Kortfilmfestival Leuven - Amma, Do Giraffes Cry?

Amma, Do Giraffes Cry?

Kartikeya Saxena • Czechia • 2026 • 27 min.

Kartikeya calls his zoologist mother from the Prague Zoo to ask her about the dreams, insomnia and trauma of different animals in the zoo. The distance between mother and son, human and animal, evaporates in their search to decipher the mechanisms of life.

Part of

European Competition 6