
Screenplay | Salomé Lamas, Isabel Pettermann |
Cinematography | Rui Xavier |
Sound Design | Miguel Martins |
Producers | Luis Urbano, Sandro Aguilar |
World sales
Agência – Portuguese Short Film Agency
Produced by
O Som e a Fúria
Salomé Lamas
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Born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1987, she studied directing and editing at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (ESTC) in Lisbon and at the FAMU film school in Prague. She also studied visual arts at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and is currently taking a PhD in film studies at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Her work has screened at many international film festivals and featured in museums around the world. Following Terra de ninguém (No Man's Land) and Eldorado XXI, Coup de Grâce marks her third film to screen at the Berlinale.
Filmography
2008 O palimpsesto da rapariga cisne ou choveu durante dois dias e a paisagem alterou-se (Swan Girls Palimpsest or It Rained During Two Days and the Landscape Has Changed); short film 2009 Jotta: A minha maladresse é uma forma de delicatesse (Jotta: My Maladresse Is a Way of Delicatesse); co-director: Francisco Moreira 2010 Rapariga Império (Imperial Girl); short film · Unnamed#I'm Sleepy; short film · VHS 2011 Golden Dawn; short film 2012 Encounters with Landscape; short film · A Comunidade; short film · Terra de ninguém (No Man's Land); Berlinale Forum 2013 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum; short film 2014 Le Boudin; short film 2015 A Torre; short film 2016 Eldorado XXI; Berlinale Forum 2017 Coup de Grâce
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017