Winner of Locarno’s Pardino d’Oro Swiss Life for the Best Auteur Short Film, this dazzling experimental work explores the interiority of a mind in which pain takes the form of a creature.

With a palpable sense of queer love and loss, María Silvia Esteve’s award-winning short takes us into the depths of a troubled mind, within which a woman’s pain takes on terrifying forms. Full of striking imagery and exquisite effects work, this avant-garde short evokes a world of shadows in which love can unlock the obscure.