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Standing Woman (2021)

Name: Standing Woman
Director: Toni Hipwell
Genre: Body horror, Drama, Dystopia, Short film
Released: 2021
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Anton Thompson, Yuriri Naka, Amy Blake, Andrew Dunn, Gemma-Louise Keane

2021 · Toni Hipwell · 15 min · United Kingdom

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In a near-future time, the British government has come up with an environmentally friendly program that abolishes prisons. Criminals and undocumented immigrants are chemically transformed into trees and put on public display. A propaganda filmmaker is forced to question his work as he prepares to see his journalist wife be “planted” for crimes against the state. A grim and imaginative cautionary tale by British filmmaker Tony Hipwell, based on the short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui (PAPRIKA, THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME).

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Standing Woman (2021)

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