Synopsis:
No one can escape their roots, however rotten they may be.
- Director:
- Alberto Vázquez
- Year:
- 2020
- Running time:
- 15 min.
- Technique:
- 2D Animation, Hand-drawn Animation
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producers:
- Autour de Minuit Productions, Uniko
- Animator:
- Khris Cembe
- Script writer:
- Alberto Vázquez
- Music composer:
- Víctor García
- Sound designer:
- Dorine Le Lay
- Editor:
- Laurent Blot
- Production:
- Uniko
- Distribution:
- Autour de Minuit Productions
- Genres:
- Drama, Tragedy, Fantasy, Experimental
- Tags:
- Surreal, Festival Darlings, Mental health, Trauma, Identity, Death, Relationships, Love, War, Shame
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Anifilm – International Festival of Animated Films, Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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