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- 2 h 2 m
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Summary A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn't understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.
Directed By: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
Written By: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
- 2 h 2 m
- 2 h 2 m
Pepe
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Summary A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn't understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.
Directed By: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
Written By: Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias
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It’s a wildly original work from De Los Santos Arias, a film with a gleefully wanton approach to form, style and story in which no directorial decision is predictable, and, despite a slightly overstretched running time, no moment is ever dull.
The feeling arises more than once that De los Santos Arias is cluttering up a captivating story with obscure distractions, random shifts between color and B&W and constant shuffling of the film’s style. And yet, the slow accumulation of pathos exerts a grip.
De los Santos Arias sends us on an uncategorizably odd journey down the river of his noodling, needling imagination in a rickety canoe that keeps on capsizing, upended by another sideswiping reference, another jarring change of scene and timeframe or yet another stretch of borderline incomprehensible narration from Pepe himself, a creature who is as surprised as we are that he has suddenly acquired language.
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Production Company
Monte y Culebra,
4 à 4 Productions,
Joe Vision Production CC,
Pandora Filmproduktion
Duration 2 h 2 m
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Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Hong Kong International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Nomination