Making It Fit / Da bi se prilegalo

Mariana Leal (Animate Projects)
2025, UK, 4’30’’

A documentary film reflecting on the experience of death and mourning in the LGBT+ community, and the ways that navigating tradition, grief, and family often necessitates reinvention of funerary and remembrance rituals.

Dokumentarni film premišljuje o izkušnji smrti in žalovanja v skupnosti LGBT+ ter o tem, kako iskanje poti med tradicijo, izgubo in družino pogosto narekuje, da se obrede slovesa in spominjanja osmisli povsem na novo.

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Language: English
Technique: Pixilation, Cut-out animation, Paint-on-glass
Recommended for children under 14 years of age: No

Team

Animation: Mariana Leal
Music: Vladimir Grudinov
Interviewees: Ash Hayhurst, Gemima Hull, Zena Sharman
Production: Animate Projects (www.animateprojects.org)

Mariana Leal

is a Portuguese animator based in London. Her work explores inner worlds and lived experiences through animated materials. She studied animation at the University of the Arts London and has an MA in Film Studies from King’s College London. She has been working in short form documentary and fictional animation, and compositing for long form film and television.

Find more: www.lealanimation.myportfolio.com/making-it-fit-film , www.instagram.com/_lealeal_