A Bird Called Memory

Program:

International Competition

Year:

2023

Country:

Brazil, United Kingdom

Genre:

Fiction

Duration:

15ʼ

A bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, tries to find Memory in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place.

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Leonardo Martinelli

Leonardo Martinelli is an audiovisual artist from Rio de Janeiro. His films have been selected at more than three hundred film festivals and museums worldwide, including Locarno, San Sebastián, BFI London, Montreal, Molodist, Guadalajara, Biarritz, Toulouse and others. Through a vote among several film critics, Leonardo Martinelli was listed as one of the Top 10 New Brazilian Filmmakers by Papo de Cinema. In 2021, his short film Fantasma Neon won the Golden Leopard for Best International Short Film at the Locarno Film Festival.

Filmography: Remember (2018), Around Copacabana (2019), The pleasure of killing bugs (2020), Neon Phantom (2021), A bird called Memory (2023)

Creative team

Director

Leonardo Martinelli

Screenplay

Leonardo Martinelli

Camera

Guilherme Tostes

Editing

Lobo Mauro

Production design

Reinaldo Patricio