Baan

‘Sometimes we need to run away to come back’.

Baan (Thai for home) reimagines the world of a young architect coming to terms with her own aloneness through a quasi-magical shift between Lisbon and Bangkok. Time, space and emotions quietly implode; past, present or perhaps future intertwine in a story that begins when L meets the elusive K. It’s a serendipitous encounter that sets off a new emotional journey of self-discovery.

The metaphoric wandering in Baan speaks to a restless seeking spirit inherent in youth today, but is also evident in the pensive roaming through gorgeously shot cityscapes that won the film Best Cinematography award at the Coimbra Caminhos Film Festival. There is artful deployment of jump cuts, musical transitions, and an experimental narrative to challenge a connecting of the dots. As a multi-talented writer/ cinematographer / director Leonor Teles has marked out a distinctive niche for herself as one of Portugal’s brightest young filmmakers emerging out of Portugal today.