A film school crew went to Portugal to film oranges and accidentally made poetry.
A minimalist three-person-crew film school exercise documenting the orange trade in Pafarrão, Portugal, a countryside town known for this fruit, with a focus on ethereal details
Cinematography
Ethereal details of fruit and hands — student work with surprising maturity.
Direction
João Deus finds transcendence in the mundane, no budget required.
Director
João Deus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pafarrão's orange trade represents a fading agricultural Portugal, making this quietly political despite its gentle surface.
Three-person crews are standard for Portuguese film school exercises, forcing radical economy of storytelling.
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