School is over and there's a bustle in the air. In Porto, tourists fill up the streets and cafés. The old and decadent are now highlights of the city’s gentrification. Vicente moves around town on his bike, watching the urban landscape modify day by day. The town is no longer the same, the world is changing and so is he. Among his family and friends, Vicente lives with anticipation the first days of summer and the beginning of a new life.

Direction: Leonor Teles

Script: Vicente Gil, Salvador Gil, Maria Gil, Francisco Mira Godinho, Leonor Teles

Production: Filipa Reis

Co-Production: Leonor Teles, João Miller Guerra

Cinematography: Leonor Teles

Editing: Leonor Teles

Sound: Rafael Gonçalves Cardoso

Cast: Vicente Gil, Salvador Gil, Maria Gil

Original Title: CÃES QUE LADRAM AOS PÁSSAROS

Original Language: Portuguese

Film Production Country: Portugal

Website: https://agencia.curtas.pt/films/show/496

Biography of the Director/s
Leonor Teles was born in Vila Franca de Xira in 1992. In 2013, she graduated at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School, completing her Master in Audiovisual and Multimedia at Lisbon School of Social Communication in 2015. In 2016 BATRACHIAN'S BALLAD won the Golden Bear at Berlinale Shorts and in 2018 her first documentary feature film TERRA FRANCA was awarded the Prix International de la SCAM at Cinéma du Réel, Prix de La Ville d’Amiens at Festival d’Amiens and Mejor Opera Prima International at Mar del Plata. DOGS BARKING AT BIRDS is Leonor’s latest short and she is currently developing her first fiction feature film.

Filmography of the Director/s
2019 - DOGS BARKING AT BIRDS, short
2018 - TERRA FRANCA, doc.
2016 - BATRACHIAN'S BALLAD, short
2013 - RHOMA ACANS, short

Awards Won
Venice Film Festival 2019: EFA Short Film Candidacy

Production Company:
Uma Pedra no Sapato
Filipa Reis
Rua Guarda-Jóias 38A
Lisboa, 1300 – 294 , Portugal
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +351 252646683
Website: http://www.umapedranosapato.com/pt

World Sales:
AGÊNCIA – PORTUGUESE SHORT FILM AGENCY
Salette Ramalho
Curtas Metragens CRL Praça José Régio, 110
Vila do Conde , 4480-718, Portugal
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +351 252646683
Website: https://agencia.curtas.pt/home

Press:
AGÊNCIA – PORTUGUESE SHORT FILM AGENCY
Salette Ramalho
Curtas Metragens CRL Praça José Régio, 110
Vila do Conde , 4480-718, Portugal
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +351 252646683
Website: https://agencia.curtas.pt/home