Completed - PORTUGUESE - Drama - 30 minutes
Year of production : 2012 Director(s) : Basil DA CUNHA Writer(s) : Basil DA CUNHA Cast : José PEDRO GOMES, Dorin DRAGOS, Carlos MARQUES, António SILVA MOURA, Vitor CABRAL, Albertina BARBOSA, Carlos Alberto RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS, Manuel CARECA DOS SANTOS, Antonio CHAPINHAS, Pedro DINIZ, Carlos BAESSA DE BRITO Producer(s) : Elena TATTI (BOX PRODUCTIONS), Thierry SPICHER (BOX PRODUCTIONS), Elodie BRUNNER (BOX PRODUCTIONS)
50-year-old Ze is a dockworker in the port of Lisbon. He watches enviously the ships he will never board. He dreams of going away, of leaving his wife and the slum where they live together. For a while now, he has been saving money in secret to travel to Sweden. He knows which ship will take him and the day and time of his departure. He talks about it around him, especially to the Ukrainian – his mute colleague – the only one not to laugh out loud at his crazy ideas. But one night he gets home to discover that his wife found his savings and spent them on a brand new washing machine…
Country(ies) : SWITZERLAND, PORTUGAL
Festival de Cannes 2012 (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Mention spéciale du Jury, Prix Illy du court métrage)