Short film
Pig Heart
2019 · 30 min
A quiet, emotionally charged chamber piece that pits a child's fierce ethics against a parent's desperate love, leaving a lingering ache.
- Directed by
- Artjom Baranov
- Overview
- Elli is thirteen years old and she suffers from a heart disease. She will die soon but there is no donor heart in sight. But there is a new hope: the doctors want to transplant a pig heart with her DNA. It's her last chance. But she refuses. She is vegan and there is no way another living creature is going to die for her. Her mother, Maja, is willing to do literally anything to convince her to take the heart.
- How it feels
- Tense, melancholic, earnest and dark. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Morality, family, death, identity
- Content
- Mild gore and language. No violence or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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