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Conversations with a Whale

Anna Samo · Germany · Experimental / Drama / Fantasy / Animation · 9 min · ♥︎ 741

Directed by Anna Samo · Starring Merche Blasco, Bethany Cutmore-Scott, Jeremiah Dickey, Abdallah Ewis · 2020

Facing rejection after rejection, a filmmaker searches for meaning in making art, in an animated love letter to artists and the audiences who receive their work.

A gentle, poetic animation that will speak to anyone who has ever doubted their creative work.

In this love letter to artists, their art and its audience, a filmmaker is confronted with rejection after rejection until, at last a beautiful fig tree bears sweet fruits.

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