A Sister (2018)

Original title

Une sœur

Directed by

Delphine Girard

Genre

thriller

Country

Belgium

Runtime

16 min

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman calls emergency services pretending to order a pizza. The dispatcher realizes she is in danger and trying to signal for help.

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What happens

A Sister (French: Une soeur) is a 2018 Belgian short film written and directed by Delphine Girard. It has been selected and awarded at several film festivals including Rhode Island International Film Festival in August 2019 where it won the Oscar Qualifying Best Short Film Award. The film was also nominated at the 9th Magritte Awards ceremony in February 2019 in Best Live Action Short Film category. In January 2020, it was nominated for the 2020 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Girard's 2023 feature film debut, Through the Night (Quitter la nuit), was an expansion of the story. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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