Leonor is genuinely surprised by his victory in Berlin short of competition. Even on the phone with the PUBLIC, fresh from the very short press conference and through the usual congratulations whirlwind of these occasions, I confess that neither the excellent reception that Ballad of a Batrachian had the festival would expect this result. “No, no, it’s even completely unexpected. Because for me this film is a bosh, it is a film with a rough form, which has a single goal: from frogs. Nobody told me anything, I’m sitting there and suddenly say my name, and I think, no, this can not be … “
It’s really why Ballad of a batrachian is not silly or clumsy. Daughter Gypsy father, the director has a special interest in the relationship is still very tense between the Roma and the society – the film focuses on the superstition of putting dishes of frogs at the door of the shops to prevent the entry of Roma, as a way of them prevent access to a “normal life” and takes on a dimension of almost burlesque farce, with his own film team to go into shops with frogs in the window to the left. It was this idea of ”From the frogs” – understood as the breaking of a taboo xenophobic – that Leonor built the entire movie. “The film is quite round,” he explains, “it was very thought out and structured from the beginning. We had to think how to make a movie to arrive at this detail from frogs. But it was important that the film was not only a diagnosis of the problem but also a little to its resolution. And if we talk about serious things, why not do it in a fun way? “
film that” is not meant to be more than what is “done instinctively, Ballad of a batrachian has surpassed all expectations that its director had, and even before the prize been interested foreign producers to participate in the next project, Terra Franca . Berlin had opened doors to Leonor, the Short of the Golden Bear can certainly open up more? “I hope so!” He says before hanging up.
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