Underplayed Gems

A Love Story (2016)

A Love Story poster
Directed by
Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara
Genre
romance, animation
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
7 min
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A small woolly character experiences moments of connection and loss. The film uses stop-motion animation with yarn to explore feelings about relationships.

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What happens

A Love Story is a 2016 animated short film directed by Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara and produced by Khaled Gad. When you think about it, there are a lot of yarn-related phrases that are used to describe how we feel. "They tied the knot", "Relationship is settled", "I just lost the thread". A great choice of material then for Anushka Kishni Nanayakara's tactile-stop-motion short, which has a woolly head as its protagonist. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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