Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni continues her deeply personal animated documentary journey to explore motherhood, fragmentation, neurodiversity, trauma, and healing through the infinitely laborious, handcrafted frame-by-frame filmmaking process. Two-One-Two mixes archival video, sound recordings, experimental, shimmering clay on glass, under-camera, and rotoscoping animation in this intimate, experimental animated documentary love letter to motherhood, parenting on the spectrum, and and two headed monsters everywhere.
Female Director
SPIDER – ZAN
Synopsis: Negar is a young girl who loses something that causes trouble for her right on the day of her proposal ceremony.
Forbidden Womanhood
Mahi, a 12-yr girl, feels strange emotional and physical changes as she enters puberty and gets involved in an innocent love triangle.
Footprints In The Forest
Iman, a rare Sumatran rhino, embarks on a journey through Borneo's rainforest after her mother's loss to poachers. Alone but aided by Piu-Piu, a talkative bird, she faces diverse wildlife and a relentless clouded leopard. Using her mother's spirit, Iman outsmarts the predator. Despite triumph, she feels lost until guided by a wise orangutan to rhino footprints, restoring hope. The film concludes as Iman follows her kind's footprints into an uncertain but promising future.
What They Left Behind
Several years after her grandfathers had passed away, a young woman recollects her memories of them.
The Middle of the Garage
The mysterious arrival of a huge trunk in the garage of Pierre's house turns his life upside down. At 55, with time passing too slowly and dreams gone, loneliness suddenly seems less burdensome. The strange appearance of the object became Pierre's only obsession, and the discovery of its contents, a new goal in life.