Panadrilo (Drama)

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Director: Marcela Heilbron
Producer: Marcela Heilbron
Screenwriter: Marcela Heilbron
Cinematographer: Madeline Leach
Composer: Jota Ortiz,Aquiles Navarro
Editor: Marcela Heilbron
Production Designer: Marcela Heilbron
Costume Designer: Marcela Heilbron
Key Cast: Carina Weber,Génesis del Monte,Francisco Carrasco,Mónica Bartholomew

Camila is employed as a vet at a Panamanian zoo. She doesn’t have a work permit, her daughter is in New York, and her husband has turned into a crocodile.

Inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story ‘Crocodile’ and director Marcela Heilbron’s time spent documenting dangerous border crossings in the jungle between Colombia and Panama, this fantastical portrait of faith in the face of horror mixes moments of high farce with a bracing sense of real-world anxiety. This is perhaps the only film you’ll see this year that tackles the migration crisis with a talking reptile.