Palabras de Caramelo

Synopsis: Kori, a deaf child who wants to learn to write to express the words of his best friend, the little camel Caramel, lives in a refugee camp in the Sahara desert.

“Words of Candy” is a docufiction, a deaf film, a sensory experience, which invites the viewer to feel, see and hear through the world of the deaf and to enjoy the beauty and silence of the desert. However, Kori’s world is unusual because he has always lived in Saharawi refugee camps and does not know sign language. He needs to learn to write to overcome the barriers of isolation and thus claim his right to education.br> Welcome to the silent world of Kori and his best friend the camel Caramel.

Director’s Biofilmography

Juan Antonio Moreno Amador (1982) is a director, scriptwriter and producer. He has directed, among others, “Boxing for Freedom”, a documentary recognized in numerous festivals, screened in more than 50 countries and selected for the European Film Awards in 2015, and the docufiction “Palabras de Caramelo”, nominated for the Goya Awards in 2017 and awarded nationally and internationally. His productions have been selected in more than 200 international festivals and have received more than 50 awards. The Carlos III University of Madrid awarded him the Excellence Prize in 2011 and in 2008 he received the Reina Sofia Prize for Social Communication. He has studied Documentation, Scriptwriting, Journalism and International Relations and teaches in the Master of Documentaries at UC3M and at the Lens School. In 2010 she created her production company Making DOC and is a member of the European and Spanish Film Academy.

Filmography

2016 – Words of Caramel. Docufiction. Director
2016 – A work of Truth. Fiction. Director
2015 – Boxing for Freedom. Documentary. Director
2015 – Kafana, stop it! Documentary. Director
2014 – Walls. Documentary. Producer
2010 – Mama Wata’s children. Documentary. Director
2007 – Kosovo, the last scar in the Balkans. Documentary. Director