CUT YOUR WINGS AND FLY
2022 Experimental Short | 20 min | Color
Currently in Post-Production
Directer & Writer Meryem Lahlou
Co-producer Seleny Yige Xie
1st Assistant Director Seleny Yige Xie
Director of Photography Pierre Hamelin
Synopsis
Beatings, sexual assaults, suicide attempts, drug dependence, teenage pregnancies, and their interruption.
Cut your wings and fly depicts the trials and tribulations of a young girl who is suffocated by a difficult context, and whose goals oscillate between surviving and making everything disappear.
Told through surreal imagery, minimal dialogue, and modern choreography, Cut your wings and fly is a reflection of education, family, gender roles, and mental health in our contemporary society.