Animated short film by Laen Sanches

Duration 1′ 50″

A story based on the poem "Balada Catalana" by Vicente Balaguet about a mother's love.

Watch it with French or Portuguese subtitles

Official Selections and screenings in festivals

20+ Festivals Screenings & Official Selections in 12 countries

Newlyn PZ Film Festival 2020 ★ Festival Poesía en Voz Alta.17 – Mexico City 2017 ★ Poetry International – Southbank Centre London 2014 ★ Poesiefestival Berlin – Akademie der Künste Berlin 2014 ★ European Poet of Freedom International Literature Festival Gdańsk 2014 ★ Kosmopolis International Literature Fest Barcelona 2013 ★ Leipzig Liest! Leipzig Book Fair Leipzig 2013 ★ Short Waves Polish Short Film Festival Poznan 2013 ★ 18th Internationales Lyrikertreffen Münster Münster 2013 ★ 19th International Book Fair and Literary Festival Prague 2013 ★ Copenhagen International Poetry Festival Copenhagen 2013 ★ Long Night of the Film FestivalsBerlin 2013 ★ 4th International Poetry Festival – Meridian CzernowitzChernovtsy 2013 ★ 30th Baden-Württembergischen LiteraturtageKarlsruhe 2013 ★ 2013 Poetas por Km2 Madrid 2013 ★ 4th DotorClip Roma Poetry Film Festival Rome 2013 ★ Interfilm 28th International Short Film Festival Berlin 2012 ★ Okapi czyli zmieszanie Warsaw 2012 ★ Cyclop 2nd International Videopoetry Festival Ukraine 2012 ★ Cinedays Festival of European Film in Skopje Macedonia 2012 ★ Semana de Cine de Medina del Campo Valladolid 2010 ★ AnimabasauriBilbao 2010 ★ Animacor Córdoba 2010 ★ Fotokino – Laterna MagicaMarseille 2010

Awards

Award "Radioeins Audience Prize" – ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin 2012

Credits

Poem Vicente Balaguet
Production, direction & animation Laen Sanches
Illustrations Inés Cuesta & Laen Sanches
Voices Omar Mollo & Graciela Minervo
Original music Klimperei / Christophe Petchanatz
Sound design Kaiser Sound Studios
Translations Adérito Sanches (FRA – POR) and Boyd Coyner (ENG)
© 2010 Laen Sanches. All rights reserved.