Standing Woman
2021
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Synopsis
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).
Standing Woman (2021) is a short film by Toni Hipwell (United Kingdom). In a near-future time, the British government has come up with an environmentally friendly program that abolishes pri...
Festival History
- Dead Northern Horror Film Festival 2021 - Short Films - Dystopian
- Fantasia International Film Festival 2021
