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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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Cast & Crew See All

Jani Zhao
Dinamene
Natxo Checa
Luís Vaz de Camões
U.G. Punchi Banda
Male Farmer

Awards

  • 2014 - Golden Berlin Bear - Best Short Film - nominated
  • 2014 - Prix UIP Berlin (European Short Film) - - winner
  • 2014 - European Film Award - European Short Film - nominated

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