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Basic information
Year 2025
Language without dialogue
Running time 02:00
Techniques 2D computer
Log line A battered woman finds solace in the embrace of her female friends, transforming shared pain into power through dance—until they confront her abuser, revealing his weakness. In a final act of liberation, she swallows him whole, reclaiming herself as they all dance away, united and free.
Synopsis A woman lies on the floor, beaten up, scared, almost lifeless. Her abuser who is standing in front of her is buttoning his cuffs and slowly leaving. Her female friends come and start bringing her up, they console her, they cry with her. In this, she finds comfort. They start dancing, in their dance they unite in their pain and their anger. Together they confront the abuser. But it turns out, he`s a little pathetic man. She gently picks him up from the floor and for a moment she is flustered, she almost feels mercy to him. But she decides no to be held back from her past, so she swallows him. Trauma is digested. He female friends show their solidarity with her. They dance away.
Category Animated Film
Genre Drama, Thriller
Type Graduate film
Credits
Animation Director Yerkezhan Sabitbekova
Film Music Clemens Gutjahr
Sounddesign Marc Landendinger, Ivan Syrov
Animation Begaiym Emirlan, Bea Sanguino Fernández, Vadims Ivanovs, Anh Tu Nguyen, Sofi Shapir (Atanova), Fatima Wajid
Executive Producer Nadiia Yunatska
Production Company Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Compositing Felicitas Schmelz
Narrator/Voice Actor Luisa Müller
Contact of production company/school
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH
Akademiehof 10
71638 Ludwigsburg
Germany
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