Breathless

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Breathless (屏息) is a silent-leaning animated short about a mother who gives her son the one thing her people have lost: the ability to breathe air. Her voice, recorded for him to hear after her death, is the only thread that connects the images. Core Concept The film asks what a body owes the place it lives in. Meena’s people chose the deep long ago and reshaped themselves to fit it. Now the sea is running a fever, and the people have turned fearful, reading omens in fish.