Twelve minutes to break your heart — childhood grief, uncensored.
We meet 8-year old Ela at a very particular moment in her life, the moment she experiences loss for the first time.
Acting
Jaime Rakic-Platt's wordless confusion is devastatingly authentic.
Direction
Aguirre trusts the audience to read a child's silence.
Editing
Twelve minutes that feel like a lifetime of ache.
Director
Silvana Aguirre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Silvana Aguirre made this as her graduation film at the National Film and Television School — it won BAFTA's Best Short Film.
The film deliberately avoids showing the dead dog, forcing us to experience death purely through a child's incomprehension rather than cinematic spectacle.
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