Four minutes to break your heart and mend it again.
A slice of life 2D animated film about the evolving relationship between a grandfather and his grandson.
Direction
Mai packs decades of emotion into silent frames.
Director
Trilina Mai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mai animated this during her CalArts thesis, inspired by her own grandfather's Parkinson's progression. The shaky linework in later scenes? Intentional tremor simulation.
The film festival circuit initially rejected it for being 'too short for animation' — then it won SXSW and proved emotional density beats runtime every time.
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