Synopsis
A woman looks back at her years of marriage and recounts her daily life of physical and psychological abuse. Locked away in her house, she drowns in her guilt, until the day she decides that it has to stop.
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Production and distribution (3)
- Co-production : LaClairière Ouest
- Foreign production company : Animais
- Film exports/foreign sales : Agência da Curta Metragem
Full credits (12)
- Screenwriter : Marta Monteiro
- Music Composer : Nicolas Tricot
- Sound Recordist : Geoffroy Cantou-Carrassoumet
- Foreign producers : Vanessa Ventura, Nuno Amorim
- Line Producer : Davide Freitas
- Voice : Filomena Gonçalves, Anna Lepley
- Co-producers : Claire Beffa, Sidonie Garnier
- Production manager : Raphaëlle Messmer
- Sound Editor : Geoffroy Cantou-Carrassoumet
- Animation : Marta Monteiro, Daniela Duarte, João Silva, Natália Azevedo
- Graphic designer : Marta Monteiro
- Sound Mixer : Geoffroy Cantou-Carrassoumet
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : 2D animation, Drama
- Themes : Violence
- Production language : Portuguese
- Coproducer countries : Portugal, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Portugal, France)
- Production year : 2022
- Runtime : 9 min 51 seconds
- Production formats : Digital creation
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.78
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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