(MOURNING) AFFIRMATIONS

A slow, dreamlike drift through grief and pressure, unsettling and sad, asking you to sit with unease rather than resolve it.

Directed by

Spyros Patsouras

Genres

Thriller, Drama

Starring

Hurricane Alexander

Tagline

Guided by the voice of an AI self-help cassette, a grieving young adult wanders through Berlin, where fractured memories and the pressure to be “well” slowly dissolve the illusion of stability.

Overview

(MOURNING) AFFIRMATIONS is a dreamy short film that drifts through mental struggle, grief, and fractured memory, structured around the relentless voiceover of a self-help tape. Set in the gloomy landscape of Berlin, the film exposes the quiet violence of compulsory wellness, the demand to cope, to heal, to be “okay,” and explores what emerges when we stop performing stability and allow ourselves to unravel.

How it feels

Melancholic, eerie, tense and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Grief, identity, isolation, madness

Content

Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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