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Breathe

Short film

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This is a story about love, memory, and the quiet weight of everything we never get to say...

Breathe is a meditation on how life can turn in an instant, and how dreams, no matter how vast, aren’t always given the time to grow. It reflects on the gravity we carry in our chests: the gratitude, the longing, the unfinished sentences we hope someone, somewhere, might still hear.

Written in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, it honours the young lives lost too soon, those who had more to give, more to dream, more to become.

Director: Ana Fernandes & Joana Vieira da Costa

Script: Joana Vieira da Costa

Production: Crooked Animation Studio

Art & Animation: Ana Fernandes

Voiceover: Ronin Lee

Editig & Post: Joana Vieira da Costa

Soundtrack: Tristan Barton

Awards

​BEST MICRO-LENGTH NARRATIVE
BEST BLM FILM
BEST ANIMATION​​​

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BERLIN FILMHAUS - 2023
GENEVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - 2023
​​BERLIN INDIE FILM FESTIVAL - 2022

BANG AWARDS - 2022
ATLANTA BLACK PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL - 2022
CINEFEM 10 - 2022
GENEVE AWARDS - 2022
JUSTICE FILM FESTIVAL - 2022
BRATISLAVA INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS - 2022
NEW YORK LIFT-OFF FILM FESTIVAL - 2022

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