Short Animation / Spoken Word

6 min 32 sec

Part of the HerStory film project, Creatures tells the story of a young woman who yearns for her lover through a journey of prose and metaphor, and explores how the Greek notions of love still apply today.

Directed by Bernice Chauly
Written by Nadira Ilana
Music by Flica
Visuals by Fairuz Sulaiman
Funded by Friedrich Naumann Stiftung

HerStory on BFM

Short Film
13min 26sec
Australia

A family is separated by time, place, life and death. Jessel speaks to his dead mother in a dream while Alain, a derelict relives the night he watched Syria die. Dream Cradle is a dark surrealist drama about family, forgiveness and embracing the demons of our past.