The documentary consists of 10 self-portrait stories elaborated by participants of the Matria Project. Matria has been a space of transformation and empowerment for women in Puerto Rico.
After a self-destructive lifestyle nearly kills her, tormented young Anne learns to open up and let go of her traumatic past through a new found passion for boxing.
Dudu is a shy boy who, in his senior year of high school, is still a virgin. This situation makes him the constant target of jokes from his inseparable friends.
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki.
"Panic Attack!" is a hand-drawn animation from the point of view of a woman having a panic attack. I wanted the transitions between reality and her imagined fears to be seamless, so there are no edits -- it is one continually transforming drawing.
The Hidden Rebellion is a docudrama about an 18th Century popular uprising against the French Revolution, and how the rebellion was brutally suppressed by the Revolutionary armies.
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