We Can Be Happy

There are those who take so many selfies that they disappear; those who spend the summer inventing stories with their friends; and even those who come across ceramic frogs with a lot to say about what is fair and what is wrong. Three different stories, all speaking about the same thing: how we look at the world – and how the world looks back at us.

Nobody (Netherlands, Animation, spoken in Dutch with Portuguese subtitles, 9 min)
Florian is an obsessive Instagrammer who becomes invisible when he takes too many selfies. He must find a way to hold on to his beloved followers.

We Made a Film (Portugal, live action, spoken in Portuguese with English subtitles, 15 min)
Maria Inês experiences the first breezes of love during a summer holiday. Accompanied by her friends, she wanders through her neighbourhood, passing the time between threading beads and filming a movie.

Ballad of a Batrachian (Portugal, live action, spoken in Portuguese, 12 min)
Like the Roma people, ceramic frogs do not go unnoticed by a more attentive gaze. Ballad of a Batrachian thus emerges within an ambiguous context – a film that intervenes in the real space of everyday Portuguese life as a way of fabulating about xenophobic behaviour.