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On The Surface
Nominated for
Best Icelandic Production
Director: Fan Sissoko
4' • Iceland • 2021
English
4mn animation about a young Black woman who goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on her experience of raising a child in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy and postnatal depression. Soon her swimming eases. Being in the wild and facing her fears is helping her heal.




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