Bafta nominated Royal College of Art Graduation Film (2019). Hedi is experiencing strange things. While her granddaughter is visiting, she suddenly embarks on a hiking journey, to the deepest parts of the Alps, revealing the reason for her devoted attachment to her hiking shoes. A story about Heidi's attempt to retain her identity and autonomy.
Oscillating between interior and exterior perspectives, imagination and reality, joie de vivre and fear of loss, Kathrin Steinbacher’s empathic humorous animated film enters the perceptual world of an elderly woman with dementia. A bizarre hike through unstable terrain, which visualizes how it feels to be in Hedi’s shoes (Diagonale, 2020),
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Festival Screenings:
Bafta nominated Anifilm Ann Arbor Cinanima Slamdance Tricky Women Diagonale FESTIVAL PREMIERS PLANS CutOut Festival Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival Oslo Independent Filmfestival Liaf - London International Animation Festival Filmfestival Radstadt Wiesbaden International Festival of Animation Athens ANIMFEST Cardiff Animation Festival Female Eye Film Festival British Animation Awards Athens ANIMFEST