YELLOW COUNTRY

Category

Short, Drama

Director

Dinis M. Costa

Year

2018

Country

Portugal

Runtime

00:18:00

Budget

Other Festivals

Cisterna Film Festival Cisterna di Latina July 20, 2018 Official Selection Italy Avanca Film Festival Avanca July 25, 2018 Winner Best Short Film Portugal São Jorge (30 July - World Day against Trafficking in Persons) Lisbon July 30, 2018 Portugal ASA International Film Festival Weimar September 28, 2018 Winner Best Short Film Award Germany IX Edição do Festival Internacional Curta Açores Ribeira Grande September 26, 2018 Official Selection Portugal Shortcutz Porto Porto November 7, 2018 Portugal YMotion Famalicão November 7, 2018 Official Selection Winner Best Ensemble Cast and Best Cinematography Portugal XXIV Festival Caminhos do Cinema Português Coimbra November 25, 2018 Official Selection Portugal XXIX Istanbul International Short Film Festival Istanbul December 15, 2018 Official Selection Turkey Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Awards Lisbon December 9, 2018 Honorable Mention Portugal Afrotela - African Diaspora Film Fest Lisbon Portugal Shortcutz Lisbon Lisbon December 4, 2018 Winner Best Shortcut December Portugal Cineteca - Madrid Madrid December 3, 2018 Spain Premiere Spain CinEuphoria Winner best cast - 2018 Portugal Shortcutz Ovar Ovar January 31, 2019 Portugal Prémios Sophia - Portuguese Academy of Cinema Lisbon Nominated best short-feature Portugal Festival Piélagos en Corto Piélagos April 29, 2019 Official Selection Spain Festival Vera Es Cine Vera March 31, 2019 Out of Competition Spain 10º Citizenship Congress Seixal April 30, 2019 Portugal Festival de Cultura Libre y Cine Creative Commons Almeria May 9, 2019 Special Guest Spain NY Portuguese Short Film Festival New York May 22, 2019 Official Selection United States Shortcutz Viseu Viseu August 3, 2019 Winner Best Shortcut Portugal FIKE - Évora International Short-Film Festival Évora Official Selection Portugal FICAL 2019 – Almería Interna[onal Film Fes[val Almería October 15, 2019 Spain FESCINAB – Fes[val de Cine de Berja Berja October 19, 2019 Winner Best Almería Short Film Spain Entre Olhares Barreiro November 2, 2019 Official Selection Portugal

Every fifteen minutes nearly thirty people are trafficked across international borders. SHORT SYNOPSIS In a remote and inhospitable place with its own rules, we follow the journey of a group of women forced into slavery. LONG SYNOPIS A movie that takes place in real time about the clandestine nature of Human trafficking. “Terra Amarela” (Yellow Country) is an uninterrupted and claustrophobic journey that takes us to the underworld of one of the largest criminal organizations of the 21st Century, Human Trafficking. In about 15 minutes, the story captures the chaos through the eyes of the victims, a dance between men and women from different parts of the world, that portrays Europe as no man’s land. // Subtitles: The film doesn’t have subtitles in English, because the original version doesn’t have it either. It’s an artistic/narrative option, once there are many languages at the same time, and often hardly perceptible.