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Lah Gah (Letting go)

Cécile Brun · Switzerland · Experimental / Drama / Animation · 7 min · ♥︎ 595

Directed by Cécile Brun · Starring Bruno Amstad, Maya Zurbuchen · 2020

A girl's warm memories of singing and cooking with her father dissolve as a swelling mass of dough carries them into loss and disappearance, leaving her grasping at what can't be held.

A tender, tactile animation that turns a sunny kitchen memory into a meditation on loss and letting go.

A dive into sunny childhood memories, when a girl is singing and cooking with her father they are swept along by the wafting mass of dough into the emotional depths of loss and disappearance. Helpless, the child is tryin

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