NOT A WORD
Alice gets lost in the maze of a hospital, driven by the need to resolve her grievances with her former abuser, who is now dying. A race to finally put words to her pain…
Director: Elodie Wallace
Live-Action, France, 2020
17:30 min | trailer
nominiert für Best Short Film 20MINMAX 2021
After graduating from a bachelor in theatre studies at La Sorbonne, Elodie Wallace started out as a comedian, in various plays from the Paris theatre scene. Then she began writing and directing several plays on her own. In 2014 she attended a special writing program at national French film school La Femis. She directed her first short MOTUS in 2019, released in 2020, bought by French channel Canal+. She currently writes her first feature.
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