Letter to a Pig (2022)

Original title

מכתב לחזיר

Directed by

Tal Kantor

Genre

animation

Country

Israel, France

Runtime

17 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Holocaust survivor tells a group of students about his experience with a pig. An anxious girl in the audience imagines herself in his memory and confronts her own inherited trauma.

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What happens

Letter to a Pig (Hebrew: מכתב לחזיר) is a 2022 Israeli-French animated short film written and directed by Tal Kantor. The 17-minute animated film about generational trauma has been awarded in various international film festivals, including the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. The film was nominated for the 96th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film but lost to War Is Over! (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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