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A Sister (2018)

★★★ — A Sister (2018)

Belgian director Delphine Girard made A Sister as her third short film, and it proved to be the one that announced her as a serious talent, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 2020 ceremony. Produced by Versus Production, a Brussels-based company with a strong track record in Belgian festival cinema, the film draws on a real recorded emergency call in which a woman in danger had to disguise her distress from the person beside her, speaking in code to the operator on the line. Girard would later expand the story into her debut feature, Lèse-Noces (2022), with Veerle Baetens reprising her role as the dispatcher.

A-Z World Movie Tour Belgium Wow. Seriously.... wow.... This was as close to perfect as a short film can get. 16 minutes long and it was intense. It was stressful. It was chaotic. The stress I felt when the lead was trying to speak to emergency services without letting the driver know... absolutely intense. I was near tears at one point. Absolutely perfect.

Rating: ★★★ | Year: 2018 | Watched: 2025-05-25

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