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Arena

Arena

2009Short⏱️ 15m
ShortDrama
6.8
IMDB Rating
624 votes

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. From then on, he'll try to ...

Director
João Salaviza
Writers
N/A
Stars
Carloto Cotta, Rodrigo Madeira, Rafael Sardo
Release Date
September 17, 2009
Language
Portuguese
Country
Portugal
🏆 2
Wins
🎯 4
Nominations
💬 1
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Carloto Cotta
Carloto Cotta
as Mauro
👤
Rodrigo Madeira
as Alemão
👤
Rafael Sardo
as Kid
👤
Cláudio Rosa
as Kid
👤
Barbosa
👤
André Feldman

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Color
Color
Filming Location
Portugal
Production
Filmes do Tejo, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (ICA), Ministério da Cultura

🏷️ Keywords

tattootitle at the endperson in a car trunkbicyclerobbery

🎯 Categories

PortugueseDramaShort

⭐ Featured Review

big form in a small package
by RResende2010-10-14

"This film is special, in Portugal, for the Portuguese. Why? simply because it won an award, at Cannes. No one knew the director, a very young one. In other words, someone outside of Portugal considered a Portuguese to have done a good work, good enough to award with a golden palm for best short film. This goes straight to the heads and genitals of the Portuguese: the guy has to be good! Oddly enough, the hype the award created was not strong enough. A year past that, no one still talks about Salaviza in Portugal. Very few have seen this film. Yet those who remember the guy's name "kn..."

💡 Did You Know?

Award: Award for Best Short (IndieLisboa, 2009).

📖 Synopsis

A young man under house arrest spends his time in the best way he can by making some tattoos. His relative peace is strangely disturbed when he's attacked and robbed by three kids from the neighborhood. From then on, he'll try to ...